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Flight, August 10, 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. 711. (No. 32, Vol. XIV.) AUGUST IO, 1922 ["Weekly, 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. *d. 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 Editorial Comment PAGE What Does It Really Mean ? 445 The Derby 446 The Aerial Derby 7 Aerial Derby and Waddon Meeting .. .. .... .. 448 TheD.H.37 '453 London-Continental Services .. .. .. .. .. . • 455 The New Aveline Automatic Pilot.. .. .. .. .. •• 45 6 April-June Air Traffic Returns 456 London Terminal Aerodrome .. .. .. .. .. . • 45 7 The Seaplane Flight Around the World 458 In Parliament 45 Royal Air Force .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 459 R.A.F. Memorial Fund 45 Mr. Patrick Alexander .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 460 Correspondence 46° DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous 0/ announcing the dates of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in the following list: 1922. Aug. 6-20 Aug. 12... Sept. 2-17... Sept. 8-10... Sept. Sept Sept. or Oct. Sept. 22 .... Dee. 15- Jan. 2 1928. June Dec. 1 .... 1924. Mar. 1 .... Mar. 15 ... French Gliding Competition at Clermont- Ferrand Schneider Cup Seaplane Race, at Naples International Conconrs Aviatique, Rotterdam 1,000 Miles Race ronnd Britain for the King's Trophy Tyrrhenian Cap, Italy Italian Grand Prix R.Ae.C. Race Meeting, at Waddon Conpe Dentsch (300 kil.) Paris Aero Exhibition International Air Congress, London Entries Close lor French Aero Engine Com petition French Aero Engine Competition. Entries close lor Dutch Height Indicator Com petition EBETOIUAL COMMEK1. R. LLOYD GEORGE'S statement in the House on June 3, that the Government have decided, as a result of the inquiry by the Committee of Imperial Defence, to adopt the scheme submitted by the Air Ministry to provide a force of 500 machines for home defence at an in creased cost of £2,000,000 per annum, has been received with general satisfaction, showing as it does that the Government has at last realised the anomaly of the position into which the ^Y?1^ Dj?es country has been allowed to fall in Mean?y regard to our position in the air. As it had, to all intents and purposes, been universally admitted that the air is now our first line of defence, the three squadrons available for home defence could hardly hold good for long. That the trouble which the Admiralty has been causing lately has been partly responsible for the delay in arriving at a decision can scarcely be doubted, and although the relative positions of the three services has yet to be settled, in the meantime, the announcement of a definite policy to embark upon substantial additions to the Air Force can be accepted as indicating a return to a sane realisation of the changing of methods for maintaining the security of Britain's shores. There has been a good deal of speculation as to what the announcement really means, and further official statements are required before it is possible to form any very clear opinion, but even at the present moment one or two things do emerge from the Prime Minister's statement on the Cabinet's air policy. In the course of his statement Mr. Lloyd George mentioned that '' The inquiries of the Cabinet Committee on Economy in the Fighting Services have advanced sufficiently to enable me to state that this addition to the provision in the Air Estimates will not prevent a reduction in the total Estimates for the Fighting Services for the year 1923-24." In other words, the Government has decided that, by making fuller use of the air and its possibilities, savings can be effected in the other two services. Put a little differently, there are a good many things which the R.A.F. can do more economi cally than can the older Services. That in itself is an admission which the Air Ministry may well be proud of having secured, and the Cabinet, once having B 2
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