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1918
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DECEMBER S. 1918 generally each started loaded with the —ia,Auxiuin its wingsurface and its engine, or engines, were capable of lifting. Thus a bomber aimed obviously either to damage the enemyat the maximum range possible, or to carry as many missiles as possible for operating over the chosen area. The aimwith a reconnaissance machine was to have fuel supplies for the longest patrols and so forth.l A"'"' ..... ~v ^u.tuuuies in plenty though with the margin of pow< unlikely that descents will be -: to set down and take up - necessary to expend all y( ... machine in ordinary work. Therein ^"^fiT -^?f^^lia»-vicT TOX--j __ —D— *.w* vivxiioii seivjso that proportionately great available per *«"~i---- ^ ,. available it is extremely frequent than are needed "" is, it is not engage your "• et of the constructb°rSe - o..~ .-u jjiiLiiii or in any friendly country_>e encouraged alike by our Government and our public. That way only can we establish and maintain thelarge scale industry essential to the safety of the Empire. Air Services not Limited to Densely Peopled AreasWe may go even'further.- Plainly, so far we have been discussing the relatively densely populated districts ofEurope; but areas so thickly peopled are by no means the only ones in which really profitable use can be made of air-craft. On the contrary, if one looks through the pages of "FLIGHT " ten and eleven years age, I note we are only onth» *-•"•--.hold of fulfilling one of my forecasts ; namely, smploymert of aircraft will prove absolutely invalu-not merely for postal and passenger services, but for policing and other guess public work in vast areas of countrieslike Australia, Canada, South Africa, and so forth. There one man, for example, would be able to do the amount ofpolicing or patrolling that fifty men would be required to do equally effectively by means of horses or motor cars.In this connection, we mno*- i.-— ;- u s 1Z Zr-r—-"""oe";l*««i;uiiaiti before the War without running undue risk, nf • the Tegl^r llrns^^oTr1 f * ^ ^ * ^service! In^all pSty f^TJ^ !Jen °f *tea^P the problems of starting and alinavigating from point to point remain nncnUmrl T>U;^ I oa schemes lSo forth - ^ust tend tothe td overseas must be mployment troubles 'andthe tendency ^t^rSrtn tO " unPreced«*ed extent Moreover, now that Tbl n y,tc\emi£rate to distant lands,reflex act on we Sn to t Tnace is overpast, by prise, which cTusTthe" ^-a-VaSt benefit from th* oktj- or railway,comes to the JfcrT u build reads daily, bi- British Air Services for Britishers the World Over point s ^^Sroen/ate^pSd^ ffhimself an exploiter of internaHnnnL- vices must be and Rome. London and bnilt and owned steamshio serfrom every point of thTcSpis, British two of the firms whose work stands for all twand desirable in aircraft development and what one may style international aircraft i 1371 ^ iuu^u i,u uc a. leature ot the second quarterof the Twentieth Century development the world over. It is called for no less insistently in Australia, Canada, SouthAfrica and India than at home. All's Well—// Wise Counsels Prevail! Therefore, whichever way we look at the matter, thereare grounds for realising that, if the proper sort of enterprise is forthcoming ; if the Government will exercise the onlysort of control desirable by stepping between the public and the unscrupulous company promote " who sees in flightmerely the latest means of swindling the public and thereby stabbing the movement, and if the Government to be electedwill assist enterprise by wise subsidies, tht future of British flying is bright, and vastly more promising than any intelli-gent enthusiast would have dared to anticipate a matter of only four and a quarter years ago. I cannot agree with those who hold that the flying in-dustry will be ruined if war orders cease. On the contraiy, if the Government will play its due part, the " change over,"Should be a chief opportunity for the industry. It will prove so as far as concerns those firms in the industry whichare conducted with foresight and knowledge as well as enter- prise. That the weak members will be weeded out is noharm, for the present manufacturing resources in these islands are necessarily so large that it is right the law of thesurvival of the fit only should begin to operate. All we want in Britain is quality aircraft and airmanship, since our T
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