“ The flyers also protested they were given nothing except unarmed sports planes with which to fight, while Russian pilots were assigned "regular American army planes." The American war planes were said to be machines built in Russia through contracts giving the Soviet government permission to copy American models. The flyers said both the Socialists and Fascists air forces in Spain were staffed almost entirely by foreigners. The government, they added, seemed to be outnumbered in men and equipment everywhere, particularly in their sector. ”