10 FEBRUARY 1933, Page 3

To Orkney by Air • An example of air achievement

of another order is worth recording. Kirkwall, familiar to so many officers of the Grand Fleet at Scapa in the War, is now a day's journey from Inverness, including seven how's in the train -and then .an- often stormy sea passage. The journey- by air will take an hour or less. Orkney will get its morning newspapers at breakfast time instead of at night, and it will surely attract many more visitors and do more business with the mainland. Aviation services of this • prosaic kind need to be encouraged. The next generation will regard them as part of the natural order of things.