GREAT AIR REVIEW

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 34, 9 February 1935, Page 9

GREAT AIR REVIEW

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, "January 12.

One .of the important; events of the King's Jubilee Year will be a Royal review on;, a big scale. of the Royal Air Force. ..r. Detailed plans are not yet prepared,' but the ..review will; be timed and conducted in. a way not to interfere with"; the annual R.A.F. display, which wilj. take place at Hendon Aerodrome, this year on June 29. .

Air Ministry officials and; service officers ate discussing, the, arrangements. One suggestion is that the, climax; of the" review-should be^ a grand "flyover"-, on a scale never yet attempted in this" dountry, engaging several hundred aeroplanes, and a "Royal salute" with the "squadrons diving in formation before the King. , :

The biggest formation of aircraft that has yet flown over the British Isles consisted in rather more than one hundred aircraft under, the leadership of the late Air Commodore Q. R. Sarhson. ; .The flight was made over London some ten years ago. In size that fleet easily, surpassed in numbers the largest enemy formation to appear over' English territory during the war.

.- Since ' then the' largest number of aeroplanes seen aloft together qver. this country is probitoly the fifty or sixty machines which perform aerial drill at the R: A.F. display each year. In other countries, notably in Italy, the United States, and the Soviet Union, mass concentrations of aircraft 'over the big cities are frequently associated with ceremonial days and are unanimously declared' to be most impressive. The Royal Air Force should be able to fly at least four hundred aeroplanes over London in honour of the Jubilee.