DARING YOUNG FLIERS.
ACCIDENTS IN AIR FORCE. EXPLANATION OF CASUALTIES. A. and N.Z. LONDON, July 15. Light was thrown on the cause of the many casualties in the Air Force by Lord Thomson, the former Minister of Air, in a speech at Guildford. Civil flying, he said, is far safer than walking in the streets of London. It is in military flying that risks arc taken and accidents occur. Young fellows have to hp trained to do feats which no commercial pilot weuld be called on to perform. " The Air Force," said Lord Thomson, " gets boys between the ages of 15 and 16. They are the most high-spirited and reckless young devils who ever stepped. They would break their necks on the roads if they did not do so in aeroplanes. " The more high-spirited and the more reckless a boy is, the greater asset will ho be to the nation if we ever have to undertake air fighting. " If the present machines were fully used we could in about 10 hops reach the uttermost parts of the Dominions in about 16 days. Think what that means to the people in the back blocks of Australia and New Zealand, and how it would strengthen , the ties of kinship."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19691, 18 July 1927, Page 9
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207DARING YOUNG FLIERS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19691, 18 July 1927, Page 9
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