GERMANY IN THE LEAD

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 134, 2 March 1929, Page 9

GERMANY IN THE LEAD

CIVIL AVIATION UNSURPASSED ORGANISATION T : , ■(United Association.—By Electric Telegraph'.—Copyright) (United Service.) , s . London, February 28. ■No other country in Europe has built up a finer ground organisation for the purposes of aviation than Germany, says the “Daily Mali’s” special investigator. Germany , now possesses thirty-two specially equipped aeroplane harbours and sixty-six officially recognised landing places, from all of which petrol is obtainable and where repairs may be done, and to which hourly weather reports are sent by wireless from Berlin , and other centres. ■ , Aeroplanes come and go on a network of invisible lines with the regularity of railway trains. The times of departure and arrival fill more than a hundred sections of the summer timetable, and it will soon be difficult to find a place of any importance in Germany to which it will be impossible to travel by air. A special company has been formed to illuminate the night-flying routes, which include Ber-lin-Konigsberg and Berlin-Hanover. The Lufthans" receiving directly or indirectly two million sterling from the Reich, controls most of the twentyseven principal airlines, but there are forty-six other companies with passenger and freight-carrying rights. Eighteen firms are engaged in aeroplane making. Berlin has a school for training civil pilots, and there are eleven other instiiutes throughout Germany teaching flying.