“AIR EQUIPMENT THAT IS NOT THE BEST”
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, March 9. “Some of the Dominions—and some of the larger Dominions, too—are making a brave display on paper with air equipment that is not the best,” said Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park in an interview today. “They are giving themselves and the rest of the Empire a false sense of security. “They are mounting their magnificent pilots on a lot of old junk. It is not even good training to mount young men or aircrews on obsolete craft and t<s train air force organisation about out-dated equipment. It is bad training. It would be far better to have a smaller force mounted in jet-fighters and otherwise handling fully modern equipment.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22582, 10 March 1948, Page 6
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