MUSTANG FIGHTERS
AUSTRALIAN OUTPUT LANCASTERS NEXT YEAR C) a.m.) MELBOURNE. Feb. !). The first Mustang fighters to be manufactured in Australia will be completed within a few weeks. Tins was announced yesterday by me retiring Minister for Aircraft Production, Senator Cameron, who said also that Australian production of tne roar-engined Lancaster bomber wornd begin early next year. Mass production is expected soon of Rolls-Royce Merlin engines for the Lancaster, Mustang and Mosquito. The maximum production in Australia of me Mosquito, the world's fastest fighterbomoer, will be reached soon. Jne first Australian Mosquitoes are already in use by the Royal Australian Air Force against the Japanese. Australia has a special technical staff' in Britain studying the development of jet-propelled planes.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21633, 9 February 1945, Page 4
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