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APRIL 26, 1917. "Types of aeroplane we may build after the war. Flying prison van." (From the Avro House Journal, the "Joy-Stick.") batch of four resolutions was at the end of last week passedat a gathering of the Air Committee, over which Mr. Joynson- Hicks, M.P., presided, to the following effect;— " 1. That this Committee desires to place on record itspride in the splendid work of our airmen on the Western Front, and to congratulate them on the share they have taken inthe defeat of the Germans in the recent fighting. "2. That this Committee desires to congratulate theGovernment on the air attacks they have made on German towns by way of reprisal for the dastardly crime of torpedoingRed Cross transports, and trusts that this policy will be further carried out whenever Germany is guilty of similarbreaches of the law of nations. "3. That this Committee requests Lord Cowdray kindlyto meet it, with a view to discussing in confidence the present position and prospects of the Air Service, and at the same timedesires that the meeting should be open to any member of either House of Parliament who may desire to attend it. "4. That this Committee expresses the hope that, theGovernment will arrange for an early debate on the Air Estimates." IT is to be hoped the House discussion, whether in privatesession or otherwise, will be a well-balanced statement of facts, and not merely a sweeping and wide general charge ofall-round shortcomings. A pound of fact, well substantiated, is worth several tons of verbiose frothing, with no backing ofevidence. That there have been serious shortcomings in initiative of the right character, there can be no manner ofdoubt, any more than that our pilots will cheerfully take any number of chances and are far and away as good as the worldcan boast. But however much the latter fact is rubbed in by reiteration, the initial trouble of want of foresight is notvaried one iota. To the contrary. It only makes it the more patent that with the same ratio in the past in adminis-trative initiative as in our pilots' pluck and enterprise, the Hun flyers would never have had so much as a look in againstour men. That matters are now mending in the right direction we have every confidence, but provision should be ensuredagainst a lapse to slacking off in official efforts to always go one better than that which may already have been achieved.The finish of the war this year or its continuance into 1918 rests in a very large measure upon the immediate supply A general view of the German Aeronautical Exhibition of War Booty, to which reference has been-• - previously made in "FLIGHT." . • 398 L
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