Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1917 — U. S. NEEDS 4,000 AIRPLANES [ARTICLE]

U. S. NEEDS 4,000 AIRPLANES

National Advisory Committee for 'z f ' Aeronautics Makes Report. Washington, March 23.—About 4,- * 000 airplanes annually would be needed to keep the United States on the proper military footing, in the opinion of the national advisory committee for aeronautics at a meeting to consider ways of speedingup aerial preparedness. " Of the 4,000 airplanes. LOW would be attached to an army of 1.000,000 men, 200 to the fleet, 800 would be for harbor and sea coast defense and 2,000 for ft* 1 ofs.