The AM may grome have in mind the use
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of "servric requirements" Lelay the institution freepin service until
nich
British service time as a can compate. The AM are
to
odaci Jord of their "dog in the manque
Attitude, which sometinui ynous local interests & delays
the imprem gaerial
49B Communciations
The fours is rather
the undesirability of the training of Chenice pillots on military types Gradinis buvy carried ourar
a
servie
aerodrome
logos
on that file).
The terms on which the Air Ministry
agreed to provide £100,000 towards the cost of the
Aerodrome are set out in our (flagged Conf.tel. of 25/1/28 (3) on 52753/28), to which the Hong Kong Govt. agreed (in (7) on that file)
Complete control over the whole aerodrome by the
Air Ministry is aww not implicit in these
By
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terms. The wording of the Air Ministry letter.
er of May 26th to the F.O
however
decay certainly appears/to assume a very
full measure of control. In considering
questions of this sort, considerations of defence
wwww, in the last resort, take precedence of other
considerations.
The Hong Kong scheme for a commercial
flying school has undoubted advantages from the
point of view of the trade in aeroplanes with
China, but the 0.A.G. rather misses the point
when he asserts that satisfactory control of
simultaneous service and civil flying should be
simple. The Air Ministry's objection to the
scheme seems to be based not only on the difficulty
of such control, but on the undesirability from a
defence point of view of foreign aviators having
free access to an R.A.F.
aerodrome.
Sir William Peel, whom the 0.A.G. suggests
should be consulted, is not at present in town,
and in any case it will I think, be more
I doubt of In W Peel satisfactory to get the Air Ministry's views in the
will be available fr personal commutation before
he returns:t that
we can arome
he will support O'A f..
rush a maller.
bee.
first place. No doubt Sir William Peel can be
consulted later if necessary.
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short