THE AIRSHIP.
ITS USE FOR COMMERCE. AIR MINISTER'S VIEW. ' LESS OPTIMISTIC ■ • Received Feb. 8, 7.30 p.m. London, Feb. 7. Captain F. E. Guest (Air Minister) addressing the air conference, said the backwardness of British aviation was due to the trade depression and the necessity for overcoming the danger of flying before it could become popular. In connection with the latter he pointed out that in twenty-five thousand British flights, in which fifty thousand people were carried in 1921, only two fatalities occurred. He was afraid the airship outlook was not hopeful. He believed the reports in regard to foreign airship developments were exaggerated. Taking a long view of aircraft traffic generally he feared there was little hope of real commercial success being achieved in' Europe against the competition of highly developed railways. Counter balancing this view the outlook for developing air traffic within the Empire was bright and we could adopt a tone of sure, simple and unexaggerated optimism in regard thereto.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1922, Page 5
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164THE AIRSHIP. Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1922, Page 5
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