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Flight, April 27, 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. 696. (No. 17, Vol. XIV.) APRIL 27, 1922 rWeekly, 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. 4k. 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 Our Future in the Air .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 237 The New Russo-German Air Route .. .. .. .. .. 238 The Atlantic Flight .. .. 23 The Handley Page W.8B 239 The Lisbon to Rio Transatlantic Attempt .. .. .. .. .. 243 Ross Smith Memorial Services .. .. .. .. .. .. 244 London-Continental Services .. .. ., .. • • . • 244 London Terminal Aerodrome .. .. .. ... *. . * 245 Royal Aeronautical Society Official Notices . 246 Institution of Aeronautical Engineers Official Notices .. .. .. 246 Correspondence .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 246 The Rith Semi-Rigid Dirigible 247 Personals .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 24s In Parliament 248 Royal Air Force .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 249 Royal Air Force Sports Board .. .. .. .. .. .. 249 The London Aero-Models Association .. .. .. .. .. 250 Imports and Exports.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 250 DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for 1922. June 1 .... June 5 .... June 23-25 July 6-20 Aug. 6 .... Aug. 7 .... Aug. (last fortnight) Sept Sept Sept. or Oct. Sept. 22 .... 1923. Dec. 1 ... 1924. Mar. 1 .... inclusion in the following list: Entries close for Schneider Cup Race R.Ae.C. Whitsun Race Meeting, at Waddon International Competition for Touring Aero planes, Brussels French Gliding Competition Gordon-Bennett Balloon Raoe, Geneva R.Ae.C. Race Meeting, at Waddon Schneider Cup Seaplane Race, at Naples Tyrrhenian Cup, Italy Italian Grand Prix R.Ae.C. Race Meeting, at Waddon Coupe Deutsche (300 kil.) • Entries Close for French Aero Engine Com petition French Aero Engine Competition. 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). EDITORIAL COMMENT E are extremely glad to see that Brig.- Gen. P. R. C. Groves is returning, in the columns of The Times, to the vitally important question of our future in the air. It is by articles such as these that the layman, the man-in-the-street, is made aware of the true position, and it is by public pressure, and by public pressure only, that the Government may be persuaded to move at all. Past history shows this time after time, „ Pur . and this pressure, backed by a vast Future in , * w • • u™-+ KQ the Air volume of public opinion, can best be initiated by such great daily news papers as The Times and others, which reach the man who is not directly interested in aviation, but who is very directly interested in the safety of the Kingdom and of the Empire. The previous series of articles by Gen. Groves dealt with the air policy of the Government during the three years since the Armistice. The present articles discuss the future policy of the Air Ministry, as foreshadowed by the Air Minister in the House of Commons, and by the Chief of the Air Staff, Sir Hugh Trenchard, in his inaugural address at the opening of the R.A.F. Staff College at Andover. This policy, as Gen. Groves interprets it, consists in maintaining a small regular Air Force, and in establishing a Territorial Air Force upon which to draw in case of emergency. Up till a very short time ago, Gen. Groves points out, we had no home defence against air attack, in the only form possible, i.e. a striking force of aircraft which, by being ready to attack at short notice the centres of any enemy who may contemplate an attack upon us, shall ensure that we are immune from such attack. It was not until, as Gen. Groves puts it, the Air Ministry " suddenly realising the obvious, resorted to panic measures and set aside three squadrons for the purpose," that anything was done, and even then, the three squadrons (totally inadequate to deal with
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