SUPREMACY IN THE AIR.
AMERICAN DEVELOPMENTS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—.COPYRIGHT WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. England and Japan are most probably the greatest air powers in the world, while the United States is about level with Italy, according to the testimony of the assistant chief of the army air service, General Mitchell, before the House" investigating committee.
He said the-British were trying to lay the foundation of air supremacy as they did with the fleet. Japan owes her excellent air service to her efforts to consolidate flying activities; The United States could control tiio sea by air within two years if the services were gifen yearly appropriations equivalent to the cost of half a battleship. General Mitchell favoured divorcing the air services from the army" and navy, and the establishment of a single flying organisation -with a view to developing a national air policy.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 19 December 1924, Page 5
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