FLIERS’ TREATMENT

Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1934, Page 8

FLIERS’ TREATMENT

VIGOROUS PROTESTS MADE. MRS. MOLLI SON’S VIEWS. London, Nov. 15. “Sir Charles Kingsford Smith has expressed what Britain s. leading airmen i have been thinking for a long time, I says Mrs. Amy Mollison, in regard to recent comments by Sir Charles in America on the treatment of fliers. “Anyone who regards flying feats as a passport to an aviation career is crazy,” says Mrs. Mollison. “Our 'do or die boys are ignored when they could be most useful in aviation development. Many are unable to get jobs. Sir Charles is an outstanding example—after magnificent flights he has been forced to sell joy-rides. “When big business is considering aviation development,' the last people it seems to want are some of our finest aviators. The time is coming when the stratosphere will be the highway of air travel, and only our ‘do or die’ boys can hasten that development. “Unless Britain provides a fund to encourage long-distance flying and ultilises the experience of leading airmea we will soon be left far behind the rest of the- world.” “Sir Charles has pricked the ‘fame and money’ bubble of . record-breaking flights,” says the Daily Mail. . Mr. James Mollison. said to-day: “The centenary air race cost us about £7OOO and we got nothing out of it.” .