The Washington times., 1922-04-30
By LAURENT EYNAC,
French Under Secretary for Avia-
ton and Weil-KnOwn Aviator.


ton and Weil-KnOwn Aviator.
IN HE future Of air navigation
is unlimited.
Il Besides the force of eco
nomic expansion represented and
made possible by the development
of aerial travel, the needs Of France
for national defense have made
Necessary an important organiza-
ton whereby all the branches OF
the aviation industry have been
welded together In a progressive
whole.
My task. to which my life IL
henceforth consecrated. is TO give
our aviation service wings which
will permit IL to fly with the tri.
color to every part of the globe.
My ministry comprises two spe-
cial services which work for the
departments of var. navy. colo
nies. etc.-the service of manufac.
ture and the technical research
cial object the coordination and
extension OF all commercial air
ways, nearly all OF which are
granted important subsidies by the
government.
These subsidies are necessary
because air travel is yet In it's in
fancy and a company forced to live
on IT'S earnings would rapidly be-
come discouraged. This has been
the case in England, where non.
subsidized companies have been
forced out OF the cross-channel
field. In the near future there is
every reason to believe that air.
plane lines, like steamship lines,
will not only be self.supporting.
but will earn large dividends, but
for the present a heavy share of
experimental work must be carried
on by the government.
EXPERTS WITH EMBASSIES.
mas
reached a high stage in France
for the above reason and because
we have not been afraid to look
abroad for ideas. No less than
nine aviation experts. all OF them
practical men, are attached to the
French embassies in all important
capitals. They report on new
inventions and novel methods of
construction, and thus the prog.
ress other countries make in avia.
ton is placed at the disposal Of
France.
The technical aeronauticai serv.
Ice Is an immense organization
which 1ustifies all the sacrifices
and efforts we have been called
upon to make. Vast laboratories
work night and day at research
work which will have tho most
important influence on the future
In the air. We never hesitate to
declare a machine obsolete, even
IL 1t is only just built, II another
invention more complete can take
Its place.
The war showed beyond a doubt
that multitude of inferior air.
planes are incapable to remain IN
the sky when they are faced by
smaller number of machines of
superior type. Thus our pfin.
cipal preoccupations have been to
develop the qualities Of speed. en-.
durance, facility to fly at great
attitudes. and strength of under.
construction, permitting larger
bulk and higher landing speed.
Our laboratories exhaustively
study armament of airplanes.
radio-telephony and all problems
relating to automatic stability. In
all these fields French engineers
are, we believe, ahead of the rest
of the world.
A French airplane has been
flown from Paris to Holland and
pack without the pilot once touch.
ing the controls except to take off
and land. A French airplane has
been sent on a cruise of more than
a hundred kilometers withoet a
pilot. its movements bsing eff
ciently controlled by wireless. A
French airplane has successfully