AIR PILOTS
BRITAIN’S TOTALS AHEAD OF OTHER LANDS (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) London, February 28 Sir Phillip Sassoon, Under-Secro-tary for Air. answering a question in the House of Commons, said he believed tlie approximate total of qualified 1 civil and military pilots in Russia was 3000. There were between 4<X) and -TOO each in France, Italy and Germany. There were 3200 regular and non-regular Air Force pilots in Britain able to fly fast modern service aircraft. It was impossible to estimate the number of civilians as qualified pilots.
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Feilding Star, Volume 11, Issue 4181, 2 March 1934, Page 5
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