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Flight, November 23, 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. 726. (No. 47, Vol. XIV.) NOVEMBER 23, 1922 [Weekly, Price 6d. L Post free, 7d. 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. 4<J. 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 The R.A.F. in Iraq 681 Exit Hendon .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 682 England's First Gliding School .. .. .. .. .. 682 A Really Light Low-Powered Engine: The German Statax 3-Cyl. Rotary 683 Gliding, Soaring and Air-Sailing .. .. .. .. .. .. 684 The Klemperer "Ente" Glider .. .. .. .. .. .. 685 London Terminal Aerodrome .. .. .. 687 London-Continental Services .. .. .. .. .. .. 687 Theory of the Slotted Wing: By A. Betz 688 The New De Havilland Bomber "Derby," Type D.H.27 .. .. 691 The Co-Relation of Model and Full Scale Work 692 Royal Air Force .. .. .. .. 693 Prof. William Newell's Accident .. .. .. .. .. .. 694 Side-Winds 69 Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers 69 The R.A.F. in Iraq DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous oj announcing the dates of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in the following list! 1922. Nov. 30 Dec. 1 Dec. 15-Jan. 1928. liar. 15 June Dec. 1 1924. Mar. 1 .... Closing date for FLIGHT Glider Designing Competition .... Lecture, " Constructional Design of Aero planes," by C. W. Tinson, before I.Ae.E. 2 Paris Aero Exhibition ... Entries close for Dutch Height Indioator Com petition .... International Air Congress, London .... Entries close tor French Aero Engine Com petition .... French Aero Engine Competition COMMEHT. )NSIDERABLE publicity has lately been given to the doings of the Royal Air Force in Iraq, through the articles by Sir Percival Phillips in the Daily Mail. The fact that it is the R.A.F. upon which the spotlight has been directed is mainly incidental, and is but a part of the propaganda for the entire evacuation of Iraq which the proprietors of that and other journals have been carrying on for a considerable period. With the argu ments used in Sir Percival's articles we are not so much concerned here. He, like many others, appears to overlook the fact that, quite apart from the question of the wisdom or otherwise of spending money upon upholding King Feisul's Government and main taining law and order, the Persian oil fields are of vast importance to the Empire, and conditions can easily be imagined under which these oil fields might form Britain's only supply of oil fuel. Thus, whether we like it or not, we must defend the pipe line from Basra to Jaffa, and that being so, nobody would seriously claim that this task could be more cheaply or more efficiently done than by the R.A.F. Amid all the wild talk about protection of the poor Arab, killing women and children, " Government by Bomb," and all the rest, this salient fact should be kept in mind. It seems fairly probable that those who now clamour loudest for the evacuation of Iraq would be the first to cry out loud and long about lack of foresight, should the pipe line and, through that, the oil supplies in Persia be cut off and the supply of oil fuel for our Navy and petrol for our aircraft, motor transport, etc., be endangered. At that we are content to let the matter rest as far as the necessity for our being in Iraq at all is con cerned. As regards the effectiveness of the R.A.F., even Sir Percival does not deny it. On the contrary, he says, in one of his articles : " Until now, government by bomb as I have described it has been the only really effective form of authority in many parts of Iraq," And, again, as showing another direction in which aircraft has proved its usefulness : " Recent operations in Kurdistan proved the efficacy of
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