WAR SUPPLIES BY AIR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 4, 6 January 1943, Page 3

WAR SUPPLIES BY AIR

AMERICAN CARGO FLEET DOMINION ON ROUTE. Four main routes are operated from points in the United States of America by a fleet of aeroplanes carrying war supplies to the battlefronts, states a recent issue of the British aviation journal, The Aeroplane. The\ .four routes are:—Australia and New Zealand; Russia and China; the British Isles by way of Iceland; and Egypt, India and the South Pacific areas by way of South America. This statement was made by the American Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce on October 1. The chamber also announced that one-fifth all multi-motor aeroplane production in the United States was devoted to transport or cargo-carrying aeroplanes and the proportion would probably rise to 30 per cent, during the firsat half of 1943. The opinion was expressed that the number of cargo aeroplanes at the disposal of the United States Army Air Transport Command and the United States Navy’s air transport service would swell to so many thousands that air transport would approach parity with wartime shipping.