Here again extra armour is being slapped on crudely, it seemed to Reuters' air correspondent. One expert told him that materials are good. Obviously the German Air Force would be the last to suffer through the blockade. Workmanship is excellent though too much attention is paid to detail not enough to the major essential features of warplanes.
Ersatz material is discernible only in the use of substitute rubber and leather. Here and there magnesium alloys are used in place of aluminium and in one engine oil older than it should be was found. There is no skimping in good steel, duralium and other essential materials. No country could do it and still expect its airmen to ff; Everything one sees and learns about the German aircraft confirms, concludes the correspondent, that in creating the Air Force Germany sacrificed protection for speed in fighters and bomb load in bombers. This fits in perfectly with the Nazi creed of using the Air Force as a weapon with which to gain lightning victories over ill-equipped and. unprepared enemies—Reuter.
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