Ladies and Gentlemen I am sorry there are not seats for everybody but the size of the audience is an obvious compliment to our lecturer I really don't think Mr KNUTE FLINT needs any introduction At the age of 33 he has probably as much, or more, helicopter experience as any living man He was in command of probably the first fully operational helicopter squadron in the world m China in 1945, and personally has some 2,500 hours flying experience mainly on helicopters For the last 7½ years he has been operating his own helicopters m partnership with Mr H B Armstrong, their joint organisation is now operating 10 helicopters with a total annual utilization of about 10,000 hours which in this stage of development is a fairly formidable total