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Flight, February 19, 1920 S AIRCRAFTENGINEER. AIRSHIPS 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. 582 (No. 8, Vol. XII.) FEBRUARY 19, 1920 fWeekly, Price 6d.L Post Free, 7d. H 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 .. 28s. 2d. Abroad.. .. .. 33s. od.* These rates are subject to any alteration found necessary under abnormal conditions • European subscriptions must be re-nitted in British currency CONTENTS Editorial Comment Civil Air Traffic Returns , Accidents and their Causes The Price of Petrol Civil Aviation The Bristol Mooring Pontoon Aerodromes and Landing Grounds An Air-Cooled Spark Plug The Royal Aero Club : Official Notices The Principles of British Airship Construction. By A. P. Cole More N.P.L. Reports Correspondence The Royal Aeronautical Society Personals.. Ainsms from the Four Winds .. .... Book Reviews Characteristics of Design Affecting Production, Operation and Main- tenance of Airc: aft. By Major P. Bishop The Royal Air Force Models Sidewinds .. .. .. Company Matters PAGE 197 198 198 200 201 202 203 204 205 209 210 211 211 2I» 215 216 22O 222 223 224 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 : Feb. 28 ... Lecture by Mr. Handley Page, C.B.E., at King's College, Strand, at 11 a.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 ... 8.B.A.C. International Aero Exhibition at Olympia July mid.) Seaplane Contests at Antwerp Aug. 1 ... Air Ministry Competition (Seaplanes) Felix- atowe Aug. (end of) Schneider International Race, Venice. Sept. 1 ... Air Ministry Competition 'Large Type Aero- plants), Martlesham Heath Sept. (end of) Gordon Bennett Aviation Cup, France. Air TrafficReturns EDITORIAL COMMENT HE Air Ministry and the few firms actively engaged in civil aviation enterprises are to be congratulated on the issue of a plain statement of the work covered by the period from May 1 to December 31 last. It records not only the actual number of nights accomplished, but the number of hours flown and the approximate mileage covered. It also gives a return of numbers of passengers carried, weight of goods transported, andCivil casualties suffered by machines and passengers. Only by the periodic issue of such statements as this can the public be brought to a proper realisation of the fact that aviation has even now taken its place as a regular means of transport, and, what is much more important even than that, a safe means of travel as well. A brief analysis of the figures will demonstrate this. We find that in Great Britain and on the Continental routes 403 machines were in use ; 35,330 flights were made, and 8,368 machine hours were flown, the mileage totalling about 593,000. The number of passengers carried was 64,416 and the weight of goods conveyed was 67,143 lbs. That, we submit, is not at all bad for seven months' work at a time when commercial aviation is only just beginning to feel its feet, and when nothing in the way of the State assistance has been forthcoming to which the industry has been induced to look for its initial send-off. Few people will have realised that with the few services in active operation aviation could really have attained to such performances as are set forth by the return, and we cannot help feeling that the record is eminently satisfactory, and must be pleasing to those who have had the pluck to carry on when all the circumstances are taken into account. It should have been far more satisfactory to those who view the development of commercial aviation as vital to the interests of the State, and it would have been had it not been for the quite unsatisfactory attitude of the Executive towards the subject. However, that is a matter to which we have made repeated references, and we can only say now that the report is good so far as it goes. • D 2 / 4 \ .
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