SAFETY IN AIR

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 207, 21 November 1927, Page 1

SAFETY IN AIR

SUCCESS OF WING-SLOTS ORDERS FOR USE LONDON, Saturday. The experimental flight of an Army airplane fitted with automatic safety wing slots had greatly impressed the Secretary for Air, Sir Samuel Hoare, who travelled in the machine as a passenger. The test provided a most thrilling flight. The machine safely did all the things which it should not do, including some which formerly would have meant certain death. Sir Samuel Hoare said the success of the flight was gratifying. The invention was from first to last a British contribution to aviation, and the success was the result of private and official co-operation. The Air Ministry has ordered that all official aircraft must be fitted with the device except the single fighter class. The invention may be adapted to suit this class later.—A. and N.Z. COMMERCIAL AVIATION PROPOSED BASES AT PANAMA AMERICAN RESISTANCE Received 9.5 a.m. - WASHINGTON, Sunday. It is understood that the United States will resist attempts by foreign commercial aviation services to establish bases on the Panama Canal Zone and Panama itself, and will reject the request of the Colombian Aero-Mari-time Company for such privileges. The company, which is financed by German and Colombian capital, employs German equipment and airmen. Panama dispatches state that the Panaman citizens desire a base, and point out that the American attitude is one of objection only, while apparently no efforts are being made by American Interests to establish a commercial air service there.—A. and N.Z.