CIVIL AVIATION
BRITISH-U.S. CONFERENCE NEW AGREEMENT SOUGHT (10 a.m.) BERMUDA, Jan. 16. At the opening session of the BritishAmerican air conference, the United States chairman, Colonel George Baker, predicted success in solving what appeared to be difficult and _ vexing problems in air transport relations between the two p countries.” Colonel Baker said the performance of new planes such as the Lockheed Constellation, which brought the delegates to Bermuda from New York in 2hrs. 22min., left no question that the immediate growth of air transport would necessitate for all Governments the application of clear thought and planning, unhampered by many prewar concepts. The conference is endeavouring to write a new civil aviation agreement to replace that signed in 1937. limiting each country to two trans-Atlantic round trips weekly.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21922, 17 January 1946, Page 6
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