BIG AIR FORCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 25, 31 January 1928, Page 7

BIG AIR FORCE.

WITH AMERICAN NAVY

Over A Thousand 'Planes To

Cost £17,600,000.

2930 PERSONNEL NEEDED. I (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) | (Received 10.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, January 30. Rear-Admiral Moffett, Chief of the Navy Aeronautical Bureau, again appeared before the House Naval Committee. He said that 1490 new airplanes, costing over £17,600.000, with maintenance, would be necessary for the new aircraft . carriers and cruisers. . He declared that the revised figure j was made necessary by replacements required in the next few years. Many obsolete 'planes will go out of service shortly and new airplanes would * be bujlt in seven years, beginning in c 1930, and would necessitate a total of 2930 aviation officers and personnel. - US. SUBMARINE SILENT 1 ( ] Not Heard From For Four 1 Days. | ] NO ANXIETY FELT. (Received 10.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, January 30. Rear-Admiral Brumby reported to the Navy Department that the submarine S3 separated from the other submarines cf the control force on January 28, 100 miles off Cape Hatteras. Since then no communications had been received from her. Officials of the Department emphasised that this is not unusual during bad weather conditions and at present there is no cause for anxiety. NEW AIR PORT. Croydon Fitted On Modern Lines. PUBLIC FACILITIES GIVEN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 30. The great new air port at Croydon, which comes into use to-day, embodies the result of nine years' experience in the working of regulai* high-speed passenger air services. As the big Handley-Page Napier air liners of the Imperial Airways arrived from the Continent on Saturday, they were taken to the sheds of the new station to be ready for their start from the new ground to-day. Constructed at a cost of £262,000, the building has a large domed entrance, a booking hall, customs and immigration I inspection halls, and a control tower 50ft high.