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CIVIL AVIATION

CIVIL AVIATION June, 1943 AIRCRAFT ENGINEERIN G 155 places because of their strategic as much as their commercial import­ ance. It is said, we believe with truth, that, for instance, no point Aircraft Engineering in the British Commonwealth (the word " Empire " being now Devote d to th e Science an d Practice of Aero­ taboo) is distant from another more than 2,000 miles. Whether this will ever be an economic, or reasonably comfortable, length of nautic s and to Allied and Subsidiary stage for commercial aeroplanes we are doubtful, but it is certainly Branche s of th e Engineering Industry well within the range of modern military types and we believe that Editor: Lieut.-Col. W. Lockwood Marsh, O.B.E., F.R.Ae.S., M.S.A.E.,F.I.Ae,S. this must be borne in mind—as well as other defence aspects of the siting of aerodromes—in the planning of overseas air routes in the future. Vol. XV, No . 172 June 1943 A Point of Difference Another point brought out by MR. ATTLEE, which is of great INCE we wrote last month, Civil Aviation has come definitely importance as bearing on the question of future international into the forefront of the news. An (or should it be " The "?) S negotiations on civil aviation, is that while such countries as the Independent Committee on The Future of Civil Aviation has published its First Report; the Joint Air Transport Committee of U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. have ample scope within the wide limits of their own territories to build up a prosperous system of air lines of a The Association of British Chambers of Commerce, The Federation genuine commercial character, Great Britain is in a totally different of British Industries, and The London Chamber of Commerce has category and the immensely preponderating number of commercial issued a "statement " ; and a " full-dress " debate on the subject aeroplanes that leave the ground must inevitably be taking off to fly has been held in the House of Commons, in which both the DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER (MR. ATTLEE) and THE SECRETARY, OF STATE FOR to, or over, a foreign country. For this reason we welcome the announcement tha t discussions wit h the Dominions have been started AI R (SIR ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR) took part . Could the most publicity- —provided that they are carried on with vigour and soon superseded seeking ask for more ? by actual conferences. Two Items of News An Imperial Air Board Unfortunately, out of the welter of words contained in the one Our own view is that the best course would be for a strong over­ hundred and twenty-eight columns occupied by the debate in the Official Report little emerged except that , as a result of the recom­ seas air transport corporation (whether public utility or private mendations of the Brabazon Committee, negotiations are taking company does not very much matter) to be formed in England and place with aircraft firms in regard to the possibility of producing each Dominion, or Colony; representatives from whom should form an Imperial Air Transport Board to discuss mutual questions of designs for post-war civil types of aeroplane and tentative discus­ policy and undertake international negotiations. One matter that sions have been opened with the Dominions on questions of general policy. These were, it was specifically stated, not directed at any­ this Board should watch would be the placing of orders for aeroplane thing so definite as a conference and least of all were the British types. It is always a little fruitless to look back into the past, but Government prepared to divulge to the Dominions what, if any, it must not be forgotten that, in the period of development before the war, of two Dominions which had no aircraft industry of their their own views might be. SIR ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR envisaged the own, one largely patronized German and the other American types necessity for control of civil aviation remaining with th e Air Ministry for at any rate some time after the war—though he failed to give of machine instead of supporting, as they should have done, the any reasons for this need. struggling industry in the Mother Country^ Every effort should be made to avoid this happening in the future. Unhappy Far-off Things The general level of the'debate resolved itself into the old wrangles on the merits or otherwise of state ownership or private enterprise A QUESTION OF PRIORITY (when the argument might just have well have been about railways, We are advised that the BOARD OF TRADE is turning its attention or coal mines for all the concern it had with the matter in hand), to a scheme for " concentrating " the printing industry. For the one or more " chosen instruments", nationalism and " inter­ uninitiate it may be explained that this consists in reducing the nationalization", an air police force, " freedom of the air " (amor­ number of establishments located in certain areas heavily involved phous phrase), Dominion representation on the Board of Overseas in munitions manufacture and transferring their quotas to other Airways, complete reconstitution of that Board, shipping companies firms more fortunately situated in less heavily