‘AIR POWER REMAINS MAIN WAR FACTOR'
(Rec. 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 17. “Although there will be unknown changes in war-time technique owing to atomic power, I believe that air power will remain the dominant war factor,” said the Aii- Minister, Mr. P. J. Noel-Baker, presenting the Air Estimates in the House of Commons. He added that new scientific developments included new compasses and a device was being perfected which warned pilots of high ground or low cloud. Emphasising that no planes could fly on the Empire traffic routes without R.A.F. traffic control, the Minister said that civil aviation commitments had been so heavy a burden that he was discussing with the Ministry of Civil Aviation how major relief could be effected. Mr. Noel-Baker revealed that the number released from the R.A.F. since V-E Day to the end of March would be 1,000,000.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 March 1947, Page 7
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