The Royal Aero Club and provincial clubs have done their
best for the science of aviation. Their work will receive great stimulus through the formation of the London Aeroplane Club and, we hope, provincial clubs on similar lines. The London Club was formally opened by the Under-Secretary of State for Air last week. It will have machines in which the members will learn to pilot and, on receiving certificates, be able to fly alone. If another war should come, amateur and commercial pilots will be a reserve, but while the Air Ministry will have that in mind, the amateur pilot need feel no shadow of war over him beyond that sense of a duty to put any accomplishment at his country's service in time of need. There will be about the clubs a compromise between pure voluntaryism and State control, since the Air Ministry will help clubs financially and exercise some control.
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