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Flight, July 23, 1915. i>\ 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. 343. (No. 30, Vol. VII.)] JULY 23, 1915. ["Regutared at the G.P.O.T TWeekly, Price 3d. as a Newspaper. J |_ Poet Free, Sid. L Fligp&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 ... 151. oil. Abroad 201. oil. CONTENTS. Editorial Comment: The Art of Parliamentary Worrying Requisition or Confiscation ? Aircraft Work at the Front. Official Information The British Air Services The Roll of Honour The Huntington Tractor Biplane (with scale drawings) Royal Aero Club. Official Notices The Green Engine Company's 300 h.p. Aero Engine ... Eddies. By"iEolus" From the British Flying Grounds Flying at Hendon Aircraft and Parliament Aircraft and the War Models ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... PAGE • 525 . 52|5 . 5»8 . 52B • 529 • 53° • 532 • 533 • 535 • 537 • 538 . 539 • 543 • 545 £DiTO^iAL COMMKMT. The Art of A few weeks ago we drew attention to the facilities in Parliamentary procedure which exist for worrying the Government upon w5Sk57 ^ subject, if the Member of Parliament be sufficiently versed in the art of selecting his opportunity for interpolation, and we mentioned Mr. Joynson-Hicks as being a past master in his methods of getting his own way in this respect. Whilst fully realising the necessity for, and the value of, keeping those in power up to concert pitch in relation to their duty to the country by means of criticism in the House of Commons, there are times when, like the present, a wider interpreta tion to discretion should be exercised in directing all sorts of insinuations under the cloak of seeking for information. In his very able speech in the House on Tuesday night, when he got back to "more aeroplanes," via the Supplementary Vote of Credit, Mr. Joynson-Hicks fully laid himself out for the pretty smart rebukes which were meted out to him by the Prime Minister. His resume of past work and shortcomings in connection with the Flying Services was instructive as an introduction to his onslaught, and there was not one member present who did not cordially echo all the eulogies which Mr. Joynson-Hicks showered on the members of the Royal Flying Corps. But the mere reiteration of well-known facts as they stand does not alter those facts, and if there is practically no way, under the exceptional circumstances existing, of carrying into effect the suggested remedy for any negligence in the past when more normal conditions prevailed, it is as well to leave matters alone, rather than re-stir up the mud, merely for the sake of it. Mr. Joynson-Hicks in a measure recently identified himself with the very laudable, although over-sanguine scheme for the immediate supply of 10,000 and even 20,000 aeroplanes, with all their necessary " appendages " in the shape of pilots (presum ably efficient), engines, spares, replacements, and general entourage concerned with aeroplanes in the field. We thought this much-pushed method of ending the war quickly had run its natural course, and had been allowed to sink into the oblivion from whence it should never have been brought. True, in his plea for more and more aeroplanes, and massed attacks by flights of war- planes, on Tuesday, Mr. Joynson-Hicks carefully avoided getting down to such details as batches of 2,000 at a time. But, throughout his remarks, Mr. Joynson-Hicks seldom got far away from one point, viz., that the Government were neglectful of their duties in regard to the supply of aircraft for the R.F.C., and that those directing the affairs of the nation in this connection, it was inferred, were entirely devoid of all initiative in regard to going forward with plans for keeping our Flying Services in a para mount position to control the airwork of the enemy. The Prime Minister, in his reply, dealt with this side of the discussion in no hesitating manner, and in speaking as he did he, we believe, voiced the feeling of all those who matter. We wish we could think that Mr. Joynson-Hicks represents the views of those for whom he pleads in an equal degree. Nobody can—in theory —disagree with most of what Mr. Joynson-Hicks puts forward for the enlargement of the aircraft section of our forces, but there is a hugely wide gulf between one's desires and the possibilities of their being realisable in practice. Hence the futility of all these attacks—even if they be, as they without question are, friendly and well- meant attacks. Such speeches can hardly help our cause, and either Mr. Joynson-Hicks does know this to be so or should know it. On the other hand, as it was very clearly intimated, benefit may, and probably does, accrue to our enemies from such oratorical displays by a repre sentative of the people in the British House of Commons. We give elsewhere a full report of the debate in the House, and this, we think, will speak for itself to our B
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