Major-General Sir Sefton Brancker said he knew Squadron-Leader Hill as one of our most daring, cool-headed and really scientific pilots. He had also realised that evening that he had a brilliant fund of imagination as well. His (Sir Sefton Brancker's) chief qualification for talking about getting off and landing was that he was once more notorious for making bad landings without hurting himself or anyone else than anyone in the Air Force. He was all for eliminating the human factor in control as time went on. He thought the devices which Major Hill had explained were absolutely on the right lines of progress. Pilots did not like the idea, but he was all for developing the stabilisers, height indicators, and all the gadgets that the Author had described. But there were limits to this policy. Some time ago there was an official objection from the French at Le Bourget that the British pilots were stunting.