FUTURE OF AVIATION.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3501, 1 June 1920, Page 3

FUTURE OF AVIATION.

LORI) N()R'I‘HCI..IFFE AN_&I.OUS. ' —___ . LONDON, May 7. Captains Co<:l<erell and Brome and Rl‘. Chalmers Mitchell, who failed in‘ their attempt. ’ro fly from Capetown to Cairo in a ViCkel'.<«-Vimy nfachine char-i feted by the 'l‘inles:_. wc-re entertained‘ last night. -A M-I .' ’ ‘ Lord NOl-thclifi’e, propi-ietor of the‘ Times, in a speech of welcome, said that persona3l_\f he was :Ig_ain grewingi anxious I'eg:ll'din;;' the aviation position, and they must closely watch Germany. Future wars would most likely be waged. with tanks and submers-_ ible ve.~<:<el.<l. »:u:lc.om‘pzmied Jby iaero-I planes, and the '\Va,r Office was not sufiieienfly alert? and energetic. The nation was spending an immense sum’ on Illilii’:ll'_V afl'uirs, and should devote more atfenitkm ‘re (.-.i\'ili:ln aviation. ‘Such aircraft eould easily be c«‘mvel't—l ind into war nl'aChine.<. but it. was ne—{ }e«).~'.~‘:\l'y re have continua] te>:t.< wiihi :1. View to c'iiminatin9__‘ faiilfs. 4 i The atwnplnne. said Lord .\'ol't,h~ cliffe, had chan-god Britain ‘s position more than that of any ofher country in the world, and thinker.<.- had realised when L. Bleriot had landed at Dover. Unf’or’run:ite}y most of these thinkers had lived in Germany, which imme<liatel_\f proceeded to break records. ’l‘o-day the Germans were talking‘ of I'(\v«-nge from the air. Britain need not be nlnrmeri, but most be \v:t.tchful. (BlCl'iof WOll the Daily Mail prize in .Tuly, 1909, for the first aviator to [C'Y‘OS:~' the English Cha.nnel_) 9