Public interest in aviation has reached unexampled heights this year, and the Schneider Cup victory inspired great hopes for Britain's position as an air nation. Much, however, remains to be done before flying in this country can be considered to be established on a modern scale. Brigadier-General P.R.C. Groves, who gives this talk, was a Regular officer at the outbreak of war, when he joined the Royal Flying Corps, as it was then. During the war he served in France, the Dardanelles, and the Middle East, and he became Director of Flying Operations at the Air Ministry in April, 1918. Since then he has been British Air Representative at the Peace Conference and on the Permanent Advisory Committee of the League of Nations.