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Flight, December 14, 1916. 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. 416. (No. SO, Vol. VIII.)] DECEMBER 14, 1916. I Weekly, Prfc* Id. L Post PTM. lid. 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 its. ad. CONTENTS. Editorial Comment: • PA<;K The Road to Victory io%$ What of the Air ? to86 State Aid for Research.. 108 The " Afternoon Tea" (Question .. .. .. .. .. .. 1087 The British Air Services 1088 Honours .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1000 The 120 h.p. Christofferson Aero Engine IOQI NOTICE.—Owing to Christmas Day and Boxing Day falling on Monday and Tuesday in Christmas week, it is necessary that all copy, Editorial and Advertisement, for the issue of December 28th, should reach "FLIGHT" Office not later than the morning of December 20th. EDITORIAL COMMENT. HAT a dramatic change has taken place in the aspect of things political since the beginning of the latest Cabinet crises! A fortnight ago there seemed, to be no hope but that the conduct of the war would remain in the hands of the lawyer-politician combine who have stood for two long years athwart the road to victory. There seemed to be no hope of progress, no hope that the policy of *' wait and see " would be departed from until, too late, the people themselves realised that everything had been given away by the leaders who did not lead and who put the sweets The Road of office before the necessities of the Victory Empire. To-day we have a " Business Government " in which the lawyer element, save in the case of the legal offices, is mainly conspicuous by its absence. Instead, we have Ministers selected for their posts because of the special qualifications they possess for those posts. The Royal Aero Club. Official Notices IOOJ Questions in Parliament UXM A Rotary Shaping Machine for Aircraft Propcllcis, Sc. 1094 Armchair Reflections. By the " Dreamer " io96 Christmas Greeting Section .. .. .. ., .. .. 1-34 Answers to Correspondents , 1007 Airisms from the Four Winds .. .. .. ,, ,. ,, ,, 096 Personals .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ,. ., ,, uoo Correspondence .. .. ., ,, ., .. ., not The Roll of Honour ,«,» Dynamical Stability <rf Aeroplanes. ByJ. C. Hunsaker Aircraft Work at the Front. Official Information .. ' 1104 Side-Winds ,, ,. non Models 111,7 From the British Flying Grounds.. .. .. .. ,, ,. ,, no8 Imports and Exports, 1015-1016 . ;—: ——————.—_ ^ —:—~_ We have a War Council of five Ministers who are to be responsible for the whole conduct of the war, while the rest of the departmental" heads are left free to conduct the business of their departments and to carry out the instructions of the War Council in so far as they relate to the various departments of State. On paper at least the new constitution of the Government approaches as nearly to the ideal as may be imagined. In practice, it is so radical a departure from all accepted traditions that it really constitutes the greatest governmental experiment in all our constitutional history. While we call it an experiment—and quite rightly—we would hasten to add that it is an experiment that has been made not a moment too soon. When we regard the happenings of the past twenty-eight months, we marvel that it has been so late in the day that THE MAN has arisen to give us the new in place of the old. Blundering diplomacy and hesi tating strategy, the perpetuation of inter-depart mental jealousies, the farcical domestic regulations under that farcical piece of legislation the Defence of the Realm Act, the piffling attempts to deal with the food problem—all have combined to lead the thinking citizen to despair. We have had supposedly responsible Ministers of the Crown laying down in sonorous periods that this war is " a fight to a finish " and that " Britain would never sheathe the sword until Prussian militarism was destroyed "—and then going home to sleep! We have been told that the nation would be asked to make great sacrifices, and
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