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Flight, April 22, 1920tvsss. 7^M/V^^ —f ENGINEER. First Aero Weekly in the World Founder and Editor: STANLEY SPOONER A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progress of Aerial Locomotion aad Transport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 591 (No. 17, Vol. XII.) APRIL 22, 1920 [""Weekly, Price 6dL Post Free, 7d. The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C. 2Telegrams : Truditur, Westcent, London. Telephone : Gerrard 182S 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 The Commercial Prospects of Airships .. .. .. .. 4^5 The Measure of Germany's Defeat 436 Aerial Transport Costs .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 438 Advisory Committee Report.. .. .. "3 •• •• •• 439 The Royal Aero Club : Official Notices .. . • • - • • • • 443 The Aerial Mail to Holland 444 Air Ministry C impetition .. .. .. • • • • • • - • 445 Royal Aeronautical Society Notices .. . • • • • • 4-17 Correspondence .. .. .. • • • • • • • • • • 447 The Aerodynamic Properties of Thick Aerofoils. By F. H. Norton .. 448 Airisms from the Four Winds .. .. .. • • • • • • 452 Airships .. .. .. .. • • • • • • • • • • 455 In Parliament .. .. .. .. -• •• •• •• •• '57 Personals 158 The Royal Air Force * 4 59 Models" 46o Sidewinds bl 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 : Seaplane Competition at MonacoApril 18 toMay 2 April 21 to 28 April 28... May 1 ... May 20 to 30 May 22 and 23 May 23 to 30 June 22 Pacific Aeronautical Exhibition at San Francisco. Lecture on " Aerial Transport from the Busi- ness Point of View." By General Sir Sefton Brancker, Royal Society of Arts, 8 p.m. Arts, John Street, Adelphi, at 4.30 p.m. Opening date for Daily Express £10,000 prize competition for flight to India and back. Pan-American Aeronautic Congress at Atlantic City. Aviation Competition at Juvisy in connection with Fetes de Paris Seaplane Contests at Barcelona. Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture, H.R.H. Prince Albert presiding, at 8 p.m., at Central Hall, Westminster. Commander J. C. •V. : . ' Hunsaker will read a paper on " Naval Architecture in Aeronautics." July 9 to 8.B.A.C. International Aero Exhibition at 20 Olympia July (mid.) Seaplane Contests at Antwerp July 24 ... Aerial Derby. Aug. 3 ... Air Ministry Competition (Large and Small Type Aeroplanes) Aug. (end of) Schneider International Race, Venice. Sept. 1 Sept. Sept. 27 to Oot 3 Oct. 22 ... Air Ministry Competition (Seaplanes) International aviation week (with competi- tions) at Brescia, Italy Gordon-Bennett Aviation Cup, France Gordon-Bennett Balloon Race, Indianapolis, U.S.A. COMMENT [HE paper on " Commercial Airships " read on Wednesday before the Royal Society of Arts, by Air Commodore Maitland, calls attention to the great developments which have taken place in the construction of rigid air- ships in England since the beginning of the War and to their possibilities for profitable commercial use. The paper, the first part of which is reproduced in this issue of FLIGHT, is of the greatest interest, not only to The those who are in touch with the progress Commercial w^ich has been made in this branch of Prospects aircraft design anci who are thus con- Airships versant with what has been achieved, but to all who are interested in the great question of the improvement in the world's communications. The author is quite right when he says that life is measured in terms of time rather than of distance, and that the matter of inter-, communication between the countries of the earth is not to be measured in actual mileage, but in the time actually required to traverse the intervening space. This is tantamount to saying that every improvement in transport which leads to the saving of journey time is the equivalent of adding the amount of the saving to the individual useful lives of those who travel by the improved transport. This is a point of view which is too seldom appreciated by those who regard the modern desire for speedier
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