London, Dec. 13, Very warm appreciation of the kindness and assistance he had ceived everywhere in England was expressed by Gen, Mao Peng-chia head of the Chinese Aviation Mission, prior to his departure from London to-day for home via Italy and the United States Under the guidance officers specially assigned by the Air Minis~ try, said Gen. Mao, he had seen everything from the earliest stages of the training of a fying man to the complicated. aerobatics of Royal Air Force "high-speeders, Although he was deferring con= clusions until the end of his whole tour, he would retain vivid impres~ lions of the perfection of British aviation. He had been particularly impressed with the experimental work at the research station at Farnborough. He had gone up in an amphibian at Calshot and, in his opinion, It was a very useful machine, He had also gone up in an autogyro fand, although he was a little un= certain of its suitability for war purposes, it certainly seemed cal~ culated to popularize civilian flying.
Gen, Mao and his colleagues also visited the chief aeroplane factories in England and were very popular wherever they went—Reuter, j
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