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Flight, May 25, 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. 700. (No. 21, Vol. XIV.) MAY 25, 1922 fWeekly, 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. \i. Abroad .. .. 33s. od* These rates are subject to any alteration found necessary under abnorma conditions and to increases in postage rates • European subscriptions must be remitted in British currency CONTENTS * Editorial Comment PAGE The Russo-German War Pact .. .. .. .. .. .. 291 Our Neglected Seaplanes .. .. .. .. 292 Fireproof Aircraft Tanks .. .. .. .. .. .. 292 British Aircraft in Foreign Markets .. .. .. .. .. 293 Royal Aero Club Official Notices 295 Air Ministry Tank Competition : Wii.ner of First Prize .. .. .. 296 London-Continental Services .. .. .. .. .. .. 297 Round the World Flight 29S Wireless Position-Finding for Aircraft .. .. .. .. .. 209 Radio Telegraphy .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 299 London Terminal Aerodrome .. .. .. .. .. .. 3°° Vickers Vulcan .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 301 Royal Tournament .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 3°i Aerial Warfare at Farnborough .. .. .. .. .. .. 302 Samson Mediterranean Flight .. .. .. .. .. .. 302 Royal Aeronautical Society Official Notices .. .. .. .. 302 la Parliament s .. 3°3 Air Ministry Notices.. .. .. 304 Correspondence .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 304 Royal Air Force .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 305 The London Aero-Models Association .. .. .. .. .. 306 DIART OF 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: 1922. June 1 .... June 8 .... Jane 23-25 July 29 .... Aug. 6-20 Aug. 6 .... Aug. 7 .... Aug. (last fortnight) Sept. Sept Sept. or Oct. Sept. 22 ... 192S. Dee. 1 .... 1924. Hat. 1 .... Entries close for Schneider Cup Race R.Ae.C. Whitsun Race Meeting, at Waddon International Competition for Touring 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 (800 kil.) Entries Close for petition French Aero Engine Corn- 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 Russo- German War Pact. EDITORIAL COMMEMT. HE very greatest interest attaches to the Russo-German Pact, which, it is alleged, actually provides for the supply of arms and ammunition for Bolshevik Russia by Germany. What purports to be the actual text of the secret military convention concluded in Berlin on April 3, 1922, between Russian and German representatives was published in the Paris Eclair, and a translation of it was published in the Daily Mail of May 19, 1922, the particular clauses referring to aircraft being given in this week's FLIGHT. That the authenticity of the document has been denied by both Berlin and Moscow need not necessarily mean any thing, and it might have been thought that our own Foreign Office would be in a position to know whether or not the document is genuine. Up to the time of writing, no statement has, as far as we are aware, been made by the F.O., and it is, perhaps, permissible to assume that " there may be something in it." No smoke without fire may prove a truthful proverb once more, and at any rate the position is one which will bear the very closest watching. The portion of the alleged treaty which interests us most is, naturally, that dealing with the supply by Germany of 500 Junkers all-metal aeroplanes. How Germany should have been able to construct under the eyes of the Inter-Allied Commission, 500 aero planes of any one type without being discovered, or how 500 such machines could have been hidden away and escaped detection, is a mystery. Although the reported text does not state when and how these machines are to be built, there is evidence that some of them at any rate are in existence. M. de Montjou, the French Deputy, states in a book which he has lust published, dealing with his observations on a visit to Germany, that at the Junkers works at Dessau he found 74 machines in hand, nearing completion.
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