The CHAIRMAN, in opening the meeting, said that it was a privilege to introduce Lt -Col MEAD, who tonight would give us a soldier's viewpoint on helicopters It would be agreed that this was rather a red-letter occasion It had been very difficult to get the Army, except in little private corners, to say very much No doubt Colonel Mead would say that the views he expressed were purely personal opinions, as he had to do, but from his antecedents it was obvious that he knew what he was talking about