From time to time in the course of my practice as a Solicitor I have the privilege of coming into contact with people who are concerned, as designers, engineers, pilots, operators, commercial and technical staff and insurance brokers and underwriters, with the actual business of designing, manufacturing, flying, operating and insuring aircraft.
Several of them have said to me that the Air Law Group of the Royal Aeronautical Society would fulfil a useful and worthwhile function, so far as they were concerned, if it would try to give them a basic but overall picture of what “air law” was and how their own day to day actions could be affected by it.
The 6th Lecture to be given before the Air Law Group of the Society—on 15th January 1964.
(1) (1937) 1 AER 108.
(2) R.S.C. Order 37(a) UU 1-4.
(3) 1961 U.S. Av.R 410.
(4) 1961 U.S. Av.R 758.