FATAL AERIAL BLOW.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 40, 27 November 1940, Page 5

FATAL AERIAL BLOW.

BRITAIN’S FUTURE CHANCE.

GROWING AIRCRAFT STRENGTH.

NEW YORK, October 21

“Britain has an even-money chance of launching a fatal aerial blow after the spring,” says Major Seversky, the aircraft designer, in the “New York Herald-Tribune.” “Germany has already attempted a knock-out blow, but the cost in bombers was prohibitive and caused Goerihg to use bombers only at night and modified bomb-carrying fighters duriug the day. “The Royal Air Force is successfully using long-range bombers to damage the Nazi war machine, causing disorganisation of transport and . mass evacuation of Berlin children. This sapping process is inevitably slow, but meanwhile Britain is building up her air power,

“Before Christmas she will receive new United States bombers excellently armed and armoured and speedier than the. Messerschmitts. Britain, in December, will also have her own long-range convoy fighters. “Both Britain and Germany are likely to launch a knock-out blow when they sense that their adversary’s vitality is at low ebb. After the spring there is an even-money chance of such a blow against Germany proving fatal.”

Major Seversky urges the construction of “self-defendabie” bombers. He says the American “Flying Fortresses’.’ are fast, hut have not the armament of a Spitfire.