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1920
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DECEMBER 2, 1920 were transferred to the Air Ministry, but command remained with the Navy and the Army just as it had been before the change and as it remains now. What did happen was that the ruinous competition, which had been the rule before, ceased, and supplies came forward and were allotted with due regard to the requirements of both Services. However, there is no need to pursue the subject further. There is to be no change in the existing order of things. So much was vouchsafed by Mr. Bonar Law in the House recently, when, in reply to a question by Major Glyn as to whether representations had been made by the Admiralty and the Army Council to the effect that it is advisable to return to the separate Air Services, he stated with emphasis that the answer was " in the negative." • : Air Estimates .: Savings In consequence of the countermanding of orders for experimental machines and the non-allotment of a part of the prize - money allocated to the Air Ministry trials, the Research Department will spend over £100,000 less than the sum provided for in the year's Estimates. As the specific objects for which these sums were allotted have been abandoned, the money remains in the Treasury, and will, in the ordinary way, go to the Sinking Fund. While we recognise to the full the pressing need, which exists for economy in every department of the nation's finance, we cannot help feeling that this money could have been very usefully employed in the encouragement of civil aviation, either by way of mail-carrying contracts or in the subsidising of the industry in one or more of the ways which have been recommended by the Advisory Committee. It is admitted by everybody who has given the subject any serious thought that a flourishing aviation industry is essential to the future safety of the country and the Empire. The Air Service has the great advantage over the other Services of a great capacity for reinforcement from the civil side in times of emergency. Its true line of development lies, as we have so consistently urged, in the creation of a powerful commercial industry which can be called upon almost at a moment's notice to form a vast reserve to the fighting Air Service. That being so, it would be the truest economy to foster such an industry by every reasonable means, and we submit that the spending of such a surplus as this we are discussing comes well inside the definition. , THE LONDON-CONTINENTAL SERVICES FLIGHTS BETWEEN NOVEMBER 21 AND NOVEMBER 27, INCLUSIVE • •• - .' •." RouteJ \:-y • • . Croydon-Paris Paris-Croydon ... Cricklewood-Paris Paris-Cricklewood Croydon-Brussels Brussels-Croydon Gricklewood-Brussels ... Brassels-Cricklewood ... Totals for week No . o f flights * 15 16 76 1 2 3 2 •52 No . o f passenger s 25 31 16 18 2 2 94 No. of nights carrying *n "5 S 5 3 1 1 2 2 2 16 Good s 11 12 6 3 ~i 2 2 2 39 No . o f journey s completed ! 11 13 6 5 1 2 3 1 42 Averag e flyin g tim e h. in. 3 21 2 17 3 6 2 372 55 2 29 2 38 1 45 Fastest time made by Airco 16 G-EALM(2h. 38m.) Airco 4 G-EAVL (ih. 417m.) Airco 9 G-EAUN (2h. 30m.) Airco 4 G-EAVL(2h.2m.)... Airco 9 O-BEAU (2h. 55m.) Airco 9 G-EATA (2h. 28m.) Airco 4 0-BALO (2h. 33m.) Airco 4 O-BELG<ih. 45m.) Type and No. (in brackets) of Machines Flying A.I6(2),A.I8 (i),B(3).Bt.(i). G. (1), N. (1), V(i). A.4 (1). A.16 (2), A.18 (1), B. (4), G. (x), N. (2), V. (1). A.4(I),A.9(2).A.I8(I), H.P.(i). A.4 (1), A.9 (2), H.P. (3). A.9 (1). A.9(2). A.4 (2), A.9 (1). , A.4 (>). • v . ...-..•.••.-.; • Not including " private" flights. f Including certain journeys when stops were made en route. % Including certain diverted journeys. A.4 = Airco 4. A.9 = Airco 9 (etc.). Av. = Avro. B. = Breguet. Br. = Bristol. Bt. = B.A.T. F. = Fokker. Fa. = Farman F.50. G. = Goliath Farman. H.P. = Handley Page. N. =Nieuport. P. •» Potez. Sa. = Salmson; Se. = S.E.5. Sp. = Spad. V. = Vickers Vimy. W. = Westland. The following is a list of firms running services between London and Paris, Brussels, etc., etc. :—Air Post of Banks; Air Transport and Travel; Co. des Grandes Expresses Aeriennes; Handley Page Transport, Ltd. ; Instone Air Line ; Koninklijkie Luchtvaart Maatschappij: Messageries Aeriennes ; Syndicat National pour l'fitude des Transports Aeriens ; Co. Transaerienne. Spanish Decoration for Flying Officers ' "^ • - IT is announced that the King has granted to the follow- ing officers of the Royal Air Force, who, with the exception , of Flight-Lieut. Payne, have been demobilised, licence and authority to wear decorations of the Order of Military Merit conferred upon them by the King of Spain \- Class III.—Wing-Commander William Dawson Beatty,C.B.E., A.F.C. Class II.—Flight-Lieut. Lionel Guy Stanhope Payne, M.C., Class I.—Capt. Harris Holberton Square ; Lieut. George Miller Jeffrey; Lieut. Anthony Conning Kilburn; Lieut. Ian Patrick Anderson ; Lieut. George Murray, M.C. Civil Airship Experiments ^:::-;""i,i;.>".^^v^ THE Air Ministry announces :— The Department of Civil Aviation has agreed temporarily to take over all airships, bases and material, surplus to service requirements, in order to carry out experimental work of an operational character, such as mooring-mast tests and flights of primary importance, to gauge the ships' capacity for commercial operation. It is hoped that surplus airships will ultimately be handed over on approved terms to a private company to operate, and the results of these experiments and the knowledge and experience obtained will be available to any such company. [We refer to this matter on page 1227.—ED.] • T23O
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