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1936
1936 - 0225.PDF
AIRCRAFT ENGINEER AND AIRSHIPS FIRST AERONAUTICALFKEEKLY IN THE^FVORLD .• FOUNDED WOO Editor C. M. POULSEN Managing Editor G. GEOFFREY SMITH Chief Photographer JOHN YOXALL Ediiorial, Advertising and Publishing Offices: DORSET HOUSE, STAMFORD STREET, LONDON, S.E.1 Telegrams : Truditur. Sedis'., London. Telephone : Waterloo 3333 (50 lines). HERTFORD ST., COVENTRY. GUILDHALL BUILDINGS, NAVIGATION ST., BIRMINGHAM, 2. Telegrams : Autocar, Coventry. Telegrams : Autopress, Birmingham. Telephone : Coventry 5210. Telephone: Midland 2971. 260, DEANSGATE, MANCHESTER, 3. Telegrams: Iliffe, Manchester. Telephone: Blackfriars 4412. 26B, RENPIKLD ST., GLASGOW, C.2. Telegrams: Iliffe, Glasgow. Telephone: Central 4857. STJBSCKIFTION KATES: B ome and Canada : Othei Countries) : Year, £1 13 0. Year, *1 10 0. 6 months, 16a. 6d. 6 months, 17s. 60. 3 months, 8s. 6d. 3 months. 8s. 9d. No. 1414. Vol. XXIX. JANUARY 30, 193S Thursdays, Price 6d. The Airports Conference T HIS issue of Flight makes a special feature of the organisation and equipment of airports for the benefit of, among others, those who will attend the annual conference of the Aerodrome Owners' Association. We feel sure that the delegates will all find it a useful number. It seems a great pity that the report of the Maybury Committee, which is believed to be imminent, could not have been published before the holding of the confer ence. The report may not make any great difference to those who are already owners of aerodromes, but it may make a considerable difference to those parties, especially local authorities, who are now debating in their minds whether to invest in an aerodrome or not. If the report of the Mayburv Committee does fulfil'ex pectations by laying out a scheme of probable internal air routes and indicating the cities on those routes which would be well advised to set up, as soon as may be, either a fully equipped airport or a humble but useful landing ground with a petrol pump and a telephone, it may be taken for granted that representatives of those cities would come to the conference and would visit the exhibition which goes with it in a very purposeful frame I of mind. Need of Advice There are some flying people who are not in the least interested in keeping down the rates of this or that muni cipality, but who want to have as many aerodromes in the country as possible, so that they may get the utmost use out of their aeroplanes. Their desire is natural. bome spokesmen of that party have done their utmost 0 stampede municipalities into hurried purchase of aero- fomes by the warning that those who did not own them °uld soon be in the position of towns without railway Rations, and that if local authorities did not act quickly e price of the land would be raised against them. to ||lclPa^es m general have not shown much tendency stampeded by this awful warning, but many of them are in real need of sound, disinterested advice on the subject. Still, even though the Maybury report has not yet been issued, this conference should be able to do very useful work. There are already a number of airports in the country, and there will certainly have to be many more. It is most desirable that there should be a common policy as regards organisation, and also a common standard of equipment. Such standardisation can best be achieved by comparing ideas at a conference like this, and inspecting various types of equipment at a comprehensive exhibition. Breaks of gauge are not de sirable on an airway. A W Ming Horse 4Ta moment when the works of the aircraft industry /\ are full to overflowing with construction of 1 \ , machines to complete the expansion programme of the Royal Air Force, and when naval corre spondents assure us that the Government is taking decisions to make good the deficiencies of the Navy, the Morning Post has published a series of articles on the weakness of Britain's defences. These articles seem rather like flogging a willing horse. Perhaps, however, they were not intended to perform that useless function. They may be taken as a warning against the folly of seeking for peace by disarming oneself. Britain has tried that policy once, and a Socialist Government may try it again. It certainly seems clear that some other nations have come to the conclusion that they may now take liberties with Britain, as the latter is not strong enough to make them pay for it; and that this situation has brought us nearer to war than is at all comfortable. No one doubts the truth of Sir Samuel Hoare's words that if Italy were to attack us we should strike back and should probably do so with complete success. A nation which has a very large army engaged in a country separated from the homeland by the Suez Canal is very badly situated for making attacks on a great naval Power; and despite all deficiencies Britain is still a great
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