Some months ago Lord Londonderry was telling the House of Lords how much money the U.S.A, had spent on civil aviation, and asked: What had they got for it? The answer is:— 2,297 airports 664 lighted airports 19,081 miles of lighted airways 196 radio beacons And now come official statistics for civil aviation at the end of 1934. Where does Britain stand? We have 24 active machines in Imperial Airways, eighth in a list which includes 350 in the U.S.A., 173 in Germany, and 104 in France. We come fifth in the total payload capacity of our fleet, being half that of France, and one-fifth that of the U.S.A. In horse-power, the same figures hold good. We have the fifth position in route mileage, onethird of that of America.
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Southland Times, Issue 22770, 21 December 1935, Page 18
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