AN AIR PAGEANT
DISQUIETING REFLECTIONS. (From Our London Correspondent.] June 29. One could not but be interested in the aerial pageant last Saturday. In skill of flying and organisation it was a brilliant affair; but even a little knowledge made one very thoughtful. We saw young men showing uncanny skill and daring on war-time machines almost four years alter war. Wo saw the most efficient airmen in the world, representing an Air Force of only eighteen squadrons, to defend ana light for what four years ago was the greatest country in the air. At the moment, except in isolated examples, tlie Government possesses no modern machines, and, still depends on the thousands of war-time design which were in its possession at armistice time or came into its possession as the result of contracts then being fulfilled. Very many hundreds of our great pilots are scattered over the face of the earth, with no opportunity to maintain their skill. Factories are shutting down, and aerial and engine design is at the minimum. As an air show the pageant was extremely satisfactory ; in essential, as irdi oatied, somewhat disquieting.
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Evening Star, Issue 18050, 18 August 1922, Page 6
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187AN AIR PAGEANT Evening Star, Issue 18050, 18 August 1922, Page 6
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