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Flight, February 7, 1918. ;;'•; 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. No. 476. (No. 6, Vol. X.) FEBRUARY 7, 1918. rweekly, Price 3d.L Post Free, 44. and The Aircraft Engineer. Editorial Office: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C. 1. Telegrams: Truditur, Westcent, London. Telephone: Gerrard 1828. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free. United Kingdom ... ijr. ad. Abroad 20s. od. CONTENTS. Editorial Comment: • PAGE " Intensive Aircraft Production " 137 The Control of the Metal Trade 8 Aerial Activity in the West 138 Savage Hun Sentence on British Officers ., .. 140 The Attitude of the A.S.E 140 German Dreams of Conquest .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 141 " Clouds and Rain Hindered the Work of Our Airmen " 142 Honours.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 143 The S.V.A. Fighting Scout (with scale drawings) 144 The Royal Aero Club. Official Notices 147 The Roll of Honour l4y "X" Aircraft Raids 148 "APost-War Aeroplane." By F. W. Halliwell, A.M.J.I.E 149 Airisms from the Four Winds .. », .. .. .. .. ..152 Armchair Reflections. By the " Dreamer" 156 The British Air Services 157 Aviation in Parliament 8 Aircraft Work at the Front. Official Information .. 159 Personals ,60 International Aircraft Standards 161 NOTICE OF REMOVAL. The Offices—Editorial and Advertisement—of44 FLIGHT and The Aircraft Engineer " are now at 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C. 2. Telephone No.: Gerrard 1828. Teleft. Address : "Trudttur, Westcent, London." EDITORIAL COMMENT. Wvwipapen tn am tasential part of our war organisation."— (Sir Auckland Geddes, Minister oj National Service.) OME weeks ago a communication was sent very extensively round the Press by a body calling itself the " Aeronautical Institute of Great Britain," signed by Mr. L. Blin Desbleds, who describes himself as " Hon. Director." This letter, which obtained wide hospitality in the columns of the trade journals particularly, set forth the urgent need that exists for this country to co- „ , ordinate every source of aircraft supply. Aircraft According to the communication in Production." question, the best way to begin upon the necessary organisation of latent resources was for the heads of workshops of allied trades, woodworkers, and engineers to get into commu- nication with the Institute. Then, the Institute would do " its best to co-operate with the authorities, and with the larger manufacturers to see how far ' we can utilise all our resources profitably alike for the State, the business proprietors, and the workmen engaged.' " We have before us a letter from a correspondent, in which he informs us that, having seen the Institute's letter in question on the 4th January, he wrote off on the same day offering to place his services at the the Institute's disposal. Being, as he says, a skilled engineer, he naturally imagined that he was just the sort of person to whom the appeal was being made. So he waited for a while, and, receiving no answer, wrote again and enclosed a stamped, addressed envelope for reply. Still hearing nothing from the Institute, on the 22nd January he wrote to " FLIGHT " to see if we could tell him how to get into touch with' this work of urgency. ; We have made some enquiries about the matter; and all we are able to discover is that there exists a body, which is apparently jsome sort of off-shoot of the Institute, called the ^ Aircraft and Production Auxiliary Association "—of which the membership costs a guinea ! It does not appear to have any work to give out—at present, at any rate—and we are not at all clear as to its immediate objects except that they are to obtain members at a guinea per capita. We do not desire to suggest that the intentions of the " Aeronautical Institute of Great Britain " are not perfectly bona fide, but we certainly think its methods of going to work are open to a good deal of possible misconstruction. Many complaints have reached the journals in which the original letter appeared that a response to the communication simply elicited a suggestion that the correspondent should send along his nimble guinea and become a member of the Institute. In others, where, apparently, the applicant only wanted extra work to help along aircraft produc- tion—as in the case of our correspondent—no answer at all has been vouchsafed. The whole scheme seems, on the face of it, to be merely a campaign for increasing the membership of the Institute, and for attracting recruits to the subsidiary organisation. If that is so—and we do not think we are doing any substantial injustice by so regarding it—all we can say is that it seems to be a case of very questionable tactics. We have had occasion in the past to find fault with. F 2
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