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1930
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FLIGHT, JANUARY 3, 1930 Birthday Messages—continued From GENERAL MOTTA, ^ — Portuguese Minister of War. - ** • ' " It is with the greatest pleasure that I submit, on the occasion of the 21st anniversary of FLIGHT my personal impression of the splendid effort made all over the world for the triumph of aviation. " Aviation that was still a dream, some years ago is now a tremendous reality. Aviation faces : humanity as Utopia realised. It is more than a discovery. It is a conquest whose far- ::.:..-'J-. reaching possibilities are growing every day and shall change unthinkably the slowly- increasing routine of actual communications between countries. " Till now only land planes are beginning to be efficient. Men and post and freight travel at high speeds in relative but ever bettering conditions of security. " Air lines are appearing everywhere, economy of time is spreading rapidly with immense benefit for commercial intercourse. But the oceans with their belts" of fog and changing winds are still the great and terrible problems for aviation. " The regular crossing of those huge spans of water shall be the finishing touch to the marvellous conquest of flight. But to attain it, great sacrifices shall still have to be made. Lives of great men of courage and splendid faith shall yet be risked in the doings. " May I honour them and be proud of their efforts. In every way, they should be helped by the government of their countries. ** May I honour and be proud of the engineers, designers, manufacturers of the machines and engines, which slowly but surely are fighting their way to the ultimate success of commercial and regular trans-ocean flights. " Sacrifices and risks shall yet be made and taken, but I think I may say—The thing is as good as it is done, the problem is as good as it is solved. " May these words express my opinion about aviation in this moment, and be of interest to FLIGHT." From COLONEL L. RAYSKI, Chief of the Department of Aeronautics in Poland. " Des les temps les plus anciens l'rnstinct conquerant de l'homme le poussa a parcourir les mers, en quete de terres, de butin, d'aventures. . . Les barques des explorateurs, des pionniers •. et des commerfants se transform£rent avec le temps en bateaux, les bateaux—en vaisseaux-— les vaisseaux devinrent des flotilles. " En poursuivant la conquete des vivres, des perles et des esclaves, le genie et l'obstination de l'lic-mme (et peutetre tout simplement un heureux hasard) lui permirent de retirer la perle la plus precieuse ; un Nouveau Monde. " D'autre part, a mesure que, mu par le genie des mutuelles conquetes, l'homme traversait les mers avec sa flotte commerciale—croissait aussi la resistance des peuples conquis. II fallut poser des canons sur les vaisseaux de commerce—donner aux marins de la poudre et des armes. " Encore quelques centaines d'annees—et tous les peuples construisent des bateaux deguerre, forment des fiottes—terribles descendants de la barque timide, qui jadis aborda la premiere les rives des voisins inconuus—pleine de crainte, de curiosite et de desir. " Des siecles s'ecoulerent. Au milieu des lueurs des incendies et des eclats de tonnerre de la dprniere guerre, qui embras a le monde presque entier, apparurent des volees d'oiseaux sanguinaires, portant, jour et nuit, la terreur, la mort et la destruction dans les camps et les capitales de l'ennemi. " Crees par le genie de la penSee humaine et l'eternel instinct d'Icar, ces oiseaux devinrent cependant les outils du Demon, toujours aflame de sang. Telle est la malediction des premieres annees de leur existence, des premiers essais de leur force et de leur bravoure. " Mais les lueurs des incendies s'eteignirent et les volees des oiseaux humains ne cessent point de peupler la voute des cieux—toujours plus grands, plus forts, plus sages, plus habiles et plus hardis. Us s'essaient deja a la lutte contre les deux puissances les plus inviolables—le Temps et l'Espace. " Mais le moment approche oil ils attaqueront une Puissance plus resistante que le temps et l'espace, plus elevee que les sommets des montagnes et plus largement repandue que l'oce'an l'inimitie entre les rations, l'illusion des frontidres. " Nous, Polonais, croyons, que 1'histoire de 1'aviation continuer.i au rebours celle de la navigation^ et que le role, destine a l'aviation dans 1'histoire de l'humanite est celui d'un conquerant qui. bien qu'ayant commence par la guerre—decouvrira (inopin&nent,-peut-etre sciemment—grace a son genie ou a une coincidence propice) le pays le plus digne de recherches : le Monde de la Paix." From His ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE PURACHATRA, Minister of Commerce and Communications of Siam. " An Air Service was established in Siam seventeen years ago. Since then Siam's chief aerodrome has been used regularly on long-distance flights. An aerial postal service was established over the Eastern Provinces in 1922 with continuous success. Further developments are under consideration to assist international air communications. I wish all success to your efforts to advance the cause of aviation. 18
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