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Flight, July 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. 707. (No. 28, Vol. XIV.) JULY 13, 1922 [Weekly, Price 6d. Post free, 7d. Flight. The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAV, W.C. 2 Telegrams : Truditur, Westcent, London. Telephone : Gerrard 1828 Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free : United Kingdom .. 30s. 4a. 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 4 Editorial Comment PAGE Common-Sense about the Air .. .. .. .. .. .. 391 Human Nature and Air Armament .. .. .. .. .. 392 The Air Navigation Order, 1922 .. .. .. .. .. 392 The Udet Sporting Single-Seater .. .. 393 A Berlin-Vienna-Rome Airship Proposal . 395 A New Calthrop Parachute Development.. .. .. .. .. 396 Air Ministry Notices 397 London-Continental Services .. .. .. .. .. .. 397 The Case for the Slotted Wing. By R. Reynolds .. .. .. 398 London Terminal Aerodrome .. .. .. .. .. .. 400 International Commission for Air Navigation .. .. .. .. 401 Air Navigation Order .. .. .. 40 Royal Aeronautical Society Official Notices 40 In Parliament 402 Royal Air Force .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 403 Royal Air Force Intelligence .. .. .. .. .. 403 Titanine Activities .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 404 Royal Air Force Memorial Fund .. .. .. .. .. .. 404 DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for 1922. Aug. 6-20 Aug. 6 .... Aug. 7 .... Aug. 12 ... Sept Sept Sept. or Oct. Sept. 22 .... Dee. 15-Jan. 2 1928. Deo. 1 ... 1924. Mar. 1 ... Mar. 15 ... inclusion in the following list 1 French Gliding Competition Gordon-Bennett Balloon Raoe, Geneva Aerial Derby Starting at Waddon Schneider Cup Seaplane Race, at Naples Tyrrhenian Cup, Italy Italian Grand Prix B.Ae.C. Race Meeting, at Waddon Conpe Deutsch (800 kil.) Paris Aero Exhibition Entries Close for French Aero Engine Com petition French Aero Engine Competition. Entries close for Dutch Height Indicator Com petition 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. HE disinclination to face large issues calmly and on their merits that has been noticeable in England since the War is once again affecting the atti tude of the country towards its comparative defencelessness in the air. There is, doubtless, general assent to the principle that the development of aircraft, civil and military, lighter and heavier than air, is of vital importance to our strategic safety as to our commercial prosperity. Common- gut ^is ^5^ < oes not connote readi- the Air ness ro support, and still less to insist upon, the adoption of measures calcu lated to safeguard the interests admittedly involved. Rather is there a tendency, which was reflected on Friday in the House of Commons, to treat as mere " scares " attempts to prove how dangerously our air power has lapsed. Pious suggestions that nations should agree to suppress aerial locomotion altogether are put forward, despite their visionary character. Aviation is a fact that cannot be gainsaid. Its development in all countries is not merely a possi bility, but a certainty. No nation can afford to handicap itself by deliberately or carelessly neglecting to exploit the quickest means of transport. Still less can any Power, great or small, run the risk of leaving itself at the mercy of the most deadly weapon of offence that the ingenuity of man has yet devised. Against the menace of this weapon there are but two means of protection. One is the possession of an adequate supply of efficient aircraft and efficient pilots ; and the other is the strengthening of political safeguards, by the pursuit of sound policies, supported by international sanctions against wanton aerial offence. The people of this country have not yet realised as fully as they ought the elementary fact that, strategi cally, Great Britain is no longer an island. Our southern shores, and even London, are technically open to bombardment by artillery from foreign terri tory. Slight though this danger may seem, it is increased a hundred-fold by the menace of foreign aerial bombardment. Hence the need for a consistent foreign policy that shall decrease, even if it cannot entirely remove, the danger of attack, Hence,
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