AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 1 March 1929, Page 5

AVIATION

GERMANY’S PROGRESS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright'. (Received this day at 9.25. a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 28. No country in Europe has built up a finer ground, organisation for the purposes of aviation than Germany, says the “Daily Mail’s” special investigator. It now possesses thirty-two specially equipped aeroplane harbours, sixty-six officially recognised landing places, from all 'of which petrol is obtainable, and repairs are done, and to all of which weather reports are wirelessed from Berlin. At other centres aeroplanes come and go on a network of invisible lines, with the regularity of railway trains. The times of departure and arrival fill more than a hundred sections of the summer-time find places of any importance in Germany to which it will be impossible to travel by air. A special company has been formed to Ruminate night flying routes, which include Berlin-Konins-berg and Berlin-ffanover. Hansa are receiving directly and indirectly, two million sterling from the Reich, which controls most of her twenty-seven principal airlines, but there are forty-six other companies with passenger aim freight carrying rights. Eighteen firms are engaged in aeroplane making. Berlin has a school for training civil pilots and there are eleven other institutes in different parts of Germany for teaching flying.