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Flight, November 15, 1917 CHT ENQ1NEBFL 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. MB. 464. (N*. 46, Vol. IX.) NOVEMBER 15, 1917. fWeekly, Price 3d.L Pest" Frea, 4d. FligKt and The Aircraft Engineer. Editorial Office: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C. 2. Telegrams : Truditur, W"e3tcent, London. Telephone : Gerrard 1828. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free. United Kingdom ... 15J. id. Abroad 20s. ad. CONTENTS. Editorial Comment: •—— PAGE " One Air Service ; One Uniform ; One Badge" 1185 The Points of the Bill The Effect on the Existing Air Services .. " The First Class Air Fighter " .. Aeronautical Engineering as a Profession Officers'Records of Service .. .. .. 188 189 Aerial Post Services after the War .. .. .. .. .. .. U89 A National Aeroplane Factory .. .. .. .. .. .. 1189 Notes on the Running of Aircraft Engines for the Use of Pilots. By "Gnomad".. .. .. •• •• .. .. .. •• .. 1191 The Royal Aero Club. Official Notices i»93 The Roll of Honour "93 Mathematical Expressions for Climb, Rate of Climb and Ceiling of an Aeroplane, with Practical Example. By E. F. C, B.Sc. . .. 1195 The Air Force Bill "97 Measuring Distances by Means of Prismatic Binoculars .. *i9° Airisms from the Four Winds _ .. .- -• "°Q Personals .. — .. .. .. •• •• "°3 The Air Force Bill Debate "04 Answers to Correspondents .. .. .. .. .. •• •• 1210 The British Air Services .. .. 1211 Aircraft Work at the Front. Official Information H13 Legal Intelligence •• •• ««4 NOTICE OF REMOVAL. The Offices — Editorial and Advertisement of "FLIGHT and The Aircraft Engineer"—on November 10th have been removed to more con- venient premises at 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C. 2. j The telephone number remains Gerrard 1828, and the telegraphic address is Truditur, Westcent, London. j All communications should therefore now be addressed to \ 36, Great Queen Street, i Kingsway, London, W.C. 2. : " Newspapers are an essential part of our war organisation."— (Sir Auckland Geddes, Minister of National Service.) EDITORIAL COMMENT, |HE promised Bill for the creation of a single Air Service was introduced into Parliament on Friday of last week. The Bill, the full text of which will be found in another part of this issue of FLIGHT, is a landmark, not only in the history of aviation, but in that of the armed forces of the Crown. No longer is the aerial arm to be a mere subsidiary weapon in the hands of our commanders by sea and land, but it is by a single stroke raised to r *he Position which has hitherto One Badge." been occupied by the Navy and the Army alone. It is necessary at this juncture to say that this does not at all mean that our commanders are to be deprived of the necessary aircraft for the prosecution of their operations, nor that the aerial'arm, or that portion of it which is attached to the fleets and armies operating at sea or in the field, is to be taken from under their direct command. On the contrary, and as we have pointed out times almost without number, the object of the Bill is entirely and solely to co-ordinate effort and strengthen our fleets and armies in the matter of essential aerial equipment. More important even than this, it is designed, and we doubt not will achieve its object, to once and for all put a stop to the ruinous competition and jealousy between the two existing Air Services. That com- petition and jealousy, as we have reason to know, have had a far worse effect in retarding progress and de- velopment than most people are aware of, and even the widened powers of the present Air Board have not availed to put a complete stop to it. As we have always maintained, there was only one real remedy, one panacea for the ills under which our Air Services suffered, and that remedy is applied by the Bill which we trust and believe will reach the Statute Book with the absolute minimum of delay. The rock on which most of the opponents of the single air service have split is the idea that aircraft and air war have any root connection with war on land or sea—that aerial operations are. of necessity merely complementary in their character. That idea is the erroneous one which regards the aeroplane and the airship merely as, for one set of purposes, a sort of super-cavalry for reconnaissance, and for another as a long-range gun for the bombardment of objectives beyond the reach of artillery. It does not grasp the fundamental fact that while these are indeed a part of their function, and an admittedly very important part, aerial operations in war go much deeper. Let us take a case in point to illustrate the meaning of this
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