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1913
1913 - 0012.PDF
EDDIES. OUR first issue of the new year—and in what better way can I commence on my notes than by wishing all our readers the very best of luck and prosperity during the coming twelve months. For nearly four years now, and for many more in some cases, a lot of us have been working, and working hard too, each doing his own share, according to individual ability, to further the cause of the newest of sciences and newest of industries. That enthusiasm which gripped us in the early days, and attracted us towards aviation, has tided us along till now, and undoubtedly it will maintain us on the march forward. But I venture to suggest that, for those commercially minded at least, something more than enthusiasm must be forthcoming, and that right soon, if the progress is to be kept up. # * • Up to the present time, in England, aviation has been starved, and looking back it is quite surprising we have made the progress we have. In France a different condition of things has obtained. There they have financiers who appeal to me as considerably more sporting, and whose minds think farther ahead than our monied men here. They have a Government that has, from the first, recognised the importance of the new arm and that has laid out no mean portion of the nation's income to help forward its progress. And besides, they have been lucky and still are lucky in possessing men of wealth who, being exceptionally keen on aviation, have willingly given of their wealth to help matters along. • • • And, thus far, many of the keen workers have been struggling along in a half starved condition. The Govern ment knows the remedy, but unfortunately for us they do not seem inclined to move very rapidly or encourag ingly in the matter. Everyone recognises that they will want machines in large numbers one of these days. It is quite within the realms of possibility they may want a large number, and, perhaps, sooner than they anticipate, at very short notice. In that case, it is fairly certain they will not be able to get them from the English industry. Financial assistance is required now, otherwise we shall see many firms that have been bravely struggling along, doing all the time most commendable work, dropping out of the arena of aeroplane construction simply through lack of the wherewithal to continue. • • • Commencing this new year of nineteen-thirteen, we, as a matter of course, one to another express our wishes for a prosperous new year. It is wanted badly enough in all conscience in aeronautical circles. We would like the Government to give the worthy workers in the aviation world a very prosperous year, but, in face of their slow ness to move, perhaps this is a little too much to expect. We will modify that wish. Let an encouraging year be given them, and we shall then be in a much happier frame of mind than we are now. • • • Congratulations to Mr. Howard Flanders on the excellent results that have attended the tests, carried out by his pilot, Mr. Raynham, through which his biplane has been put during the last week or two at Brooklands. Taking my mind back a few months, I well remember seeing, in course of construction, a very business-like biplane at the Flanders works at Richmond. I saw that JANUARY 4, 1913. We publish above a reproduction of the FLIGHT Certificate o send in to our Model Section contributions of an exceptionally r The above very striking design is the work of Mr. J. Procbazl on cards. It must be clearly understood, of course, that these ce are not in any sense related to competitive events with modi Liverpool, for his notes on "Paper Glider Experiments." (Part accompanying sketches in their original form, as an example 1 in have to be 1
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