27 DECEMBER 1930, Page 28

One of the most important needs of modem aviation is

for international co-operation with regard to flying routes. Mr. Claude Grahame-White, himself a distinguished pioneer of flying and an accomplished writer on the subject, makes this point very forcibly in Flying—an Epitome and Forecast (Chatto and Windus, 12s. 6d.) and points out that the League of Nations should take the matter in hand. He believes, further, that we are on the eve of great developments in civil aviation, and that the large flying boat is better suited for long-distance work than air- ships. His observations on the latter, we may note, were prophetic in their accuracy.

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