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we have deplored in others. The truth seems to be that it is impossible to speak of " naval" or " land " war in the old terms, in so far as concerns wars that deserve to be called " great." Of course, there will always be small affairs which cap best be described as policing wars, such as we have recently been concerned in in Mesopotamia and-on the "Indian .frontier. These are not what we have in mind at all. "In attempting to forecast the next great war we must regard it as simply a war—neither naval, military nor aerial, but a combination of all three. Further, we must bear in mind that in the last war the aerial arm did not enter into its own. Magnificently it.per- formed its allotted task, but that task was circum- scribed in relation to what it would have been called upon to undertake had the war gone on for another year. Knowing the. enormous preparations which were being .made for carrying the war into the enemy's country by the air, we are the better able JANUARY 20, 1921 to appreciate the fundamental truth that has been set forth already—that war in the future will be a co-ordinated affair of all three services. To attempt to lay down an arbitrary standard for either service, whether of ships, guns or aircraft,'without closely studying the potentialities of the rest is mere futility. That is what the distinguished naval officers and others who are conducting the controversy are doing.- They visualise naval war as an affair between1 ships, with a grudging half-acknowledgment that aircraft will be present on the day of battle, but will be fulfilling a subsidiary and aln\ost unknown role. They completely fail to appreciate that here they have a factor which may, even probably will, prove to be the decisive one, and which may easily falsify all their prophecies and theories so easily evolved and airily set forth. Without trying to be dogmatic, we should advise for these gentlemen a closer study of the history of aerial development and a serious enquiry into the possibilities of the future. .. •CONTINENTAL AIR TRAFFIC ;THE appended.official Air Jlinistry table gives the numbers of aircraft of all nationalities which departed for and arrived from the continent, and the total numbers of passengers who. travelled on continental air services during the quarter October-December, 1920. Similar tables covering monthly periods are to be issued regularly in future The totals of departures and arrivals of aircraft to and from the continent since the opening of the first service on • August,26, 1919, until the end of 1920 were:—Departures, 2,131; arrivals, 2,022 ; grand total, 4,153. British machines contributed 3,321 to the latter figure, French 721, Belgian 104, and other nationalities 7. The totals for the three months October-December, 1920, exceeded those for the six months October, 1919-March, 1920. During the former period, departures and arrivals were each 406, whereas during the latter period they were 388 and 346, respectively. The table of last, week's flights is also given below. • • -^Nationality British. French •..,'. ... Total . .. CONTINENTAL AIR TRAFFIC OCTOBER TO DECEMBER, 1920. CROYDON AND LYMPNE Numbers of Aircraft Paris. Dep. 130 88 218 Arr. 130 90 220 Brussels Dep. 3 8 II Passengers (al Arr. 6 9 Amster- dam Dep, 2 33 Arr. 1 33 Other Places Dep. 12 1 13 Arr. 13 1 14 Total Dep. 176 89 8 2 2 75 places abroad) : Dep. 379, arr. total, 816 Arr. 181 91 9 r 282 437; CRICKLEWOOD Numbers of Aircraft Paris Dep. 54 54 Arr. 49 49 Brussels Dep. 29 21 .5° Arr. •28 49 Amster- dam Dep. z 23 Arr. 21 23 Other Places Dep. 4 4 Arr. 3 3 • Total Dep. no 21 T3I Passengers (all places abroad): Dep* 278 ; arr total, 547 Arr. 103 21 124 , 269 ; THE LONDON-CONTINENTAL SERVICES FLIGHTS BETWEEN JANUARY 9 AND JANUARY 15, INCLUSIVE :Tr " Route Croydon-Paris ... Paris-Croydon ... Cricklewood-Paris Paris-Cricklewood Croydon-Brussels Brussels-Croydon Cricklewood-Brussels ... Brussels-Cricklewood ... Totals for week No . o f flight s 6 8 1 2 3 2 1 2 25 No . o f passenger s 7 9 6 5 2 29 No. of nights carrying Mail s 1 4 1 1 3 2 1 2 1 15 Good s 5 6 1 2 3 2 1 2 22 No . o f journey s complete d 5 A 1 0 2 2 1 1 s 18 Averag e flyin g tim e h. m. 2 583 ° 4 15 1 55 2 47 2 28 T 7 Fastest time made by Breguet F-CMA1 (2I1. iora.) Spad F-CMAX(2h. 19m.) ... H.P. G-EATK(4h. 15m.) ... Airco 4, O-BADO (ih. 40m.) Airco 4, O-BABI (2h. 20m.) Aircoq,OBELGE(2h. 28m.) Airao 9, O-BELGE (ih. 7m.) ••/-'-:,-,•.•:-:•:: •-- Type and No. (in brackets) of Machines Flying B. (3), G. (1), Sa. (1), Sp. (1). B. (4), G. (i), Sa. (i), Sp. (1). HP. (i). H.P. (1). : ••.•- . A.4(3). '^, , ;.•,;*..•:••• <*. A.4 (2). --•:-• ,; -.:; A.g(i). '"" "... :---::: A.4(I),A.9<T)." :.•; -,»~•:.'
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