Force during 1994 has set a record of safety which proves that the stage is, now reached when there is no more danger in travelling by air than road. Altogether 47,000,000 miles have been flown during the year by RAF. aircraft. a distance which 2 Jcorrespondent tothe London newspaper "The Daily Telegraph" com-}putes to equal a hundred journeys to the moon and back again. There were twenty fatal accidents during) the year, resulting in the lass of ives, as against 30 fatal accidents last." year, when the RAF. flew 45,000,000 miles with the loss' of 54 lives. This high degree of safety especially remarkable when it is re-Jmembered that much of the training, {takes place under circumstances approximating as closely us possible to active service conditions. The peak year of fatal accidents in the RAF. was 1926, when 85 persons lost thei lives while engaged in duty-Aying. Since then the introduction of parachutes as standard equipment estimated to have saved 123 lives, aP while improved machines and a steady Increase in eficiency have also contributed towards safe fying. he high speeds of modern machines not tenerally realised fea "that san Important factor in safe alr navigation, Although Great" Britain ands far behind acme other ing European powers as feu urmerieal strength. of er air force, T'ly generally" admitted that. the efcleney of its personnel is high the reason. is thet Pitch Ayers Sbinin their skill in actual Might
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