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Show iMake Permanent i i 21 CastaS Air Defense Staiioias1 I WASHINGTON. Nov. 27 The navyi department's program, for making! permanent the 21 coastal air defense stations planned for the war, was explained ex-plained to the house appropriations committee today by Rear Admiral Taylor, chief of construction, who asked that $85,769,000 be provided for this work next year. Squadrons of fighting aircraft of every description will be included in the equipment for stations along the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific and insular possessions. Among the new stations, Admiral Taylor said, nrc those to be erected at San Francisco, Seward, Alaska, Hawaiian Hawai-ian Islands, Guam and in the canal zone. In a general discussion of plans Admiral Ad-miral Taylor said the fastest airplane In the world was built in the United States. This machine, known as the Klrkham triplane, developed a speed I of 160 miles an hour and experiments ' are contemplated to see if it cannot doj better than that. I Captain Steele, of the naval aviation avia-tion bureau, told the committee that' coasal stations operated by the navy in foreign wr.ters had been discontin-1 ucd and Unit American machines , abroad will bo sold and the engines or j those for which there Is no demand j shipped home. i Since the signing of the armistice, aviation contracts amounting (o $3G,- i 000.000 have been cancelled, Admiral! Taylor said, and Captain Steele slat- J ed that about $90,000,000 of the $220.-000,000 $220.-000,000 appropriated for naval aviation would be returned to the treasury at the end of the fiscal year. |