SOVIET TAKES TO THE AIR.
LONDON, February 26. The Soviet intends to spend twenty millions on civil aviation in 1932, savs the Moscow correspondent of the “ News-Chronicle.” It is doubling the number of commercial aeroplanes, ma.king 13,000 flights, testing 36,000 miles of new routes, and beginning the first rigid airship base. Russia will build big Zeppelins in 1933. Seventy-five per cent of the students in the flying schools belong to the Communist party or the Young Communists’ League. The proportion of women students is approaching 20 per cent.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 364, 4 March 1932, Page 1
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