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Flight, September 2, 1920 BNGINEEFL ^^^.^yf^^^i'J^--- First Aero Weekly in the World ]^:.':^^-'':-^-'^'':'-'\:-- Founder and Editor: STANLEY SPOONER ~ ~~ A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progress ot Aerial Locomotion and Transport "'* OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYA1. AERO OLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 610 (No. 36, Vol. XII.) SEPTEMBER 2, 1920 ["Weekly, Price 6d.L P fr M Flight The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C. 2 •*--•. Telegrams: Truditur, Westcentj 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 ^s_;-._;.-:;,-•,;; CONTENTS' ; . '. - Editorial Comment " PACK The Great Petrol Ramp .. .. .. .. .... 943 Good Propaganda .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 944 R.N.A;S. and R.N. A.CD. Memorial Fund 944 " Lloyd's Registry of Aviation .. .. .. .. .. .. 944 International Air Races.. .. .. .. .. .. .. 946 The Air Ministry Amphibian Competition 047 The Approach of Two Classic Races 051 H.M. Airship " R.Bo " 953 Airisms front the Four Winds ' .. .. .. 959 Aeroplane Performances as Influenced by the Use of a Supercharged Engine : by George de Bothezat 96T Correspondence .. 963 The Royal Air Force .: 964 Models .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 963 Sidewinds .. . 966 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: Aug. 3 ... Air ministry Competition (Large and Small Type Aeroplanes) Sept. 1 ... Air Ministry competition (Seaplanes) Sept. ... International aviation week (with competi- tions 1 at Brescia, Italy Federation Ae~ronautique Internationale Con- ference, Geneva ' Schneider International Race, Venice Gordon-Bennett Aviation Cnp, France Sept. 8, 9 and 10 Sept. 18-19 Sept. 27 to Oot. 2 Oct. 1, 2,3. Oot. 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, IndJanappUa, 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 TheGreat PetrolRamp "ITH amazing effrontery the great petrol - selling companies have suddenly sprung on the community an unexampled in- crease in the cost of petrol. Aviation spirit has -been in- creased by no less than eight- pence per gallon. Even at that it gets off comparatively lightly, since "No. i " spirit has been advanced by the unparalleled amount of elevenpence a gallon. That is to say, the latter spirit now costs 4s. i\d. a gallon, and aviation petrol 4s. gid. per gallon. The very thin excuse given for these simply appalling increases is the rise in railway and freight rates. This entirely fails to carry conviction to the ordinary person, who is scarcely to be blamed if he regards the affair as another example of the uncontrolled rapacity of the oil trusts. - It is another object-lesson in the fact that the price of petrol is " what it will fetch." When the Finance Bill was before Parliament recently and the clauses relating to the new motor taxes were being debated, not the least telling argu- ment employed by the Minister of Transport was to the effect that he had received an assurance that when the new taxes became operative the petrol companies would take yd. per gallon off the price of fuel. The cool audacity "of the thing is demonstrated by the fact that in the case of second-grade spirit— which will be the more largely used—the increase is precisely yd. per gallon. That exact amount has been put on four months in advance, to be taken off —perhaps—in January next ! Unfortunately, we are completely in the hands of the monopolists, and whether we like it or not we shall have to pay what they ask or do without. It is that which irks even more than the actual imposition. What the effect will be on the development of commercial flying it is too soon to speculate. It must in the very nature of things be very adverse. Coming, as it does, just when flying was beginning to make headway and to obtain recognition as a means of transport, the wicked rise in the price of essential fuel is a blow which will need all the courage and all
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