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Flight, August 16, 1913. ^r? First Aero Weekly in the World. Founder and Editor: STANLEY SPOONER. 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. 242. (No. 33, Vol. V.)] AUGUST 16, 1913. [Registered at the G.P.O.T ["Weekly, Price Sd. L as a Newspaper. J L Post Free, 8Jd. FlicO&t. Editorial Office: 44, ST. MARTIN'S LANE, LONDON, W.C. Telegrams: Truditur, Westrand, London. Telephone: Gerrard 1828. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free. United Kingdom ... is*, ad. Abroad IOS. ad. CONTENTS. Editorial Comment: A Dunne Success Men of Moment in the World of Flight: Mr. Robert B. Slack The Daily Mail Waterplane Circuit of Britain Entrants and Pilots in the Daily Mail Round Britain Race .. Royal Aero Club. Official Notices Course for Daily Mail Race Round Britain The Cody Waterplane (with scale drawings) The Sopwith Tractor Waterplane (with scale drawings) The Radley-England Waterplane (with scale drawings) S. F. Cody—the Man and His Work Armchair Reflections. By The Dreamer From the British Flying Grounds Flying at Hendon Airship News ... The Theory of the Dunne Aeroplane British Notes of the Week Foreign Aviation News ... ... ... ... ... ... Models. Edited by V. E. Johnson, M.A PAGE . 887 . &89 . 890 . 891 . 892 • 893 • 894 • 897 . 900 • 905 • 9°7 . 908 912 • 9*3 • 914 . 9i5 • 9i5 • 917 EDITORIAL, COMMEHT. A Dunne Success. The successful flight from Eastchurch to France just made by Commander Felix on a Dunne aeroplane seems to have come as a bolt from the blue upon the lay press, to whom, aeronautical correspondents notwithstanding, the potential interest and possibilities of this remarkable aircraft appear to have been entirely unknown. We venture to think, howsver, that, from the very full descriptions which have appeared in FLIGHT (of which a list is given below*), readers of FLIGHT will not be thus * April, 1910 p. 278 Photo, of Dunne aeroplane, front view. 2 photos, of Dunne aeroplane in flight. Detailed description of biplane, with scale drawings. The Blair Atholl experiments (with 5 photos.). Dunne's stability tests at Eastchurch. Photo, of undercarriage at Olympia. Detailed description of monoplane, with scale drawings. 3 photos, of biplane. Stability test at Eastchurch. Letter from J. W. Dunne. 2 photos, of biplane. April, June, Sept., Feb., April, June, Nov., Jan., Sept., Nov., 1910 1910 1910 1911 1911 1911 1911 1912 1912 1912 P- 1>- P- P- P- P- P-P- P- 330 459 709 133 308 542 987 56 865 1082 easily surprised, although they may be appropriately startled at the nature of the recent public announcement. Progress in aeroplane design and construction is apt to seem most exhaustingly slow, and it must be admitted that the march of events in the Dunne camp at East church has not been characterised by the scintillating sequence of popular performances that has done so much here and there to bring this or that machine before the public eye. Nevertheless, no pioneer has worked more perseveringly, nor with a firmer set purpose, than J. W. Dunne, and whatever success may accrue to him in the future, he will deserve it all. It is appropriate that we should publish this week the first instalment of a paper by Mr. Dunne, for which, we believe we may say with some assurance, the entire aviation world in England has been waiting this many a long day. Mr. Dunne's thesis on the theory of the stability of his aeroplane is one that should be read with close atten tion by all students of flight, and we hope that those who were unable to discuss the paper at the Aeronauti cal Society's meeting last session will broach points that interest them in these columns. The discussion at the Aeronautical Society—which, by the way, was really on Mr. O'Gorman's very interesting paper on Stability Devices—evoked a remarkable con census of opinion that was favourable to the Dunne machine. Mr. Dunne deserves that frankly voiced approval, quite apart from the success or otherwise of his particular aeroplane, for he has worked systematically and conscientiously for a long while to attain a desired result. One of his remarks during the course of the discussion gave a clue to the inspiration that initially caused him to attack the problem of aeroplane stability. Among his friends is Mr. H. G. Wells, whose early imaginative con ception of the romance of aeronautics as an art may justly be said to have amounted to genius. Mr. Wells appreciated how much the problem of flight is mainly a problem of balance, and impressed his point of view upon Mr. Dunne to such good purpose as to arouse the interest of his listener's technical inclinations. Mr. Dunne adopted the idea as a problem for especial study, and he has not once looked back in his lonely furrow. It was mainly through model experiments that he was led to evolve his present flying machine, and an inter esting feature that is emphasised in his paper is the distinction between the down-turned leading edge of his own aeroplane as compared with the upturned trailing tip
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