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Flight, September 15, 1921 AIRC&AFTENGINEER- First Aero Weekly in the World Founder and Editor: STANLEY SPOONER A Journal devotoJ to tk« Interest*, Practice, aa4 Progress of Aerial Locomotion MJ Tr&Aaport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 664 (No. 37, Vol. XIII.) SEPTEMBER 15, 1921 rweekly, Price 6d.L Pest free, 7d. Flight The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.a. Telegrams : Trudttur, Westcent, London. Telephone : Gerrard 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 PAGE The U.S. and the Airship 611 Cheaper Production Essential 2 N.C.O. Pilots Again 2 The Air Taxi becoming a Commonplace .. .. .. .. 612 The De Haviliand Monoplane .. .. .. .. .. .. 614 London-Paris from the Air: Herne Hill .. .. .. .. .. 613 The London—Continental Services.. .. .. .. .. .. 614 U.S. Bombing Experiments .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 615 A Petrol Proof Flexible Tubing .. . 618 Royal Aero Club Official Notices 619 London Terminal Aerodrome .. .. .. .. .. .. 620 Notices to Airmen 621 Royal Aeronautical Society Official Notices 621 Airisms from the Four Winds 622 The Caudron C. 60 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 622 Royal Air Force 623 Royal Air Force Intelligence 623 0 DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dales of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in the following list: Sept 17 .... 1 Royal Aero Club Race Meeting, Waddon Aerodrome, Croydon Sept 18 .... Gordon Bennett Balloon Race, Brussels Oct. 1 .... Conpe Deutsch de la Mearthe Oct. 22-30 Aero Exhibition, Prague Hw. 3 .... Lecture, "Manoeuvres ol Getting Off and Landing," by So. Ldr. R. M. Hill, before R.Ae.S. ffov. 12-27 Paris Aero Salon Nov. 15-26 International Air Navigation Congress 'Paris) Nov. 17 .... Lecture, "Requirements and Difficulties of Air Transport," by Col. F. Searle, before ^ R.Ae.S. Dee. 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 ••-:•"— -•-.----;••; B.Ae.S. 1922. Jan. S Lecture, "Specialised Aircraft," by Wing- Corn. W. D. Beatty, before R.Ae.S. Jan. 19 Lecture, "Aeroplane Installation," by Brig.- Gen. R. E. Bagnall-Wild, before R.Ae.S. The U.S. and the Airship VIDENTLY the United States aviation authorities do not intend to be dis- couraged from following the path mapped out simply because of the disaster which overtook " R.38 " a month ago. So far from having lost faith in the rigid airship, it is under- stood that a demand is to be made upon the British Government to replace the lost ship by one of the other rigids—possibly "a surrendered Zeppelin—which are in our possession. We trust this is so. Not that we do not want to see the Government deal with these craft to the best advantage, but, it being now fairly obvious that we shall never see the existing ships commissioned under the British mercantile flag, we are strongly of opinion that if one or more could become an example of how airships can be used by others • it would ultimately turn out to be a good thing for British aviation. Not the least significant aspect of the matter is that the United States seems to be at one with Germany, which pioneered the rigid type, in believing in the possibilities of lighter-than- air craft. We, who have had more experience of the type than any other country, with the exception of Germany, do not seem to have the courage of our experience, and it would seem to need the example of successful operation by other countries to revive the interest in airships. That they can be successfully operated we are most fully convinced. Whether our existing types are suitable for com- mercial purposes may be open to question. Our own opinion is that they would be extremely useful for experimental services on the Empire air routes, but that they are all that is desirable commercially is probably untrue. Sooner or later, probably sooner, they would have to be replaced by improved types, _ as the Germans are preparing to do as soon as the embargo of the Peace Treaty is lifted. As we are apparently not going to use the ships for ourselves, the next best thing is to let the Americans have what they apparently want, and to see how their experiments work out. It is somewhat humiliating after all the money that has been sunk in research work, and in the development of the airship, that we should have to look to others to carry on the experiments for us, but so it seems to be.
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