More Freedom for Civil Aviation The report of Lord Gorell's
Committee on the Control of Private Flying recommends a large number of changes with a view to relaxing the tightness of the regulations which have undoubtedly limited enterprise in civil aviation ; and most of these recommendations are accepted in principle by Lord Londonderry. The Com- mittee is judged to have passed somewhat beyond its terms of reference when it considered the question of withdrawing civil aviation from the control of the Air Ministry and allotting it to a separate department. Two members only urged this extreme measure ; but the majority also, though they thought it impossible to make such a change during the next ten years, urged that the Civil Aviation Directorate should be as self-contained as possible within the Air Ministry. The Secretary of State contests and refutes the view that the purely military department has sought to control civil aviation in its own interests. It is, however, undoubtedly the case that civil flying in this country has received less Government support than has been given in any other country. The Report as a whole dces valuable service in. emphasizing the need of greater freedom for development.
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