From the Flight magazine archives (Aviation History - Browse the History of Flight from 1909 ):
".....what we should like the New
Year 1933 to bring to the flying world.
Our desires included the capture of the
long-distance record by Great Britain,
a good showing by the Boulton and
Paul mailplane, the extension of the
Eastern airway from Karachi to
Australia, an improvement in the Africa air service
from the use of the " Atalanta " class of aeroplanes,
the release of private flying from some of the
ridiculous over-control which had afflicted it, and the selection for the
Royal Air Force of a new type of night
bomber and a...."
Almost 80 years on and it's still one of our main preoccupations.
".....what we should like the New
Year 1933 to bring to the flying world.
Our desires included the capture of the
long-distance record by Great Britain,
a good showing by the Boulton and
Paul mailplane, the extension of the
Eastern airway from Karachi to
Australia, an improvement in the Africa air service
from the use of the " Atalanta " class of aeroplanes,
the release of private flying from some of the
ridiculous over-control which had afflicted it, and the selection for the
Royal Air Force of a new type of night
bomber and a...."
Almost 80 years on and it's still one of our main preoccupations.
