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Flight, September 7, 1916 ^(r ^J 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. 402. (No. 36, Vol. VIH.)] SEPTEMBER 7, 1916. I Weekly. Prlco Id. L Post Pro*. l(d. Fligit&t. Editorial Office: 44, ST. MARTIN'S LAVE, LONDON, W.C. Telegrams : Truditur, Westrand, London. Telephone: Gerrard I8J8. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free. United Kingdom .. 6s. 6d. Abroad us od CONTENTS Editorial Comment : 4 r The Zeppelin Retribution Zeppelin or Schutte-Lanz? The British Air Services The Zepp. Holocaust .. Zeppelmisms 755 756 759 761 76s " X " Aircraft Raids .. ANewCurtUs " Wireless " Scout The General Aeroplane Company's Frying I The Hying Services Fund - Administered by the Royal Aero dub Trie Roll of Honour Armchair Reflections. By the " Dreamei•" Airisms from the Four Winds Personals Answers to t m respondents .. Aircraft Work at the Front. Official Information From the British Flying Grounds A Petrol Engine for Models 7«J fH 7° I 70S yia fto 77- 773 77 s 777 778 TO OUR READERS. The Supply of "FLIGHT." Important Notice. Order " FLIGHT " to be either delivered or 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. OST assuredly the Zeppelin fleet of 13—ominous number—on Satur day-Sunday night, meant serious business against the hated England. But it was the dog that died, and once again, this time in the sphere of |1 the air, the German has to learn his ™ lesson, that so long as his demoniacal ingenuity devises infernal war methods, so will the British quickly find their antidotes and ultimately turn upon the uncivilised barbarian the same weapons, in an intensified form, by which it has been sought to inflict woe upon us. With one ZeDoelin maJor vessel with its very valuable crew Retribution, completely annihilated, one more in all probability lost on the homeward journey, and a third badly lamed, the German Higher Command can scarcely honestly cry quits, as against the damage, material and otherwise, which he managed to inflict by means of his entire air-fleet of thirteen. In fact, in spite of all the wonderful fables of the total destruction of the great " fortress of London," the harbours of Harwich, Dover and a few other places they would like to wipe out, besides a few dozen Dreadnoughts, battle-cruisers, &c, which will be issued in due course by the Woolf Bureau to soothe the German public, we fancy the Hun Chancellor of the War Exchequer, or whatever forty-syllable designa tion may attach in German to that very much worried functionary just now, will find it a pretty tough job to pull his new war loan through, so that there will be much tangible security with which to carry on the financial juggle still a stage further. There is also a further incentive for these attacks to take place now with greater vigour than ever. Hindenburg is a supporter of frightfulness in its most drastic form, and there are indications that before long the German lines may have to be materially shortened in the West, when the military situation would be very greatly altered and the further persistence with these raids upon England would be rendered thereby increasingly difficult of accomplishment with anything like safety. We may, therefore, expect further attempts to break through our cordon of defences in the near future, when fair Luna is once again on the
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