Word: planecraft
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...largest air force-22,171 planes. Within a few weeks of the Armistice, says Author Michaelis, she destroyed "more than 20,000." Between 1919 and 1939, R.A.F. chiefs labored to make the best available force with the minimum material. They based their force on the earliest foundations of British planecraft. The company founded by the first man to fly a plane in England (1908), A. V. Roe, is today the builder of Avro Anson, Manchester and Lancaster bombers. From the Bristol Box Kite descends today's Bristol Blenheims, Beauforts, Beaufighters...
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