SIR – Ignoring the fact – as successive governments have done for 20 years – that the Royal Navy is a third of the size this country needs it to be, one despairs of the predictability of the Ministry of Defence’s response to its shortage of manpower (“Navy has so few sailors ships must be scrapped”, report, January 5).
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The first week of January has marked numerous historic 'firsts' in aviation, from Leonardo da Vinci's flying machine test in 1496 to the launch of the world's first commercial airline service in 1914.