AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION
BRITISH ACCELERATION GERMAN RATE APPROACHED NEWSPAPERS' ESTIMATES , (.Received January 30, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 30 By April Britain will turn out more first-line warplanes than Germany, and production will be Hearing the wartime peak of 100 a day. says the Daily Herald. The Daily Telegraph places production at 400 machines a month, compared with Germany's 500 to 600. It adds that the recruiting and training of personnel is satisfactory. Although the German Air Force still outnumbers the British Air Force by at least three to one, its production haa been pushed ahead so rapidly that aeroplane for aeroplane it is much inferior, wrote the air correspondent of the Sunday Express recently. The Germans have staked all on quantity. They have built cheaply, with substitute materials, and have had continual motor trouble. Crashes average three day.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23259, 31 January 1939, Page 9
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137AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23259, 31 January 1939, Page 9
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