ALOFT AND AWHEEL
FUTURE OF TRANSPORT Lieutenant-colonel F. C. Shehnerdine, Director-general of Civil Aviation in Britain, declared recently that the most hopeful line of advance for commercial aviation was in increasing the amount of night flying and in the development of "territorial" services with subsidiary '" feeder " lines. " The choice of an air route should be regarded from the aspect of the territories it serves rather than of the towns it includes. If there were a direct air line, say, from Edinburgh or Glasgow to London, then the Scottish terminal port would serve the whole of Scotland up to the Shetlands and the Orkneys." Wireless aids and traffic control, the equipment for which will soon be installed in three London airports, " should make it unnecessary for air lines to close down in the winter. They should also be able to operate equally by day and by night." Dealing with the position of civil aviation as a whole, Colonel Shelmerdine said: ''lt may be that unless internal air lines can average a speed considerably in excess of 80 miles per hour they will hardly attract the public on routes that parallel the main trunk railway routes."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22751, 11 December 1935, Page 5
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