AIR AGE COMING
STANDARDISED PLANES BIG COMPANY FLOATED (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) LONDON, Saturday. An attempt to make the air age a reality is behind a far-reaching scheme for the rapid development of civil aviation in Britain. The “Daily Express” says a public company on a large scale is being floated. The chief promoter is Cap- ' i- E- Guest, a former Secretary of State for Air, with whom are associated other persons prominent in aviation. The Air Ministry is taking a live interest in it. The company’s aims embrace every conceivable branch of aviation. It will undertake air taxi work on a widespread scale and possibly “joyriding” at holiday resorts. The company will take over 18 existing private airplane clubs and will establish upwards of 50 new instructional clubs in various cities and towns, with more than 150 fullyequipped airdromes, forming systematic chains to cover all the flying routes in the kingdom. The machines will be largely standardised, in order to reduce the cost. Briefly, the plans visualise Britain of the immediate future as a country whose citizens will take to the air as they now take to the roads.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 497, 29 October 1928, Page 9
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191AIR AGE COMING Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 497, 29 October 1928, Page 9
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