The Practical Difficulties of Commercial Flying

Extract

Since the commencement of commercial aerial transport very great results have been obtained in certain directions. In the first place, the mere fact of flying has been reduced from a great adventure to a commonplace method of travelling. In this respect it is interesting to notice, on Croydon terminal aerodrome, the very great variety in the classes and types of people travelling by air. Men and women, old and young, daring and nervous, calm and fussy, clergymen, commercial magnates, school children and nurses, babies and helpless invalids, and in fact every sort of persons that you will find on a railway, travel regularly and peacefully by air. And it is certain that a very large proportion of these persons would have told you four years ago that they would not go in an aeroplane for anything.