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JULY 27, 1922 Air Ministry endeavoured to supply what was needed as fully as was practicable. There was necessarily a considerable margin between what the Admiralty would like to see, the experiments which they wished to make, the strength of the Air establishment which they would like to have in their hands at this moment and what the finances of the country at present allowed. The designing of aircraft for the Navy and the designing of air torpedoes was a matter for the Design Department of the Admiralty, acting, of course, in the closest touch and collaboration with the Air Ministry. The Navy had two aircraft carriers—one in the Atlantic and the other in the Mediterranean. Three more carriers were being completed, and he hoped that two would be ready before the end of the .financial year and one before the end of the*calendar year. At the present time the Admiralty had the pilots and the aircraft for the two carriers which were actually on service. The United States Navy had a naval air force of which the cost was set down in the present year's Estimates at £5,250,000, which did work for the Navy and, in addition, a certain amount of work from the shore, such as under our organisa tion would come within the defence work of the Air Force. We had six fighting aeroplanes with pilots actually with the Fleet, and an immediate reserve of three more, and he understood that three others were in reserve under the control of the Air Ministry. The number of 86 fighting aeroplanes which it had been said that the United States Navy had was not the number which that navy had today, but the number proposed for 1923. By the time that the United States proposals were carried into effect we should have a larger provision of aircraft carriers than we had at present, and he trusted a larger provision of aircraft also. The exercises, of which some account had been published in the Press that morning, were not of a wholly novel character, but were part of a series of very valuable and instructive exercises which had been carried out for some time. It was not true that these aeroplanes employed a smoke screen. That was an interesting detail thrown in by the newspaper but not based on actual facts. There was not a surprise. The torpedo-carrying aeroplanes were sighted about 15 minutes before firing their torpedoes. They were attacked in dummy by fleet-fighting planes as they approached. They were under dummy gunfire from escorting light cruisers and destroyers when at a low altitude before firing their torpedoes. Hon. Members would realise the great difference upon the morale and steadiness of a flier between dummy fire and real fire directed against him. The attack was developed under conditions which were necessarily favourable to the attack. The number of hits reported under these favourable conditions was not considered to be at all large, from the Admiralty point of view, or, at any rate, not beyond what was expected. Married Flying Officer HENRY JOHN HUNTER, R.A.F., third son of the late William Hunter, of Reigate, and Mrs. Hunter, of Polmood, Cranbrook, was married on July 19, at St. Andrew's Church, West Kensington, to MOIRA GWENDOLEN HATTON, younger daughter of Captain H. G. S. TUITE and Mrs. TUITE, of 19A, Perham Road, W. 14, and niece of Sir Morgan Tuite, Bart., of Sonna, Co. Westmeath. AUSTEEN REES, late R.A.F., second son of Mr. and Mrs. Rees, was married, on June 10, at the Cathedral, Victoria, B.C., to OLIVETTE, elder daughter of the late Mr. JOHN OAKLEY MAUND and Mrs. OAKLEY MAUND. Flight Lieut. HERBERT EDWIN TANSLEY, M.C., R.A.F., third son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Jackson-Tansley, of Washwood Heath, was married on July 5, at Uxbridge, to ANN (SHOCK) DENNIS (formerly Brown), younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Brown, of " Samson's," Bourn, Cambridgeshire. To be Married The engagement is announced between JOHN BERESFORD COLE-HAMILTON, R.A.F., late R.N., and SYBIL, elder daughter of Sir JOHN and Lady LATTA, of 12, Portman Square, W. 1. Killed Flight Cadet VYVIAN OSBORNE GILLMORE was killed in an aeroplane collision at Cranwell, Sleaford, on Friday, July 7. Capt. SIDNEY J. STEWART, late R.F.C. (27th, 40th and 208th Sqdns.), who was accidentally killed while flying in Paraguay on July 8, was the eldest surviving son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stewart, Alton, Hants. His age was 27. Item The will of Pilot Flying Officer GEOFFREY ROBINSON, M.C., of the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, and late of Sheffield, who was killed in an aeroplane accident near Burnham, Bucks, on February 10, aged 28, has been proved at £274. H a E H The Gordon-Bennett Balloon Race WE learn that the following countries and pilots will participate in this year's Gordon-Bennett Balloon Race, which starts at Geneva on August 6 :—England.—Ernest Allen, Griffith Brewer and John Dunville ; Belgium.—Lieut. Labrousse, Capt. George and E. Demuyter; France.— Maurice Bienaime, Georges Cormier and Jules Dubois; Italy.—Commandant Barbanti, G. Valle and A. Guglielmetti; Spain.—E. Magdalena and F. Martinez Sanz ; Switzerland.— Capt. Armbruster, 1st Lieut. Ansermier and Maj. Gerber ; and United States.—Oscar Weslover, H. E. Honeywell and W. Reed. H H H H A new Junkers' three- seater: This machine, to which reference was made in FLIGHT re cently, is a departure from Junkers' practice in having the wing placed on top instead of low down on the fuselage. The cabin has accommodation for two passengers, and as the engine is a Siemens of 60 h.p. only, the machine is using but 20 h.p. per occupant, which should give very economical running. 427
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