With 'a view to this end, the British Government was. stated to have approached France for-authorization for its airmen to make non-stop flights over Southern - and Southwestern France, which regions are mostly unknown to them.
Britain would be ready to grant similar training facilities to French airmen over British territory.
Aeronautical! experts declared that such measures would not only constitute excellent practical training, but would prove the reality of full Anglo-French understanding and cooperation.
"Moreover, such flights would permit the exhibition of the two democracies' aerial fighting' forces and, especially, would make every European nation alive to the- strength, speed and quality of British war planes.—Havas.
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