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Flight, September 27, 1913. ^ r, ^Cr y v: First Aero Weekly in the World. Founder and Editor: STANLEY SPOONER. A Journal devoted to the Interest*, Practice, and Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. So. 248. (No. 39, Vol. V.)] SEPTEMBER 27, 1913. ["Registered at the G.P.O.T TWeekly, Price 8d. L as a Newspaper. J L Po«t ITree, 8id. Editorial Office: 44, ST. MARTIN'S LANE, LONDON, W.C. Telegrams: Truditur, Westrand, London. Telephone: Gerrard 1828. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free. United Kingdom ... IJJ. ad. Abroad 10s. ad. CONTENTS. Editorial Comment: Flying over London Aviation in the Manoeuvres The Aerial Derby Men of Moment in the World of Flight: Mr. F. P. Raynham The Aerial Derby Royal Aero Club : Official Notices Pegoud. Upside Down Flying at Brooklands Armchair Reflections. By The Dreamer Mr. Pemberton Billing Wins a Wager From the British Flying Grounds The Vol Pique. By J. H. Hume-Rothery, M.A., British Notes of the Week ... Foreign Aviation News Models. Edited by V. E. Johnson, M.A. B.Sc 1055 i°55 1056 i°57 1058 1065 1066 1069 1070 1072 1075 1076 1078 EDITORIAL COMMENT. The Home Secretary has issued an Order, QVing under the powers conferred upon him by London. tne Aerial Navigation Act, 1911, prohibiting the flying of aeroplanes over so much of the County of London as lies within a circle the centre of which is Charing Cross and the circumference is described by a radius of four miles in length. We do not know precisely what set of circumstances has impelled Mr. McKenna to issue this order, but we need hardly say that we are quite in agreement with its terms, though at the same time it does seem to us to be a trifle superfluous, inasmuch as the flying over populous places is already visited with quite serious enough penalties by the Royal Aero Club. We imagine that the sentence of suspension that would inevitably be pronounced by the Club weighs much more heavily in the minds of aspiring aviators than the somewhat nebulous possibility of police court proceedings, and a more or less severe monetary penalty. Indeed, we venture to say that were it not for the loyal manner in which the Club has fallen in with the expressed wishes of the authorities these prohibitions by departmental Order would be very much in the nature of a dead letter, and, as we pointed out at the time the panic Act of 1911 was passed, the work of regulation might very well have been left entirely in the hands of the Club. • •»• *» At the time of writing, the British Army Avi^on manoeuvres have just commenced, and Manoeuvres. t'lus '* ls impossible for us to do more than review the happenings of the initial operations in the war between Greenland and Brownland on the one side, and Whiteland, as the opposing forces have been designated. Even in the first two days of the mimic war, aircraft have played a part which, while it may not have been in itself decisive, must have an almost decisive effect on the result. On Monday the aeroplanes employed with the Brown Army successfully located and theoretically destroyed the airship " Delta," which was in the act of reconnoitring Brown's disposi tions. It appears to have been quite a pretty piece of work, but one which has, if it may be put that way, more of romance in it than of actual effect on the ultimate end of the operations. That well-known war correspondent and seasoned campaigner, Mr. Prevost Battersby, has sent to the Morning Post a really vivid impression of the work of the White aeroplanes, which is well worth quoting, since no words of our own could convey the first-hand lesson of the value of aircraft to the commander in the field half so well. Writing from the White head quarters, Mr. Battersby says :— " Quite the most significant feature of the work done to-day was furnished by the Flying Corps. The morning was, as many mornings have been lately, shrouded in heavy mists, the valleys looking like white floods out of which the taller trees thrust out their heads. It was just the sort of day that seemed to promise the least results for aerial scouting. Yet before 10 o'clock Colonel Sykes, the commander of the Royal Flying Corps with the White force, had been able to communicate to its headquarters at Daventry most important information as to the position and movements of the main body of its foe. There are twenty-five aeroplanes and two airships with the Northern Army, and their headquarters is at Dunchurch, some eight miles to the north of Daventry. As a station it seems to be very favourable, there being a thick belt ot trees on either side of which airships can be moored to obtain shelter from the wind, and the alighting ground is excellent. The station is connected by telephone with headquarters and equipped with wireless to receive any messages that the observers may send. Thus an observation made 50 miles away over the Chiitern Hills, from which the Southern Army is defiling, might within five minutes be repeated to the Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Army. General Monroe, sitting at a table in Northamptonshire with a map before him, would have been able, a few hours after the declaration of war, to enter upon it one after another the exact position of the columns advancing against him in Oxfordshire,
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