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1920
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Flight, August 26, 1920 ENGINEEFL ...>'•• V •'. First Aero Weekly in the World '•"•.'• t N 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 OLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 609 (NO. 35, Vol. XII.) AUGUST 26, 1920 Flight . The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C. 2 Telegrams: Truditur, Westcent, London. Telephone ; Gerrard 1828 Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free : United Kingdom .. 30s. 4d. Abroad.. 33s. od* These rates are subject to any alteration found necessary under abnormalconditions and to increases in postage rates * European subscriptions must be remitted in British currency CONTENTS Editorial Comment HOI South African Air Policy 921 The G.P.O. and the Air Mail 2 Wireless Telephony and Aviation .. .. .. .. ..922 Discharge !rom the R.A.F 924 Air Ministry Notices 925 H.M. Airship " R.80 " .. .. 926 A Fokker Six-seater Limousine Monoplane .. .. .. .. 931 Duralumin 933 Airisms from the Four Winds 936 '' Flying and Sport in East Africa " 939 The Royal Air Force .. 940 Models .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 941 Sidewinds .. ..%.. .. .. .. .. .. .. 942 DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS. Club Sccretarits and others desirous of announcing the dates of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in the following list: Aug. 3 ... Air Ministry Competition (Large and Small Type Aeroplanes) Sept. 1 ... Air Ministry Competition (Seaplanes) Sept. ... International aviation week (with competi- tions! at Brescia, Italy Federation Aeronautique Internationale Con- ference, Geneva Schneider International Race, Venice Gordon-Bennett Aviation Cup, Franoe Sept. 8, 9 andlO Sept. 18-19 Sept. 27 to Oct. 2 Oct. 1, 2, 3. Oct. 7 ... Oct. 21 ... A.C.F. Meeting at Buc Lecture on " Civil Aviation," by Sir F. H. Sykes Lecture, " A Comparison of the Flying Qualities of Single and Twin - Engined Aeroplanes," by Squadron-Leader R. H. Hill Oct. 23 ... Gordon-Bennett Balloon Race, IndaanapoUs, U.S.A. Oct. or Nov. U.S. National Aeroplane Race (New York to San Francisco) Nov. 1 ... First Open Competition for R.A.F. Boy Mechanics ["Weekly, PriceL Post free, 7d AST week we took occasion to com- ment upon the lack of an air policy which seems to be characteristic of the Government of the Union of South Africa, and upon the fact that this Government accepted from the home authorities some £2,000,000 worth of machines and stores which have been put to no use at all. We are now informed that not only does the Government decline to make South uge of these machines, which were Air Policy °ffered and accepted for the definite purpose of giving a start to aviation in South Africa, but that the Union Government has apparently gone out of its way to hold back development by the imposition of an ad valorem duty of 17 per cent, on all machines and parts im- ported into the Union by private enterprise. By so heavy a mulct on imported British machines business is held up and development prevented. We are given to understand that there are several groups which are anxious to assist in developing commercial aviation in South Africa, but that the import duty and the general lack of interest on the part of the Government act as a direct prohibitive to enterprise. This seems to us to be the more unfortunate in that South Africa is an especially favourable field for the extension of aerial services. Distances are great, and communications, as a general rule, very poor when the trunk railways are left. There is no water communication to speak of, while roads are mostly conspicuous by their absence, and trade has to be carried on over the roughest kind of tracks. It is in such a, country as'this that aviation really has its chance to show what it can do in the development of better communications. Yet, owing to the policy, or want of it, shown by the South African Govern- ment, there seems to be less hope for the new trans- port than in any other of the self-governing Dominions. It is no part of our purpose or desire to indicate to the Union Government how it should conduct itself in the government of the Dominion. Doubtless C
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