STEAM-DRIVEN 'PLANES.
FORECASTS OF DEVELOPMENT. PROBLEMS OF FUTURE. LONDON, March 2. Steam-driven aeropVuiea, and. a huge airship terminus in Spain, serving North and South America, with auxiliary distributive services over Kurope by smaller and much speedier airships and aeroplanes, nre two forecasts in an interesting amplification given in a While Paper on the Air Conference last ypar. Sir Frederick Sykes If'ontrolVr-Oen-eral of Civil Aviation I emphasises tfi&t the nation which is strongest in rnram« rrinl air traffic will be tbe strongest in aerial wi.rfare of the future. Nevertheless he states that the more useful aircraft become commercially, tbe more tbe civil and service types of machines will tend to diverge. On the other hand. Sir Trevor Daw-ion (managing director of Yickers, Ltd.), believed that an airship could be readilyconverted into a naval cruiser with the smallest alterations, and could take up active oervice in a few days after mobilisation orders.
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 57, 8 March 1921, Page 5
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