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Flight, November 2, 1912. ^^7 First Aero Weekly in the World. A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. No. 20t. iNo. 44. Vol. IV.)] NOVEMBER 2, IOI2. [R'^K£S£.P-a] ^o^™0!* FlSggiht. Editorial Office: 44, ST. MARTIN'S LANE, LONDON, W.C. Telegrams: Truditur, Westrand, London. Telephone: Gerrard 1828. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free. United Kingdom ... 15J. od. Abroad 10s. od. CONTENTS: •— Editorial Comment : Military Trials Report Paris Show and its Moral Prizes for Models French Monument to Wilbur Wright Men of Moment in the World of Flight: F.R.S., Chairman of the Public Safety Committee Military Trials: Judges'Report British Aero Engines. 100-h.p. N.E.C.... Paris Aero Salon. (Illustrated) Helmets. By Anthony Westlake Royal Aero Club. Official Notices From the British Flying Grounds British Notes of the Week Sovereignty over the Air Foreign Aviation News Models. Edited by V. E. Johnson, M.A. Model Club Reports and Diary Correspondence Col. H. C. L. Holden, C.B., and Accidents Investigation ... PAGE 983 983 yS4 984 98S 980 989 990 1000 1001 1002 1005 1006 1007 1009 1010 J012 EDITORIAL COMMENT. The long anticipated report of the Judges' Military Committee on the Military Trials has been Resort published, and so much of it as is not redundant to readers of FLIGHT will be found on another page. It is an interesting document, and will doubtless be read with the keenest attention by all, and particularly by the manufacturers who come in for its criticism. We should imagine, too, that it will give rise to discussion, and, as it happens to be part of the programme at the Aeronautical Society's meeting next Wednesday week, we anticipate that those who attend this opening lecture of the session at the Royal United Service Institution will experience an unusually lively evening. As the Report is by no means lengthy, and is besides very concisely worded, there is scarcely any need for us to draw particular attention to its outstanding features. There are certain matters, however, with which we are sure everyone will feel sufficiently in accord to desire that they should be emphasised as much as possible. Among them is the following remark: "The importance of encouraging or establishing a first-rate British aircraft engine industry cannot be over-rated." That is well said, and we trust it will go home to those whom it most concerns, and if the Government can manage to squeeze a really substantial and adequate sum for aeronautics out of next year's estimates, they might do far worse than offer prizes for British-built motors of, say, 100-h.p. There are several British firms who are coming on the market with engines of about that rating, who need all the encouragement they can get from those who have the money to spend. A prize, while it has many disadvantages, does undoubtedly stimulate an interest that often otherwise lies dormant, and we believe that money thus voted will be a very useful first step towards the encouragement for which the Judges of the Military Aeroplane Competition have made such a strong appeal. The moral of the Paris Show is that P Sho mmtary aviation is a national affair, in and its which the public is interested to see for Moral. itself what the Government is doing on its behalf with its money, and that we, in England, might well take a leaf out of our neighbour's book when the time comes next February, at Olympia. Thousands of Parisians and thousands of their country cousins flock daily to the Grand Palais as a matter of course, just because it is the Grand Palais and there is something on. But, Frenchmen in their tens of thousands marched through the turnstiles when they knew that they were going to see an official exhibition of their beloved country's new arm of defence. And they could not help knowing, for the authorities saw to it that their show was well advertised. Waiving for the moment any question of the nation's dignity being satisfied with less than a first place in the sun, the practical aspect of the occasion was deemed to be better served by the modern artificial illumination of Paris, and on nearly every lamp-post hung a card inviting the pedestrian to read, mark, learn and inwardly digest the fact that the French Government was exhibiting its avions at the Salon. What Frenchman could resist the subtle compliment, so skilfully paid in the full light of the lamp, to his patriotism and his intelligence ? What Frenchman could refuse to pay a franc for the privilege of casting an approvingly admiring eye on the latest equipment of his army, albeit something about which he might be less
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