SPEED IN THE AIR

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18589, 27 December 1934, Page 2

SPEED IN THE AIR

WRONG PERSPECTIVE

MR. SCOTT'S COMMENT

LONDON-, Doc. 20. There had been an inclination to disregard the difference between a race and regular commercial air services, said' air. C. W. A. Scott at a press Club lunch given to him and Mr. Campbell Black. British commercial aviation, ho said,

had been held up to ridicule. This was - largely owing to trie different factors upon which speed values were based. For instance, the United States wms a country of sufficiently great distances to encourage speeds of 200 miles an hour, but, owing'to the local requirements nf Australia, people there had a totally different idea of Speed values. With reference to the possibility of foreigners contesting the Australian' route, Mr. Scott said: “I cannot for a moment beliove that we can consider the Dutch should run more efficient and speedier services to the Dominion than ourselves. ’ ’ Mr. Campbell Black said that the chief impression he brought home was that Australians considered thO money spent on Imperial aviation would be refunded', not necessarily in dividends, but in the development Of. the Empire. Mr. S. M. Btuco, in a tribute to Scott and Black, remarked: ‘‘Their victory is a demonstration that we still breed ’em better than other people. " ■