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Flight, January 9th, 1909. &;»•-•- A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. ; No. 2. Vol. I.] JANUARY 9TH, 1909. "Registered at the G.P.O."]as a Newspaper. J [""Weekly. Price Id.L Post iFree, lid. FLIGHT. 44, ST. MARTIN'S LANE. LONDON, W.C. Telegraphic address : Truditur, London. Telephone : 1828 Gerrard. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. FLIGHT will he forwarded, post free, to any part of the world at the following rates: — UNITED KINGDOM. 3 Months, Post Free 6 „ .r. d. i 8 3 3 6 b ABROAD. 3 Months, Post Free . 6 „ ,, 12 s. d. 2 6 5 ° IO o Cheques and Post Office Orders should be made payable to the Proprietors of FLIGHT, 44, St. Martin's Lane, W.C., and crossed London and County Bank ; otherwise no responsibility will be accepted. Should any difficulty be experienced in procuring FLIGHT from . local newsvendors, intending readers can obtain each issue direct from the Publishing Office, by forwarding remittance as above. NOTICE.—Advertisement instructions should reach theoffice, 44, St. Martin's Lane, W.C., by first post, Thursday. The latest time for receiving small alterations for Advertise-ments is 12 noon, Thursday. No alterations can be made after that hour. IF we had for a moment harboured a single doubt as to the precipitateness of our action in bringing out FLIGHT at this early stage in the growth of the aeronautic industry, all misgivings on that score would have been swept away in their entirety during the past week by the phenomenal reception that has been accorded to our first number. Congratulations and promises of hearty support have literally poured in upon us from every part of the Kingdom, and gratuitous notifications have reached us from the most unexpected quarters that steps have already been taken by numbers of enthusiasts and their friends to ensure obtaining the weekly issues with regularity. By Monday last, No. 1 was out of print at this office, thus necessitating reprinting; while, at the time of writing, orders still continue to arrive by every post which it is quite impossible to fill. At the bookstalls, too, the same apologies have had to be offered—the unanimous tale being " sold out." Needless to say, we are not only surprised at the overwhelming heartiness of this welcome, but are very gratified at the healthy prospects which are thereby opened up for the new industry and pastime in "Great Britain. -.. ?:•'•'... • '•"• : :' •'.• " : ' "• 2: ON January 1st the first notice of FLIGHT in a public newspaper of any sort appeared in the Morning Post, and by way of recording this " historical" greeting we reproduce below the appreciation of our contemporary. It is but one, and may serve as an example of a large number of notices of welcome throughout the country, and to all of those who have thus signalised our advent we return many sincere thanks. It will be our endeavour to live up to the good opinions of our friends. . , Thus the Morning Post:— " With the new year the subject of artificial flight is to be encouraged in a practical fashion by the issue in Britain of a weekly paper from to-morrow onwards bearing the apt title FLIGHT. The journal will be published at a penny, so that it will be within the reach of all interested in the practical progress of aerial locomotion and transport, while the fact that it is to be issued from the offices of The Atltomo or Journal is a guarantee that the production will be something in every sense worthy the great movement, the current story of which it will record in words and pictures. Apart from including an excellent retrospect of the past year as well as a very full account of the Paris Aeronautical Exhibition, this week's issue of I'he Aulomotor Journal contains the first of a new series of full- page portraits of prominent motorists, Prince Francis of Teck, Chairman of the Royal Automobile Club, being so presented to the readers of the paper in question." IT seems almost unbelievable at the present stage in the history of aviation that the new pastime should already have an industry. But such is indeed the case; and, as we had occasion to point out last week, this fact was one of the most striking aspects of the first Paris Aeronautic Salon. There are in France to-day firms who are not merely willing to build aeroplanes, but who are manufac- turing them as a staple business, and who are prepared to accept orders for them and guarantee them to fly with the same readiness that a motor manufacturer undertakes to provide a motor car. True, the experiments in flight have been going on for a long time, but it is, after all, only quite recently that any marked degree of success has been attained. Equally true is it that there are firms in England who have laid themselves out to build machines to the requirements of any experimenters ; but alasior the blindness of British patronage and patriotism, customers have heretofore been far to seek. It was not, of course, to be supposed that the French, of all people, would be blind to their opportunities in a commercial direction, but it must be confessed that there B
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