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Flight, August 10, 1916. ^ o 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. 398. (No. 32, Vol. vm.) 1 AUGUST IO, 1916. L Woakly, Price Id. Post Kree. lid. FligKt. 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 lis. od. CONTENTS. Editorial Comment : • PAGE The Royal Aero Club 661 The New Wright Tractor Biplane—Type L (with scale drawings).. .. 664 The Roll t>( Honour 6 The British Air Services Royal Aero Club: Official Notices From the British Flying Grounds " X " Aircraft Raids Flying at Hendon Armchair Reflections. By the " Dreamer " Aviation in Parliament Airisms from the Four Winds Personals Aircraft Work at the Front. Official Information Imports and Exports, 1915-16 667 668 669 670 670 671 673 677 67* 679 666 TO OUR READERS. The Important Notice, either delivered or The Supply of •• FLIGHT.' Order "FLIGHT" to be reserved for you regularly. 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 stringent Govern ment restrictions in regard to the supply of printing paper necessitates this precaution 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. EDITORIAL COMMENT. ' HEN a conscientious body of men have been working enthusiastically and un- wearingly over a number of years for the sake of a cause dear to their hearts, probably no payment com puted in mere £ s. d. could possibly repay them for all their disinterested thought and foresight in the same degree as a mark of high appreciation from those on whose behalf the consistent labours have largely been devoted. That this endorsement of their efforts on behalf of the Club directly and of the air conquest movement generally was so whole heartedly forthcoming at the recent Aero Club. special general meeting of the Royal Aero Club, when it was decided to increase the subscription, with the object of extending the Club's usefulness, must have been a source of the greatest gratification to the Committee of the Club. This up-to-date policy of the Committee is, without doubt, the right note to strike at such an all-important period as the present in the development of the realm of the air, as the enormous influx into the ranks of practical aviation at the present time calls for the establishment of a meeting ground for those whose lives have been committed to whatever the future of Aviation may evolve for them collectively and each individually. Probably no other art, science, sport, occupation, or by whatever other name one designates the problem of aerial navigation, calls more for a common platform upon which can be presented, for mutual criticism and discussion, the thousand-and-one interesting and novel points which are arising from day to day, as the mysteries leading to the Dominion of the Air. For a long time there has been a growing and strongly expressed desire amongst all sections of those associated with Airism that such an aerial " Mecca " should be brought into being. This fact has, of course, been fully realised by those in control at the Royal Aero Club, but they have naturally had to consider ways and means, and carefully wait until the time was really ripe for " jumping off " on what might easily, in such times as the present, result in disaster. By waiting thus long as the Committee have done, they have exercised the wisest possible judgment, and they have every prospect now of reaping the rich harvest of success, on behalf of the Club as a body, which their judicious and unimpeachable methods in
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