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Some Aspects of Air Safety*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

Extract

An opinion exists, more felt than written or spoken, that safety standards in air transport do not keep pace with technical progress. The facts belie this and, given a united effort by all concerned, there should be opening up a period of increased safety.

A simple comparison of the characteristics of say, the Ensign class with more modern aircraft, cannot reveal progress, and might even show the reverse. Commercial competition, operational demands, and public expectations have taken us beyond the stage when we can think in terms of the aeroplane alone and have led to the present state when air safety can only be examined in terms of the aircraft associated with ground equipment and airline organisation.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1950

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Footnotes

*

An informal address given to the Coventry Branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society on 19th October 1949.

References

* U.K. and U.S.A. data available subsequent to October 1949 show even higher standards.