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Flight, October 12, 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. 720. (No. 41, Vol. XIV.) OCTOBER 12, 1922 [•Weekly, Price 6d. 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. \&. Abroad .. .. 33s. o&.% 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 Internal Air Services The Shoe Beginning to Pinch London-Constantinople The Gliding Competition The Albatros Type L. 57 Monoplane Royal Aero Club Official Notices ,. Gliding, Soaring and Air-Sailing German Gliders Fokker Gliding at Peacehaven Aircraft in. Newfoundland .. London Terminal Aerodrome London-Continental Services Air Ministry Notices Airisms from the Four Winds Langley. By L. Bairstow Royal Aeronautical Society Official Notices Royal Air Force R.A.F. Appointments Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers .. Personals Rubber as Applied to Aircraft PAGE 585 586 586 586 587 588 589 501 592 593 594 594 595 596 597 597 598 598 599 599 600 DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in the following list 1 1922. Oct. 16-21 Oct. 26 .... Nov. SO .... Deo. 15- Jan. 2 1928. Jane Dee. 1 •- 1924. Mar. 1 ... Mar. 15 .... Daily Mail £1,000 Gliding Competition Royal Aero Club Dinner at Savoy Hotel, celebrating the Schneider Cup victory and first King's Cup Race Closing date for FLIGHT Glider Designing Competition Paris Aero Exhibition International Air Congress, London Entries close lor French Aero Engine Com petition French Aero Engine Competition Entries close lor Dntch Height Indicator Com petition EDITORIAL COMMEMT. ^NOTHER step in the right direction will have been made when, towards the end of this month, the new air service between London and Man chester is opened by the Daimler Airway. The arrangements in con nection with the new service, it is stated, were completed on October 5 by Maj.-Gen. Sir Sefton Brancker, Director of Civil Aviation, and, as already mentioned, it is hoped to start activities in a couple of weeks' Internal time ^7^ England has generally Services keen looked upon as rather unfavour ably situated, both in regard to climatic conditions and in being already extremely well provided for in the matter of fast and frequent train services, there are those who hold that with proper ground organisation there should be no great difficulty in running an air service with good regularity between London and towns in the north. The new line to Manchester starts at the very worst time of the year from a meteorological point of view, and thus if the service prove a success all the more credit will be due to those whose foresight and courage in opening the route have made its inauguration an accomplished fact. We understand that it is the intention to use on the new route machines of the D.H.34 type, with 450 h.p. Napier engines, and which carry 10 passengers. These machines are very fast, and as speed will certainly be an important factor over a route already so well served as is the London- Manchester, the choice is probably a wise one. In our view the chief merit of the new route lies in the fact that it links up parts of the country other than London with the Continent by air. It is probable that the business man in Manchester who wishes to do business in London will still continue, for some time at any rate, to travel by train, and will send his mails and goods by train. The saving in time, when counting—in the time occupied in getting to and from the aerodromes, is not such as to offer any great inducement to use the air; but if a man in Manchester is doing business with Paris, Brussels, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Cologne, etc., and is able to reduce the time taken to reach any of these cities by two-thirds or so, then, provided the charges made c
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