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Flight, October 9, 1919 First Aero Weekly in the World Founder and Editor: STANLEY SPOONER A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progress of Aerial Locomotion a»d Transport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 563 (No. 41, Vol. XI.) OCTOBER g, 1919 rWeekly. Price 64, L Poet Free, 7d. The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Office: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY W.C. 2. Telegrams : Truditur, Westcent, London. Telephone : Gerrard 1828. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free : United Kingdom .. ihs. id. Abroad 33*. ad.* These rates are subject to any alteration found necessary under abnormal conditions *European subscriptions must be remitted in British currency. CONTENTS » Editorial Comment I-AGE The End of a Catastrophic Strike 1320 Aerial Mails in the Strike .. .. .. .. .. .. 1330 The Freedom of the Press .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1330 A Useful Lead .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 133* The Citizen Guard .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 3332 Flight—and the Men : Cupt. P. D. Acland 1331 The Cato Sporting Monoplane 1334 Radiator Position .. .. .. .. .. 133S The Cato 72 h.p. Aero Engine .. .. .. .. .. .. 134T Prediction of Aeroplane Performance .. .. .. .. .. .. 1343 Heard more Engines .. .. .. .. .. .. • .. 1344 The Oertz Flying Boats 1346 Airisms .. .. .. .. „ .. .. .. .. .. 1350 The Royal Air Force .. .. .. .. .. .- .. .. .. 1353 Side-Winds 1355 DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVEJTTS. Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing tiie date of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in the following' list: Kov. ... Entrance Examination for R.A.F. College. Nov. 7-15... Olympia Motor Car Snow. Dec. 3 ... " The Air Force." Lecture by Air-Commodore H. R. Brooke-Popham before R.U.S.I. Dec. 19to... Paris Aero Show. Jan. 4,1920. EDITORIAL COMMENT |HE week-end saw the railwaymen's strike settled, thanks to the mediation of the leaders of the transport unions and to the spirit of reasonableness displayed at the eleventh hour by the Executive of the National Union of Railwaymen, whose precipitate hot- headedness plunged the railway ser vices of the country into a state of anarchy. The terms of the settlement were such as the Government had offered before the strike, with the The End single concession that wages adjustment Catastrophic5^1 no* ta^e e^ect downwards until Strike September 30, 1920, instead of on March 31 next. Even then no such adjust ment can take place until the cost of living has fallen to no per cent, above that of 1914. No sane person lpoks forward with very much optimism to any such fall in the cost of living, so what the railwaymen have gained by their action is precisely nothing at all. Under the terms of the original Government declara tion, wages were not to be reduced until costs had fallen as stated, and if we agree that they are not likely to drop much within the next twelve months, we see that all the strife, all the dislocation of trade, with its consequent loss to the community, could have been avoided if the men's leaders had not been out to seek trouble. However, the thing is settled now, and there can be no use in bandying recriminations. Among the lessons that have been taught by the strike and which we devoutly trust the nation will lay to heart is that of the power of road and aerial trans port to bridge the gap caused by the total cessation of the railway services. The nation has been fed and supplied by motor transport running on the roads. The mails have been delivered and urgent passenger services conducted by aeroplane. Inconvenience and loss there has been undoubtedly, but the basic fact stands out that the nation has not been starved into submission. Instead, food has never been more plentiful since the Armistice, and eyes have been opened to the superiority of motor transport for many essential services. So much so is this the case that in many directions traffic which has hitherto been borne by the railways will in future be carried entirely by road. All that has been achieved has been done, be it remarked, with an organisation got together almost at a moment's notice and with fleets of vehicles gathered from all corners of the country. Of per manent organisation there was nothing at all. Yet we have seen how well and smoothly everything has worked. All this will be lost, however, if the country is allowed to forget the debt it owes to the motor vehicle and the aeroplane. Beyond a doubt the real future of transport lies along the roads and in the air. We are not going to be so rash as to prophesy that the day of the railway is drawing to an end. Still, the railway has been our principal means of transport for a hundred years, and it would be strange if it were to remain so for all time—that would predicate a state of transport finality which we decline to believe has been reached. What we have to make sure of in the future is that the transport
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