CIVIL AVIATION

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 59, 7 September 1945, Page 7

CIVIL AVIATION

THREE RECENT CONFERENCES

(Special P.A. Correspondent.) LONDON, September 6. After attending three important conferences on civil aviation in London, Air Commodore A. de T. Neyill is returning to New Zealand by air. He will visit Washington and Ottawa en route and expects to reach the Dominion in the middle of the month. The conferences were those of the Commonwealth Air Transport Council, Commonwealth and Empire radio for civil aviation, and a session of the international convention of air navigation. "All these conferences will have a most important bearing on Commonwealth aviation and Commonwealth and domestic air lines," he said. "Throughout the first two conferences there was a strong bias towards the requirements of international aviation, as the Commonwealth cannot consider its own needs except in relation to international fiving. In fact, the relations of one Commonwealth country to another as far as reciprocity is concerned, are similar to those which it is hoped to make with foreign countries. Much of the work of these two conferences was concerned with the ground organisation essential for safety and efficiency in the air, and the obvious need of securing wide standardisation of such facilities." While in Britain, Air Commodore Nevill inspected a series of commercial transport aircraft being produced jat the Avro and De Havilland works, particularly the Tudor I, which is now flying, the Tudor 11, which is not yet flying, and the Dove. "Though the demand for these types is great and production capacity still somewhat limited by war exigencies, there can be no doubt regarding their quality and suitability," he said. "The leeway is being made up rapidly, and these British commercial types, and especially the new Brabazon series, will compete with any aircraft throughout the world in economy and efficiency of operation."