Washington, May 1.
Half of the United States aeroplane production (which is Britain's share) plus Britain's output now exceeds the total plane production of the Axis Powers, "according io the best obtainable estimates," Col. J. H. Jouett, spokesman for the American aircraft industry, told the United States Chamber of Commerce yesterday. "The planes we are building and will build will equal or surpass the best which are being built or will be built elsewhere," he added.
He said there' were now 44,000 war planes on order and requirements under consideration would raise the total on order to 80,000. Col. Jouett explained that these figures covered planes for the American Army and Navy as well as for Britain. The total output this year would be 18,000 and under the present programmes the total for 1942 would be 30,000 planes.—Reuter.
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