PILOTS’ USE IN WAR PLANES
Guided Missiles “Not A Substitute” LONDON, November 6. The Secretary of State for A ir (Lord de I’lsle and Dudley) said tonight that although guided missiles would become increasingly important, the so-called era of push-button warfare was not just round the comer. He told the guests at the Air Public Relations Association dinner the guided missiles were not a substitute for the daring and versatility of Royal Air Force pilots, whose skill and intelligence would be the dominating factor in air warfare, however complicated the aircraft weapons they used.
“It would be sad, indeed, if the splendid young men who want ' to come into the Royal Air Force were deterred by the thought that the days of piloted aircraft were numbered,” he said.
“We should be foolish indeed if we did not, as a nation, give first priority to the air in an age of jet propulsion and- nuclear fission. Who can doubt that air power represents for us the highest possible priority?*’
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27192, 9 November 1953, Page 9
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