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Flight, June 6, 1918. ENGINEER? Firtt A«ro Weekly it the World. = - Ur * Founder and Editor I STANLEY SPOONER. ' A Joonal devoted t* the Interest*, Praetiee, aad Progress of Aerial Loeomotira »J Transport. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. No. 493. (No. 23, Vol. X.) JUNE 6, 1918. [Weekly, Price 6d.L Post Free, 7d. 33*. TAOM 60s TAe Aircraft Engineer. EtUtnialOffictt 3«, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C. a. Talegranu: Truditur, Westcent, London. Telephone: Garrard i8«8. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Fre*. United Kingdom .. sis. ad. Abroad.. CONTENTS. Editorial Comment: •—— Decorations for the R.A.F .. The Birthday " Honours" .. .. .. 605 The Corpus Christ! " Truce " 606 "Siege by Air" 607 Honours .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ., .. .. ..608 Report on A.E.G. Bomber G 105 (with scale drawings) .. .. .. 611 The Roll of Honour . .. 616 The 240 h.p. Mercedes _ .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 618 The German L.V.G. Biplane, Type C.V. (with scale drawings) .. .. 632 Airisms from the Four Winds . .. 624 Personals 627 The British Air Scrriccs 629 Aircraft Work at the Front. Official Information 631 Correspondence 632 Trade Parliaments and their Work.—VII. By Ernest J. P. Benn .. .. 633 Aviation in Parliament „ 633 Side Winds .. .. gj^ 1 Newspapers are an essential part of our war organisation."— • •-* - •. Sir Auckland Geddes, Minister of National Service.) • Y an announcement in the LondonGazette it is notified that His Majesty the King has been pleased, on theoccasion of his birthday, to institute two decorations to be awarded toofficers and warrant officers in the Royal Air Force, and two medals tobe awarded to non-commissioned officers and men belonging to the Force. They are :— " THE DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS," to be awarded to officers and warrant officers for acts of Decorations gallantry when flying in active operations for the against the enemy. R.A.F. " THE AIR FORCE CROSS," to be awardedto officers and warrant officers for acts of courage or devotion to duty when flying, although not inactive operations against the enemy. ~: " THE DISTINGUISHED FLYING MEDAL," to be awardedto non-commissioned officers and men for acts of gallantry when, flying in active operations against the enemy. "THE AIR FORCE MEDAL," to be awarded to non-com-: missioned officers and men for acts of courage or devotion •to duty when flying, although not in active operationsagainst the enemy. . The announcement will be welcomed by the whole of the personnel of the Royal Air Force, which has been placed on an equality with the Navy and Army in the matter of the decorations available for distin- guished service. In fact, it is better off than either of the older Services since the precedent has been created of instituting two classes of decorations— two for distinguished service in face of the enemy and two for good service performed outside the actual area of hostilities. As in addition to the new decora- tions, officers and men of the Royal Air Force are eligible, in the case "of the commissioned ranks for the award of the V.C. and the D.S.O., and in that of non-commissioned officers and men for that of the V.C., the Force is well off in the number of possible decorations to be gained. As soon as the Royal Air Force was constituted as a separate Service it became practically certain that these new decorations should be instituted, since it was clear—as indeed, we pointed out some weeks ago—that decorations peculiar to the other Services could not be gained by officers and men of the Air Service, and we cannot but congratulate the powers that be for the prompt recommendation to His Majesty that the anomaly—for anomaly it was while it existed —should be removed. The precedent to which we have referred of having separate distinctions for combatant and non-combatant services is an admirable one and will, in the case of the R.A.F., remove not a little occasion for heart-burning and jealousy. It is one that might with advantage be followed in the cases of the older Services. •— '-" The After the bitter comments which fellD.JL^L,, from the whole Press of the countryBirthday , . . _ T J "Honours." on *ne occasion of the New lear issue of an " honours " list, we had thought that the Prime Minister would have suspended at least for the duration of the war the system under which titles and decorations descend in a perfect deluge on the heads of all sorts of people who have, or are supposed to have, rendered Heaven knows what particular " services " to the State. It seems, how- ever, that we were entirely mistaken in harbouring any such views, since column upon column in last Monday's newspapers was filled with the names of people, some well known to the public, but the majority of whom one has never heard of before, who all appear to possess merit in such, outstanding degree that it can only be recognised by the gift of titles and pretty crosses
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