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Flight, October 5, 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. 719. (No. 40, Vol. XIV.) OCTOBER 5, 1922 rWeekly, 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. 4d. 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 General Sir Sef ton Brancker on Air Transport A League of Nations Air Force D. of R. and Farnborough The Coupe Deutsch Boulton and Paul "Bolton" Biplane London-Continental Services Deutsch Cup Correspondence Gliding, Soaring and Air-Sailing .. Which is the Best Wing for a Glider' The New De Havilland Glider .. Air Transport London Terminal Aerodrome Royal Air Force Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers PAGE 569 57o 57o 570 57i 57- 573 576 577 -:: srs 581 583 584 584 DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous oj announcing the dates of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for 1922. Oct. 1621 Nov. SO ... Dec. 15-Jan. 2 1923. June Dec. 1 ... 1924. Mar. 1 .... Mar. 16 ... . .inclusion in the following list: Daily Mail £1,000 Gliding Competition Closing date for FLIGHT Designing Competition Paris Aero Exhibition International Air Congress, London Entries close for French Aero Engine Com petition French Aero Engine Competition Entries close for Datch Height Indicator Com petition EBIT03RIAH, COMMENT. iTlLSEWHERE in this issue of FLIGHT we publish a resume of a lecture given by General Sir Sefton Brancker, Director of Civil Aviation, before the Overseas League. Sir Sefton was speaking to an audience not intimately connected with, nor, presumably, in very close touch with aviation, and in his lecture he, therefore, covered a good deal of ground which has already been thoroughly traversed by himself and General otners on various occasions.' The Sir Sefton D.C.A., however, made one or two Brancker on remarks which appear to call for Air comment. Thus, his announcement Transport that it ]& propOSed to establish five or six civilian flying schools for the training of officers of the R.A.F. Reserve will be received with consider able satisfaction. General Brancker's actual words were somewhat vague, but if we interpret them correctlv, his idea is that these civilian schools will train a certain number of reserve officers, the cost of such training to be borne by the R.A.F., and that while the Government assistance thus afforded will keep the schools going, it will also enable them (the schools) to train civilians, possibly at a lower rate, and thus provide an extra reserve of pilots against emergencies. This is all to the good, and indicates a return to the old days before the War, when our civilian flying schools did such valuable service in training the men who, during the period of greatest stress, became the very backbone of our R.F.C. and R.N.A.S. Just as from those early pilots, trained at our civilian flying schools, was formed the nucleus of our flying personnel, which grew during the War to such gigantic proportions, so the Government assistance to civilian flying schools now promised will enable us to found a reserve from which, in case of future need, may be drawn the pilots, instructors and mechanics who are to teach the new generation. Another statement made by General Brancker is, we think, entitled to special notice, dealing as it does with a fact which, although realised in a more or less vague way, is somewhat likely to be lost sight of. He pointed out that in the past great Empires re mained great only so long as they gave due con sideration to the question of good communications.
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