FUTURE OF AVIATION
At a dinner of the United Empire Circle Brigadier-general Charlton compared the former possibilities of flying 50 miles an hour at a height of. I,oooft with those developed daring the war of 21,000 ft at lltt miles per hour. Even if armaments -were limited after the war, he said, there could be no curtailment o£ the commercial future of aviation. All the energy of military preparation would be diverted into commercial channels. No one could say what kinds' of machines would be flown, so quick was the development, but he anticipated char-a-banc, lorry, racing, and pleasure machines. People would fly day, and night, independently of the weather. It is expected * that the development _of the aerial 'service will lead from tho victories of war .to those of peace.
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Evening Star, Issue 16627, 9 January 1918, Page 7
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131FUTURE OF AVIATION Evening Star, Issue 16627, 9 January 1918, Page 7
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