FlightGlobal.com
Home
Premium
Archive
Video
Images
Forum
Atlas
Blogs
Jobs
Shop
RSS
Email Newsletters
You are in:
Home
Aviation History
1916
1916 - 0713.PDF
Flight, August 24, 1916 First Aero Weekly in the World. Founder and Editor : STANLEY SPOONER. A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice and Progress ot Aerial Locomotion and Transport. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. No. 400. (No. 34, Vol. Vm.)] AUGUST 24, 1916. 1 Weekly. Price Id. Poet Free, ljd. Flight. 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 .. .. .. us. od. CONTENTS Editorial Comment : 4 TAGE The Air Committee's Report - .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 709 1' Answers to Correspondents".. .. .. .. .. .. .. 710 The Antics of the German High Sea Fleet 712 And the Air Raids .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 712 The British Air Services .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..713 The Roll of Honour 7'5 Honours for the RF.C. .. .. .. .. .. .. ., 715 From the British Flying Grounds 716 Flying at Hendon .. .. .. 7 The Flying Services Fund—Administered by the Royal Aero Club .. 717 Answers to Correspondents ., .. .. .. .. \. .. ..717 Armchair Reflections. By the " Dreamer " Aviation in Parliament The Advisory Committee's Annual Report Airisms from the Four Winds Personals Aircraft Work at the Front. Official Information 7>* 7><< 7-i TO OUR READERS. 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. The Air ©RIAL COMMENT. AST week the publication of the interim report of the Air Committee, in regard to their investigation into the charges brought by Mr. Pem- berton Billing against the adminis tration of the Air Services, was just in time to be reproduced in the pages of " FLIGHT." Comment had necessarily to be suspended at so late an hour when going to Press. Taken as a whole, the conclusions come to are exactly what might have been ex pected by ninety-nine out of a hundred sane ' men, who have followed the politics of Aviation. Although Mr. Billing still ee,s persists in aggressively declining to Report, withdraw a single point of his original charges, we can nevertheless detect in this refusal a very clear indication of a desire—as we said long ago he would—to get clear of the " murder " portion of his parliamentary utterances. At least that is the only possible meaning to be evolved from the statement in his " reply to the Air Committee's report," which he contributed exclusively (we wonder why) to Reynolds' newspaper of last Sunday, to the following effect:— "lam certain that the reforms and improvements which have been made during the last six months would never have been effected, or even attempted, if I had not employed what I am prepared to admit was dramatic rhetoric, to force the hands of the Govern ment, and to rivet their attention to the fact that some of our finest men were daily sacrificing their lives for want of intelligent direction. " Let it be understood : Despite the findings of the Committee, I neither qualify nor withdraw the statements I have made, or the charges I have brought." It is as well to have this admission on record, as it disposes at once of the unwarranted charge against the Administrative Heads of the Air Services. We differ from Mr. Billing, as we have all along, in his assumption that he would not have obtained a hearing for his demand for an investigation into the affairs of the Air Services, except by his aggressive and highly unseemly tactics. That there was room for improvement in the Services, there has been no manner of doubt for some time past, and nobody knew this better than those responsible for the executive side of the Services. Reform an 1 D
Sign up to
Flight Digital Magazine
Flight Print Magazine
Airline Business Magazine
E-newsletters
RSS
Events
