FLEET AIR ARM

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 206, 31 July 1937, Page 9

FLEET AIR ARM

BRITISH DECISION. ALTERATION IN CONTROL. ONE CLASS AFFECTED. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received July 31, 11.30 a.m. RUGBY, July 30. The Government’s decision regarding the future of the Fleet Air Arm was announced to the House of Commons by Mr Neville Chamberlain. He said that the proposals which the Government had under consideration referred to two classes of aircraft. The first class include all aircraft borne or* ships of the Royal Navv and known as the Fleet Air Ann. They are undej the operational control of the Admiralty but, as part of the Royal Ail Force, are under the administrative control of the Air Ministry. The second class include shore base aircraft employed in co-operation with the naval forces. They are under the operational as well as the administrative control of the Air Ministry. The Government has decided in the case of the second class, which includes flying-boats, that there shall be no alteration in the present system. In the case of the Fleet Air Arm, the Government considers that these should be placed under the administrative control of the Admiralty. The change can only he carried out generally with the fullest co-operation between the two services, and, he added : “I shall be happy to give an assurance that this co-operation will be given without reserve. I hope that these decisions will be accepted m every quarter as a final and satisfactory settlement of a prolonged controversy which it is in the public interest to close.”