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1920
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Flight, June 3, 1920 AIRCRAFTBNGINEEFL First Aero Weekly in the World Founder and Editor: STANLEY SPOONER A Journal ierottd to the Interests, Practice, an4 Progress of Aeri.l Locomotion u4 Transport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 597 (No. 23, Vol. XII.) JUNE 3, 1920 fWeekly, Price «d.L Post Free, 7d. Flight The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offiets: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C. 2 Telegrams : Truditur, Westcent, London. Telephone : Gerrard 1828 Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free TJaited 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 "* The Need for Research.. Cranwell as a Flying School Wireless and Aircraft The War Museum Air Ministry Announcements Notes on Flying Boat Hulls. By Major Linton Hope Royal Aero Club. Official Notices - The Annual Reception at the N. P. L. International Law Association and Air Rules Rigid Airships and their Development. By J. E. M. Pritchard Correspondence Airisms from the Four Winds Some Points of Importance in the Work of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Book Reviews The Royal Air Force Personals Models Sidewinds PAGE 585 386 586 586 589 590 594 595 596 597 600 601 602 605 606 606 607 608 DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS. Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in the following list : June 22 .. Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture, H.R.H. Prince Albert presiding, at 8.30 p.m., at 1 Central Hall. Westminster. Commander J, C. Hunsaker will read a paper on " Naval Architecture la Aeronautics " July 3 ... Air Tournament at London Aerodrome, Hendon, in Aid of R.A.F. Memorial Fund July 9 to 8.B.A.C. International Aero Exhibition at 20 Olympia July 17 to 31 Seaplane Contests at Antwerp July 24 ... Aerial Derby at Hendon Aug. 3 ... Air Ministry Competition (Large and Small Type Aeroplanes) Aug. 28 & 29 Schneider International Race, Venice Sept. 1 ... Air Ministry Competition (Seaplanes) S«pt. ... International aviation week (with competi- tions) at Brescia, Italy Sept. 27 to Gordon-Bennett Aviation Cup, Franoe Oot. 2 Oct. 23 ... Gordon-Bennett Balloon Race, Indianapolis, U.S.A. EDITORIAL COMMENT HE abstract, published in another part of this issue of FLIGHT, from the paper read by Sir Richard Glazebrook before the Royal Aeronautical Society lasi week, emphasises the need that exists for continuous research work in connection with aircraft development. We have no space in which to traverse the paper in its details, even if that were necessary, and as, moreover, the abstract we give is very full, the interested reader will be able to The Need gataer for himself as much as we could Research possibly tell him. The main point which this paper does drive home is that, although much has been accomplished during the comparatively short time that has elapsed since the problems of dynamic flight were first solved in all their initial crudity, there still remains a vast amount of research and scientific work to be done towards perfecting aerial navigation. It may be an axiom that there is no finality in anything human, but even so it is a fact which is too little appreciated save by those to whose lot it falls to carry out the work of investigation without which there can be no scientific progress. Even those who are concerned with the practical side of aviation have a habit of taking things for granted, and are apt to imagine that the improvements which are made almost from day to day merely happen ; that they do not result from the patient evolution of the finished whole from perhaps the merest germ of an idea. It is only when they are able to follow in cold print such a record of reseafth and scientific applica- tion as that set forth in Sir Richard Glazebrook's paper that they are really able to appreciate what the practical side of the industry owes to the scientist. In so far as concerns the many points touched upon in the paper, there is just one to which we should like to make a passing reference. The author ex- presses the hope that aeronautics will find some place in the curricula of many of our engineering schools. We endorse that hope, and go a step farther by suggesting that it should be included as a part of the studies laid down in all the engineering schools and colleges of the country. That will take time, and it will cost money, but we are convinced that it is worth
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