FUTURE SERVICE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21922, 17 January 1946, Page 6

FUTURE SERVICE

AIR DEVELOPMENT “NOT FOR THE FEW” MODERN ENGINE DESIGN (11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 16. “The nation should not be asked to maintain under public ownership air services useable only by the few,” said the Minister of Civil Aviation, Lord Winster, in a speech to the Royal Empire Society. "It is little use telling a miner that India is only 16 hours away. We must enable him to go there. Air transport must be developed not only for the use of Government officials, representatives of big business, and the rich, but for all people.” Air transport must enable the people of the world to get to know one another. The air services must utilise the great gains in knowledge made during the war. They must be extended and developed as rapidly as possible. The main problem was the supply of aircraft, but there was every reason to feel confident that Britain’s new aircraft would be able to meet tne competition ol anything produced by other countries. The gas turbine and propeller combination might well oust the piston engine from the aircraft market and was more likely to give economy of operation without recourse to such high altitude flying as was necessary with the simple jet.