LATEST FIGHTING AFROPLANES FOR N.Z.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 28, 3 February 1939, Page 7

LATEST FIGHTING AFROPLANES FOR N.Z.

EMPIRE DEFENCE,

Scheme to Advance Aerial

Efficiency,

R.A.F. STRENGTH GROWING. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 11 a.m.) T.OXDOX, February 2. The Air Ministry envisages a more rapid advance of the Empire's aerial •fighting efficiency by the dispatch to Australia and New Zealand later, in the year of many of the latest types of machines.

J.lic first batch of heavily armed Hawker Hurricane monoplane fighters has already been shipped to Africa to bring African trainees up-to-date. .

"The Times" aeronautical writer, commenting on foreign estimates of Britain's air strength, says lit can be I stated that these are very much on the low side. Something like a miracle happened in last year's acceleration of deliveries, this correspondent states, and he quotes Mr. Chamberlain's prophesy that the output may be between two or three times ill advance of May, 1938.'

Labour strength between -1035 and 1937 rose to SO.OOO from 30,000, and is now infinitely higher. With SiiOO linns employed on subcontracts the R.A.F. to-day is going from strength to strength. BURIED 20 FEET. HURRICANE CRASH AT 400 M.P.H (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON", February 2. The force with which a Hawker Hurricane Royal Air Force monoplane crashed at 400 miles an hour from 2000 feet buried the machine and the pilot 20 feet in the earth. The body has not yet been recovered.