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Flight, February ^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. 372. (Wo. 6, Vol. V 111)] FEBRUARY IO, 1916. rWeekly, Price Id. L PoBt Free, ljd. FiigHt. Editorial Office: 44, ST. MARTIN'S LANE, LONDON, W.C. Telegrams; Truditur, Westrand, London. Telephone: Gerrard 1828. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free. United Kingdom ... 6s. 6d. Abroad uf. od. CONTENTS. Editorial Comment: —• PAGE The Country Waking up 109 Our " Organisation " 112 The British Air Services 3 The Rolljof Honour 4 TO OUR READERS. The Supply of " FLIGHT." Important Notice. Order " FLIGHT " to be either delivered or reserved for you regularly. An Order Form will be found on page xxiv. As the demand for " FLIGHT " is so great each week, it is of the utmost importance that readers should place their orders firmly for copies of " FLIGHT " at the bookstalls, their newsagents, or direct from the publishers, at 44, St. Martin's Lane, W.C., if they wish to secure a copy every week and avoid disappointment. The semi-famine in printing paper calls for this pre caution in order that only actual numbers required are printed, and all wastage by unsold copies may thereby be reduced to a minimum, if not eliminated. THE PUBLISHERS. EDITQ5UAIL COMMEMT. 5|N old and very terse axiom which has much to recommend it contains theadvice that if a man points a pistol at you, knock him down; it is time enough t/^ flKaj afterwards to find out whether it is cfli BK: loaded or not. We are reminded of sa®s®s®?i^ai this by the non.existence of a British airship fleet to counter the Zeppelins of the Germans. As we pointed out last week, the mere he fact of the Germans persisting in building Wakine- UD UP a ^eet °^ tnese leviathans before the war should have been sufficient justification for our Government to have also laid in a A " Popular " Type Aeroplane Design. By C. M. Poulsen Flying at Hendon Royal Aero Club. Official Notices From the British Flying Grounds ... Eddies. By"jEolui" Armchair Reflections. By the " Dreamer" " X " Aircraft Raids The 160 h.p. Mercedes Aero Engine Aircraft Work at the Front. Official Information Aircraft and the War Models Imports and Exports, 1915-1916 i»5 ttfi 117 117 »i8 no 120 132 1.4 1*3 127 128 stock of the same pattern, more or less, just against possibilities. It would have been time enough afterwards to have found they were not of much material use after all. The wisdom of such foresight has never been brought home to us more than by recent happenings. At least, the country generally has at last fairly woken up to the state of unpreparedness in which we find our air forces, and it is almost ludicrous to see the hurry with which everything has now to be remedied. The agitation which has been started throughout the country, led by the daily press, is a welcome sign that the realities and possibilities of the situation have at this late hour been grasped. From all this to-do we are hopeful that some thing definite will result in bringing about the realisation of that Third Service, or at least an emergency " under study " of it, which we have advocated, and for which by this time the people are not only prepared, but are asking for in terms sufficiently strong to amount to a distinct mandate for the Government to take the matter up. That a great many snags stand in the way, we are well aware, but they are not of such a nature as to be insuper able. Times are abnormal, and measures must be ab normal. If in the process of re-organisation some long- whiskered old fetishes and legends have to go by the board so much the better. This disintegration of mori bund bodies and theories may give a helping hand towards re-modelling many century-old anomalies, which require nothing short of such a world-upheaval as we have at present in full blast, to rivet attention to their obsoleteness. When peace breaks out, a good many changes, amounting to official revolution, may be confidently looked for, and aviation will, we fancy, be found leading the way for the introduction of many
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