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Flight, April 14, 1921 We ENGINEER^ First Aero Weekly in the World Founder and Editor: STANLEY SPOONER A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progress of Aerial Locomotion »W Tr&aiport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 643 (No. 15, Vol. XIII.) APRIL 14, ro.21 rWcekly, Price 6d.L Post free, 7d. The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.s Telegrams : Tmditur, Westcent, London. Telephone : Gerrard 1828 Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free : United Kingdom .. 30s. +d. Abroad .. .. 33s. od.* Ttacs* rates ore subject to any alteration found necessary under abnormalconditions and to increases in postage rates • European subscriptions must be remitted in British currency CONTENTS Editorial Comment PAGE An Effect of Encouragement .. .. .. .. .. .. 251 A Chance lor Captain Guest .. .. .. .. .. .. 252 Night Flying in France .. .. .. .. ,. .. 252 Aerial Mails in Parliament .. .. .. .. .. .. 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 On the Brussels Air Service: St. Denis Westrem Aerodrome London-Continental Services The Morane-Saulnier Monoplane A One-Stop Flight Across the U.S.A. The Parker Variable Pitch Airscrew The 1,200 h.p. L.W.F. "Owl " Royal Aeronautical Society Official Notices Notices to Airmen .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 259 The Van Berkel Type W.B. Seaplane Monoplane .. .. .. 260 Personals .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ,. .. 261 Airisms from the Four Winds 262 Airship Sheds and their Erection .. 263 Royal Air Force 265 Imports and Exports 6 Sidewinds 6 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: April 13-20 Monaco Seaplane Meeting April 20-22 Aero Club of France Grand Prix. 3rd stage May ... Seaplane Contests on Lake Garde, Italy Entries Close for Schneider Cnp U.S.A. National Balloon Race, Alabama Race, Lugo-Trieste-Triente-Lugo Aerial Derby Jacques Schneider Cup, Venice Brescia Races Pulitzer Trophy, Detroit, U.S.A. Gordon Bennett Balloon Race May 15 May 21 June 10 July 16 July 29-31 Sept. 4-11 Sept. 5 ... Sept. •apt 26- Oot. 2 Nov. Aero Exhibition, Prague Paris Awo Salon EDITORIAL COMMENT HERE seems to be some amount of doubt in many minds as to the wisdom or otherwise of giving tangible encouragement to essential industries, such as that of aircraft construction and operation, from the funds of the State. It is argued by those who are against the principle that it has never been done, that it is foreign to all British ideas of true economic policy, and that it should follow that if an industry cannot stand An on its own feet without national Effect assistance, it should be allowed to die. Encourage- Generally, we agree that the principle ment is a perfectly sound one, and we should dissent very strongly from the idea that every industry which finds itself in difficulties should receive a subsidy from the State. We are even now passing through an industrial crisis which has at its root the application of the basic principle that industry should work out its own salvation. The coal crisis, however, stands on a very different plane to that through which aviation is passing. In the one case, an industry, admittedly vital to the prosperity of the country, has been for some years receiving direct aid from the taxpayer in order to tide it over an abnormal time. It was quite right that it should receive such assistance, but the time has come now when that industry should be able to, and could, stand by itself, and in the realisation of that fact it is now being asked by the State to so stand. One side of those concerned in the industry does not like the new order of things, and hence the trouble. However, we are not discussing the coal crisis, and have only introduced the illustration to point a moral. It would be perfectly fair to draw a parallel between the present position in which the aviation industry stands and that of the mines before Government control was instituted and wages were regulated in accordance with Government instructions. The mines then were, owing to the War, losing money. The State could not afford to see them close down, and so agreed to subsidise the industry through its bad time, with the distinct understanding that when that time had passed they would have to
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