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JlFNE 5, 1919 RESETTLEMENT V. THERE are many officers and men of the R.A.F., who are demobilised or are about to be demobilised. In order to assist those who are undecided or are seeking advice as to their prospects in civil life, the Editor has arranged for an expert, with wide experience of service, industrial and educational conditions, to give advice to those who may solicit it through the medium of this Journal. Applications, which must be in writing, should be marked Resettlement, and addressed to the Editor, FLIGHT, 36, Great Queen Street, Kingsway, W.C. 2. They will be dealt with in these columns, as far as possible, in rotation. AMBITIOUS, R.N.A.S.—There are two main types of em ployment in civilian aviation :—(1) Technical; (2) Piloting. For (1) considerable practical and theoretical training is required such as a diploma or degree in mechanical en gineering at some recognised college or university, and some practical workshop experience. For (2) a certain amount of technical training is required in addition to flying ex perience. It is fairly clear that as comparatively few personnel will be required in the immediate future for commercial avia tion only those possessing the highest qualifications will, in the ordinary course of events, succeed in obtaining employ ment in civilian aviation. We think that unless you are prepared to take a course of mechanical or aeronautical engineering of at least two years duration you will be best advised to seek employment based on your pre-War training. H.S.W.S., EX-OFFICER, R.A.F.—There are certainly as good prospects for draughtsmen in aeronautical engineering as in any other branch of engineering. With regard to a better position later on, this will depend on the efforts you make to acquire the necessary experience for design. In aeronautical engineering (design) a sound knowledge of mathematics is essential in order to study the results of research and to apply the knowledge gained to practice. We regret you are not satisfied with your present position, but in view of the present labour market you should be very cautious. H H H H •Wireless Developments SPEAKING at a luncheon at the Aldwych Club the other day, Mr. Godfrey Isaacs said that, in dealing with the air, he would speak only of the things which had been achieved. Aeroplanes and airships would play a very great part in the future both in respect of travel and also of communication. Mr. Handley-Page had said to him the other day that he thought he was going to compete with wireless in communica tion. He would not be able to do that until he could travel 12,000 miles without a stop in something less than a second. Whether they competed or not it was the intention of wireless telegraphy to help the aeroplane and the airship. There was a simple means of communicating by wireless with aeroplanes and airships, and there was no doubt that the distance over which they would be able to communicate would increase considerably ; in fact, it was increasing daily. The assistance which wireless could give to the aviator was great. It could provide him with the latest development of wireless direction. The wireless direction-finder would enable the pilot to ascertain approximately where he was at any time. A further development had given them a new transmitter, which would project into the air a wide divergent beam, something like a searchlight without the light, which would extend over any area required, or, if it was desired, a con centrated beam over some small place, and these beams would convey to the men in the sky automatically the name of the place they were passing over. Assuming that a man was passing over the town of Guild ford ; from the moment he traversed the region over which this beam was playing, he would receive the signal, " This is Guildford," and would continue to receive that signal so long as he was over Guildford and no longer. In just the same way, if he was passing over Windsor Forest he would be told : " This is Windsor Forest," and when he came to his aerodrome, a beam would tell him " This is Hendon Aerodrome." In that way he thought that one of the greatest dangers to pilots