HIGH-SPEED FLYING AND SCIENCE
APPEAL TO CALL A HALT TO BOTH London, July 16. An appeal to the Government to stop high speed flying and "call a halt to science" was made by Lord Mottistone during the second reading of the Civil Aviation Bill in the House o£ Lords. Lord Mottistone said a lust for speed condemned pilots to a terrific ordeal which they should not be asked to undergo, "just in order that you may hold yourself up to the world as a nation which produced the fastest civil aeroplane.” Lord Winster disclosed that the British Overseas Airway Corporation had already increased its fleet to 21'2 aircraft. He declared that public ownership of civil aviation was the only practicable policy. The general trend abroad was of the same direction. Nineteen countries had wholly nationalised air services and 23 others had partially nationalised them. Lord Swinton, criticising a lack of progress in pressurisation, expressed anxiety regarding what had caused the grounding of Constellations. He suggested that a great chamber should be built for experiments in pressurisation. Lord Winster agreed that the benefits of jet, gas-propelled and turbine engines could not. be reaped until the problem of pressurisation was solved.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 167, 22 July 1946, Page 8
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