“NATION OF AIRMEN"

Evening Star, Issue 19616, 23 July 1927, Page 4

“NATION OF AIRMEN"

SIR ALAN COBHAM'B IDEAL ENCOURAGING PRIVATE OWNER. LONDON, July 13. “ The best way to take advantage of the stimulus Americans have given to aviation is not necessarily to try ami beat their glorious record, but to make Britain a nation of airmen. This can onlv be attained bv the unsubsidisctj encouragement of the private owner,, writes Sir Alan Cobhain, in tho Daily “Tb© British youth,” Sir AJau continues “b M the rigM 6 Pi l 'it- Aeroplanes nr© not as popular as motors, merely owing to the absence of sufficient aerodromes.- Every city, town, and village should have a municipal landing ground, which could be combined with playing fields. “Provided the, land available measures 500yds square, runaways could be provided enabling airmen to land with the wind in any direction. This would familiarise children with aviation, would make the coding generation air-mmclod. and produce airmen callable of developij)(T fonimori’in! siir rouici'i in tbo.se pruts oLthc globe where they will be the most valuable.”