RANGES CONSTRUCTED BY AVIATION DEPARTMENT AT BEAMSVILLE.
The Section of Aeronautical Supply, as has been stated, maintained liaison between the Aircraft Equipment Branch of the brigade and the factory; also it acted as a buffer state between the brigade and the manufacturer of such technical equipment as cameras, wireless instruments, machine guns, etc., and the tremendous number of spare parts involved.
The progress in the training of pilots has from time to time demanded new equipment of multitudinous variety. The advanced nature of the work of both aeroplane and engine repair park called for a steady stream of those individual members which when assembled constitute the completed machine. The selection, purchase, and delivery of the technical equipment of the brigade, fell in short to this section, which executed the business transactions involved as required by the Aircraft Equipment Branch at headquarters.
Liaison between the two has been admirable, and the result, therefore, eminently satisfactory.
The Construction Section has, in the course of its strenuous existence, carried out the following work:
| 6½ | miles of railways. |
| 22½ | miles of roadways. |
| 18 | miles of water mains. |
| 10 | miles of sewers. |
| 27 | miles of aerodrome drainage. |
| 300 | miles of telephone and power lines. |
| 26 | individual steam heating plants. |
| 6 | central steam heating plants. |
| 400 | buildings using 18 million feet of lumber. |