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NOVEMBER 6, 1919 LORD FISHER in The Times :— " It's as clear as daylight that future war at sea abso'utely precludes the use of any vessel of war that can't go under water, because aircraft will compel it. So why keep any of the present lot ? " Not only that, but you've got also to scrap all the admirals and superior officers because they won't do for the new job. Put them all in some museum—like Greenwich Hospital (keep the submarines and Co.). " All you want is the present naval side of the Air Force !— that's the future Navy—only costing a few millions ! " POINTS upon the same theme from Sir Percy Scott's book :— " Aeroplane pilots will be as numerous as taxi-drivers, and get about the same pay. " The battleship waddles along at 20 miles an hour, and cannot waddle very far. " It takes a battleship weighing 30,000 tons to carry 100,000 lbs. of this explosive. " Ten aeroplanes weighing about three tons each would carry the same amount, so the relative weights of the carriers is as 30 tons-30,000 tons. " When the battleship nears the end of her coal or ammuni tion she must waddle home. The aeroplane does not waddle home, but comes back at 100 miles an hour. " The battleship is dead. The future is with the aeroplane." A FEW years hence these forecasts will be still more em phasised by advances in scientific research outside aviation, but directly influencing and tending towards the greater use of aircraft. Already we have wireless communication and wireless direction finding, which are such elements in rendering the safe navigation of the air but a matter of time, and now, according to the Paris Excelsior, M. Abraham, a French scientist, and Gen. Ferrie have introduced an im provement in wireless telephony which it is confidentlv asserted will, within a short time, make it possible to 'phone from these shores to the United States ! LOOKS like scrapping the lot of War theories hitherto prevalent. AGAIN France leads us in officially recognising aeroplanes as regular mail carriers. The French Postal Authorities have informed the Compagnie Generate Transaerienne, the agents of the Airco Co. in France, that Airco machines will now be allowed to carry mails. The rate will be 3 fr., plus the ordinary foreign postage rates. The latest hour at which letters can be posted in Paris is ri a.m. Letters will be distributed by special messenger at both ends. WONDER when our G.P.O. will fall into line. IT must have been a novel experience for the Basuto chiefs when last week they took ther half-hour flights over London from the Central Aircraft Co.'s aerodrome at Northolt. But we fancy that even more surpris ng to them was, later in the day, their sitting in front of a cinema stage and seeing their own flight reproduced on the screen. How's this for a high-flying record, even for so distinguished a flyer as the Italian patriot poet:— . A " RARA AVIS " (Parliament announces that the demobilisation of the W.R.A.F. is now practically complete) A Wraf-Bird was recently seen in the vicinity of one of our aerodromes. This_ species is fast becoming extinct H57
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