MASS FLIGHT BY FRENCH AIRCRAFT
DEMONSTRATION OF CAPACITY TO DEFEND COLONIES (Received December 21, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 20. The French Minister for Air (Dr P. Cot) reviewed 56 aircraft which had returned from manoeuvres throughout the French empire, says the Paris correspondent of The Daily Telegraph. The mass flight was completed without a single accident and with only one forced landing caused by bad weather. Altogether 98 machines covered 437,000 miles.
“You demonstrated magnificently that our air force is able to defend our colonial possessions,” Dr Cot said. “It is good that this demonstration should be made at the present moment.”
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Southland Times, Issue 23389, 22 December 1937, Page 5
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