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Plight, November 30,'1922 =l\ First Aero Weekly in the World. Founder and Editor : STANLEY SPOONER A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practiee, and Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 727. (No. 48, Vol. XIV.) NOVEMBER 30, 1922 [Weekly, Price 6d. L Post fret, 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. *,&, Abroad .. .. 33s. ad* 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 Hendon Redivlvus And Increasing Enterprise New Course for Speed Records Handley Page "Hanley" Torpedo'Plane.. Royal Aero Club Official Notices Gliding, Soaring and Air-Sailing London Terminal Aerodrome London-Continental Services Air Ministry Notices R.A.F. Memorial Fund In Parliament Royal Air Force Personals .. .. .. .. Correspondence Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers .. PAGK 69S 6<)6 691"' .. .697 703 704 70S • • 705 706 706 706 707 707 70S 708 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. Nov. 30 .... Closing date for FLIGHT Glider Designing Competition Dec. 1 .... Lecture, "Constructional Design of Aero planes," by C. W. Tinson, before I.Ae.E. Dec. 15- Jan. 2 Paris Aero Exhibition 1923. Har. 15 ... June Dec. 1 ... 1924. Mar. 1 ... . Entries close for Dutch Height Indicator Com petition .. International Air Congress, London . Entries close lor French Aero Engine Com petition . French Aero Engine Competition COMMENT. E are extremely glad to learn that we were misinformed in the matter of the future of Hendon, as stated under the heading "Exit Hendon" in last week's issue of FLIGHT. The source from which our information came was such as to give us no reason for questioning its accuracy, and consequently the paragraph was published. It has now been pointed out to us by the Grahame-White Co., Ltd., proprietors H of the London Aerodrome, that so far Redivivus ^rom contemplating the cutting-up of the ground into building plots, it is intended, at no very distant date, to re-open the London Aerodrome on a scale far larger and more important than has hitherto been possible. Needless to say, we are delighted to hear that this is the case. We have consistently advocated the return to Hendon as the scene of aviation meetings, pointing out that it is, even now, far more easily reached from the centre of London than is Waddon. Moreover—and this is a point which is not, perhaps, always recognised—Hendon was before the War the recognised aerodrome for London, and there was something more than a mere name in the appellation " London Aerodrome." In fact, Hendon and flying became synonymous terms. Nor has this fact, we are quite certain, been materially altered, and as soon as an aviation meeting is again announced for Hendon it will be found that visitors will flock to the 'drome in numbers which Waddon can never hope to see. The extension of the tube to Edgware, with a station in Colindale Avenue, about ioo yards from the main gates of the aerodrome, will place the London Aerodrome within 30 minutes of Piccadilly Circus, with no change anywhere, and no long walk at the end of the journey. What this will mean as an additional inducement to visitors can easily be imagined. It would indeed be difficult to improve, from the point of view of facility of access, upon Hendon, and add to this the association which the London Aerodrome has with flying in the good old days, and it will be realised that when flying, both sporting and commercial, gets really going again, Hendon cannot very well be ignored.
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