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iligbt, December 28, 1916. First Aero Weekly in the World. Founder and Editor : STANLEY SPOONER. A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice and Progress o! Aerial Looomotion and Transport. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. No. 418. (No. 52, Vol. VIII.)] DECEMBER 28, 1916. rWookly, Prtco Id. L Pool rroo. 1J«. 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. od. CONTENTS. Editorial Comment". ——•— The Passing of 1016 The British Air Services New Aircraft Types The Dirigible Raids—Enemy and Allied In Winter's Grip The Roll of Honour The Royal Aero Club The Report of the Air Enquiry Committee Loss of Air Supremacy The Life of the Air Board The British Air Services The Royal Aero Club. Official Notices International Aircraft Rigid Dirigible .. Armchair Reflections. By the " Dreamer " Answers to Correspondents Airisms from the Four Winds Final Report of the R.F.C. Enquiry Committee Aviation in Parliament Recent German Aeroplanes Personals PAGE >•:;' 1133 1132 113a 1133 M34 "34 "34 "35 "35 "37 1138 "39 1141 1142 "43 "45 "47 1148 •'« EDITORIAL COMMENT. ET another year is about to pass into the realm of the things that have been, and we can truly say that it will pass with rather less of regret than we usually view the passing of the mile stones of Time. It has been a year of stress and of much disappoint ment on the whole, though it has had the redeeming feature that its last month has seen the substitution of a live for a moribund administration of our national affairs. It has been a momentous year in many ways, as well in the development of aviation as in the affairs of the world PaJtak of generally- 0f the former il .* stU1 1916. impossible to speak in detail, since the considerations still obtain that have precluded detailed comment on aircraft progress for the past two years. Last year the word "Peace" was probably the one that was farthest away from our thoughts. Now it is in everyone's mind. Not that there appears to be even the remotest chance of a world-peace within any period of time to which a name can be given now, but the word has been uttered and in no un certain manner. We know that the word and the manner are alike unacceptable at the moment, but the mere fact that it has been uttered and that we know at least some of the conditions that have prompted it, has led to the realisation that the war must end sometime, and to the hope that that end is now not far off. • • • During the year both branches of the BTit^h British air service have developed Air Services, wonderfully, alike in material and in the ' numbers and efficiency of their per sonnel. There have been no changes in the higher commands of either Service, nor have there been any such dramatic " reorganisations " to chronicle as fell to be recorded at the end of 1915. The story of development has been one of steady improvement all round rather than of drastic change. In Parliament and in the Press we have had a great deal of discussion of aerial policy generally, the necessity for which can only be regarded as a regrettable outcome of the lack of single-minded- ness of the late Administration. A Committee of Enquiry early in the year was charged with the washing of a great deal of dirty linen that might better have been cleansed privately and without recourse* to methods which could not have failed "to afford satisfaction to the enemy and uneasiness among our Allies. Then the numberless questions and discussions which arose out of the " Wait and See " policy must have accentuated those feelings, which the ultimate appointment of an Air Board, with Lord Curzon as its President, could have done very little to allay. At the time of its appointment it was understood that this Board was to have executive functions. Later, it transpired that this was not the case, and at once the whole controversy about the air services was revived in an acute form. The subject was to have been one for a full-dress debate in the House, when the change of Govern- D 2 V
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