This submission presents collated views of a representative cross-section of the members of the Royal Aeronautical Society. It is presented under the broad headings set out in a letter from the Committee of Inquiry into Civil Air Transport inviting the Society to forward any information or views that might assist them.

Approximately 80 notes or papers were received from the Society's members and Groups, and these have been augmented by specific invited opinion from known experts within the Society.

The Society members welcomed the opportunity of putting forward their views and hoped that the Inquiry's report would lead to more positive government action than has so far emerged from the Plowden report. Many members also felt that considerably more use should be made of the Royal Aeronautical Society as an advisory body particularly in view of its wide cross-section of interests.