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1930
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FLIGHT. JANUARY 3, 1930 Birthday Messages—continued From DR. L. N. DECKERS, Minister of Defence of the Netherlands. " In the year 1911 the Dutch army for the first time employed reconnaissance aeroplanes duringthe army manoeuvres. Two years afterwards the Air Force (Luchtvaartafdeeling) for the army and navy was organised, whereas in 1917 a separate air service was established forthe navy. " With the Dutch air service reconnaissance and observation are prominent, but, nevertheless,the fighting service excels in its extraordinary ability of its battle flights. That this is no exaggeration is proved by the fact that already in 1923, a flight got the first prize for flying information at Gothenburg, in Sweden. " Individually the military airmen came also to the fore, either as pioneers in the flights to theDutch East Indies, or in so far that they showed their mastership at international competitions, as, for instance, the Dutch officer who in 1927, at Zurich, was the leader at the internationalcircuit flight in the Alps and performed this feat in the mountainous country of the Alps, which to him was absolutely unknown." The name of the military aerodrome at Soesterberg, with its excellent establishments, has become very significant in the world of international military flying." The air service of the Royal Navy has its centre in the Dutch East Indies. Besides a very large flying base at Soerabaia, the Navy has several minor bases. The training of airmen,however, takes place in Holland, at the aerodromes of the Helder. " This year a flight of seaplanes belonging to the Royal Navy has travelled through the air fromHolland to the Dutch East Indies. On the way it has been given very much assistance and support by foreign, and especially British, military authorities." The military and naval air services have given the impulse to the development of the civil air service in Holland and made it possible to the latter to get through the first difficult yearsby putting at its disposal able leaders and pilots. " Taking everything together, the Dutch army and navy air services may be said to belong tothe very best and to be a great credit to the name of ' Flying Dutchman.' " From the Minister of Waterstaat in the Netherlands, MYNHEER O. REYMER (Public Works and Communications). " When remembering for a moment the result of attempts to rise above the earth the pioneersof aviation made some decades ago, when realizing the part that aviation for commercial purposes is already playing in the world's traffic, we are justified in anticipating that in amore or less distant future this new means of transport will be the equal in general use of railways and steamers." Wondrous are already the results of these new means of communication which, avoiding obstacles and being free of delays at the frontiers, earn,' their load from one end of the world to theother, shortening the time and the distances in a way which some years ago seemed scarcely possible." In the development of commercial air-navigation the Netherlands have their share embodied in the results of the national Company, the K.L.M. (Royal Dutch Airlines Company), whichby its very good pilots, its safe and economic machines and its sound organisation takes one of the foremost places in the line of navigation companies of the world." Founded in 1919 ; beginning in 1920 in a modest way by establishing an airline between London and Amsterdam with the appreciated help of pilots and aeroplanes from the Aircraft Trans-port & Travel Co., London, the K.L.M. soon started and developed a number of airlines in Europe ; and now after only ten years finds its principal task in preparing and establishingan airline of great conception between the mother-country and the Netherlands East-Indies. " This line will have not only an important commercial object, but also the ethical aim of bringingnearer to each other the inhabitants of the two parts of the Kingdom. The first series of ex- perimental flights have proved a direct advantage by procuring a manner of quicker exchangeof letters between the two countries. " To fulfil this great task the world's nations must possess air-mindedness not only to inducethem to employ the new means of transport in a large extent, but also to cultivate the sense of freedom of the air, necessary for the execution of such great enterprises." A sound and solid periodical as FLIGHT is, contributes to the progress of aviation by develop-ing this greatly wanted air-mindedness. It is, therefore, that, congratulating the editors on the 21st birthday of their periodical, I express my best wishes for its prosperity, and I hopeto be able to follow their work in length of years." From COMMANDER AFONSO DE CERQUEIRA, Chief oLthe Portuguese Naval Air Service. " Aviation is one of the most important performances turned practical during the presentcentury. In the way of transport of passengers as well as goods it is today the most speedy one.As a weapon of war it is the main and the indispensable support of the defence of a country. Portugal has been remarkable in aviation, through their well-known aviator's performances.I hope we will see the uninterrupted progress and development of aviation in Portugal. FLIGHT has very much contributed for the improvement and propaganda of aviationdeserving the warmest praise from all who are interested in it." n E 1
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