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FEBRUARY 6, 1919 ALL persons, and the useof aeroplanes, of enemy crigm are, by a resolution of the Royal Aero Club, with the appioval of the Daily Mail, the donors, barred from taking part' in the Daily Mail £10,000 prize for a cross-Atlantic flight. MEMBERS of Parliament who have served in the R.A.F. have now an opportunity of banding themselves together for the future welfare of aviation, by joining the Air Service Parliamentary Committee, which has just been formed. Capt. Wedgwood Benn, D.S.O., D.F.C., is the Chairman, and Col. L'Estrange Malone the Secretary. Necessarily, by the conditions of membership, the numbers of this Committee can hardly be unwieldy. AVIATION will, therefore, have two Committees to watch over the doings in the House concerning Air interests, as there is also the Parliamentary Air Committee (of which Mr. joynson-Hicks, M.P., is Chairman) still going strong, as witness its chairman's recent letter in the Press upon the " Development of Flying." MORE " Milestones " in aviation. 1. On January 31 the Air Ministry issued its first public aviation weather report, which as a matter of record we reproduce, the forecast for the next day, February 1, being as follows :— " Low clouds, poor visibility and snow showers are likely to continue to-day over the British Isles. Cross-country flying will be dangerous on these accounts. However, on the west coast of England and in Ireland the conditions may show some change, giving higher clouds and better visibility, render ing conditions more favourable for aviation over these areas. " The surface winds will remain between north and east, and be between 10 and 20 m.p.h. Wind at 2,000 ft. will be between E. and N.E., 15 to 20 m.p.h. over South-East England aad 20 to 25 m.p.h. elsewhere over the British Isles. The upper wind may be a little stronger generally " 2. DECREE was made on January 29 by the Prize Court recognising the rights of the R.A.F. to Prize Bounty upon the same basis as Naval War Bounty, the particular case forming the precedent being the sinking of the German cruiser " Breslau " in a naval fight, in which R.A.F. pilots took part. 3. On January 28, dated from Paris, The Evening Standard headed its Peace Conference article by its special corre spondent. Sir John Foster Fraser, as " By Aeroplane Service." 4. Dated January 29, 1919, from the Town Hall, Great Yar mouth, and signed by Mr. Edgar Stephens, Town Clerk, offers were invited by the county borough of Yarmouth to rent certain parts of the beach for the exclusive right to ply for hire for hydroplanes for pleasure trips. It is quite a businesslike document, as if the sport had been going on for years, and reads as follows :— " The Corporation invite offers, by way of annual rent, payable yearly in advance, for the exclusive right for a term of three years to ply hydroplanes for hire for pleasure trips from such part of the beach at Great Yarmouth as lies to the north of Wellington Pier. Tenderers must give full par ticulars of the number and description of the machines pro posed to be used. The hirer will be granted a site between Euston Road and Britannia Pier, from which he may embark and disembark passengers, and will also be allotted a site 100 ft. long by 100 ft. wide, and situate within one mile from the landing place, for the purpose of erecting thereon at his own expense a hangar, which must be constructed according to plans approved by the Corporation. " The highest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. Further particulars may be obtained at my office. " Tenders endorsed " Beach Hydroplanes " must be received by me before noon on Saturday, February 22, 1919" THE PEACE CONFERENCE AIR SERVICE.—A group of pilots at Hendon who have charge of the despatch - and mail-carrying machines between London and Paris. 181
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