AIRCRAFT CONSTRUCTION
AMERICAN FORECASTS GROWTH FIGHTING PLANES WILL PREDOMINATE fres* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright CHICAGO, February 17. Mr Welch, manager of the Bendix Aviation Export Corporation, estimated that nearly 1,000,000,000d0l ■ral be spent in 1937 throughout the world on new aircraft. Eighty per cent. °T 28,500 units will be fighting planes. The United States will produce less than one-third of the output for war purposes, but military aircraft will predominate in the rest of the world. The total of 28,500 units represents nearly half the world’s existing supply of aircraft, and the estimate is based on a ."Sfajggjßto - .1 -
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Evening Star, Issue 22576, 18 February 1937, Page 7
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97AIRCRAFT CONSTRUCTION Evening Star, Issue 22576, 18 February 1937, Page 7
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