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FEBRUARY 26, 1920 while devoting the majority of their time to other duties. They then pro- (e) Provision may also have to be made in future for the development of vided the necessary co-ordinating factor. This is no longer possible, and the teaching and research elsewhere as well as at the Imperial College. (See- function could best be discharged by the staff of the school working under Section 1 (c) of the Report.) their Director with a view to co-ordinating and making available all the (/) The fees of the non-official members of the Aeronautical Research Com- knowledge in each branch of the work as existing at the moment. mittee must also be allowed for, but this will be a minor item. For these reasons it is essential that the permanent staff of the Central Recommendations School should be adequate both in numbers and in range of experience to the necommenoanons duties outlined above "ur recommendations are as follows :— 53. It has been arranged that the Zaharoff Professor of Aviation should \.** Aeronautical Research Committee should be constituted in con- be Director of the School of Aeronautics in the Imperial College. We con- nectton with the Air Ministry. sider that he ought to have an important voice in the direction of research, »• Encouragement should be given to the establishment of an Industrial not only in the College but at the Central Research Establishment and else- Research Association for the aeronautical industry. where. He would naturally be a member of the Aeronautical Research III. The Aeronautical Research Committee should include representa- Committee, and in this way be brought into intimate contact with the investi- °,nvo!r. „ , . .,, , ,., , . .... gations in all the stations. The work would occupy his full time. These W Ti*e Department or departments responsible for (i) naval and military considerations will no doubt be borne in mind by the body responsible for aeronautics, (11) the regulation of civil aerial transport; (6) the Department making the appointment scientific and Industrial Research, including direct representation of the It will also bfnecessary to have a full-time Professor of Aerodynamics at National Physical Laboratory ; (c) the aircraft industry ; (d) the Imperial a salary say of £1 000 College ; as well as (e) other members of scientific attainments. 54- The engineering questions relating to airships and kite-balloons are of The Chairman of the Committee should be a scientist of eminence, and in such importance and so distinct as to require the full time of a senior officer, * position independent of the Government departments represented on the who would devote himself to teaching and research, and whose duty it would Committee. also be to ensure that special problems relating to these subjects were ade- 1V- » ^0(m^ be jhe duty of the Aeronautical Research Committee to quately dealt with in the rourses of instruction on aircraft engines and strength devote itself to the advance of aeronautical science, and, with this object, m of materials. For this purpose we recommend the appointment of a Professor particular . .., . . , . , ,, , x- , .. of Airship Construction (*' J° advlse on scientific and technical problems relating to the con- 55. The subject of meteorology, including with it training in naviga- struction and navigation of aircraft; (2) to undertake or supervise such re- tion and the use of instruments employed in flight, is one of great ^cil 0I experimental work as is proposed to the Committee by the Air importance. The position, however, of the teacher of this subject must tMmIstr7'• an,4 to initiate any research work which the Committee considers depend on the action taken with regard to research and inquiry into meteoro- o b? advi^bJf ' to <*%* out s™h wor,k xtself or to recommend by whom the logical science generally. We have made provision in the estimates for a W?TT . bl>carrle?4 out • <3> to take over complete responsibility for the teacher in meteorological subjects closely connected with aeronautics who Air Inventions Committee^ and for the Accidents Committee ; (4) to promote should combine this work with research at one of the experimental stations. education m aeronautics by co-operating with the Governors of the Imperial His work would be brought into connection with the central meteorological College ; (5) to assist the aeronautical industry of the country by scientific establishment. We would add that quite apart from the other interests advICJ and research, and to co-operate with any research association that concerned we feel it our duty to press for the establishment of a properly m?y ^ established; (6) to prepare for the approval of the Air Council a equipped centre of teaching in this subject, the need for which has been felt s?hetme °f v'0lk4aad.lesl1Faate of expenditure for the year and to administer for some years and is now acute funds placed at its disposal by the Air Council in accordance with Recom- 56. Our estimate of the numbers and cost of the total establishment at me°da"on J1 > (?) to make reports from time to time to the Air Councilpresent required for the Department of Aeronautics at the Imperial College . V- Thf. Committee should replace the present Advisory Committee for is given in Appendix A * Aeronautics, and its non-official members should receive suitable remunera- The dual functions of research and education might perhaps be combined .Si ~ ... - .. _ . . . ,, . ^ 1 ^ „ 1 as shown below • "• ne expenditure of the Committee should form part of the Annual Imperial College. Research Organisation. Vote taken by the Air Ministry, and the arrangements should be such as 1. Professor of Aerodynamics Aerodynamics Research, Central Re- to allow adequate freedom to the Committee within the limits of the total search Establishment sum avallable- 2. Professor or Lecturer on En- Engine Research Laboratory, Central VII. It is not, in our opinion, practicable at present to establish a School gines and Methods of Pro- Research Establishment of Aeronautics at more than one institution providing the specialised training: pulsion required by those who are to direct aeronautical research and the design