DOMINIONS' AIR SERVICE.
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LONI>ON, September 27.
Lieut.-Colonel N. G. Thwaites (Assistant General Secretary of the Air League of the British Empire) writes to "The Times":
"The news sent by your correspondent from Sidney is one of those distressing and humiliating items to which apparently we must get accustomed, t.hnnlfa to the supine policy of those who could remedy matters. It is exasperating to those who have the welfare of British commercial aviation at heart to read that the Dominions are turning to the Dornier-Wal Company for the proposed air service between Sydney and New Zealand, .and that American capital is forthcoming for this enterprise. "Great Britain has produced the ideal aircraft for the proposed service. The Short Jupiter 'Calcutta' flyingboat, which was exhibited to members of both Houses of Parliament at the beginning of last month, when it was, moored on the Thames at Westminster Bridge, is the last word in commercial aircraft. « "One hopes that the civil aviation debate in the House of Commons on July 30th will have awakened hot only members of the House but.the Britishpublic to a sense of the deplorable situation in the matter of British commercial aviation."
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19463, 9 November 1928, Page 15
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