THE EXHIBITION.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18603, 30 January 1926, Page 6

THE EXHIBITION.

NEW AIR FORCE EXHIBITS. (fress association telegham.) DUXEDIN, January 29, The attendance record at the Exhibition is now over the 300,000 mark, on the way to the second million. There were over 22,000 visitors on Thursday, bringing the grand total lip to 1,313,309. The new Air Force gallery in the British Government Court is proving a very popular feature. Numerous models of aeroplanes posed naturally over typical scenes of tho country wliere they were employed, tell the entrancing story of man's conquest of tho air. Tlie series begins with models of early- machines, used by A. Y. Roe and Colonel Cody in their first experiments over peaceful English countryside, and includes a wonderful set illustrating the type used in the Great War and tho development of methods of aerial warfare. These models are shown over typical trench-marked battlefields of Flanders and France. Another interesting series depicts the development of big passenger crafj;, which have already linked up all the European capitals, and-will soon be reaching out from London to Cairo, Bombay, Sydney, and Auckland. The Air Force exhibits and the battle models in the Army Gallery, which tell the story of the British Army, have come straight out from Wembley, where they were- new exhibits last year.