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Flight, March 10, 1921 First Aero Weekly in the World Founder and Editor: 8TANLEY SPOONER A Jow«al d«oU4 to tk. I*t.re.t,, Praetie., *»4 Projre.. of A.ri»l Loeomotio. ~4 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 637 (No. 10, Vol. X1H.) FligHt The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Ojfiett: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.I Telegrams : Trnditur, Westceot, London. Telephone : Geirard 1828 Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free : United Kingdom .. 30s. id. Abroad .. .. 33s. od.* These 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: The Air Estimates Discussion A Wrong Conception The Fate of the Airships Civil Aviation Can Pay The Future of Air Power Aviatic Types : The Designer Eastman Kodak Aerial Cameras Our New Large Flying Boats Notices to Airmen The Australian Pioneers at the Cecil Cambridge University Aeronautical Society Aeronautical Research The Royal Aero Club. Official Notices . • Keen Contests for Wakefield Boxing Trophies Airisms from the Four Winds Air Estimates, 1921-1922 .. The Royal Air Force D.H. Cantilever Monoplane Royal Aeronautical Society Notices : • Some Problems PAGE 163 164 164 166 166 165 167 169 170 171 173 174 174 175 176 178 179 180 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. 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: Lecture, "Flying Boat Construction," by Capt D. Nicholson, before R.A6.S. Aero Club of France Grand Prix. 2nd stage Monaco Seaplane Meeting Aero Club of France Grand Pnx. 3rd stage Seaplane Contests on Lake Garde, Italy Entries Close tor Schneider Cup Race, Lugo-Trieste-Triente-Lugo Brescia Races Pulitzer Trophy, Detroit, U.S.A. Gordon Bennett Balloon Race Provisional Date for Schneider Cup « KM. 17 ... Mar. 20-22 April 1320 April 20-22 May Jun« 1 June 10 I'Sept. 4-11 Sept. 5 Sept. Sept, 30 T cannot be said that there is much satisfaction to be gained from a close reading of the debate on the Air Esti- mates. Mr. Churchill, to our way of thinking, told the House and the country very little of past history with which we are not already pain- fully familiar, and in dealing with the future, held out very little hope of that encourage ment for which we were told, two years ago, to look. In a word, civil aviation, in so far as The any interest the Government have in it, wc«^ir • has been sentenced to death. If it Estimates , , . ,, , ., Discussion eludes execution of the sentence it will be through its own efforts and not by reason of any eleventh hour reprieve given by Mr. Churchill and his colleagues of the present Cabinet. Hitherto we have numbered ourselves among the supporters of the present Air Minister. We have recognised to the full that Service aviation has owed a great deal to his prescience and the skill with which he has presented his case to the Cabinet. It is a well-worn theme now, but, whatever we may think of the manner in which Mr. Churchill is administering his charge now, we cannot forget that it was due to his imagination and forethought that the Navy pos- sessed any sort of aerial arm at all when the War broke out. But after we have made every allowance and given every credit to him for his past services to aviation, there is no possible way out of laying a grave indictment to his charge, upon which he will have to stand his trial before the bar of history, if indeed the reckoning does not come more swiftly than might be thought now. His speech in defence of his policy stamps him as a Minister with but a single ideal, and that ideal, we submit, a completely wrong one. Right through the speech we listen to the soldier rather than to the statesman. He ignores utterly the fundamental fact that it is to the building up of a great reserve available for absorption into the active Air Force that we should in fact look for our future security from aerial attack. He ignores again the dictum of his own Controller of Civil Aviation, who has said that " The nation which is strongest in commercial air traffic will be the strongest also in the aerial warfare of the future." That opinion, as we know, is backed by every responsible authority who
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