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= Flight, May 18, 1922 First Aero Weekly in the World. Founder and Editor : STANLEY SPOONER A Journal devoted to the Interest*, Practice, and Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 699. (No. 20, Vol. XIV.) MAY I8, 1922 rWeckly. 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. 4d. Abroad .. .. 33s. od.* These rates are subject to any alteration found necessary under abnorma condition! and to increases in postage rates • European subscriptions must be remitted in British currency CONTENTS Editorial Comment The New Director of Civil Aviation South African Ratification of International Air Convention The Airship Scheme Canada's Use of Seaplanes A New Gas for Airships London-Continental Services London Terminal Aerodrome .. .. ..... Queensland Aviation Going Ahead Germany's Position in the Air Personals Royal Aeronautical Society Official Notices R.A.F. Memorial Fund Royal Air Force K.A.F. Appointments 1 n Parliament.. .. .. .. .. Imports and Exports Side-winds The London Aero-Models Association PAGE HI 278 27S -79 283 283 -*4 286 286 287 287 = 88 289 .'89 J 89 290 290 290 DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous oj announcing the dates of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for 1922. June 1 .... June 3 Jane 23-25 July 29 .... Aug. 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 Tonring Aero planes, Brussels Aerial Derby, starting at Waddon French Gliding Competition Gordon-Bennett Balloon Race, 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). The New Director of Civil Aviation 1TORIAL, COMMENT. foreshadowed by Capt. Guest in his Budget Speech, with the resignation of Sir Frederick Sykes from the post of Controller-General of Civil Avia tion that office has ceased to exist, and in its stead a new appointment is being established, to be known as the Directorate of Civil Aviation. Whatever may be one's opinion regarding the wisdom of this decision, few will quarrel with the selection of Maj.-Gen. Sir W. Sefton Brancker, K.C.B., A.F.C., for the post of Director of Civil Aviation. Sir Sefton Brancker is well known to all interested in avia tion, and he carries to his new post qualities which should be of the greatest value during the difficult times that are in front of us. We say difficult because, with the growing realisation of the importance of aviation from a defence point of view, the day cannot be far distant when we must establish that " national striking force " upon which our safety depends, and whose necessity has been so well advo cated by General Groves in The Times lately. As such a force can only be established by developing civil aviation, to Gen. Sir Sefton Brancker will fall the task of co-operating with the leaders of the R.A.F. in the planning of the separate yet inter dependent civil and military air organisations which shall ensure the necessary liaison. Sir Sefton Brancker's appointment will be welcomed because he is intensely enthusiastic about the future of aviation ; because he has sufficient common sense not to be misled or hoodwinked ; and because he was never afraid of speaking his mind, no matter to whom he was addressing his remarks. The fact that his position will not be quite on the same plane as that of a C.G.C.A. will not matter greatly to Sir Sefton Brancker. He will not, presumably, have a seat on the Air Council, but he is not the man to be dis couraged by such a handicap, and it may be taken
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