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Flight, April 13, 1922 First Aero Weekly in the World. Founder and Editor : STANLEY SPOONER A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 694. (No. 15, Vol. XIV.) APRIL 13, 1922 [Weekly, Price 6d. L Post free, 7d. Flight, The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C. 2 Telegrams : Truditur, Westcent, London. Telephone : Gerrard 1828 Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free : United Kingdom .. 30s. +d. Abroad 33s. od.m INDEX FOR VOL. XIII. The Index for Vol. XIII of FLIGHT (January to December, 1921) is now ready, and can be obtained from the Publishers, 36, Great Queen Street, Kingsway, W.C. 2. Price Is. per copy. (Is. Id. post free). 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 Battleships and Bombs .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 209 Air Council and the Airship Scheme .. .. .. . .. .. 210 The Air Disaster .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 210 The New Air Services .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 210 "Blazing the Trail" 212 " What Can We do with Our Sons ? " 213 Air Ministry Notices.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 213 Royal Aero Club Official Notices 214 215 216 217 , 21S 220 221 221 222 222 London Terminal Aerodrome Round the World Attempt Royal Air Force StaB College Aerodynamical Efficiency. By M. Louis Breguet A War Record of Germany's Airships In Parliament Night Flying on London-Paris Route R.AJF. Mediterranean Group Personals DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous oj announcing the dates of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in the following list : R.Ae.C. Race Meeting, at Waddon Seaplane Contest, Marseilles Entries close for Schneider Cap Race R.Ae.C. Easter Race Meeting, at Waddon International Competition for Touring Aero planes, Brussels French Gliding Competition Gordon-Bennett Balloon Race, Geneva R.Ae.C. Race Meeting, at Waddon Schneider Cap Seaplane Race, at Naples Tyrrhenian Cup, Italy Italian Grand Prix R.Ae.C. Race Meeting, at Waddon Coupe Deutsche (800 kil.) Entries Close for French Aero Engine Com petition French Aero Engine Competition. 1922. April 17 .... April 17-19 June 1 .... June 5 .... June 23-25 July 6-20 Aug. 6 .... Aug. 7 .... Ang. (last fortnight) Sept Sept Sept. or Oct. Sept. 22 ... 1923. Dec. 1 .... 1924. Mar. 1 ... EDITORIAL COMMENT HE controversy which has occupied so much space in the daily press lately relating to the effect on ships of bombs dropped in their immediate vicinity appears to us to have strayed con siderably from the points at issue. Lord Lee of Fareham has explained the views of the Admiralty and of the Navy on the matter, and Lord Graham, who was responsible for the aeroplane carrier H.M.S. Argus, . and General Groves, whose excellent and Bombs articles in The Times were the im mediate cause of the controversy, have in turn stated the case for aircraft. Lord Lee contends that even large bombs, if so dropped as not to be in actual contact with the side of a ship, have an effect equivalent only to a much smaller quantity of explosives which is in actual contact with the ship. We are not at all convinced that Lord Lee is right in this contention. However, even if it is granted that he is right, and that actual contact is necessary for the full effect of explosives dropped from aircraft, we think that he has failed to take into account the dropping of tor pedoes from aircraft. He will there get all the actual contact he wants, with the further advantage on the side of aircraft that if one or two or ten are destroyed the loss in men and material will be insignificant, while out of an attacking air squadron • some are certain to get through and find their mark. But, as we have already mentioned, and as Gen. Groves points out in a letter to The Times, the amount of damage which aircraft can do to battleships is a mere detail of the much greater problems at issue. These are that in the next war the Navy by itself cannot protect us against air attacks, no matter how efficient it is or how many battleships it possesses. Aircraft, and aircraft only, can do that. This is the main issue which we should keep in mind, and at the present moment this country has to all intents and purposes no such defence against aerial invasion. No
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