NO CIVIL AVIATION POLICY IN BRITAIN
MEMBERS DECLARE HELP NEEDED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received March 21, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, March 20. During the Air Estimates debate in the House of Comons, Captain F. E. Guest said that there was apparently no civil aviation policy in Britain. Germany’s civil 'planes last year covered 4.000,000 miles, French ’planes 3,200,000, and British 'planes 800,000. Colonel H. C. Woodcock said that the money needed to subsidise the ari lines would be negligible in view of value that could be achieved. Seaplanes and steamships should play their parts in one performance. There ought to be an Imperial Croydon in Egypt, and a seaplane base at Southampton. Rear-Admiral Seuter said that there ought to be some official control over people wanting to fly the Atlantic. The Air Ministry should insist on their having proper medical certificates and knowledge of navigation, and their machines ought to be overhauled before the flight.—Aust. and N.Z. Press Assn.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18418, 21 March 1928, Page 4
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