AERIAL TRANSPORT

Evening Star, Issue 19063, 5 October 1925, Page 5

AERIAL TRANSPORT

SIR SEFTON BRAKCKER'S FORECAST ESSENTIAL TO BRITAIN. V, Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright} LONDON, October 1. j Sir Sefton Brancker (Director of Civil Aviation) forecasts that at no distant date air transport will he ns' remunerative as shipping and the rail-1 ways. He admitted that British air'' progress had been disappointed, its slowness in development discouraging and in constant demand for financial assistance. Nevertheless it assuredly would become the principal means of long-distance communication throughout the world. Aviation would soon outstrip the older forms of transport,, and British, aviation would soon possess as great a measure of importance to the nation as the shipbuilding industry did in the past. It was of foremost importance to the Empire that Britain should keep her place in the forefront of aviation, because she depended oai communications for her existence to & greater degree than any others. Un* less she maintained them in the higlH est state of efficiency and rapidity mode possible by scientific aircraft the Empire would assuredly melt in the mists of the past.—A. and N.Z. Cable.