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•R&AfJ &HE> F&UR. W/Mfdi WHO said the aeroplane could not beat the cable ? Read ! Telegram received 11.25 a.m. on August 12 :— " Handed in at Amsterdam at 2.30 p.m., on August 9. " Cannot get through until Tuesday, arrive Wednesday," etc. Only three clear days ! And there were apologies last week as to an adverse wind being the cause of a seaplane taking 7J hours to fly from Esbjerg to Felixstowe. the Force, His Majesty may well desire to inspect this latest " creation," having regard to the possibility of his having occasionally to don it personally. A SUGGESTION in regard to the R.A.F. Cadet College is made by " an old officer," who fears that the adoption of the plan as set forth can scarcely fail to impair very seriously the future value of the R.A.F. " It would seem obvious," writes an old officer, " that a reasonable amount of "Flight" Copyright. A corner of a batch of machines, chiefly S.E.5's, for disposal at Hendon. These are a varying quantity, the numbers being added to each day, whilst those disposed of balance more or less the new-comers. SMALL wonder the wail has gone forth from the Govern ment : " Bankruptcy stares Great Britain in the face." WAKE up England 1 Wake up Telegraph Authorities ! ! ON Monday last Air Vice-Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard submitted to King George for inspection a new uniform (index number not yet known) for the R.A.F. As Ohief of military knowledge is essential to intelligent observation from the air or otherwise, of military operations. Therefore the airman, in order to be a competent observer, must be a naval or military, not a civilian ' specialist,' and entry to the Air Force Cadet College ought consequently to be from the Navy or Army, or at all events from among the trained cadets of Dartmouth, Woolwich and Sandhurst. Information that enemy troops were seen at a certain place at a certain hour is valuable indeed, but its value will be "Flight" Copyright What it is to be a celebrity, and a sample of what you then have to face! A bunch of the 32 photo- graphers who awaited the ap pearance of Sir A. W. Brown and his bride, Miss Kennedy, after their marriage at the Chapel Royal, Savoy, on July29. >.: -V Si Si Si S>S>&) S S &• & S TO5I
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