14 SEPTEMBER 1951, Page 4

Having commented unenthusiastically on one suggested name for a helicopter

landing-ground, I have been asked what I should call such a place myself. I should call it a hoverport. This type of machine is, I believe, generally known in the United States (very sensibly) as a hoverplane, and though a plane hovers and a port doesn't the name hoverport seems convenient enough for that slight discrepancy to be overlooked.