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1920
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Flight, January 29, 1920 BNGINEEFL First Aero Weekly in the World Founder and Editor: STANLEY SPOONER A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 579 (No. 5, Vol. XII.) JANUARY 29, 1920 TWeekly, Price 6d.|_ Post Free, 7d. The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offie*: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C. 2' Telegrams : Truditur, Westcent, London. Telephone : Gerrard 1828. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free: United Kingdom .. 28s. zd. Abroad 33s. od* These rates are subject to any alteration found necessary under abnormal conditions • European subscriptions must be remitted in British currency CONTENTS Editorial Comment , PAGE Summer Time Already ! •• •. .. .. .. .. .. 117 The Future of the Air Force n8 Air Routes for Trade 118 The Bearing on Defence .. . . .. ,, ,, ,, .. 120 The Value of Long-distance Flights . 120 •' The Paris Mail " IIg The Paris Aero Show I2i Aerial Lighthouses .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. iz^ Royal Aero Club : Official Notices . ..125 Two New Fiat Aero Engines .. \ . .. .. .. ., ,, I2g Correspondence .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ., . I2y Aircraft Undercarriages. By J. D. North I28 The Principles of Rigid Airship Construction. By A. P. Cole .. .. 132 Airisms from the Four Winds .. .. I34 The Royal Air Force 137 Model Aeroplanes .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..138 Sidewinds.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. i3g Legal Intelligence I40 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 following list : Feb. 2 ... Meeting of Royal Geographical Society at Central Hall, Westminster, at 8.30 p.m. Feb. 2 ... Lecture by Capt. H. Hamshaw Thomas, M.B.E., HLA., F.R.S., before Royal Society of Arts, John Street, Adelphi, at 8 p.m. Seaplane Competition at MonacoApril 18 to May 2 May 22 and 23 June 1 ... Aviation Competition at Juvisy in connection with Fetes de Paris Air Ministry Competition (Small Type Aero- planes), Martlesham Heath July ... S.B.A.C. International Aero Exhibition at Olympia Jujy (mid.) Seaplane Contests at Antwerp Aug. 1 ... Air Ministry Competition (Seaplanes) Felix- stowe Aug. (end of) Schneider International Race, Venice. Sept. i ... Air Ministry Competition (Large Type Aero- planes), Martlesham Heath Sept. (end of) Gordon-Bennett Aviation Cup, France. JHE Air Ministry has issued a Notice to Airmen, in which it is announced that summer time in France and Algeria will be introduced at midnight, January 31-February 1, and will continue until midnight, October 23. It is to be hoped that better counsels will prevail here, and that the absurd attempt to vary our lives, which is what " summer time " amounts to, will not be persisted in. As a war measure it served its purpose, butaiter a fairl y lengtny experience of the Already! arrangement, we think the conclusion has been reached by most people that it is a useless business at the best. After all, Nature knows what is best for the world. We were never intended to be semi-nocturnal animals, nor would the habit fit in with natural conditions. Take, for example, the farmer. Setting the clock forward by an hour is of no use to him. His hands turn out at the routine clock time to find the morning mists still lying heavily over the land and the latter full of surface moisture, which forbids work until the warmth of the sun has dried it off. There is an hour wasted at the beginning of the day, which is not overtaken, because work ceases again at the routine hour. The town worker is not a great deal better off. In spite of what the clock says, he feels when he turns out in the morning that there is some slackening influence at work. What it is he scarcely realises, but it is really that Nature is not properly awake, and he is out too early for health. We are absolutely confident that " summer time " has an adverse effect on the health of the community. It takes the hour off the wrong end of the day, since it gets us up too early in the morning and sends us to bed too early at night. It is true the cricketer and the golfer can persuade themselves that it enables them to play their games apparently well into the night, but that is of very doubtful benefit,-and on the whole, we think the idea is a futility. Probably there are many who will disagree with us, but we imagine that if the sense of the community as a whole were taken, it would be found that there is a substantial majority against the perpetuation of an exploded idea. Besides, it was introduced purely as a war measure, and now that the War is a thing of the past, we want to get rid of all
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