PROGRESS IN AVIATION
OPPORTUNITY FOR BRITAIN. A 12 days London to Melbourne air service in 1931 was .foreshadowed in a speech by 'lr Sefton Brancker, Director of Civil Aviation, at the Aldwych Club. Similarly, ho anticipated a through air mail from the Cape to Cairo. if the nation thought Imperially and acted forthwith, a diecade would see wonderful flying statistics. Ihe united States would bo knocked out entirely. Tne British certificate for airwortfainess was now the world’s best salesman for British aircraft and the equivalent of an Al at Lloyd’s, said Sir Sefton. He added that scietific knowledge showed that the speed attained m the Schneider fCu{p races could ha surpassed, and that there was no reason why, sooner or later, travel should not be as fast as sound*
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 9, 6 March 1930, Page 5
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