POWER TN THE AIR

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 138, 13 May 1941, Page 5

POWER TN THE AIR

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 11. Two hundred and fifty of Britain’s leading aircraft designers and test pilots, alter spending all day at an airfield looking over every type of fighter and bomber irom _ America, paid a glowing tribute to the quality of the planes. ft- was the biggest conference of experts ever hold in Britain. Machines from the little Tomahawk fighter to the great four-engined Liberator bomber were lined up in three ranks. The types of machines America i.s now sending to Britain run into double, figures. Ail English designer said to a group gathered around a Havoc night fighter: “\V,e must have sliced and altitude. The war is being fought at 40.000 ft and tile engine which gives the maximum boost at that altitude is the one which is going to see us through.”

MONEY FOR PLANES. RUGBY, May 11

Money for aircraft subscribed by the public amounted to £1,299.800 tit the end of last month..stated Lord Beaverbrook. Minister ot State, and formerly Minister of Aircraft Production, who expressed liis gratitude to all who had brought the fund to this magnificent total. Approximately 40 per cent, of the money was given by the colonies and Dominions, 35 per cent, by the people of Britain 15 per cent, by India and 10 per cent, by the Dutch colonies.