TEN YEARS HENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 20 June 1927, Page 8

TEN YEARS HENCE

RIVALS OF MOTOR-CARS-

AIRMAN'S PROPHECY

■ (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.")

CHEISTCHUECH, Tais Day.

A prophecy that within ten years light aeroplanes will bo as popular in New Zealand as motor-cars wag made by Captain J. L. Findlay, officer commanding the Wigram Aerodrome, when speaking at the monthly mess dinner of the officers of the fourth Cadet Battalion, Canterbury Kegiment, on Saturday evening. ,

Captain Khdlay said that there were no more accidents in civil aviation •than there wero in other forms of transportation. Accidents occurred in military aviation in England because pilots Jiad to take more risks in order to be able to manoeuvre their machines in warfare. As an instance of the manner in which safety precautions had been instituted in regaTd to passenger carrying machines, Captain Findlay said that on cross-Channel services the pilots wero in direct radio telephonic .communication all the time with both their point of departure and their destination. They were also able to call up other aeroplanes en route and thus learn tho state of tho weather over the whole course.