AVIATION

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 170140, 17 February 1921, Page 7

AVIATION

DEPLORABLE STAGNATION. GERMANY’S SPINNING NETWORK. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. “The Times.” LONDON, Eeb. 15. “The Times” in a leader emphasising tho urgent need of air police, deploring tlio stagnation in civil aviation, and contrasting the activity of other nations, stresses the Dominions’ need of aerial transport for defence. The internal communications ot tho Empire need development more urgently than any other power. “The Times” sounds a warning note respecting Germany’s feverish activity. She is spinning a network of postal routes, pilots being trained to drop bags accurately, and with such dexterity invaluable to quick postal service, and even more useful tiiau merely loading bombs. The situation requires most careful watching. Aviation should bo encouraged by practical research. CREDITABLE CIVIL RECORD. ' Received 5.50 p.m., February 16. LONDON, February 15. Since tlie opening of civil aviation in May, 1919, British aircraft have flown 1,550,000 miles and carried 106,712 passengers. There have been 48 accidents, of which 20 involved injury to personnel. Tlio rate of passengers killed was .10 per thousand carried, and 33.100 miles wero flown per accident.