committed areas; as organizers of air travel—and all the hundred and one other sub­ in which latter each " reception " firm allocates a proportion of its jects beloved by school debating societies and to be heard being " capacity " to one or more of the evicted firms. In several in­ argued in any bar. Of concrete suggestion there was little or stances, in the face of informed and organized opposition schemes none. of this nature have had to be abandoned. In case, however, the scheme develops, it may be well to put forward at this early stage a The Strategic Aspect plea for the technical press. The danger is that any particular firm in a " reception " area may be already, owing to shortage of One point we were glad to see hinted at by MR. ATTLEE which we labour and other limitations, operating to its maximum wartime had already had in mind to bring up. He said, " If civil aviation capacity; in which case it may be forced to curtail some of its has a domestic aspect which has been stressed, it has an aspect present activities in order to make capacity available for an evicted which links it up with the whole wide problem which is, put shortly, firm. This will, obviously, then resolve itself into a question of the securing of the world from fear.'-' He did not elaborate this relative priorities as between various classes of daily or weekly or remark at all but just left it there as a small stone cast into the monthly publications. There is a danger that those who shout the pool of thought with the ripples free to spread in whatever direction loudest will be most likely to be heard; in other words that those they might will. It has always seemed to us that this is exactly with the largest circulation will receive the most consideration. why civil aviation cannot be abandoned by Governments to "fly Before the matter goes any further we would like to put forward the by itself", quite apart from any economic need there may be for aid view that there are other standards than popular appeal as a from subsidies to support a deserving industry.. It is a matter of measure of true value, and that periodicals catering for a limited history that certain commercial ports in different parts of the class of technical readers employed on essential war work are perhaps world were developed largely to provide coaling stations for the entitled to consideration in preference to those whose metier is— fleets of various nations, and it seems to us obvious that, in the however admirably carried out—merely to amuse the public. same way, nations will need to establish aerodromes at certain http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology Emerald Publishing

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June, 1943 AIRCRAFT ENGINEERIN G 155 places because of their strategic as much as their commercial import­ ance. It is said, we believe with truth, that, for instance, no point Aircraft Engineering in the British Commonwealth (the word " Empire " being now Devote d to th e Science an d Practice of Aero­ taboo) is distant from another more than 2,000 miles. Whether this will ever be an economic, or reasonably comfortable, length of nautic s and to Allied and Subsidiary stage for commercial aeroplanes we are doubtful, but it is certainly Branche s of th e Engineering Industry well within the range of modern military types and we believe that Editor: Lieut.-Col. W. Lockwood Marsh, O.B.E., F.R.Ae.S., M.S.A.E.,F.I.Ae,S. this must be borne in mind—as well as other defence aspects of the siting of aerodromes—in the planning of overseas air routes in the future. Vol. XV, No . 172 June 1943 A Point of Difference Another point brought out by MR. ATTLEE, which is of great INCE we wrote last month, Civil Aviation has come definitely importance as bearing on the question of future international into the forefront of the news. An (or should it be " The "?) S negotiations on civil aviation, is that while such countries as the Independent Committee on The Future of Civil Aviation has published its First Report; the Joint Air Transport Committee of U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. have ample scope within the wide limits of their own territories to build up a prosperous system of air lines of a The Association of British Chambers of Commerce, The Federation genuine commercial character, Great Britain is in a totally different of British Industries, and The London Chamber of Commerce has category and the immensely preponderating number of commercial issued a "statement " ; and a " full-dress " debate on the subject aeroplanes that leave the ground must inevitably be taking off to fly has been held in the House of Commons, in which both the DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER (MR. ATTLEE) and THE SECRETARY, OF STATE FOR to, or over, a foreign country. For this reason we welcome the announcement tha t discussions wit h the Dominions have been started AI R (SIR ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR) took part . Could the most publicity- —provided that they are carried on with vigour and soon superseded seeking ask for more ? by actual conferences. Two Items of News An Imperial Air Board Unfortunately, out of the welter of words contained in the one Our own view is that the best course would be