AVIATION DEVELOPMENTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 104, 2 April 1929, Page 6

AVIATION DEVELOPMENTS.

An important link in Empire air communications was tiie commencement at the week-end of the service between .Britain and India. .Besides being the longest ail" service in the world, it is tiie biggest step yet taken by civil aviation in .Britain. .The advance in aviation during the years following the war is almost bewildering for in the decade since then men have circumnavigated the globe, down over the .Worth Pole, made epic flights which hitherto had appeared to be impossible of accomplishment, while in the Antarctic in recent weeks Commander Byrd has made discoveries which only were possible from, the air. it has been charged against Britain that she has not made the same advance in civil aviation as other Continental countries, but the development of the air service between Britain and India, with ultimately an extension to Australia, and possibly to New Zealand, is an indication that the Mother Country is proceeding on sound if less spectacular lines. The great amount of detail required in establishing a service such as the one referred to is shown by fact that special aeroplanes and flying boats have been.built, while harbours for marine aircraft and landing places for aeroplanes have had to be surveyed and established and a chain of wireless and meteorological stations installed.