The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-01-30
AIR SERVICE WILL BE
PERFECTED WITHIN THE
NEXT FIVE YEARS
(By Associated Press.)

Manchester, England, Jan. 80. =
Within the next six months the AL
lies should reach an agreement regu-
lating commercial traffic In he air,
and within the next five years IT
should be an easy and as safe to
pilot an airplane through fog and
storm as it is to pilot ship, asserted
Lord Weir, Secretary Of State for Air
Forces, before an audience here the
other day. In order that ambitions
projects now being discussed might
be entirely successful, he said. these
things were necessary.
Development Of, navigational in
struction by really sound and severe
navigational training.
Creation of an energetic metereo-
logical service especially designed to
help air transport.
The adoption Of improved systems
Of wireless telegraphy and OF tele-
phony. at
The adoption of first class system
OF day and night marking OF landing
places and airdromes.
1--WE now possess in substantial
numbers, either delivered or in course
of construction, airplanes which will
carry crew Of seven and thirty pas
! sengers; which will climb to height
OF 10000 feet, and whic h will travel
1000 miles without STOP" said Lord
Weir. zone type can come down at
sea, float on the waves and rise again
with full load
/ I'VE have machines that can land
safely at definitely gliding angles en-
. tirely without human control. This
means that when the pilot can set his
instruments by means Of a kite bal
loon anchored in clear air, he will
be able to land with safety in an air.
, drome completely fogbound.
Lord Weir made 1t very plain thai
, he did not think the best ends OF civil
, lization would be served by keeping
! civil aviation for government mo
\ Inopoly. Cooperation between thu
' state and individuals, he believed
would bring the best results. Thu
2 state would of necessity be the pioE
e eer, and from the present air minis
|, try would spring an air department
r in the government which would no
only control the administration OF tn
e Royal Air Forces, the fighting al
branch of the British army and navy
n but would act as the supreme author
h ity for the development Of civil avia
% ton. 4
"The first step Of the new ministr
, would be the organization Of interna
tional flying, that is flying among tn
re different countries. This would In
m volve an international aircraft cor
id vention.
"We have already drafted the art
I Giles of this convention, and they ar
u now being submitted to our Allies
ID continued Lord Weir. IF they sui
stantially approve it, an Internationf
Air Conference will be held. ! hay
reason to anticipate that within Il
next four or five months the princlp'
nv nations Of the world will have reache
Q. agreement on this momentous matte
/. Similarly domestic legislation wi
have to be enacted to govern nyir
in this country. The bill has bee
f! prepared and I anticipate that With
Nv a few weeks of the opening Oh II
e. new parliament useful act will con
e. into force. Until this convention al
on this domestic legislation becomes O
a. erative, there can be no private n
ing at all, either international or
this country. It would be unfortuna