CIVIL AVIATION

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 20, 24 July 1934, Page 9

CIVIL AVIATION

TO BE FREER IN BRITAIN

AIR MINISTRY'S CONTROL

RELAXATION NOW SAFE

(British Official Wireless.) . ' BUG-BY, July 21. As a Tesult of the Air Council's acceptance of many of the recommendations made by the Committee which has been considering the subject, civil flying in Britain'will in future be freed from many of its past restrictions. The committee considers that "the present system of control caii now be relaxed without detriment to the community." In addition to making thirdparty insurance compulsory for all aircraft, including gliders, at a rate of £.100 for each 100 pounds weight, the committee recommends the formation of an air registration .board from the joint aviation committee ,of Lloyd's Register and the British Corporation Jiegister to control the airworthiness of civil aviation. The civil aviation drectorate is to be made as self-con-tained as possible, and, within 10 years, a review of the question of the transfer of the administration of civil aviation from the Air Ministry to a purely civil department will be made. . SCOPE FOB, INVENTORS; The certificates of airworthiness now required for all aircraft should only be required for regular air transport, air taxi, joy-riding, and training work. The Air Ministry is not- to prescribe detailed requirements to which aircraft should be biiilt. An inventor should bo free to try out experimental aircraft provided it is not flown to the common danger. A minority report advocates the removal of civil aviation from the control of the Air Ministry, but the Air Minister, ,in a me,mpr.andum ; does not agree with, the arguments advanced on this point. Ho remarks that British air transport policy, unlike that." of almost every other nation, has been directed throughout to commercial development for pacific and Imperial purposes, and that there has never been any attempt to build up in the guise of civil air transport-a fleet intended for military use in war. He also emphasises that the Air Council has refrained from taking any "action which might have the effect of militarising light aeroplane clubs..