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Flight, February 24, 1921 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. 635 (No. 8, Vol. XIII.) FEBRUARY 24, 1921 ["Weekly, Price 6d.L Post free, 7d. The A ircraft Engineer and A irships EdiUnud Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.a Telegrams : Truditur, Westcent, London. Telephone : Gerrard 1828 Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free : United Kingdom .. 30s. 4<2. Abroad .. .. 33s. od.* Tkes* rates are subject to any alteration found necessary under abnormal conditions and to increases in postage rates * European subscriptions must be remitted in British currency CONTENTS Editorial Comment: PAGE The Problem of Defence .. .. .. .. .. .. 123The Premier's Reply .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 124 Wanted—An Air Policy .. .. .. .. .. .. 124A viatic Types: The Royal Aero Club .. .. .. .. .. 125 Air Ministry Acquires Short " Silver Streak" .. .. .. .. 127Royal Aero Club Official Notices . .. 128 Air Ministry Notices.. .. .. .. 129 The Handley Page Wing. By F. Handley Page .. .. • .. 130 Royal Aeronautical Society Official Notices 137Correspondence .. .. .. .. .. .. 138 Airisms from the Four Winds .. .. .. .. .. .. 139The Royal Air Force • 140 A New K.L.G. Plug and a Rover Car for a Guess .. .. .. 141Sidewinds .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 142 Legal Intelligence .. .. .. . .. 142 I =^J" ' • DIARY 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 : Feb. 25 ... Lecture, " Commercial Aeroplane and Seaplane Transport," by H. White Smith, and " Com- mercial Airship Transport," by C. I. R. Campbell, at Lecture Hall, Olympia Mat. 3 ... Lecture, "Airship Fabrics," by J. W. W. Dyer, before R.Ae.S. Har. 3 ... Lecture, " Parachutes," by Maj. T. Orde-Lees, before R.Ae.S. '• Har. 9... Lecture, " The Artificial Control of Weather," by Sir Napier Shaw, before Cambridge Uni- versity Ae.S. Har. 17 ... Lecture, " Flying Boat Construction," by Capt. D. Nicholson, before R.Ae.S. Har. 20-22 Aero Club of France Grand Prix. 2nd stage _ April 13-20 Monaco Seaplane Meeting April 20-22 Aero Club of France Grand Prix. 3rd stage Juni 1 ... Entries Close for Schneider Cup Tone 10 ... Race, Lugo-Trieste-Triente-Lugo Sept. 5 ... Pulitzer Trophy, Detroit, U.S.A. S«Pt. ... Gordon Bennett Balloon Race 8«pt. 30 ... Provisional Date for Schneider Cup INDEX AND TITLE PAGE FOR VOL. XII. The 8-page Index for Vol. XII of " FLIGHT '' (January to December, 1920) is now ready, and can be obtained from the Publishers, 36, Great Queen Street, Kings- way, W.C. 2. Price 1/- per copy, post free. The Problem of Defence Should any difficulty be experienced in procuring " FLIGHT " /»WH local newsvendors, intending readers can obtain each issue direct from the Publishing Office, by forwarding remittance as URING the recent debate on the Address, a most interesting discussion took place in the House of Commons on the need for co-ordination between the fighting Services. Major-Gen. Sir J. Davidson moved an amend- ment, regretting that no reference was made in the Speech from the Throne to the very urgent need for co-ordinating the problems and tasks of the Navy, the Army and the Air Force for purposes of defence of the British Empire as a whole and for the establishment of machinery to give effect thereto. He advocated for the purpose a Ministry of Defence, composed of the representatives of the Admiralty, the War Office and the Air Ministry to sit for the solution of problems in a logical way. The amend- ment was seconded by Lieut.-Gen. Sir A. Hunter- Weston in a very able speech, in which he pointed out that if it was necessary to co-ordinate the Services when motion was confined to two dimensions in a horizontal plane and when our fighting was done only on land and sea, it is ever so much more essential now when movement is in three dimensions, and when we fight not only on sea and land, but below the surface of the sea and above both land and sea in the air. Very truly he said that the air is necessary to the sea and the land, but the land is also necessary to the air. Although it is true that the independent action of aircraft will become an increasing factor in war, yet the Air Force cannot exist in the air ; it must always be largely dependent upon the land, and, for certain operations, on the sea. Owing to the intervention of the air, the connection of the three services has become in- extricably mingled, and to allow them to go on without some co-ordinating organisation is to make sure of both inefficiency and extravagance. He agreed that a Ministry of Defence would be the
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