London, Mar. 5.
Speaking at Cambridge last night, Air Chief Marshal Sir Cyril Newall, Chief of the Air Staff, said that new fighting planes, of which quantities are soon to be supplied to the Royal Air Force, might travel from Edinburgh to London at 600 miles an hour if the weather was kind.
The difficulties of sudden aircraft production and expansion, he added, had been overcome, the number of squadrons to be formed were now complete, and they were now proceeding to consolidation and re-equipment, with some further expansion, The Royal Air Force now had bombers and fighters of as high a performance as any air force in the world. They were forging, Sir Cyril Newall declared, an extremely powerful weapon, which God forbid that it should ever. be necessary to use,
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