CIVIL AVIATION

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 78, 1 March 1929, Page 7

CIVIL AVIATION

GERMANY’S GREAT STRIDES. EFFICIENT SERVICES. SCHOOLS OF INSTRUCTION. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyriglrt.) (Australian Press Association.) Received March 1, 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Feb. ,28. “No country in Europe has built up a finer ground organisation for the purposes of aviation than Germany,” states the Daily Mail’s special investigator. “Germany,” adds tho correspondent, “now possesses 32 specially-equipped aeroplane harbours and 66 officiallyrecognised lauding places, from all of which petrol is obtainable and repairs done, and to all of which weather reports are sent by means of wireless from Berlin. “Aeroplanes come and go on a network of invisible lines with the regularity of railway trains. It will soon be difficult to find a place of any importance in Germany to which it will be impossible to travel by air. A special company has been formed to illuminate night-flying routes.. The Hanover Airliausa, which receives directly and indirectly £2,000,000 from the Reich, controls most of the 27 principal airlines, but there are 46 other companies with passenger and freight-carrying rights. “Eighteen firms are engaged in aeroplane-making. ■ Berlin has a school for training civil pilots, and there are eleven other institutes in different parts of Germany for teaching flying.” ADVANCE IN AUSTRALIA. POPULAR WITH THE YOUNG PEOPLE. SYDNEY, Feb. 28. As showing the popularity of aviation among young Australians, it is stated that ?00 applications have been received for 13 Air Force cadetships.