The Schneider Cup The Air Ministry announced last week that
it has definitely decided to take no official part in the Schneider Trophy contest, which would be flown in September in British waters if this country were to enter. The Royal Acro Club and its friends are prepared to find the £80,000 which is necessary, but the Cabinet still withholds its consent, and the Air Ministry will not even lend its pilots or help to keep the course clear. It seems a pity that the Government should choose this particular field for retrenchment when the counter- vailing advantages to aviation are so many, when benefits to our trade are distinctly traceable to British flying triumphs, and when the sporting manner in which the Italians came here last year is still a vivid memory. The Government, however, made it clear on Wednesday that, quite apart from the question of finance, they object to being responsible as a regular practice for a sporting contest.
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