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1920
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Flight, November 4, 1920 CHT AIRCRAFTENGINEER- 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 OLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 619 (No. 45, Vol. XII.) NOVEMBER 4, 1920 r y, Price 6d.Post free, 7d. Flight The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C. 2 Telegrams: Truditur, Wettcent, London. Telephone: Gerrard 1828 Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free : United Kingdom .. 30s. 4<2. Abroad.. .. .. 33s. od.* These rates are subject to any alteration found necessary under abnormal conditions and to increases in postage rates * Europum subscriptions must bt remitted in British currency CONTENTS Editorial Comment PAGE Losing the Lead .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1141 The German Aerodromes .. .. .. .. .. .. 1142 Commercial Airships .. .. .. .. .. .. 114 2 Popularising the Airways .. .. .. .. .. .. 1144 Commercial'Plane Interiors: Bristol Pullman .. .. .. .. 1143 Two-Seater Avro Baby .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1145 Royal Aero Club Official Notices 1148 R.A.F. Campaign in Somaliland .. .. .. .. .. .. 1149 Piston Ring Problems .. ., .. .. .. .. .. 1150 Royal Aeronautical Society Official Notices .. .. .. .. 1151 Aspects of Service Aviation. By Sir H. M. Trenchard 1152 Technical Aspects of Civil and Service Aviation. By Capt. F. S. Barnwell .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1155 Two American SpoTtplanes.. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1156 Some Notes on Aircraft Steels and their Inspection. By Air-Com- modore Bagnall-Wild .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1157 Airisms from the Four Winds .. .. .. .. .. .. II">O Royal Air Force 1160 Models 1161 Legal Intelligence .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1162 DIARY OF FOBTH0OMIHG EVENTS. Club Secrttarus and others desirous of announcing the dates of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in the following list: Lecture, " The Ham an Haohtne in Relation to Flying," by Wing-Commander Flack, at tbe Royal Society of Arts S.M.M.T. Motor Car Exhibition at Olympia and White City Entrance Examination for R.A.F. Cadets Annual Dinner of Royal Aeronautical Society, Connaught Rooms. Right Hon. Lord Weir of Eastwood in the Chair Lecture, " The Problem of the Helicopter," by M. Louis Damblanc, before RAe.S., at the Royal Society of Arts, at 5 p.m. Lectures, " Airship Piloting:," by Major G. H. Scott, C.B.E., AFC, "Airship Mooring," by Flfgfct-Llent. F. L. C. Butcher, before R.Ae.S., at Royal Society of Art! Nov. Nov. Nor. KOT. Nov. Dec. 4 ... 5-13 .. 16 ... 17 ... 18 ... 2 ... T the recent Air Congress Mr. Churchill spoke of Government plans for the encouragement of civil aviation. When a responsible Minister of the Crown speaks as he did we are justified in believing that the Govern- ment he represents has agreed upon a policy, and that it is a question of a very short time before that policy will be given effect. More particularly were we justified in thinking that an early announcement would be made o the jines such a pOiiCy would follow, by reason of the fact that civil aviation and its future have been a matter of discussion ever since the Armistice. Committees have been appointed to consider the ways and means of giving effect to the promises, expressed and implied, which have been made on Government behalf. These Committees have regarded the question from every angle of view. They have reported upon the necessities of the moment, and have made concrete recommendations for making the promised encouragement effective. Yet nothing has been done that matters, and we are still left wondering whether the Government is really serious in its expressed belief in the future of aviation, or whether the promises held out have merely been in the nature of something thrown out to keep people's minds from dwelling too closely upon the probabilities of the future should we irrevocably lose the lead in the air which we held at the end of the War. In a word, our own Government has done just precisely nothing to translate into action the recom- mendations made by its own Committees, or to redeem the promises so lightly made when the case for civil aviation was presented with overwhelming force by those same Committees. The position now is that we are fast losing our premier position in matters affecting civil aerial navigation. The whole incidence of the movement is shifting to France, and unless we move immediately we shall find that the hub of aviation will be Paris and not London. While our own Government has done nothing at all, the French authorities with more appreciation of the possibilities of the
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