In view of the enormous demands of the Service, it is doubly satisfac~ tory that British exports of aircraft and material have made a new record.
For the eleven months ending on. November 30, the value of them was £3,407,559, as compared with £2,678, 268 inthe same period of 1996, and £2,923,138 for the whole twelve months of that record year.
Preoccupations with Royal Air! Force expansion have left little time for spectacular feats, but in a field which perhaps demands the highest technical skill—height attained in a heavier-than-air aireraft—a Royal Force pilot, flying a British "monoplane designed for high-flying experiments, {ar surpassed all previous
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