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Flight, September 1, 1921 ENGINEEFL First Aero Weekly in the World Founder and Editor: STANLEY SPOONER A Jo«n»al <Urot«J t* tkc btcrests, Practice, •** Pro,re.. of A«ri»l Loeoaotio* MJ OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 662 (No. 35, Vol. Xm.) SEPTEMBER I, 19211 fWeeUy, Price 6d.L Pott free, Id. FligKt The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Eiitoriml Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.a. Telegrams : Truditur, Westcent, London. Telephone : Gerrard 182B 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 FACE "R.38" 581 We Must Go On 581 A Public Statement Necessary .. .. .. .. .. .. 582 The Big Ship Controversy 582 South Africa's Slow Pi ogress .. .. .. .. .. .. 58+ London-Paris from the Air: The Victoria District 583 The London-Continental Services 584 Air Lines of Today 585 Royal Aero Club Official Notices 588 Royal Air Force Intelligence .." 588 The •'R.38 " Disaster 589 Airisms from the Four Winds 593 London Terminal Aerodrome 4 Personals 595 The Late Squadron-Leader Geoffrey Norman 595 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 • Sept. 3—4 Belgian Competitions (Brussels) Sept. 4-11 Brescia Races Sept. 17 .... Royal Aero Club Race Meeting, Waddon Aerodrome, Croydon Sept. 18 .... Gordon Bennett Balloon Race, Brussels Oot 1 .... Coupe Deutsch de la Meurthe Oct. 22-30 Aero Exhibition, Prague NOT. 3 .... Lecture, "Manoeuvres of Getting Off and Landing," by Sa- Ldr. R. M. Hill, before R.Ae.S. HOT. lft-87 Paris Aero Salon NOT. 15-26 International Air Navigation Congress (Paris) NOT. 17 .... Lecture, "Requirements and Difficulties of Air Transport," by Col. F. Searle, before R.Ae.S. Dec. 1 .... Lecture, "Design of a Commercial Aero- plane," by Capt. G. de Havilland, before R.Ae.S. Dec. 15 .... Lecture, "Development of the Fighting Aeroplane," by Capt. F. M. Green, before . .*• R.Ae.S. .. . COMMENT ROM whatever angle of view the loss of " R.38 " is regarded, it is one of the worst tragedies which have ever befallen the British Air Service. In those who were killed in the disaster the R.A.F. has lost the very pick of the airship service—men who pioneered the airship in its early days, and who, by constant thought, study and experiment, and by cheerfully accepting the direst personal risks, suc- " R 38 " ceeded in placing their chosen branch of the Service first among all the nations. It is due to Air-Commodore Maitland and his fellows that we had airships at all during the War. Only when we recollect our position in 1914, when our whole airship service was represented by a couple of undersized, under-powered non-rigid ships, and con- trast it with that obtaining at the end of the War, are we fully able to appreciate all that these men have done for the cause of the airship. There is just this amount of consolation to be drawn from the manner of their death—that they died as they would have wished, at the post of duty and in the act of assisting towards the goal they had set their hearts upon reaching. Our sympathy, inadequate as we know it must be in the circumstances, goes out to the United States' Navy in the grievous loss that gallant service has sustained by the death of Comdr. Maxfield and his officers and men. Like our own service, the American Navy has lost the cream of its airship branch—men whom it will be difficult indeed to replace. But they will not have died in vain, for others will step forward to fill the gaps they have left, and, so far from the cause of progress receiving a setback, the glorious example set by those who are gone will impel others to work with enhanced keenness to the end that such things may be made impossible to happen again. It is ever thus, that no matter what the danger or at what expense the end is to be achieved, example counts for more than precept, and for one who dies a dozen are ready to fill the breach. WeMust Go On The tragic loss of " R.38 " could hardly have come at a more inopportune time than it did. As the whole world knows, the future of the British airships has
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