AIRISMS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 770, 17 September 1929, Page 14

AIRISMS

Canada’s youngest pilot is Jack Armstrong, a 17-year-old Toronto lad, who has 100 solo hours to his credit.

Aircraft Output According to the American Air Transport Association, U.S.A. leads all other nations in the number of machines it manufactures—l4B. France is next with 109 and Great Britain third with 96. Other countries and the numbers are: Germany 54, Italy 44, Czecho-Slovakia 12, and Holland 11. Germany is the nearest competitor to U.S.A. in the manufacture of planes devoted strictly to civil use, although its number, 54, is many under the total of 96 credited to the United States. The division between military and civil types is as follow: Great Britain 60 and 36, France 74 and 35, and United States 54 and 96. Under the peace terms, Germany may not build military aircraft. a» si * The Flying-Boat “I do not see any sign yet of what I imagine will be the most common commercial development of flying in New Zealand—the flying-boat. Your big towns seem to be around the coastline, and there ought to be ultimately a great amount of business in flying around the coasts, hopping from one sheltered water to another,” wrote Mr. C. G. Grey, editor of the London journal the "Aeroplane,” to the Auckland Aero Club.