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INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR AIR NAVIGATION THE International Commission for Air Navigation held its first meeting in Paris on July 11. This meeting was convened by the French Government, in accordance with the terms of the International Convention for the Regulation of Aerial Navigation, which came into force on July n. Fourteen States ratified the Convention on June I, these being :—Belgium, Bolivia, British Empire (including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India), France, Greece, Japan, Portugal, Serb-Croate-Slovene State, and Siam, while the following States, which were not signatories to it originally, have adhered :—Persia, Peru, Liberia, and Nicaragua. The Right Hon. the Lord Gorell, C.B.E., M.C., Under- Secretary of State for Air, attended the meeting as the British representative, and acted also as the representative of India, and the Dominions, with the possible exception of Canada, who has not yet notified her representative. He was accom panied by Major-General Sir W. Sefton Brancker, K.C.B., A.F.C., Colonel L. F. Blandy, D.S.O., Controller of Communi cations, and other officials of the Air Ministry. Sir W. Sefton Brancker, after this first meeting, is the permanent representative of Great Britain, and also for the present of the Dominions, with the possible exception men tioned above. The dutes of the Commission are laid down in the Con vention (Chapter VIII, Article 34) as follows :— (a) To receive proposals from or to make proposals to any of the Contracting States for the modification or amendment of the provisions of the present Con vention and to notify changes adopted. (6) To carry out the duties imposed upon it by the present article and by Articles 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 27, 28, 36 and 37 of the present Convention, (c) To amend the provisions of the Annexes A-G. d\ To collect and communicate to the contracting States information of every kind concerning International air navigation. (e) To collect and communicate to the contracting States all information relating to wireless telegraphy, meteorology, and medical science which may be of interest to air navigation. (/) To ensure the publication of maps for air navigation in accordance with the provisions of Annex F. (g) To give its opinion on questions which the States may submit for examination. The Commission, at this meeting, considered (a) various questions provided in the Convention ; (b) certain matters referred to it by the Aeronautical Commission of the Peace Conference and the Conference of Ambassadors; and (c) questions referred by signatory States. Before the Commission assembled, a meeting of the Anglo- Franco-Belgian Civil Aviation Conference took place in Paris. THE AIR NAVIGATION ORDER, 1922 THE Air Navigation Order, 1922, which came into force on July n, is in general similar to the existing regulations, which were issued on April 30, 1919 (and published in FLIGHT of May 8, 1919). The differences in detail are in the main those necessary to give effect to the provisions of the Inter national Convention for Air Navigation. A few alterations not directly attributable to the Convention appear, however, to have been incorporated, among which mention may be made of the following : (a) From January 1, 1923, certificates of airworthiness will be required for all aircraft, and not merely for those employed in public transport: the daily main tenance certificate, however, is still only required in the case of aircraft falling in the latter category ; (b) After November 1, 1922, all British aircraft must be equipped with certain speci fied instruments (the nature of which has not yet been an nounced) ; (c) the fees for certificates and licences have been revised. With regard to (c), the registration fee for an aircraft is fixed at one guinea, and for the renewal of the registration certificate at 5s. The charges for airworthiness certificates for type aircraft, are as follows : When the nominal horse power does not exceed 200, the fee is £65 ; from 200 to 40oh.p.,/9o; from 400 to 600 h.p., £110 ; and above 600 h.p., ^126. These fees are, of course, for machines of new type. H H ROYAL AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY NOTICES Chairman.—At a Council Meeting held on June 28, Prof. Leonard Bairstow, C.B.E., F.R.S., Fellow, was elected Chairman of the Society for the year 1922-1923 in succession to Lt.-Col. M. O'Gorman, C.B., Fellow, whose period of office terminates on September 30 next. Election of Members.—The following mem bers were elected at a Council Meeting held on June 28 :— Associate Fellow : J. E. Dumbleton, A.M.Inst.C.E. Members : Brian L. Martin, B.Sc, Air Vice-Marshal Sir Geoffrey H. Salmond, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O. Library.—The following books have been received and placed in the Society's Library :—" Fuel for Motor Trans port " (Second Memorandum), The Fuel Research Board ; " A Short Course in Elementary Meteorology," by W. H. Pick ; " Report of the International Allied Commission of Control " (Germany), Air Ministry ; " Proceedings of the Second Air Conference held on February 7 and 8, 1922 "; " All the World's Aircraft, 1922 " ; "A Dictionary of Applied Physics," edited by Sir Richard Glazebrook ; " Rapports Premier Congres International, Paris, 1921 "; "Aviation in Peace and War," by Sir Frederick Sykes; " Application de la Resistance des Materiaux au calcul des Avions," by M. Boileve; "The War in the Air," by Sir Walter Raleigh; " 14,000 Miles Through the Air," Sir Ross Smith. W. LOCKWOOD MARSH, Secretary The fee chargeable on the issue of airworthiness certificates for subsequent aircraft of the same type, or for the renewal of-any airworthiness certificate, is £5 5s. In cases where machines resemble a type for which a certificate has already been issued, the Secretary of State for Air has power to reduce the fees if the resemblance is sufficient materially to reduce the work of testing and examination. In the case of aerodromes, the fee for issue of a licence is as follows : Up to 25 miles, from the nearest R.A.F. aerodrome, £1 is. ; from 25 to 50 miles, £2 2s. ; more than 50 miles, £3 3s. The fee for a renewal is in all cases, £1 is. For the issue of licences, etc., to personnel, the following fees are charged : For pilots. Navigators and Engineers, medical examination, £1 is. ; for pilot's flying tests, £1 is. ; for all technical examinations, 5s. ; and for all licences, 5s. The renewal fees are the same, except the medical examina tion, which is reduced to 10s. 6d. As the new regulations are, in the main, similar to those published in full in our issue of May 8, 1919, we do not propose to publish the text of the Air Navigation Order of 1922. All interested should make a point of obtaining from H.M. Stationery Office, Kingsway, a copy of the Order. The title is : Statutory Rules and Orders, No. 663 of 1922, and the price is nd. net. H H Splendid Flight by French Aviators ONE THOUSAND MILES non-stop in an ordinary two-seater aeroplane is a very good performance, especially when nearly 500 miles is over the sea. Yet this is the achievement of M. Pelletier d'Oisy and his engineer, Corpl. Bussard. The machine used was a Breguet 14 A 2, with 300 h.p. Renault engine, and it carried 1,150 litres (about 250 galls.) of petrol, which naturally made it somewhat heavy during the first part of the flight. Leaving Tunis at 6 a.m. on July 6, M. Pelletier d'Oisy headed out to sea and shaped a course for Sardinia. Having made a " landfall " here, he proceeded along the coast until Corsica was picked up. From Ajaccio a course was shaped for St. Raphael, and it might be men tioned that most of the flight across the Mediterranean was made at the low altitude of 800 metres (2,600 ft.). After leaving St.-Raphael M. Pelletier d'Oisy climbed to 3,000 metres (10,000 ft.), heading towards Lyon. Here low clouds were encountered, and the aviators had to resort to " contour- chasing " in order not to get lost in the clouds. The wind was terrific, and to make matters worse, rain and hail storms were encountered. When about 150 km. from Paris the propeller was beginning to suffer severely from the hail stones, and a landing was made. After waiting for about 10 minutes the weather moderated somewhat and the flight was resumed, the two gallant aviators landing at Le Bourget a * 5-5° p.m., having covered the 1,000 miles in just under 12 hours, or at an average speed of 83 m.p.h. On this flight M. Pelletier carried official dispatches only, but the flight does give an excellent demonstration of what will be done in the future in the way of mail -carrying by aircraft. 401
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