in fog and in darkness was disposed of. It required very little imagination to see, a little while hence, some thousands or tens of thousands of names being projected into the skies, so that in whatever part of the world an aeroplane might travel it would be told continuously and automatically where it was. It would be as easy to learn in the skies where they were as in a railway train when they looked out of the window to see the name of a station. Similarly these beams could be equipped to lightships or to buoys in fixed and defined positions so that even when passing over the sea one would know exactly where one was. When that position of things had developed, pilots wo^ild no longer loSte themselves, wherever they might be. NEW COMPANIES REGISTERED AIRCRAFT TUBES AND PRESSINGS, LTD.—Capital £15,000, in £1 shares.—Directors : W. W. Hughes, G. V. Stringer, A. MUlward, and W. E. Warden. Solicitors, Jeffery Par, Hasell and Parr, 20, Temple Row, Birm ingham. AUTOMOBILE AND AIRCRAFT INSURANCE CO., LTD., General Buildings, Aldwych, W.C. 1.—Capital £100,000, in £1 shares. The pro moters are the General Accident, Fire and Life Assurance Corporation, Ltd. First directors : Rt. Hon. Lord Morris, P.C., K.C.M.G., F. Norrie-Miller, J.P., F.E.I.S., Sir John Taverner, K.C.M.G., Col. S. Wishant, J. R. Yates, and P. F. Brittain. GENERAL MOTOR TRANSPORT AND AGENCY CO., LTD., 107, Regent Street, W.—Capital £10,500, in 10,000 preference shares of £1 each and 10,000 ordinary Shares of is. each. Manufacturers and dealers in tractors, aeroplanes, etc. First directors : B. L. Teeling, J. J. Murphy, and H. E. H. Tiipp. SHORT BROTHERS (ROCHESTER AND BEDFORD), LTD., 29-30, Charing Cross, S.W.—Capital £150,000, in £1 shares. Acquiring business of aeronautical engineers carried on by Short Brothers at Rochester, at Card- ington, Beds., at Battersea, S.W., and at 29-30, Charing Cross, S.W. First Directors : H. O. Short, A. I. M. Duncan, and E. B. Parker. Aeronautical Specifications Published Abbreviations:—cyl.=cylinder; I.C.=intemal combustion; m.=motors. APPLIED FOR IN 1916 The numbers in brackets are those under which the Specifications will be printed and abridged, etc. Published May 29, 1919 15,502. R. A BRUCE. Devices for attaching seaplanes, etc., to floats. (126,029.) 15,619. SOFWJTH AVIATION Co. and T. SOFWITH. Tail planes. (126,031.) 16,073. A. V. ROE. Strut socket. (126,040.) 16,860. Soc. LORRAINE DES ANC. ETAB. DE DIETRICH ET CIE. Carburet tors in aviation motors. (126,063.) 16.924. J. A. PETERS. Tail planes. (126,065. 16.925. J. A. PETERS. Anchoring of struts. (126,066.) 16,968. W. J. BROWN and H. SHAW. Hollow section propeller. (126,068 ) 17,091 T. SLOPER. Aeroplane wheel bearings. (126,072.) 17,440. J. J. MAYROW. Aircraft wings and aerofoils. (126,085.) 17,623. Soc. ANON, DES ETAB. HUTCHINSON. Means for maintaining staunchness of petrol tanks when pierced by bullets. (126,087.1 APPLIED FOR IN 1918 The numbers in brackets are those under which the Specifications will be printed and abridged, etc. Published May 29, 1919 5,800. J. J. MORCH. Aircraft propellers. (126,105.) 7,779. P. G. L. JEZZI. Screw propelllers for aircraft. (126,153.) If you require anything pertaining to aviation, study " FLIGHT'S " Buyers' Guide and Trade Directory, which appears in our advertisement pages each week (see pages 11, lii, liii and liv) NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. IN order that " FLIGHT " may continue to be pub lished at the usual time, it is now necessary to close for Press earlier. All Advertisement Copy and Blocks must be delivered at the Offices of " FLIGHT," 36, Great Queen Street, Kingsway, W.C. 2, not later than 12 o'clock on Saturday in each week for the following week's issue. FLIGHT and The Aircraft Engineer 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C. 2. Telegraphic address : Truditur, Westcent. London. Telephone : Gerrard 1828. SUBSCRIPTION RATES FLIGHT " will be forwarded, post free, at the following rates UNITED KINGDOM. 3 Months, Post Free 6 12 s. 7 M 28 ABROAD. 3 Months, Post Free M s. 8 16 33 These rates are subject to any alteration found necessary under war conditions. 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