Aerial Board of Control
The Aerial Board of Control is a fictional supranational organization to manage air traffic for the whole world. It was described in the early science fiction stories of Rudyard Kipling, "With The Night Mail" and "As Easy as ABC". The organisation was able to limit the influence of national states and create a de facto world government.
Kipling wrote only these two science fiction stories; both are set in his Aerial Board of Control universe in the 21st century.
The concept that control of air traffic would lead to world government reappears in the works of H. G. Wells, most notably his 1933 book The Shape of Things to Come and its 1936 film adaptation Things to Come. The concept is also central to Michael Arlen's novel Man's Mortality, also published in 1933.
The corrected typescript of "With the Night Mail" was acquired at auction by the University of Sussex library in 1997.Texts
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