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Flight, October 27, 1921 •" . •>• ENGINEEFL First Aero Weekly in the World .' Founder and Editor: STANLEY SPOONER A Journal darotU te tk« Ularestt, Practice, »ai Progress of A»ri»l Loeoaotiom aU Transport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AEWO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 670 No. 43, Vol. XIII.) OCTOBER 27, 1921 [•Weekly, Price 6d.L Post free, 7d. Flight The A ircraft Engineer and A ir ships EMotial OHUes: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAV, W.C.a Telegrams : Trudltur, Westcent, London. Telephone : Gerrard 1828 Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free:United Kingdom .. 305.41*. Abroad .. .. 33s. oii.* These rates are 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 Is Air Research Work to Stop ? .. .. .. .. .. 0^5 WireLss Telephony in Fog .. .. .... .. .. 696 Civil Aviation in France .. .. .. .. .. .. 696 General Krancker on the Position .. .. .. .. .. 696 What of the Air Ministry ? 696 Air Mail Facilities .. .. .. .. .. .. ,. 698 London-Paris from the Air: Croydon and Lympne Aerodromes .. 697 The London—Continental Services.. .. .. .. .. .. 698 The Loening Model 23 Flying Boat .. .. 699 The London Terminal Aerodrome .. .. .. .. .. .. 702 Langley Machine and Hammondsport Trials .. .. .. .. 703 Airisms from the Four Winds .. .. .. .. .. .. 705 Personals 706 Notices to Airmen .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 706 Royal Air Force 707 Royal Air Force Intelligence 707 In Parliament .. 707 Correspondence 708 DIARY OP 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 : Aero Exhibition, Prague Pulitzer Trophy Race. Lecture, " Manoeuvres of Getting OS and Landing," by Sq.-Ldr. R. M. Hill, before R.Ae.S. Paris Aero Salon International Air Navigation Congress (Paris) Lecture, "Requirements and Difficulties of Air Transport," by Col. F. Searle, before R.Ae.S. Lecture, "Design of a Commercial Aero- plane," by Capt. G. de Havilland, before R.Ae.S. Lecture, "Development of the Fighting Aeroplane," by Capt, F. M. Green, before R.Ae.S. Lecture, "Specialised Aircraft," by Wing- Corn. W D. Beatty, before R.Ae.S. Lecture, "Aeroplane Installation," by Brig.- Gen. R. K. Bagnall-Wild, before R.Ae.S. Lecture, "Radiological Research," by Dr. V. E. Pullin, before R.Ae.S. Oct.Nov. Nov. NOT.Nov. Nov. Dec. Dec. it Jan. Jan. Feb. 22-303 .... 3 .... 12-2715-26 17 .... 1 .... 15 .... 22. 5 .... 19 .... 2 .... Is Air Research Work to Stop ? CCORDING to the aeronautical corre- spondent of The Times, there appears to be a grave danger of the Aero- dynamics Department of the N.P.L. being closed down through a re- [£f arrangement of the allocation 7 of . funds. Hitherto money for this de- partment has been forthcoming as part of the sum voted for the Laboratory in the Civil Service Estimates. The Treasury, it is reported, now proposes to transfer the expenses in- curred by the maintenance of this department to the Air Estimates, which cannot be expanded to include them. The Aerodynamics Department cannot be an expensive affair, since the whole vote for the N.P.L. is only £213,269. This comes out of the vote for Scientific and Industrial Research. It need hardly be said to readers of FLIGHT that the work which has been carried on at Teddington has been of a most useful character, and has in many instances been invaluable to the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and to the aviation industry. If the threatened closing down of the Department should come to pass it would constitute a scandal of the first magnitude. The Department is all the provision made by the State for the scientific in- vestigation of aeronautical problems. It has been thoroughly equipped with plant and apparatus for its special work, and many have been the problems which owe their solution to the able staff of the Laboratory. Even if it cost the whole of the vote to which we have referred, it would still, in view of the future importance of aviation, be cheap to the country. But it only costs a proportion of the comparatively meagre sum of much less than a quarter of a million annually—a mere nothing when the importance of its work is taken into consideration. In view of the very definite nature of the statement upon which we have based this protest, the matter of this Treasury juggling with transfers from one set of estimates to another must be thoroughly gone into. It is a matter of no concern to the country whether the Department is paid for by the Civil Service Vote or by the Air Ministry, but it is one of the gravest moment that its work should suffer no interruption, .
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