GERMANY LEADING IN CIVIL AVIATION

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6849, 2 March 1929, Page 9

GERMANY LEADING IN CIVIL AVIATION

66 LANDING PLACES. RUN AS REGULARLY mT>ITWO AS RAILWAY TRAINS. United Press Association —By Eleetrie Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, Fob. 28.

“No country in Europe has built up a -finer ground organisation for tho purposes of aviation than Germany,. states tho Daily Mail’s special investigator. “Germany,” adds the correspondent, “now possesses 32 specially-equipped aeroplano harbours and 66 officiallyrecognised landing 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 Gcfmtmy to which, it will be impossible to travel by air. A special company has boon formed to illuminate night-flying routes. Tho Hanover Airhausa, 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.