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Flight, November 11, 1920 AIRCRAFTBNGINEEFL First Aero Weekly in the World 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 CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM ,No. 620 (No. 46, Vol. XII.) NOVEMBER II, 1920 fWeekly, Price 6<l.|_ Post free, 7d. The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C. 2 Telegrams: Truditur, Westeent, London. Telephone: Gerrard 1828 Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free : United Kingdom .. 30s. 4d. Abroad.. .. .. 33s. od.* Tbese rates are subject to any alteration found necessary under abnormal conditions ant! to increases in postage rates • European subscriptions must be remiiud in British currency CONTENTS Editorial Comment PAGE Newspapers and the Aeroplane .. .. .. .. .. 1163 The Air Navigation Bill .. 1164 Municipal Aerodromes .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1164 Getting Nearer 1164 The Air League of America .. .. .. .. .. .. 1166 Modern Cabin Machines .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1165 Enter Czechoslovakia .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1167 London—Continental Services .. .. .. .. .. .. 1170 R.A.F. Memorial Fund .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1170 Notices to Airmen .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..1171 The Commercial Airship. By Commander Sir Trevor Dawson .. 1173 In Parliament .. . n77 Airisms from the Four Winds 1178 A Study of Aeroplane Ranges and Useful Loads. By. J. G. Coffin .. 1179 The Royal Air Force 1182 Royal Aeronautical Society Official Notices .. 1182 Correspondence .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1182 Models 1183 Company Doings "84 DIABY 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: Nov. 5-13 .. S.M.M.T. Motor Car Exhibition at Olympia and White City Nov. 16 ... Entrance Examination for R.A.F Cadets »ov. 17 ... Annual Dinner of Royal Aeronautical Society, Connaught Rooms. Right Hon. Lord Weir of Eastwood in the Chair Nov. 18 ... Lecture, " Tbe Problem of the Helicopter." by M. Louis Damblanc, before R.Ae.S., at the Royal Society of Arts, at 5 p.m. Dec. 2 ... Lectures, " Airship Biloting,''by Major G H. Scott, CB.E., A.F.C., "Airship Mooring," / by Flight-Lieut. F. L. C. Butcher, ••;; -"Tr,'.-',- before R.Ae.S., at Royal Society of Arts HE assistance which can be rendered by the aeroplane to the newspaper in the rapid transmission of news was once again very aptly illustrated last week in the case of the poison trial at Carmarthen. The Daily Mail, by employing a machine belonging to the Instone lines for the use of its photographers, was able to reproduce pictures relating to the trial which could not have been got by any other means to London in time for tbe Nea^dPth|rS next da-y's issue of the PaPen The Aeroplane machine left Carmarthen with the Mail photographer on boaid almost imme- diately after the last picture had been taken. A dark-room had been fitted up in the aeroplane, and during the 180 miles' flight to Croydon the negatives were developed and prints taken off them, so that when the machine landed at the end of its trip, the pictures were all ready to be sent off to the process block-makers. We could have wished that this enterprise had been shown in relation to something rather less morbid in its interest than the Greenwood trial. We are not, however, so much concerned with the question of taste involved, or whether it is really good journalism to "feature," in the way the Mail and many other papers do, the most sordid and often repulsive incidents and happenings which are dealt with by the criminal courts. That is a matter for the respective editors and their readers to settle between them. What we are very much interested in is the enterprise shown and the rea]ly wonderful results which accrue from it. Carmarthen is by no means an accessible place. The time occupied in covering the 223 miles distance by railway is about six hours by the fastest trains scheduled. Had the Mail relied upon the railway its photographer could not have arrived in London until about 6.30 p.m. on the day the pictures were taken. They would have had to be developed and printed after arriving at the office, blocks made, and got on to the machines in time for printing the first edition. It might have been done, but it is not likely a news editor would have taken the risk of waiting to make up his
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