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DECEMBER 4, 1919 anxious to know what the future holds for it as is the civilian side. , All those who value the prestige of Parliament are resentful at the cavalier way in which the House is treated by the Government, and if, for no other reason than that, want to know exactly what is meant by the many conflicting changes of front. And the country at large, having been treated two years ago to a heated controversy on the respective desirability of one Air Service or two, and having heard and seen what was done and the reasons therefor, is now profoundly disquieted by the spectacle of Ministers going back on their protestations and pre tending at the same time that they have done nothing of the sort. We sincerely trust that the air party in the House will take the earliest possible opportunity of pressing for a full discussion of the whole subject. * •» • Wc understand that very shortly a con-C< A?rshii"C8aI crete scheme is to be put forward for p the approval of the Government in connection with commercial airships. This is the outcome of the conference held some months ago at Australia House between Gen. Seely, representing the Air Ministry, and the heads of certain of the big shipping and armaments interests. It is, we believe, the intention, if the plans are approved—as there is little doubt they will be—of starting experimental airship services early in the coming year. To a great extent these will probably be more in the nature of propaganda services than by way of a real commercial attempt to make such services pay. Those who are behind the movement take the very sound view that before commercial success can be assured the travel ling public must be educated up to the safety, relia bility and punctuality of the big airship. They are therefore content to feel their way for the first year, at the same time carrying out this very necessary work of education. Later, they naturally intend to make a serious bid for a substantial proportion of the traffic east wards to Egypt and India, and as they are certain that airships can be run as a paying proposition on fares that will compete with the steamship lines, they are sanguine of success. For our own part, the Eastern routes appear to have so much in favour of success for the airship lines, that we have no hesitation in subscribing to the belief held by those who intend to pioneer the services. We foresee the time, and that before very long, when the voyage- between England and India will be performed without a stop in five days. There is absolutely no reason why this should not be done by the bigger rigids, and that it will be done there is no room to doubt. What this would mean to Anglo-Indians coming home on short leave scarcely needs pointing out—it would mean an extra month in England as com pared with the steamer routes. Then, assuming that the airship lines would secure at least a portion of the mail contracts, the additional facilities such lines would afford to the transaction of business would be almost incalculable. But we are anticipating. It will, we understand, be now only a matter of a week or two before an authoritative pronouncement is made, and we shall then be able to speak with more certainty of the future of these projected services. H H AERODROMES AND LANDING GROUNDS THE Air Ministry announces that the following lists of aerodromes are issued as an addition to or amendment of the lists already published:—• LIST A.—Service stations only available for Civil use in emergency AMENDMENTS The following aerodromes have been transferred to List E, and are now published in that list:— Aerodrome Nearest Railway Nearest Large Station Town Tangmore .. .. Drayton .. ., Chichester. Tresco (S) .. .. Penzance .. St. Mary's. References (S) Seaplane station. LIST C.—Aerodromes temporarily retained for Service Purposes AMENDMENTS The following aerodromes have been transferred to List E, and are now published in that list:—- Nearest Railway LISTD.—Aerodromes licensed as " Suitable for Avro (504 K) and similar types of A ircraft "only. Except in very few instances accommodation does not exist. The licences have also in the majority of cases been issued for limited periods only. Aerodrome Ipswich Kidderminster West Timperley Location Priory Heath Somerleyton Avenue Lies to N.W. Timperley Nearest Town .. Ipswich Kidderminster of Altrincham LIST E.—Stations no longer in use by the R.A.F. These stations have been passed to the Government Pro perty Disposal Board.' They will be relinquished as soon as the Government property thereon has been disposed of. In many cases the aerodromes are now under cultivation, but it is probable that the sites still form the best emergency landing grounds in the immediate neighbourhood. Aerodrome Collinstown Crail Ford Junction Gullane Helperby .. Lincoln Port Meadow (Oxford) Tadcaster .. Throwley .. Upper Heyford Whitley Abbey Witney Station Portmamock Crail Ford Junction Gullane .. Brafierton Lincoln ~. Oxford .. Thorrer .. Charing .. Lower Heyford Coventry. . Witney .. Nearest Large Town Dublin Crail Arundel North Berwick Ripon Lincoln Oxford Tadcaster , Faversham Bicester Coventry Oxford Aerodrome Anglesey (A) • Collinstown Crail Ford Junction Gullane Helperby .. Hythe Lincoln Port Meadow (Oxford) Oxford Tadcaster Tangmere .. Throwley .. Tresco (S) .. Upper Heyford Whitley Abbey Witney Nearest Station Llangefni Portmarnock Crail Ford Junction Gullane .. Brafferton Hythe .. Lincoln .. TnorreT .. Drayton .. Charing .. Penzance Lower Heyford Coventry.. Witney Nearest Town Holyhead Dublin Crail Arundel North Berwick Ripon Hythe Lincoln Oxford Tadcaster Chichester Faversham St. Mary's. Bicester Coventry Oxford References—(A) Airship station. (S) Seaplane station. 1548
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