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Flight, December 11, 1919 First Aero Weekly in the World Founder and Editor: STANLEY SPOONER A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progress of Aarial Locomotion and Transport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. S72 (No. 50, Vol. XI.) DECEMBER II, 1919 rWeekly. Price M L Poet Free, 7d. Flight EDITORIAL COMMENT The Aircraft Engineer tmd Airships tiiurial Office: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C. *. Telegrams: Truditur, Westcent, London. Telephone : Gerrard 1828. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free : United Kingdom tts. 2d. Abroad.. .. - 33*. od.* Then rates are subject to any alteration found neceesary under abnormal conditions *BMT9p4*n subscriptions must be remitted in British currener CONTENTS Editorial Comment The Air Force and Imperial Strategy The Weakness of the Case The Douglas-Pennant Enquiry Flight—and the Men : H. P. Folland, A.F.R.AcS., Chief Engineer and Designer, Nieuport and General Aircraft Co., Ltd. .. The Australian Flight The Blackburn " Milestones " Imperial Air Routes .. The Imber Self-Sealing Petrol Tank Airisms from the Four Winds .. _ Aeroplane Undercarriages. By J. D. North .. The Royal Air Force „ In Parliament Models .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Side-Winds .. Imports and Exports.. PAGE '575 1576 '576 1577 1580 1581 158S 1591 1593 1596 1600 1601 1602 1604 r6o4 , DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS. Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the date of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in Ike following list: Paris Aero Show. Dec. 19 to... Jan. 4,1920. 1920 April 18 to May 2 June 1 ... July, 1920 Aug. 1 ... Sept. 1 ... Seaplane Competition at Monaco Air Ministry Competition (Small Type Aero planes), Martlesham Heath S.B.A.C. International Aero Exhibition at Olympia Air Ministry Competition (Seaplanes) Felix stowe Air Ministry Competition (Large Type Aero planes), Martlesham Heath NOTICE. — Owing to Christmas Day and Boxing Day falling on Thursday and Friday, it is necessary that all copy, Editorial and Advertisement, for the issue of December 25 should reach FLIGHT Offices not later than the morning of December 19. The Air Force and Imperial Strategy SENERAL SEELY'S letter to The Times, upon which we commented last week, has been productive of several other letters to the same journal, all setting forth different points of view of the relation of air power to sea and land power. General Guy Dawnay writes a very closely-reasoned com munication, in which he seems to advocate a return to the old system of two separate Air Services, attached respectively to the Navy and the Army. Nor does he do this in the usual dogmatic manner of the crusted old Service officer who, as a rule, seems to argue from the point of view that what existed in the time of the Crimean War must of necessity be good now, and that the customs and organisation of the Services should be as unalterable as the laws of the Medes and Persians. On the contrary, he presents the case as he sees it, and were it not for the obvious failure to see quite far enough, he would be almost convincing. He lays it down that in considering the question there are two vital points to be taken into considera tion : the absolute necessity for co-ordination and a common doctrine in essentials ; and the equally vital necessity for providing the Navy and Army with efficient organs of their own. On the first point, he proceeds, three things at least may be said. Only by the fullest possible co-ordination will it be possible to fit the Air Force into its proper place in the military (which includes the naval and aerial) machine. Further, to each arm its own tactics ; but it is a main essential that air forces working with the Navy or Army should be thoroughly familiar with, should have most detailed knowledge and understanding of, military and naval tactics re spectively. Moreover, as strategy is all one, there must be no risk of an independent Air Service devising divergent or unrelated theories in the region of strategy, or even in the borderland of " grand tactics." These desiderata cannot be ensured without either a combined Ministry of Defence or a Joint General Staff; nor without a most comprehensive scheme of attachment of Air Force personnel for thorough training with the older Services. We agree with all of this, but it is here we think, D
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