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1914 - 0722.PDF
(/ycHT] information which is the subject of these remarks j Some how things do not seem to fit together at all well ! As we have said, the ostensible reason for the departure from the official programme is that it is desirable to keep the details of the R.E. secret. That is only a good reason as far as it goes. Let there be no mistake in this. We place the Imperial interests of the country as high as anyone, and if it can be shown that those interests clash with those of the aeroplane industry, then we are alto gether at one with the authorities in placing them in the forefront, even though it should lead to the virtual wiping out of an industry with which we ourselves are to a great extent allied. But we are not content with the bare statement that the reason is as laid down. It is not as though secret and confidential work was not put out to contract in other directions. What about private ship- ® (8 THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS. IN the last two issues of FLIGHT we have published an account of the work carried on at the Concentration Camp by the Military Wing of the Royal Flying Corps at Netheravon. Elsewhere in this issue, by way of a record, will be found photographs of the Officers, Warrant Officers, Flight Sergeants and Sergeants of the Aircraft Park, Headquarters Flight, and Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 Squadrons of the Royal Flying Corps who were present at the Camp. JULY 10, 1914. yards, in which work of the most highly confidential character is carried out without injury to the interests of the State ? What about the exceedingly delicate docu ments which are entrusted without a shadow of suspicion or doubt to the King's printers? And is there any reason to think that the privileges accorded to ship builders, ordnance manufacturers, and printers would be abused by the builders of aircraft ? For our own part, we decline to think so and with no desire in the world to be captious—the records of these columns are suffi cient index to that—we do think that some official ex planation is due. The facts of the case having been thus made public, we hope that such an explanation will be required across the floor of the House of Commons, and until that has been asked and given—or withheld, as the case may be —we prefer to suspend judgment. THE FATAL ACCIDENT TO LEGAGNEUX. WITH the passing of Legagneux there disappears from French aviation one of its most popular heroes. It appears that on Monday the aviator was testing a Clement-Bayard waterplane above the Loire at Saumur, when just as a sideslip was being corrected the propeller burst and the machine tell into the river. By the time help reached the spot the pilot was dead, and subsequent examina tion led the doctors to conclude that he was killed while the machine was still in the air, through being thrown against the hood and breaking his neck. Legagneux, who qualified on a Sommer biplane in April, 1910, had also flown Voisin and Farman biplanes and Morane, Bleriot, Nieuport and several other monoplanes. our- t_#««« " Flight" Copyright. R. H. Carr winning the Cross-Country Race, with Miss Saunders as passenger, on the Morane-Saulnier mono, at Hendon on Saturday. 722
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