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Flight, November 20, 1919 EMM I m m I m *^ s AIRCRAFT ^==3 W g^ (" BNGINEEFL ^Wf ^^Am§HIPS^ First Aero Weekly in the World Founder «nd 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. 569 (No. 47, Vol. XI.) NOVEMBER 20, 1919 roskljr. Price M. Post Pros, 7d. Th* Aircraft Engineer and Airships ESttrial Office: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.«. Telegrams: Truditur, Westcent, London. Telephone : Gerrard 1838. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free : United Kingdom .. 18s. id. Abroad 33s. od.* These rates are subject to any alteration found necessary under abnormal conditions •European subscriptions must be remitted m British currency. CONTENTS Editorial Comment PAGE Six Months of Civil Aviation 1491 The Safety of Flying ., .. .. .. .. .. .. .. I4g2 General Seely's Resignation .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1492 Aerial Signposts 1494 Flight—and the Men : Lieut.-Col. Alec Ogilvie 1493 The Voisin Experimental Bombing Triplane .. 1496 The Possibilities of Flying High. By Marco Polo 1498 Honours .. 1501 Airships. By J. C. Hunsaker 1502 Airships for the Navy. By Rafex .. ,. .. .. .. .. 1504 High Art in Photography .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1505 Civil Aviation .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1506 Preliminary Report on Resistance due to Nose Radiator .. .. .. 1509 Airisms from the Four Winds .. _ .. 1511 Royal Air Services 1514 In Parliament.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1515 Personals .. .. . J5I6 Side-Winds 1518 DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS. Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the date of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in the jollowing list: Entrance Examination for R.A.F. College. " The Air Force." Lecture by Air-Commodore H. R. Brooke-Popham before R.U.S.I. Paris Aero Show. S.B.A.C. International Aero Exhibition at Olympia Air Ministry Competition (Small Type Aero planes) Air Ministry Competition (Seaplanes) Air Ministry Competition (Large Type Aero planes) Nov. Dec. 3 Dec 19 to . Jan 4,1920. July, 1920 1920 Mar. 1 ... Aug. Sept. HE Memorandum issued by Maj.-Genl. Sykes, Controller - General of Civil Aviation, which is published in full in 1 another part of this issue of FLIGHT, in whichlfhe reviews the work of his department since May i last, when civil flying began, 'until the end of October, is a most inter esting document. It indicates that civil flying has in the meantime made real and substantial progress, and also that, within the limits of the Six Months organisation of which Gen. Sykes is the cf'il head, considerable encouragement is Aviation being given to the development of the movement. There is no attempt made in the Memorandum to forecast the future of civil avia tion, though Gen. Sykes does express the belief that it possesses great potentialities, and that, given the requisite degrees of safety, reliability, comfort and economy, it must play an increasingly important part in the development of civilisation. All this is quite easy to predicate, but the question is of how best civil aviation is to be kept alive during the period of growth. Gen. Sykes considers that it is essential that it should be kept going, and doubts at the same time whether the new industry is yet able to stand on its own feet. For our own part we have no doubts at all in the matter, nor have we hesitated to express our views that it most certainly cannot stand alone during the transition period. Gen. Sykes admits, as he would be the first to do, that when civilian aviation has developed it will be the main reserve of strength from which the R.A.F. will draw in times of stress. Obviously, without a healthy development of the civil side of flying this reserve of strength will be denied to the scheme of aerial defence, and we shall be faced by the two alternatives of keeping up a huge and costly fighting air service in times of peace, or of taking risks which would be absolutely criminal. The third and only sane alternative is the introduction immediately of an adequate scheme of encouragement of civil flying in order to ensure such a reserve as we have advocated in the past, and which is conceded as a necessity by Gen. Sykes himself. He suggests three methods of giving the necessary assistance, viz. :— 1. By means of direct Government subsidies, as in France. 2. By a Government grant to approved aerial transport companies for mileage and weight carried. 3. By the provision of certain " key " aerodromes and shed accommodation at home and on the Empire routes ; and the collation and issue of information, including meteorological data, and the provision of communications. As he points out, the problem is how best to tide over the difficult transition period through which we are passing. He thinks—and we agree—that ad hesion to the British principle of independent private enterprise will be right eventually, but if a limited industry is to be maintained, as it must be to meet
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