SUPREMACY IN AIR

Taranaki Daily News, 10 November 1934, Page 7

SUPREMACY IN AIR

GERMANY’S CHALLENGE BUILDING 50,000 PLANES PILOTS NUMBER 60,000 WAR UPON EVERY FRONT By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Nov. 8. The Daily Mail says that Germany is unmistakeably challenging world air supremacy. It is reported that her annual productive capacity is 50,000 aeroplanes, that of the United States 3000, France and Italy 2000 each, Britain 1000 and Czecho-Slovakia, Holland, Poland and Sweden combined 1500. Thus Germany is manufacturing five times the remainder of the world’s output. It is estimated that 150,000 are employed in aircraft manufacture, apart from tens of thousands building aerodromes, underground hangars and petrol reservoirs. By the early summer Germany will have at least 25,000 planes, for which it is estimated she has 60,000 qualified pilots. Germany is preparing to challenge Europe in aerial warfare. She is confident that she would be joined by several of France’s present allies. German strategists calculate that she would be able to wage a successful war on all fronts by the early spring.