FUTURE OF AVIATION.

Taihape Daily Times, 26 July 1919, Page 5

FUTURE OF AVIATION.

I A WEEK-END AT CAIKO. I Half a century's growth has boon achieved in less than five years, said Major-General Sir F. H. Sykes, Con-troller-General of Civil Aviation, at Liverpool recently. Our children will complain if an irregularity in the Air Service upsets their plans for a weekend at Cairo, i But the present moment, when our organisation, our legislation, and our general ideas have to make a leap in order to get level with the leap of 50 years, which the mechanical, technical, and personal side of aviation has made, is a peculiarly difficult one. We have arrived at the end of a particular and abnormally steep "curve" in advancement, said Sir Frederick. There seems to be what he could only describe as a "gap" in front of us. We could mentally pick up the probable future curve of progress some little way ahead, but there were some very important present link missing. Security and regularity were the essence of the problems, great speed, and climbing power could be put aside for the moment, i General Sykes mentioned that since May 1, when civil aviation was opened, only three cases of injury had occurred in civil machines, and none were fatal.