AVIATION

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 17 February 1921, Page 5

AVIATION

NEED FOR A POLICY

GERMANY'S ACriVITY-

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT

(TimesJ LONDON, Feb. 15

The Times, in a leader emphasising the urgent need of an air policy, and deploring the stagnation in civil aviation^ and contarsting the actiivty of other nations, stresses the Dominions' need of aerial transport for defence and internal communications, and says the Empire needs development more urgently than any other Power.

The Times sounds a warning respecting Germany's feverish activity. She is spinning a network of postal routes, the pilots being trained to drop bags accurately. Such dexterity 5.s invaluable to a quick postal service, and is even more useful than merely loading bombs. The situation requires most careful watching, and aviation Bhould be encouraged by practical research.

(Aus.-iN.'Z. Cable Assn.)

Since the opening of civil aviation in May, 1919, British aircraft have .flown, 1,556,000 miles, and have carried 106.----'712 passengers. There have been 48 accidents, of which 20 involved injury to the personnel. The Tatio of pasrsengers killed -was .1 per 1000 carried. A distance of 33,100 miles was flown

per accident,