AVIATION

Evening Star, Issue 16993, 15 March 1919, Page 9

AVIATION

BRITAIN'S LEAD

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.

LONDON, March 13. Brigadier-general Seely, in moving the Air vote in the House of Commons (a sum of £45,000,000), sairl that Britain was more advanced in civil aviation than any other country. Her first efforts _ were being concentrated upon the carrying of mail matter to Cairo and India, owing to the strategic importance of that route.

NOVEL TYPES PROMISED.

LONDON, March 14.

(Received March 15. at 8.45 a.m.) In che Hciue of Commons Briuadiejgeneral Seelv, President of the Air Board, rnnounccd that there wore many aviat'on novelties. Ho instanced a new .seaplane with five engines which carries a load of five tons at a swed of 100 miles an horn-. The Ail- Board were also cxocrimentmg. m machines with eight engines, carrying eight tons. , . , Other novel types of machines will possess unprecedented propctics and unparalleled speed. New types of commercial flving boats for great rivers -ire also being deve oped. There is übo an. invention for piloting machines in fogs and 1 sid weather, which, if successful, will probably solve many of the difficulties ol longdistance flight. Ho promised that the whole resources of the Air Force would ho available to oesiet civilian aviation.