for a strong over­ hundred and twenty-eight columns occupied by the debate in the Official Report little emerged except that , as a result of the recom­ seas air transport corporation (whether public utility or private mendations of the Brabazon Committee, negotiations are taking company does not very much matter) to be formed in England and place with aircraft firms in regard to the possibility of producing each Dominion, or Colony; representatives from whom should form an Imperial Air Transport Board to discuss mutual questions of designs for post-war civil types of aeroplane and tentative discus­ policy and undertake international negotiations. One matter that sions have been opened with the Dominions on questions of general policy. These were, it was specifically stated, not directed at any­ this Board should watch would be the placing of orders for aeroplane thing so definite as a conference and least of all were the British types. It is always a little fruitless to look back into the past, but Government prepared to divulge to the Dominions what, if any, it must not be forgotten that, in the period of development before the war, of two Dominions which had no aircraft industry of their their own views might be. SIR ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR envisaged the own, one largely patronized German and the other American types necessity for control of civil aviation remaining with th e Air Ministry for at any rate some time after the war—though he failed to give of machine instead of supporting, as they should have done, the any reasons for this need. struggling industry in the Mother Country^ Every effort should be made to avoid this happening in the future. Unhappy Far-off Things The general level of the'debate resolved itself into the old wrangles on the merits or otherwise of state ownership or private enterprise A QUESTION OF PRIORITY (when the argument might just have well have been about railways, We are advised that the BOARD OF TRADE is turning its attention or coal mines for all the concern it had with the matter in hand), to a scheme for " concentrating " the printing industry. For the one or more " chosen instruments", nationalism and " inter­ uninitiate it may be explained that this consists in reducing the nationalization", an air police force, " freedom of the air " (amor­ number of establishments located in certain areas heavily involved phous phrase), Dominion representation on the Board of Overseas in munitions manufacture and transferring their quotas to other Airways, complete reconstitution of that Board, shipping companies firms more fortunately situated in less heavily committed areas; as organizers of air travel—and all the hundred and one other sub­ in which latter each " reception " firm allocates a proportion of its jects beloved by school debating societies and to be heard being " capacity " to one or more of the evicted firms. In several in­ argued in any bar. Of concrete suggestion there was little or stances, in the face of informed and organized opposition schemes none. of this nature have had to be abandoned. In case, however, the scheme develops, it may be well to put forward at this early stage a The Strategic Aspect plea for the technical press. The danger is that any particular firm in a " reception " area may be already, owing to shortage of One point we were glad to see hinted at by MR. ATTLEE which we labour and other limitations, operating to its maximum wartime had already had in mind to bring up. He said, " If civil aviation capacity; in which case it may be forced to curtail some of its has a domestic aspect which has been stressed, it has an aspect present activities in order to make capacity available for an evicted which links it up with the whole wide problem which is, put shortly, firm. This will, obviously, then resolve itself into a question of the securing of the world from fear.'-' He did not elaborate this relative priorities as between various classes of daily or weekly or remark at all but just left it there as a small stone cast into the monthly publications. There is a danger that those who shout the pool of thought with the ripples free to spread in whatever direction loudest will be most likely to be heard; in other words that those they might will. It has always seemed to us that this is exactly with the largest circulation will receive the most consideration. why civil aviation cannot be abandoned by Governments to "fly Before the matter goes any further we would like to put forward the by itself", quite apart from any economic need there may be for aid view that there are other standards than popular appeal as a from subsidies to support a deserving industry.. It is a matter of measure of true value, and that periodicals catering for a limited history that certain commercial ports in different parts of the class of technical readers employed on essential war work are perhaps world were developed largely to provide coaling stations for the entitled to consideration in preference to those whose metier is— fleets of various nations, and it seems to us obvious that, in the however admirably carried out—merely to amuse the public. same way, nations will need to establish aerodromes at certain

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