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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 43 , Issue 340 , April 1939 , pp. 310 - 327
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1939

References

* L'Aviation Sovietigne, published by Les Ailes-Paris, 12 frcs.

Principal Contents:

1. Equipment of the Air Force.

2. Technical Development.

3. Industrial Organisation.

4. Personnel.

5. Civil Aviation.

6. Sporting Aviation.

7. Parachutism.

8. Politics and Aviation.

According to the anonymous author, Russian aviation suffers from the low mental standard of the rank and file and from the political interference with those occupying the higher grades. Thus both the single-seater fighters I 5 and I 15 were designed whilst their originators were in prison!