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1919
1919 - 0707.PDF
THE final touches have been given in Paris to the Inter national Air Convention Regulations, the Aeronautical Com mission of the Peace Conference having held its final meeting on May 22, and the publication of the text, which will consist of 56 pages, will take place very shortly. The Con vention will be submitted to the Supreme Council as an appendix to a final report, summarising the work of the Commission. THE Convention itself deals with the following matters : — (a) General principles governing the rights of international flight. (b) The nationality and registration of aircraft. (c) Certificates of air wo.thiness and competency. (d) Principles governing flight over foreign territory. (e) Rules to be observed on departure or landing and when under way. (/) Prohibition of the carriage of certain objects. (g) State aircraft. (h) The international commission for air navigation. (7) Final provisions. Technical details are dealt with in annexes in the following order :— A. The marking of aircraft. B. Certificates of air worthiness. C. Log books. D. Rules as to lights and signals and rules of the air. E. Certificates of competency including medical require ments. F. International maps and ground marks. G. Meteorological information. H. Customs. The preparatory work of drafting the convention was in the main divided between two sub-committees, the legal, financial, and commercial sub-committee being responsible for the text of the convention and of Annex H, and the tech nical sub-committee for the text of the technical annexes A to G. The commission itself, however, has been responsible for the final approval of the different drafts, with the help of a small drafting committee. NOTE.—The R.A.F. picture exhibition in colours at the Grafton Galleries closes this week, on Saturday. Just time for a final look round this remarkable show. BY air to the Derby for z\ to 3 guineas sounds almost too reasonable for a start off. But that is the figure at which it is proposed to convey passengers at, by one of the travel agencies which have taken up flying as a commercial side to their business. WITHOUT doubt in the event of the Germans refusing to sign the peace terms, Berlin could be easily and effectively bombed. The effect upon the population would, without question, be immediate and drastic, but at the same time THE BOULTON >ND PAUL "BOURGES."—A " snap * from another aeroplane during a test flight 707
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