NEW PLANES FOR FRANCE
AIR ARM REORGANISED. PARIS, May 2. Practically the whole of France's obsolete aircraft will have been replaced In’ new machines in August this yaar. The country will then possess 1.500 first-class aeroplanes. This fulfils the building programme drawn up by Gen. Denain, the distinguished air commander, who was Air Minister in the Cabinet preceding that of M. Flandin. , - Xl This assertion is made by the authority on air attains, M. Peyronnet de Torres. Writing in'the “Intransigeant to-day he states that the Air Ministry hau placed orders for ’ 1,388 bombing, chaser, and scouting 'planes, to be delivered this, summer. Its policy has been to sacrifice quantity for quality. Obsolete aircraft in the navy will be replaced by 167. new machines. Fortyfive of these will be chaser’ planes, aO bomber seaplanes, and 19 scouting seaplanes. The rebuilding of Frances air arm has been accomplished in two years.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 June 1936, Page 11
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