DISQUIETING LOSS OF LIFE IN FLYING
Safety Factors Not Yet Secured =• LONDON, January 3. "The great number of lives lost in air accidents is the most disquieting feature of aviation at the heginning of 1947," says the journal, Flight. "We pride ouorselves on great speeds and on records, but the sad fact remains that we have not learned how to fly our commercial aircraft safely at 100 miles an hour. "High cruising speeds pre-suppose high wing loadinjgs, Avhich in turn necessitate long take-off and landing xuns, and require runways of fantastic lengths. 'By demanding more and more of aircraft crews we manage to operate with these wing loadings, and as long as all goes well we 'delude ourselves that We are -getting away with it. The cold liard fact is we are not; we are merely taking Ibigger. and bigf^er chances."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5293, 4 January 1947, Page 5
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141DISQUIETING LOSS OF LIFE IN FLYING Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5293, 4 January 1947, Page 5
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