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JUNE 2, 1921 THE date fixed for the Paris Aero Salon is November 12 to November 27, inclusive. THE Pan-American Air Exhibition has been re-christened.It is henceforth to be known as the " International Aero- nautic Exposition and First Commercial Air Convention." IT is to the credit of the Instone Air Line to inaugurate the first day " Air-excursions " to Paris and back. The proposal is to run a one-day return flip every Thursday to the French capital, for a charge of /12 return. One of the company's limousine express aeroplanes will leave the Croydoji aerodrome at 9 a.m., and will return from Paris in time for dinner, arriving at the aerodrome about 7.15 p.m. This, it is stated, will give passengers 3 or 4 hours in Paris. WITH commendable foresight the plans of the new Govern- ment Post Office building at Chicago, the erection of which has just begun, provide for a flat roof upon and from which mail-'planes will be able to alight and take-off. Sooner or later this little village will have to make a like provision, although for the time being it is possible Amphibians and the Thames together may be able to fill the want. THE H.P. Air Transport Organisation has now transferred its operating headquarters from Cricklewood to Croydon Air Terminus. THE problem put forward last week to the Speaker of the House of Commons by Mr. Pemberton Billing as to the steps necessary to relieve him of his Parliamentary duties, has apparently been solved with the consequent announcement in the Gazette to the following effect :—" Treasury Chambers, May 27, 1921.—The Chancellor of the Exchequer has ap- pointed N. Pemberton Billing, Esq., to be Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead." Wonder what has happened to the " Chiltern Hundreds of familiar sound ? IN addition to Sir Hildred Carlile, who will be the Unionist Candidate for the vacant seat for East Herts thus brought about, Rear-Admiral Murray F. Sueter is to try his luck as an Independent Candidate for the constituency. FRANCE'S little war bill against Germany for damage in the Paris region amounts to £4,600,000. In this is included compensation for 17,000 claims for damage caused by bomts from aeroplanes and Zepps., and by " Big Bertha " shells. Wonder what the English claim is for the same form of " offensive." SPECIAL postage stamps for use on mails carried by aircraft are increasing in numbers steadily—in foreign countries. Even South America is not behind in this matter, although we are not quite certain as to the existence of any regular air services in this part of the world. However, they have got the stamps. Uruguay is the latest S.A. country toproduce air mail stamps, a special issue of 25 centesimi stamps overprinted " Correo Aereo," with a figure of an aero-plane above, in blue, being reported recently. CAUSE and effect. It being evident that there will always be. a few American " hustlers " coining and others who will be late for the boat across yonder, the Societe Aerienne Francaise has installed an aviation camp at Querdreville, about three miles from Cherbourg, and it is proposed that a Goliath machine capable of transporting 28 passengers will meet all incoming steamers, and be ready for outgoers if necessary. EVERYONE knows those label bespattered travel-worn trunks which are—whatever the regular long-distance traveller may think—the pride of the peripatetic globe- trotter and the envy of the less fortunately-placed would-be casual rover. Of late years it has become more and more a sign of the times—present times. And now these folk can still further glorify their baggage in an even more aggres sive form by indulging in over-seas air flips, thereby securing a papering of Lep Aerial " By Air " labels, which assert themselves most assertingly with their bright yellow background and the overprinting in flaming red of the words " BY AIR." A COUPLE of examples of these—which we reproduce—are sent us by Lep Aerial. Every day, at stated hours, the company write us, a number of cars leave the Lep Aerial Office in Piccadilly Circus loaded with passengers and their luggage, with these conspicuous yellow and red labels very much a feature of the landscape. So popular are these lasting signs of the Continental flight that many passengers ask for a duplicate set ; one American gentleman who flew to Paris in the early days wrote some months after for a fresh supply of " stickers," as the original ones had worn off. Suit-cases owned by travellers from all parts of the world bear these labels showing—among other destinations—Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Bucharest, Zurich, Prague and Cologne. Well, there's many a worse hobby than this, and in the meantime it is another little inducement to many to assist the Air Services to carry on successfully until such time as the Air Travel labels will lose their pride of place, by reason of the universal use of the air for all matters where speed count?. NOT only from actual developments during the closing stages in the late War, but from the further " progress " which has since been achieved in elaborating and perfecting various refined " frightfulnesses " against the opening of the next great world's conflict, a fascinating study seems to be growing up with the object of painting the hideous scientific possibilities in store for those who, in the coming decades, dare again to raise the God of War on high. Obviously operations aviatic and wireless, individually and PER SERVICE DATE To THE HEADQUARTER OF THE AiR TRAWLLBft DATE TRAVEL BLUEJUI C THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE AIR TRAVELLER, 37S
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