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Flight, April 29, 1920 AIRCRslFTBNGINEEFL - 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. 592 (No. 18, Vol. XII.) APRIL 29, 1920 ["Weekly, Price 6d.L Post Free, 7d. ••*'• The Aircraft Engineer and, Airships Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAV, W.C. z 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 remitted in British currency CONTENTS Editorial Comment * PAGE How to Mislead 463 The Air Ministry Prizes 464 PAGE " A Year's Commercial Flying " .. .. .. •. . • 464 The Post Office and Air Mails .. « 466 The R.A.F. Memorial Fund 466 Grand Prix de Monaco .. .. .. •. • • • • • • 467 The Handley Page Aircraft Deal -. .. 471 Correspondence .. .. .. • - • • • • • • • • 473 The Commercial Future of Airships 474 Airisms from the Four Winds .. ... .. .. • • • • 478 Royal Aeronautical Society Notices .. .. .. .. .. 479 The Aerodynamic Properties of Thick Aerofoils. By F. H. Norton .. 480 The Royal Air Force .. .. 484 In Parliament 484 Models 485 Sidewinds .. .. . • • • ..... .. .. .. 486 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 toMay 1 April 28... May 1 ... May 20 to 30 May 22 and 23 Pacific Aeronautical Exhibition at SanFrancisco. Lecture on " Aerial Transport from the Busi-ness Point of View." By General Sir Sefton Branoker, Royal Society of Arts, 8 p.m.Arts, John Street, Adelphi, at 4.30 p.m. Opening date for Daily Express £10,060prize competition for flight to India and back. Fan-American Aeronautic Congress at AtlanticCity. Aviation Competition at Juvisy in connectionwith Fetes de Paris May 23 to 30 Seaplane Contests at Barcelona. June 22 ... Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture, H.R.H.Prince Albert presiding, at 8 p.m., at Central Hall, Westminster. Commander J. C. Hunsaker will read a paper on " Naval Architecture in Aeronautics."July 9 to S.B.A.C. International Aero Exhibition at 20 OlympiaJuly (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. Sept. Sept. 27 toOct. 3 Oct. 22 ... Air Ministry Competition (Seaplanes) International aviation week (with competi- tions) at Brescia, Italy Gordon-Bennett Aviation Cup, France Gordon-Bennett U.S.A. Balloon Race, Indianapolis, EDITORIAL COMMENT How toMislead E are by no means satisfied that all is going well with British aerial enterprise, or that the measure of encouragement held out by the State is what it might and should be. At the same time, we do not think any good end is to be gained by the quoting of single-day statistics tending to show that we are •hopelessly behind and that others have a monopoly of all that is being done. We are sorry, therefore, *% to note that so whole-hearted a sup- porter of aerial enterprise as Mr. Holt Thomas has allowed himself to fall into this error. In a recent issue of the Daily Mail he wrote that the Air Ministry notices of the 14th inst. contained the names of two French and only one British machine as having left Croydon for Paris • on that day. This was promptly challenged by Messrs. Handley Page, who suggested next day that it - is not fair to base a judgment on one day's departures and that it would be better to take the figures of a whole week. They point out that if this were done it would show a considerable preponderance of British machines. It is also pointed out that on a recent day five British and one French commercial aeroplanes,,operating in conjunction with the Handley Page Transport Co., left London for the Continent. It is quite true that statistics can be made to prove anything, and here we have an example of the way . ,?; •;; ^z?t~. • c 2 - •
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