The Archive · 1938

Efficient Craft Produced

British air experts voice their confidence in the quality of the latest types of French-manufactured engines, The Hispano-Suiza and valveless, British-licenced Bristol engines now constructed in Lyons are said to be very efficient.

Drawing special attention is also the Netherlands type of craft, now produced in France, which is the fastest make of pursuit plane in the world.

Deliveries of the thousand pursuits purchased in the U.S. will permit France to fill the gap while French plants enter the field with mass production, these experts add.

In conclusion, they point out that the improvement of the French air force will serve to strengthen considerably the position of the Anglo-French entente in the field of international politics Havas.

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