HUGE AIR FORCE
EIGHTEEN THOUSAND PILOTS
TRAINING IN RUSSIA
CIVIL CORPS CAMOUFLAGE
(United Pre» Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 11.15 a.m., to-day. LONDON, Jan. 9, Behind the camouflage of a civil aviartion corps Russia.is preparing great air force according to the Daily Mail.” Enormous sums, it is stated, are being spent on all branches of airwork and poison gas. . . Civil aviation schools are training 18,000 pilots this year as part of a three-year course. Six thousand German exports are employed as instructors, air commanders and technicians are working day and night producing machines. Aeroplane sleighs are being built in large numbers. If they are forced to alight the wings are* packed and 1 runners come into action and the pilot drives over ice and snow. Pilots are being trained in long distance bombing attacks.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 10 January 1931, Page 5
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