London, Feb. 8.
Experiments are being made to equip the Royal Air Force with faster and even more formidable aevonlanes. it was explained to the King yesterday afternoon when he visited an aircraft works at Yoevil which today produce the Lysander type of planes, The King watched test pilots handling these machines, which zoomed to a great height almost vertically at a great speed.
The House could rest assured that a considerable increase had bren made in the effective strength of fighter squadrons since the outbreak of the war, declared the Secret: of State for Air, Sir Kingsley Wood, in the House of Commons last night He was asked whether, in view of the nearing prospect of a massed air attack, at least on shipping and ports, he could make an explicit statement on the rate of growth of effective front-line air strength—Reuter.
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