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Flight, June 29, 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. 705. (No. 26, Vol. XIV.) JUNE 29, 1922 rWeekly, Price 6d. L Post free, 7d. FligHt. The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C. t Telegrams : Truditur, Westcent, London. Telephone : Gerrard 1828 Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free : United Kingdom .. 30s. 4&. Abroad .. .. 33s. orf.* 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 FAGI The Pageant and Our Future in the Air .. .. .. .. 365 The Remedy 366 The Need for Making Air Mails Compulsory.. .. .. ... 366 The R.A.F. Aerial Pageant: Two General Views .. .. .. 367 The R.A.F. Pageant ; ..366 German Air Legislation 373 Royal Aeronautical Society Official Notices .. . • .. .. 373 London Terminal Aerodrome .. .. .. .. .. .. 374 Air Ministry Notices.. .. .. .. .. .. .. 374 The Entler All-Metal Sporting Cantilever Biplane .. .. .. 375 In Parliament 376 The Royal Air Force .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 377 Personals .. London-Continental Services .. .. .. .. .. .. 377 London Aero-Models Association .. .. .. .. .. .. 378 Imports and Exports 37 DIARY 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. Aug. 6-20 Aug. 6 .... Aug. 7 .... Artf. 12... Sept. Sept Sept. or Oct. Sept. 22 .... Dec. 15- Jan. 2 French Gliding Competition Gordon-Bennett Balloon Baee, Genera Aerial Derby Starting 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.) Paris Aero Exhibition 1928. Dec. 1 1924. Mu. 1 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, Kinfisway, W.C. 2. Price Is. per copy (Is. Id. post free). EDITORIAL §PART from its immediate interest as a splendid spectacle, the Royal Air Force Pageant, held at Hendon on Saturday of last week, took place at a very opportune moment, inasmuch as it centred public attention, already aroused by articles in the general Press — for which many thanks—and by questions in the House, upon the work of the R.A.F. The eighty thousand odd who witnessed the various demonstrations The Pageant cannot fail to have come away filled Ftmire^n with admiration for the perfect the Air " craftmanship " of the pilots, the clockwork smoothness and regularity of the organisation, and the general air of absolute mastery which pervaded the whole demonstration. And at any rate a certain proportion of the visitors must have been forced to put to themselves the question : Have we enough of these splendid pilots, and have we sufficient machines of modern types upon which to mount them so as to give them the benefit of the latest technical developments. Unfortunately, the answer to both questions must be an emphatic NO. As regards the number of pilots, a fair idea may be formed if it be remembered that at present we have at home a mere bagatelle of twelve squadrons, while our French Allies, devoting less time to " considerations " and more to action, will shortly have 240 squadrons. These facts hardly need elaboration. The very third-rate position into which a short-sighted Government has allowed us to sink should be obvious to the meanest intelligence. And it is not as if France were the only country to grasp the value of air power. Nearly every European nation is getting into the air—within the means at its disposal. In this connection, it should be realised that the air forms one of the cheapest known forms of armed force. Countries which could afford only the smallest Army and a Navy consisting of a few obsolete ships, can—and do—find the means to build up air forces which cost far less and are far more effective. Yet this great Empire continues to blindly pin its faith to the Navy—our first line of defence in the past, but no longer so, since the advent of aircraft. Were it not for the fact that we have the greatest confidence in the sound sense of the
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