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Show ! English Airfleet On Trial Trip To Southern France LONDON. July 11 U'.Pj Twelve Royal air force squadrons, made up of more than 100 medium and heavy bombing planes, took otf under sealed orders today for the first of a series of non-stop training- flights to southern France and return. It was believed to be the first time any nation -ad sent such a number of planes on a, training train-ing flight to a foreign country in peace time. This flight meant that the Royal air force was getting; to the business stage of its training. Britain had become too small for it. Planes took off from selected Royal air force stations for various var-ious destinations in France. The first squadron passed out over the British coast at 8:30 a. m. About 400 men were in the crews. The planes, under an agreement agree-ment just concluded between the British and French general staffs, will fly to cities in the South of France, with full war time loads, and return to their bases in Great Britain. Flights of the same distance, if made toward the east, would take the planes over Berlin, over the German ship yards and naval stations at Bremen and Hamburg, over the great Krupp munitions works and the rich Ruhr industrial indus-trial area. |
