At Moro Krambangan, the naval flying base at Sourabaya, additional hangars are being built rapidly. It can be assumed that the new hangars will accommodate the ordered PBY5's coming from the United States.
Dutch Fokker flying boats make wp several of the present squadrons, but these, too, cannot be looked upon as the latest in naval aircraft.
American Ryan training planes are seen constantly during the daylight hours over Moro Krambangan.
The Dornier flying boats are trlmotored and carry a crew of six men—two pilots, an observer, a wireless man, and two mechanics. The ships weigh twelve tons, mount 7.7 or 125 millimetre machine-guns, and a 20-millimetre automatic cannon in a midships turret. A rear gunner's current is mounted between the tail finns.
The cruising range of this type of Dornier is 8 or 9 hours. Top speed is 150 nautical miles an hour. Most of the Dorniers are steadily on patrol, often not returning to their nain base for several months. Be-lore the war regular patrols were kept, but now these are doubled and operate both day and night.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.