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1921
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JANUARY 27, 1921 SINCE the War King Albert of Belgium has lost none of his keenness for air-travel, and whenever opportunity serves to economise time, it is by air that His Majesty proceeds. Last Sunday afternoon is an instance of time-saving this way. • On Saturday night King Albert motored from Dover to Portsmouth in order to go aboard the Temeraire battleship on Sunday, and say good-bye to his son, Prince Charles, before the departure of the ship on a six months' cruise in Medi- terranean waters. Prince Charles has just joined the ship as a cadet. Staying the night as the guest of the Com- mander-in-Chief, at Admiralty House, the King duly went aboard the Temevaire and inspected the ship. After taking farewell of his son, His Majesty returned to Admiralty House for lunch, and in the afternoon he took a naval flying boat for Dover. King Albejt made the journey to Dover in just over an hour. There was a fresh north-westerly wind. King Albert's seaplane descended in Dover Naval Harbour, two escorting machines continuing their flight. The King landed at the Admiralty Pier, and returned to Belgium by the Ostend steamer. IT will be a graceful compliment to the air work of the late Capt. Albert Ball, V.C., if the Prince of Wales is able to accept the invitation submitted to him to unveil the statue at Nottingham Castle which has been erected to the memory of the great British " Ace." " THE question having been raised of officers and men of the Royal Air Force, while serving in naval units, playing in officially recognised naval sports competitions, both individual and team, a decision on the matter has now been pro- mulgated, These officers and men are not eligible to take part in individual or officially recognised team competitions. By this is meant individual naval and marine competitions, open to the Naval Service only, or fleet and squadron com- petitions, fleet Association football leagues, and the like. But R.A.F. personnel may, if so desired, take part in " friendly" games. " AEROPLANES to and from hotel" sounds quite up-to- date, and should be a good catch-line for business. And, moreover, it is already a reality as it forms part of the wording of the ordinary advertisement announcement of the Palace Hotel, Southport. Mr. C. H. Parr, the managing director, is to be congratulated upon his enterprise, although we do not suppose just for the moment he is over-much pestered with bookings in advance for his air-taxis. OFFICERS of the Army and R.A.F. were in strong evidence on Thursday of last week at the Japanese Embassy in London, when the high honours conferred by the Emperor of Japan were presented by the Japanese Ambassador. Some time ago we published the list of honours, and the R.A.F. recipients on Thursday were :— Order of the Sacred Treasure, 1st Class.-—Air-Marshal Sir H. M. Trenchard, Bt., K.C.B., D.S.O. ' 3rd Class.—Lieut.-Col. R. F. Waterhousc, C.M.G. ; Maj. B. R. W. Beor, C.M.G., O.B.E. Order of the Rising Sun, 2nd Class.—Maj.-Genl. 1\ H. Sykes, G.B.E., K.C.B., C.M.G. ; Col. E. H. Davidson, C.B.E., M.C.; Lieut-Col. A. C. H, Maclean. C.B.E. 4th Class.—Sqdn.-Ldr. F. W. Stent, M.C. ; Sqdn.-Ldr. ~ " * ' L. S. Forbes, M.C. ; Maj. R.G. G. Adeley ; Sqdn.-Ldr. Chad-wick, M.C., D.C.M. •3th Class.—Capt. W. H. T. Eldridge Capt. R. L. Prentice ; Lieut. D. Capt. F. G. Hogarth C. W. Sanders, A.F.C. THE Japanese are wisely cosmopolitan in their methods of gaining experience. Not only are their representatives studying matters aviatic in France, but the authorities have engaged twenty British engineers and mechanics for the construction of aircraft of the largest type for use with the Japanese Navy. ALTHOUGH there are suggestions of creating an aerial police force within the French Customs service, Sweden also being inclined in the same direction, England is hardly likely to indulge in a similar innovation, anyway, for the present. The cases are hardly upon a par, and the methods already in operation for checking the coming and going of all aircraft are considered sufficiently comprehensive to render any infractions of the law highly improbable. MLLE. JANE HERVEU, the one-time well-known French pilot, has, it is stated, decided to link up for life with M. Filippo Catalano. For a year or more Mile. Herveu has been in America in the interests of the Caudron firm, and it is in New Yorkwhere the lively aviatress has met herfate. Good wishes. Ii would seem, according to The Hundley Page Bulletin, that some of their Continental Service 'buses are able to fly- backwards. The Bulletin tells us that " By use of the Paris Air Mail, packets for Switzerland, Italy, South-Eastern Europe, Spain and Portugal, will connect with the night mail trains from Paris on the same day, and will, in many cases, reach their destinations 24 hours earlier'.'" A CURE FOR PESSIMISTS : Two views inside the Fairey factories at Hayes. A great number of machinesare in course of construction, and on entering the works one finds it difficult to realise that all these machines, in various stages of construction, with more to follow, are peace-time products.
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