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I again placed the full facts of the case
before this Committee, pointing out that according to
calculations which I had made in Hong Kong, the Royal
Air Force only utilised approximately 11 per cent of
the available flying hours at Hong Kong and that their
contention that a Flying School at Kai Tak would
interfere with service flying could not be maintained
in the face of these figures, especially as the Hong
Kong Goverment were prepared to give a guarantee that
no flying instruction will be undertaken when Royal
Air Force operations are being carried out, and were
also quite prepared to limit the number of instructional
machines that might be in the air at any one time.
After full discussion, Air-Commodore Mills stated
that he had full powers to deal with the matter, and that,
subject to no objections being raised by Group-Captain
Jackson, the Officer Commanding the Far East, and, subject
to any restrictions that he might suggest, the Air
Ministry would be prepared to withdraw their objection to
the establishment of a Civil Flying School at Kai-Tak.
He
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