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JANOARY II, 1917. Lighting Order, and that'* Birmingham is held up by theWatch Committee of Sheffield and other large towns, as well as by the military authorities, as a model of darkness. AMONG those " mentioned " in the Despatch of Field-Marshal Sir I). Haig. is Major-General J. E. Capper, who will, asnCol. Capper, be remembered as the commandant of theold Army Balloon Factory at Farnborough, and a very enthusiastic and hajfd-working member of the Koyal AeroClub Committee. THERE always was plenty of Air about the Hotel Cecil.It might well 'be termed the Meeting-Place of the Winds. So, perhaps, it is but fitting that this Jabez Balfour cara-vanserai should become the resting-place of the Air Ministry. As the commandeering will not create any constitutional dis-turbance, the peaceful " annexation " of the building starts with favourable imperial prospects. There should In- roomhere for even so rapidly a growing power as Aviation for quite a long time—as time goes in things aeronautic—say,three to six months. Then there is quite a convenient annex handy in the Savoy, by just throwing a bridge across the" cutting " between the two. BY the bye, for experiments while you wait, that " cut-ting " might well be used as a wind tunnel. Try it one breezy day via the " Coal Hole " in the Strand, and find out"for yourself what your rate of flow is against the stream. IT'S an ill-wind. &c. Exclusive Bloomsbury is reported to be quite inflated through the Cecil air upheavals. IT used to be said that the Kaiser had promised direpunishment for any Zepp. commander if he should by accident or design put the House of Commons out of action, but it isnow reported by the Tagliche Rundschau that Carl Peters suggests the sending of large numbers of Zeppelins to destroythe House of Commons, " because so many lies are told there about Germany." He considers that such a coursewould have more effect in diminishing the war spirit of the British than any number of German victories in Flanders. WE wonder why. Does he imagine that ii. by such amethod, the membership of the House of Commons were reduced by a good round numtwr, the entire British nationwould necessarily go into eternal mourning. A shake-up of the ballot-box that way might do a mighty lot of gootl.Ask P.B. and one or two more that we wot of thru opinions. " THEY have developed some powerful aeroplanes, towhich we shall very speedily be able to reply." " They " are the Huns, " we " are ourselves, and the prophetic speakeris Lord Northdiffe to a Press representative, upon his impres- sions of a visit last week to the Western Front. So mote it be. THE National Advisory Committee for* Aeronautics (ofAmerica) has deemed it necessary to amend and add to the nomenclature for aeronautics. Here is one of the " amend-ments " :—" A right-hand engine is one in which, when viewed from the output shaft, looking toward the output-shaft end, the shaft is seen to rotate clockwise." We always did have our doubts about those right-iiandcd engines. Thankgoodness, now we know. TEN YEARS AGO.Excerpts from thr " Auto." (" FLIGHT'S " precursor and sisterJournal) 0/ January 12th, 1907. " FLIGHT" was foundedin 1908. THE DE LA VAULX AIRSHIP GOKS OUT ONCK MORE.The first airship to ascend in ic/17 was the De La Vaulx machine, which took the air at half-past three on Mondaylast, January 7th, with the Count de la Vaulx and M. Maurice Mallet on board. There was a pretty brisk S.S.W. wind,and on first starting the airship was allowed to drift a certain distance, hut the Count de la Vaulx almost: immediatelybrought the propeller into operation, and the great vessel went round and came up into the wind with perfect success.A number of more or less complicated evolutions were carried out in the fog at a distance of about 100 metres from theground. The Count de la Vaulx is very satisfied in every way with this short trial of his airship, although the test onlyoccupied some ten or twelve minutes. An important point is that the gas vessel of the airship, which cubes 725 metres, FROM ABOVE AN INTERESTING PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN FROM THE AIR—The flying " grounds "of the Philadelphia Aviation School at Essington, photographed from one of the school machines. This school was organised by Mr. Robert Glendinning, the Philadelphia banker, and during the past seasonthirty-two pupils have received training at the school. Three of the flying boats will be seen on the v ^ slipway between the sheds, while a fourth is just getting off.—Photo, by courtesy of " Aerial Age." .. 37
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