AIR DEFENCE PLANS
CRITICISM OF POLICY RELIANCE ON FIGHTERS LONDON, 23rd November. Strongly criticising the Government's recent reversal of air policy by concentrating on fighters rather than on bombers, the journal “Aeroplane," describes the defensive attitude as “defeatist.” This is how the two types ot aircraft are compared in one of its articles:— “It is necessary to have forces capable of aggression, and the best form of defence would be the enemy’s knowledge that we have an overwhelming force of offensive bombers. “The truth is that fighters are much easier and quicker to turn out, but only 50 per cent, as efficient as they are ineffective in thick weather. On the other hand, bombers prefer thick weather. “High speed, long-range bombers, with escorts capable of similar performance, are the only things worth building
“It is sheer humbug that the Air Minister. Sir Kingsley Wood, talks about relying on the fighter for defence. It is al*o d dangerous form of eyewash.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 29 November 1938, Page 5
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