PLANS FOR SERVICING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 230, 30 September 1941, Page 5

PLANS FOR SERVICING

BIG U.S. CIVIL ORGANISATION LIKELY TO BE SET UP. (Recd. 7.5 p.m.) Cairo, Sept. 29. The establishment of an extensive American civil aviation organisation in the Middle East to aid the R.A.F. in maintaining American planes, was forecast by Major-General Brett, Chief of the United States Army Air Corps, after a fortnight’s inspection of British needs in the Middle East. Major-General Brett stated that the United Stated Air Corps could not at present establish its own organisation, but there was no ban against civil aviation maintenance, the organisation and cost of which would be borne by the American Government and charged to Britain's Lend-Lease account. The maintenance of American aircraft in the Middle East w now a greater problem than delivery. The flow of planes is now steady and should increase in October and November. Under the proposed plan the forward maintenance of American planes would be in the hands of R.A.F. mechanics, wtih larger bases further back, where the planes would be serviced by American technicians familiar with the models.—U.P.A.