We congratulate all concerned on the inauguration of - the National
Flying • Services Company and the Company of Air Pilots and Navigators of the British Empire, this last to be a body similar to the Honourable Company of Master Mariners. The Flying Services Company has been promised - a Government grant up to £15,000 a year for the next three years, and proposes to provide twenty aerodromes and eighty landing grounds in different parts of -the country, to serve as flying club centres for the training of young pilots:- It is an excellent thing that these two companies should be started and should have obtained official support. In the United States the members of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce already own fifty aeroplane factories, and 150 other corporations producing materials and supplies. We trust that the scheme, which owes much to Captain Guest, will meet with the support of manufacturers, business men, and the public, for the new form of trans- port is of vital importance to British safety and prosperity. . * * *
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