and 3. Professor or Lecturer on De- Design Branch of Central Research construction of aircraft. For this purpose we recommend that a Depart- sign. Establishment or Designer of some !?ent °* Aeronautics in the Imperial College under the -Directorship of the private firm Zaharoff Professor of Aviation should be established for the provision of4. Professor of Airship Con- Research Officer at a central Airship advanced instruction in aeronautics generally on the lines indicated in struction Station Sections 52 to 56 of our Report. The scheme for the Department should be Clearly, however, the feasibility of such combinations must depend on the framed with full regard to the facilities provided in existing departments of men available, and the above is only put forward as a possible arrangement. the Imperial College, and should be settled m consultation with the Aero- 57. It is obvious that this qualitv of functions can only be maintained on nautical Research Committee. It should be left to the Governing Body of a basis of goodwill and readiness to' co-operate between the Imperial College the ImPenal College and the Aeronautical Research Committee to determine with whom will be vested the appointments in the School of Aeronautics a ™.f £ . mutual co"°?era,t!on.- .,,.,. x ui n, and the Aeronautical Research Committee, but we feel that the details of the J111' Arrangements should be made whereby, as far as possible, the method of establishing full co-operation should be left to the two bodies to officers in charge of the researches at Farnborough and elsewhere should hold determine. positions on the teaching staff of the Department of Aeronautics. Estimated Cost of Educational and Research Organisation APPFNDIX A 58. (a) The main item will be the maintenance of the central research _ . . ._ , ._, ,. „, « fL V, , . , , .• • .i. r * • r establishment at Famborough. This is, we understand, provided for on an Estimated Cost ofTeaching Staffinthe Department of Aeronaiitia; »n the Imperial adequate scale in the estimates of the Research Directorate of the Air Ministry. College, with Cost of Expenses of Laboratory Work. Along with the above should be considered the provision for other work Zaharoff Professor of Aviation (Director of the School of Aero- £ undertaken for the Air Ministry, such as the responsibility for the Air In- nautics) 1,500 ventions Committee and the Accidents Committee. Professor of Aerodynamics .. .. .. .. .. .. 1,000 (6) Provision must continue to be made for the expenditure of the aero- Professor of Airship Construction .. 1,000 nautical department at the National Physical Laboratory. The provision Five Teachers (part time) on Design, Materials, Aircraft Engines, made for 1919-20 was £33,000, and this sum falls on the votes of the Depart- Meteorology and Navigation, and Airships at an average remunera- ment of Scientific and Industrial Research. tion of £400 each .. .. .. .. .. .. • • 2,00c- (c) We estimate that the cost of the Department of Aeronautics at the Four Teachers full time) at an average remuneration of £375 .. i,5°» Imperial College, with salaries on the standards of remuneration which Provision for occasional lecturers .'. .. .. .. •• 500 obtain in existing departments of the College, together with an allowance for wages of mechanics and cost of laboratory experiments, should amount 7,5oo to about £10,000 a year. (See Appendix A.) Towards this sum the income Mechanics' wages .. .. .. .. .. .. .. • • 1,000 of the Zaharoff endowment of £25,000 is all that is at present available. Expenses of Laboratory Work i,5°o (d) Besides the provision to be made at the Imperial College, provision should be made for research otfter than that required specifically for the Air £10,000- Ministry. The responsibility for this lies already with the Department of It should be noted that in respect of meteorology this estimate includes Scientific and Industrial Research, who are making grants to individual only the coat of the special teachiug required in the Aeronautics Department; research workers, amounting during the current academic year to £31,500. it does not cover the cost of establishing a centre for meteorological instruc- (See Section 38 (c) of the Report.) _ tion generally. ffl Sf H El A Height Record The Caproni biplane, piloted by Lieuts. Negrini and Origgi, LIEUT. CASALE on February 17 at Villacoublay beat landed at Adalia on February 18, and subsequently went bis own altitude record for pilot and two passengers of 6,700 m. .on to Smyrna. * made on December 14 last. Flying a Spad-Herbemont The Caproni, piloted by Scavini and Bonalumi, was reported fitted with Hispano-Suiza motor and Lumiere propeller, to have reached Delhi last week. • he got up to a height of 7,300 m. (23,725 ft.) in 46 mins., and Swiss_German Aerial Traffic ' " • . then his barograph ceased to register. SW1AN agreement for reguiating aerial traffic between An Italian-Grecian Aerial Mail Switzerland and Germany has been proposed by the latter. NEGOTIATIONS have been opened between the Italian an(i the Swiss Government is reported to have expressed and Grecian Governments, with a view to establishing an willingness to begin negotiations, aerial mail between the two countries, under the regulations -*„,.* 1 *„„ /-„„.„ of the convention recently agreed upon by Italy and Greece. No £oUce Aeroplanes for Germany . The Italian aerodrome will be at Brindisi and the other .J™ Council of Ambassadors at Pans on February 11 terminus will be at Corfu. .: r . „•., . considered the request of the German and Austrian Govern- _, „ ,_.,.. _ meat* to obtain aeroplanes for pobce duties. The request The Rome-Tokyo Flight refused as contrary to the terms of the Treaties. THE two S.V.A. aeroplanes, piloted by Lieuts. Ferrarin and Masiero, arrived at Salonika from the Centocelle aero- A German Works Destroyed drome, near Rome, after a non-stop flight on February 18. IT was reported last week that the Grade Motor Works, They were reported at Smyrna the next day, and reached Magdeburg, one of the leading German aeroplane factories, Adalia, in Asia Minor, on February 23. had been completely destroyed by fire. . 248 , ;-,^
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