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§ 131
AIRCRAFT IN WARFARE.

output should not be made to suffer. In other words, the policy should tend in the direction of establishing each new type with the factory for its production as a complete proposition.

(4) That more adequate provision be made for the development of improved models and new types, both as regards initial manufacturing facilities and finance.

(5) That a Board of Aeronautical Construction[1] be formed on the lines adumbrated in the present work, to deal with the needs of the Services and to settle specifications and approve the designs for new types, and generally to assume control and responsibility for our National Aeronautical Programme, both as to sufficiency and otherwise.

  1. Under the Presidency of a responsible Minister.

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