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MARCH 8, 191;. ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE U.K. OFFICIAL NOTICES TO MEMBERS.ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. THE Annual General Meeting of the Members of the RoyalAero Club of the United Kingdom will be held on Tuesday, March 20th, 1917, at 6 o'clock, at 3, Clifford Street, London, AGENDA.1. To elect Vice-President and Council for the ensuing year. 2. To announce result of Ballot for Committee. COMMITTEE. The following members have been proposed for theCommittee :— Brig.-Gen. W. S. Brancker, R.F.A.Griffith Brewer. Ernest C. Bucknall.Capt. R. L. Charteris, RFC. L. Coatalen. % Commander Sir Arthur Trevor Dawson, R.Nv Flight-Commander John Dunville, R.N. Wing-Commander D. A. Spenser Grey, R.N., D.S.O.,D.S.C. *, Col. Sir Capel Holden, K.C.B., F.R.S.Prof. A. K. Huntington. Wing-Commander A. M. Longmore, R.N. Squadron-Commander F. K. McClean R.N.Col. E. M. Maitland. Lieut. N. C. Neill, R.N.V.R. Lord Northclifie. Wing-Commander Alec Ogilvie, R.N. ~ 1Lieut.-Col. Mervyn O'Gorman, C.B. *» Lieut.-Col. P. H. L. Playfair.Flight-Commander C- F. Pollock, R.N. J. H. Spottiswoode.G. Holt Thomas. A ballot paper for the election of nine candidates to theCommittee of the Club will be forwarded to each Member at least seven days before the date of the Annual GeneralMeeting. Aircraft Exhibition, Grosvenor Galleries, 51a, New Bond Street, W. The Aeronautical Society of Great Britain, the Society ofBritish Aircraft Constructors and the Royal Aero Club will be " At Home " at Lady Drogheda's Aircraft Exhibition atthe Grosvenor Galleries, 51 A, New Bond Street, W., on Thursday, March 15th, 1917, at 8.30 p.m. Short addresses on aeronautics will be given by Brig.-Gen.W. S. Brancker, Lieut.-Col, Mervyn O'Gorman. CB, and others. Cinematograph films will also be shown. Price of Tickets': Members 2s. 6d., Visitors 54.The entire proceeds will be devoted to Lady Henderson's Royal Flying Corps Fund and the Flying Services Fund. Tickets can be obtained from the Secretary, Royal A«r»Club, 3, Clifford Street, W. THE FLYING SERVICES FUND administered by THE ROYAL AERO CLUB. THE Flying Services Fund has been instituted by the Royal Aero Club for the benefit of officers and men of the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Flying Corps who are incapacitated on active service, and for the widows and dependants of those who are killed. The fund is intended for the benefit of all ranks, but especially for petty officers, non-commissioned officers^a«d men. Forms of application for assistance can be obtained from the Royal Aero Club, 3, Clifford Street, New Bond Street, London, W. Subscriptions. £ s. d. Total subscriptions received to Mar. 6th, 1917 11,197 7 3 B. STEVENSON, Assistant Secretary. 3, Clifford Street, New Bond Street, W. BY AEROPLANE TO INDIA. SOME further details of the lecture given at Delhi byLord Montagu of Beaulieu, in January, are now available. It will be recalled that Lord Montagu declared that it wascertain to his mind that within the next ten years the mails between England and India would be conveyed by aeroplane,and that a passenger service would also be established. By ship the long sea route from Bombay to London wasabout 6,000 miles, and via Marseilles or Brindisi about 5,000 miles. But, as the aeroplane flew, the distance would be only3,600 miles. The route via Russia was, of course, the shortest, and mails by this route would reach London in lessthan 36 hours, allowing merely the speed achieved by the aeroplanes of to-day. In the case of a passenger service, andallowing a rest of 14 hours out of the 24, and travelling 10 hours at only 120 miles per hour, 1,200 miles would be coveredper day. Thus it would be possible to fly to London from Peshawar in 59 hours. A Delhi service would connect withthis service, leaving Delhi five hours earlier. The passengers would sleep the first night at Gurieff, at the head of the Caspian,and the second night at Tarnopol, in Galicia. On the third evening they would be in London. There would bea stop of one hour per day, from noon to 1 o'clock, for lunch. The other route, which Lord Montagu described as the" All Red " route on account of its being nearly all over British territory, would take about five days, the distance being 5,220 miles. Starting from Karachi, the traveller would spend the first night at Basra, the seeond at Alexandria, the third at Malta, the fourth at Gibraltar, and on the fifth he would arrive at Land's End. The voyage over the sea would be done by seaplane. Mails would be flown continuously by day and night, the landing places being illuminated and the route indicated by miniature lighthouses. As for passengers, the big Russian Sikorsky aeroplane, with four engines, had already achieved over 80 miles per hour carrying 16 persons. If 10 aeroplanesa day started they could carry 140 passengers, with a pilot and an assistant pilot, or about 1,000 passengers per week, which was greater than the average who now left Indian ports per week. As to cost, Lord Montagu said he felt sure that after the first year or two the fares for passengers would be considerably less than those at present charged by the mail steamers, and he hazarded the conjecture that at first about £40 for the single journey and £70 for the return journey would be charged. India in future, the lecturer proceeded, would be a stage on the route to the Far East and Australia. The mail route to Australia would go on from Peshawar by Calcutta, Rangoon, Singapore, and by seaplane by British North Borneo to Queens- land, whence the Australian mail services would take up the distribution. AIRCRAFT RAIDS. IN view of the decision of the Government not to allowdetails of places visited by enemy aircraft to be published, we are, as before, giving to each one an index number.Eventually, when details are available, we shall give the respective information under these index numbers, which willfacilitate easy reference to each particular raid. " X 55 " Raid, March 1st. THE following communiqud was issued by Lord French,Field-Marshal, Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces, on March 1st:— " At 9.50 a.m. to-day a hostile aeroplane dropped some bombs at Broadstairs. One woman was slightly injured." German Version. Berlin, March 3rd. " German seaplanes on Thursday morning last dropped 21 bombs on steamers lying in the Downs and the railways and port of Ramsgate, with visible effect. All the machines returned safely." "Air Screws." Two papers on " Air Screws " are to be read by Mr. J. Lawrence Hodgson, B.Sc, before the Institution of Auto- mobile Engineers, on Wednesday, March 14th, at 8 p.m. 226 The meeting will be held at the Society of Arts, and an invita- tion is extended to those interested to be present; tickets may be obtained on application to the Secretary, I.A.E., 2«, Victoria Street, London, S.W.
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