RE-EQUIPMENT OF AIR FORCE
BIG ORDERS PLACED INCREASED EFFICIENCY OF NEW AEROPLANES (Received June 21. 9.50 p.m.) LONDON, June 21. The "Daily Telegraph" says the Air Ministry has already placed reequipment orders, two of which are for more than 150 machines. The orders include a multi-englned bomber of the most improved type, a new type of four-engined night bomber, a coastal reconnaissance machine, and new training aircraft. The programme involves an improvement of from 40 to 60 per cent, in range, speed, and ease of control of the principal machines. It is urgently necessary that the range of day bombers should be at least 1000 miles, and that of heavy night bombers 2000—that is 1000 miles each way. The speed of fighters in the next, two years will be increased from 240 to 275 or 300 miles an hour.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21506, 22 June 1935, Page 15
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