French Aviation IT was probably more than happy coincidence which resulted in the Air League of the British Empire publishing its Memorandum on French Aviation just a month before the Twenty‐fifth International Air Show at Le Bourget was due to take place (see next page). At any rate, this forty‐two page Memorandum sets out to review the French aviation scene with the particular aim of showing which special factors have enabled the French industry to recover from its moribund state at the end of the Second World War and to attain a position of world leadership in certain sectors of aviation. Further, the paper makes specific suggestions about lessons which Britain may fruitfully learn from France.