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1920
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MARCH 25, 1920 This week undoubtedly the item of news is the resignationof Mr. Holt Thomas from the chairmanship of the Aircraft Manufacturing Co., Ltd., and his reasons for that very im-portant step. Mr. Holt Thomas sets out his convictions in a statement from him which appears elsewhere in thisissue, and as this action upon his part must, in the ordinary course of events, be but the forerunner of drastic conse-quences, it is to be hoped that our vote-snatchers on high may begin to realise the seriousness of the aviation situationfrom the Imperial point of view, and put up some sort of show of retrieving the grievous mistakes which have hitherto at-tended their decisions in regard to their attitude towards the present and future of aviation. To lose all that ournoble Flying Corps attained by their sacrifices in the War, of the spirit pertaining with our commercial magnates,according to our Italian contemporary, the Epoca, an im- portant 4 British aviation firm has made an advantageousoffer to the Italian Government to undertake the entire aerial service throughout Italy. British aeroplanes, constructedin Italy, would be used for the purpose. - - PATHS to Tokyo—6,562 miles—in six days sounds a bigjump over 15 days by railway and 40 days by sea. Yet the latter is the time occupied at present for the journey,according to M. Louis Breguet, the great French aeronautical engineer and President of the Union of Aeronautical In-dustries, and the former is the time in which he estimates the distance wiR presently be covered by aeroplane. This The latest production of the Thomas-Morse Corp., of Ithaca, N.Y., which recently went through its trials. It is a twin-fuselage biplane, 45 ft. span and 35 ft. long, with a central nacelle carrying two 300 h.p. Hispano-Suiza engines driving tractor and pusher screws respectively through the vapid indifference and want of appreciationof our opportunist political " masters," is*indeed a ghastly crime against the Empire which it is well to note when thewound is still gaping. Like curses, sooner or later, this betrayal of our dead flying men's legacy will come home toroost upon the reputations of the politicians who are more concerned with their personal and immediate jobs andaggrandisement than with the real welfare of the Nation's future. FORTUNATELY enterprise on the part of our enthusiasticconstructors may still save the situation for the country, as individual effort as against bureaucratic control alwayshas done in the past in other vital matters. As evidence comforting prophecy was made by M. Breguet the other day in Paris to the Japanese Military Aviation Mission, which is at present studying the position in Europe of affairs of the air. Will the time come when the yellow race will fly over to these lands in swarms of battalions in six days ? We wonder. It is not quite yet, but the future has to be thought of, and why not think really far enough ? IT sounds very practical that the great shoals of fish as they breast their way through the seas should be easily " spotted "by means of the seaplane and dirigibles, and an easy harvest thereby assured to the fleets of the fishermen who bring in the harvest of the sea for man's consumption. Again, the French lead in this matter, experiments being The Thomas-Morse twin-fuselage biplane as seen from the rear 350 ......
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