AEROPLANES IN PEACE
What is the future of the aeroplane? odes an Engli=h writer. Tim times have shown (his country in particular the necessity for retaining aerial supremacy. IterhiiTvs the Air Beard, when td-c-y arc relieved of the pressing nerd of the moment, t-o provide the fighting aeroplanes, will bo able to consider the means by which such 11 vast industry, created c or the protection of our lines, may find sufficient support and be. utilis’d to the, host a( i. vantage in the future. One sees in the Gc-, man idea of “ commercial ” submarines an effort to create a subsidised fleet of these machines of war to be used and ready when needed. AVo are net slow to learn, and the starting of' such a scheme by- an enemy should encourage us to create a “reserve” air fleet by- the establishment of the commercial aeroplane. Such progress has bpen made during ihe present year that all that is wanted now is organisation to produce aerial carriers of goods and passengers iu as regular service as cur railwavs.
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Evening Star, Issue 16347, 13 February 1917, Page 6
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178AEROPLANES IN PEACE Evening Star, Issue 16347, 13 February 1917, Page 6
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