Farnborough and .the Future
The organisation and methods that have produced the air- craft at Farnborough this week can be relied on to safeguard the future. The display is, among other things, a demonstra- tion of the virtues of freedom and initiative. The TUC general council in particular deems it advisable to leave the aircraft industry alone. The Society of British Aircraft Constructors' display whose opening happily coincided with Squadron Leader Duke's successful attempt on the world air speed record, gathers together at one place and time convincing evidence of Britain's pre-eminent achievement in the air. It is a balanced achievement. with outstanding aircraft in each of the three main categories. The annual fillip to morale which the display affords is this year even greater, since it is a show not so much of prototypes as of production aircraft, whose appearance in the RAF and on the air routes of the world is being pressed on with " super-priority." The Victor, Valiant, Hunter, Viscount and the rest demonstrate convincingly that here is one sphere in which the combination of British designers and British crafts- men works supremely well. The place the industry has gained, it has gained as a private industry. Its driving force has been initiative and an abundant faith in its own future.
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