Show Former Japanese Fliers Again Look Longingly Toward Skies By Ke Keyes es Beech Dally News Writer TOKYO March 27 27 Former Former Japanese fliers whose wings were clipped dipped with the surrender are looking longingly longing longing- ly toward the sky again i C r They want to y I fly and they arent aren't particular f F t i what they fly in r J Al Any old obsolete obsolete y d driven i S prop r v e 11 plane the United df States Air Force L' L has hns lying around x t will do Ke Keyes es Beech With all the talk of rearmament ment of ment-of of building up a new Japa- Japa ense ease army and navy there navy there is I little or no talk in official circles of a new Japanese air force Japanese aviators a realize that without American help they are not going to fly any place As a starter they would like some discarded discarded discarded dis dis- carded F the only prop- prop dr driven dren en fighters the U. U S. S Air Force is using in Korea today It would take at l bast ast two years they estimate for the Japanese aircraft industry to start producing producing producing ing jets and this only with American Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean technical assistance Using borrowed German models the Japanese navy was experimenting with jet engines when the war ended Japanese air power advocates argue that Japan should devote the same share of its defense budget to aviation as the United States |