Progress in Aviation
ITTLE as I share William Courtnay’s enthusiasm for military and aeronautical progress, I could admire it from the distance. He was at least all of a piece. The breezy voice, punctuated with coughs like gun reports, ever conscious of Empire, and the historic struggles of an "Island fortress," was well suited to the task in hand. Perhaps progress in civil aviation affects me more than I know, but I have never been airborne, and the part of these 3YC talks which interested me was the proposal to have helicopters in New Zealand, Mr. Courtnay was thinking largely of helicopters as a rapid means of transport for senior staff officers and V,I.Ps. I wags thinking of alpine accidents in inaccessible -Tegions from which such machines might be an effective means of rescue. Mr. Courtnay also stressed their value as ambulances to move the wounded with a mimimum degree of pain, Later the speaker discussed the unlovely reality of the guided missile and proposed counter measures, stressing the fact that for 40 years of this century England was wide open to attack. He also emphasised the "great spiritual virtues" of the British, one of which, I submit, is the fact that they are not a blueprint nation who consider success simply a matter of planning.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 766, 26 March 1954, Page 10
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216Progress in Aviation New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 766, 26 March 1954, Page 10
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