WORLD AIRWAYS

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26396, 14 April 1951, Page 3

WORLD AIRWAYS

To-day, flight is taken for granted by the public and travel by air is regarded in almost the same light’ as travel by land or sea. Few aircraft passengers give much thought to the skill, intricate equipment* and detailed organisation needed for the functioning of air transport. They accept without question that an aircraft will carry out its schedules on time ana bring them to their destinations with ease, comfort and saftey. THE WORLD’S AIRWAYS (Odhams Press Ltd.) is designed to give the public 's better appreciation of the problems airlines have to face in providing the benefits of air travel.'lt is a book which performs a useful service, for in any parts of the world airlines are State-owned, and it is essential that taxpayers should know something about undertakings for which they provide the finance. Men who organise, control and operate the airlines, explain in terms comprehensible to the layman all about air traffic control, aircraft landing systems, airlines and the weather, the manufacture of aircraft and engines, the planning of air routes, and the types of aircraft the public can expect to travel in in the future. These explanations are illustrated by more than 300 photographs and drawings. Since it was first published four years ago WHITES AIR DIRECTORY AND WHO’S WHO IN NEW ZEAJt A ND AVIATION (Whites Aviation Publications) has become an essential reference book to all who are. interested in aviation in the Dominion r.nd the South Pacific. Such rapid changes are occurring in aviation both in New Zealand and the South Pacific, that the information in the latest edition can only be vouched for as accurate at October 1 last year, but most of it is not outdated. There are a historical review of aviation in New Zealand from 1890 when Professor Jackson made his balloon ascent in Christchurch, a list of centres served ov air, detailed information about 66 New Zealand aerodromes, a list of airlines operating in Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific, and chapters on all aspects of civil or service flying.