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1914 - 0991.PDF
Flight, October 2, 19.14. First Aero Weekly in the World. Founder and Editor : STANLEY SPOON ER. 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. TRegiMered at the G.P.O.T fWeokly, Price 8d. L as a Newspaper. J L Post Free, 3Jd-No. 301. (No. 40, Vol. VI.)] OCTOBER 2, 1914. 51L Editorial Office: 44, ST. MARTIN'S LANE, LONDON, W.C. Telegrams: Truditur, Westrand, London. Telephone: Gerrard 1828. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free. United Kingdom ... 151. od. Abroad 20s. od. CONTENTS. Editorial Comment: The FLIGHT Staff and the War German Mastery of Aerial Detail An Object Lesson The British Way The Unseen Vaster than the Seen ... Aeronautical Terminology More R.F.C. Activities Royal Aero Club. Official Notices From the British Flying Grounds Military Aeronautics in Germany German Airship Sheds Aircraft and the War Models. Edited by V. E. Johnson, M.A. Model Clubs Diary and Reports W-' PAGK q.ii liwl 991 99" 99» 1003 •AJ4 995 99« 997 999 ioot> ioc8 1OC9 The FLIGHT Staff and the War. The war has not left the staff of FLIGHT unaffected. Indeed, we may fairly claim that this journal, and its sister publication, the Auto., has done well in the matter of the proportion of the joint staff which is now away on active service. By the latest accession of our staff to the King's forces, that of Mr. W. Whittall, who has long been connected editorially with these journals, and who has been given a commission in the R.N.V.R. and attached to the Air Department of the Admiralty, we have now lost just upon forty per cent, of the staff, while of those who remain others are doing good work as special constables or in other directions. We are pleased, very pleased, with the record, and although our readers may miss, like old friends, their particular work, they will, we are confident, join with the remainder of the staff in wishing those who have gone a speedy return, and will look forward to welcoming in our pages price more their weekly contributions, which we have every reason to know have been much appreciated in the past. • » «. In this issue we are able to furnish German our rea(jers with some highly instructive Aerfal^Detlil information revealing yet another phase ' of the German quality of thoroughness in preparation. The double page map published in this issue shows all the German aircraft centres together with plans drawn to a uniform scale of all the German aviation grounds, and the scheme for signalling and guiding by lights at night so that German aviators passing over the Fatherland may know his whereabouts almost as surely as though he could see the terrain below him by the light of a clear day. As is explained in an accompanying article, the system of signalling by light is of a complete yet a simple character, for it is an essential of all practical schemes that they shall be simple. Thus three degrees of light are employed in combination with modes of signalling under the Morse Code, and so forth. All this detail has been built up in peace, much of it under the name of sport. Yet we now see the vast importance of all the work and how every detail of it dovetails into the scheme of war on which there has been expended vastly more, even in peace time, than was ever acknowledged to the mere score of Naval or Military Budgets. For instance, education has had to bear very heavy charges for school buildings, one feature of which could never be accounted for satisfactorily. Each state school has an elaborate kitchen which there was never any call to use for the purposes of the pupils. Now the Fatherland is engaged in war, however, the object of the whole scheme is revealed by the fact that every Public School in Germany really becomes a barracks in time of war, with the kitchen specially designed to cook mesls for large numbers of men. It is so wherever we look, flight being no exception to the German scheme. The Teutonic temperament is not brilliant, yet we are always told that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. If it is that and nothing else, then the Germans, collectively and individually, are the greatest geniuses in the world to-day. But there is more in the business than that, as we know already from the fact that, man for man, our service flyers at the front are superior to the German flyers and that certainly for every point of superiority German aircraft enjoy over equipment of our own, there could be named a point wherein our own are superior to our This, however, does not mean that we can afford to let Germany go her own way as a indifference to us. The complete scheme of interior organisation which it is our special purpose to reveal this week is an object lesson of the first order and an accomplishment the significance of which is fully An Object Lesson. enemy s. forthwith matter of _^
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