international Meeting to Con+ sider Many Aspects of Aviation London, Apr. 21, An important Air conference will open in London on Monday. Sir Philip Sassoon, Under-Secretary of State for Air, will preside, The jeonference is one of the internation fal meetings which are held half yearly. Thirty-one subjects are on the agenda, embracing all aspects of air navigation, including gyro-plans and parachutes. Originally the conference was to consist only of representatives of the Allied Powers, but it has been extended-t6 delegates from other States, and has thus become, in the true sense, in~
One interesting subject on the agenda is that of the competency of women {o pilot commercial aircraft. From the technical viewpoint one lof the most important suggestions that of standard international minimum requirements for the issue of certificates of air worthiness and junifieation of the characteristic quired for materials used in aeronantical construction.
On Tuesday the British Govern ment will entertain the visitors: at a banquet—British Wireless through Reuter. ok AN
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