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1919 - 0444.PDF
APRIL 1919 " SECRETARY of State for Air " is distinctly an advance in official nomenclature. It is euphonious and compre hensive. IT is good hearing that the Air Force Section of the Imperial War Museum is to really be an enduring record of the work of the R.A.F. during this great War, and the endeavour is, moreover, to gather together such a collection of things aerial as to make this section a veritable museum of progress in the air for 1914-1918. To this end the R.A.F. have estab lished a depot for the reception of war relics and trophies of all sorts at Sports Bank Hall, Sports Bank Street, Catford, S.E. 11, where a large amount of interesting and valuable material has already been collected. The collection includes relics of air combats, models, and a large number of trophies from Zeppelins and notable enemy machines from France, together with portions of equipment used by British officers in escaping from captivity. It is intimated that the president of the Royal Air Force Section will be glad to receive trophies and relics of all kinds, and photographs connected with the R.N.A.S., R.F.C., and R.A.F., at the above address. IN this connection not the least interesting " exhibit " which is likely to be staged at the British Scientific Products Exhibition to be held in July at the Central Hall, West minster, will be the commercial preparation of helium, the non-inflammable gas, which, but for the armistice, was to have played such an inspiring part, when employed for the inflation of our mammoth airships, in bringing home to the Huns what airship bombing really meant, when scientificallv applied. They started this game little thinking what the ultimate consequences to them would be. Helium was surely beyond their dreams as a means of possible retaliation, when, as one scientist has put it, at the commencement of the War one might as well have thought of paving a street with diamonds, as using helium for airship inflation. But necessity has once more proved the mother of invention, and be it recorded for all time that it is to the credit of British chemists that the problem of production in quantity, at a very moderate commercial cost, was solved. FROM America comes the encouraging news that an ambi tious scheme for providing a landing place for aircraft in New York, when the Atlantic flight has become a common affair, was outlined at a meeting at the Aeronautical Exposition by Mr. T. Kennard Thomas, a well-known engineer and aerial expert. The suggestion is that a coffer dam 4 miles long and 1 mile wide should be built on to the battery extending out into the upper bay. This could be used for buildings of a uniform height on the top of which would be a hangar covering the entire area. The building of the wall, erection of the buildings and HOW THE ROLLS-ROYCE ENGINES ARE PLACED IN THE HANDLEY PAGE 'PLANES.—Note the two front engines drive two-bladed tractor screws, whilst the two rear engines drive four-bladed propellers 444
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