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1917 - 0036.PDF
"'- -tf" JANUARY II, 1917'. '--"-.- •-:)"'•' • " WAKEFIELD, . Mayor, made no mistake during his Mayoralty," must be a very gratifying judgment upon Sir Charles Wakefield's year of office as Lord Mayor of London, for him to hand down to his heirs. This little inscription was upon the silver porringer, a quaint relic in itself dating back to 1714, presented to Sir Charles last week by the Court of Assistants of the Cordwainers' Company, of which ancient body he in immediate Past-Master. An illuminated address from the inliabitants of the Ward of Bread Street, moreover, set forth more at length the appreciations of the subscribers of Sir Charles' great qualities, Lady Wakefield's unrelenting help throughout the year being included in this parchment address. WITH Professor von Parseval as sponsor for the statement, in a recent German article upon the development of aerial navigation, that there is now very little external difference between his system of construction and those of Zeppelin and Schiittc-Lanz, another interesting point in airship history is reached. The Professor's views are that the size of airships has considerably increased in order to correspond with the increased useful load and climbing power required. As regards the increase of speed, the pleasing discovery has been made that Newton's Law, according to which resistance varies as the square of the speed, does not apply. The diffi- culty of increasing the speed of an airship is that additions to the weight of the frame are not compensated by propor- tionate increase of the carrying capacity of the ship—a fact which must ultimately limit increase in size. NEXT comes an acknowledgment of the real use of airships as opposed to the piratical visits and base uses to which these Leviathans of the air "have hitherto been so largely put by the Huns. The chief duty of our airships, Herr von Parseval says, is reconnaissance over the North Sea. In this aeroplanes cannot take their place, since they.^and in particular, seaplanes with their heavy floats, can remain in the air so comparatively short a time, and obviously cannot accompany the Fleet independently as airships can, but need special mother ships. In this respect the German Fleet is at present superior to its adversaries. BY way of conclusion, the Professor opines that when peace breaks out the learned will eagerly study and write and drawr interesting conclusions in important books, while the ignorant will tell of the great pilot Boelke who overcame 40 adversaries before he met a malignant fate. MONDAY next, January 15th, marks another point in matters aerial. The new House at 3, Clifford Street, New Bond Street, of the Royal Aero Club, opens its doors to the members. NEEDS must when the Devil—in this case the Kaisei^may as well be bracketed—drives. So it comes about that the course of lectures on aeronautics which the Battersea Poly- technic were proposing to hold has had to be cancelled. The reason for this is that the services of the lecturer, Mr. Judge, have been requisitioned by the Government in connection with the war, and he cannot proceed further with his lecture work. Prospective students please note. THERE are no complaints Birmingham way in regard to the Zepp. lighting regulations. Quite the other way, in fact. In a report submitted last week to the Judicial Sub-Com- mittee of the Watch Committee of the Birmingham Corpora- tion, which has been considering the question of modifying the lighting arrangements, it was stated that the present arrangements meet the entire approval of the military authorities, who ask that there shall be no relaxation of the SOUTH AFRICAN UNIT ROYAL FLYING 4; CORPS. An R.F.C. Christ- mas greeting from South Africa, which has just reached the old country. Note on the right the string of towns already on the roll of the South African Flying Unit. KlLlNDlNI M B VJ V U N I SEREN GETl SALAITA HILL T A v c T A KAH E MARAGO Op>ur»ji OLD LOSS•T I K WA Loo u A GERMAN BRIDGE PA CMS MBAOUI K O R O G WE KOMSSAMGA TuRlANl D A K A VV A ROQOF»0 TULO . TA OI GA DARES-SALAAM '»>„ , .' .is.Ti'fT "'
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