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Flight,.December 7, 1922 First Aero Weekly in the World. Pounder 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. 728. (No. 49, Vol. XIV.) DECEMBER y, 1922 [Weekly, Price 6d. L Post free, 7d. Fligpat The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C. 2 Telegrams : Trudltur, Westcent, London. Telephone : Gerrard 1828 Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free : United Kingdom .. 30s. td. 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 Newspapers by Air Rules for Seifridge Gliding Competition FLIGHT Glider Designing Competition The Bristol ThrecSeater London Terminal Aerodrome Gliding, Soaring and Air-Sailing Seifridge 50-Mile Gliding Competition London-Continental Services Cambridge University Aeronautical Society The Royal Air Force StaS College Royal Air Force Royal Air Force Intelligence In Parliament.. .. .. .. .. Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers .. PAGE 709 710 710 711 716 71: 7i8 710 7iy 7-0 721 721 722 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. Dec. 15 Dec. 15- Jan. 2... 1923. Jan. 8 .... Jan. 12 .... Jan. 26 .... Feb. 9 .... Feb. 23 .... Mar. 15 .... Apl. 12 .... May 11 .... J une Dec. 1 .... Lecture, " Experimental Data without Wind Channel," by 0. T. Gnosspelius, before I.Ae.E. Paris Aero Exhibition F.A.I. Paris Conference Lecture, " Seaplane for Commercial Duties," by Mai. D. C. M. Hume, before I.AeJE. Lecture, " Wind Tunnel Work at the N.P.L.," by W. L. Cowley, before I.Ae.E. Lecture, " Seaplane Design," by W. 0. Manning, before I.Ae.E. Lecture, " Aerofoils," by Dr. A. P. Thurston, before I.Ae.E. Entries close for Dutch Height Indicator Com petition. Lecture, " Some Controversial Points in Aircraft Design, by F. T. Hill, before I.Ae.E. Lecture, "Experimental Flying," by Maj. M. E. A. Wright, before I.Ae.E. International Air Congress, London Entries close for French Aero Engine Com petition. EDITORIAL COMMENT. iHOULD the Civil Aviation Subsidy be spent on passenger-carrying machines, or on the air transport of newspapers ? This is a question which has been given a good deal of publicity lately, as a result, it appears, of the re-arrange ment of the subsidy scheme, by which only one British firm is subsidised on the London-Paris air route. It is argued that statistics show that out of the total number of passengers N carried by the British lines three-fourths by Air or So are foreigners, and that therefore the system of paying, out of the tax payers' pocket, subsidies which are chiefly spent in providing foreigners with " joy-rides," is a sheer waste of money. At present the early morning news paper service from Lympne to Paris is carried out by a French firm, subsidised by the French Govern ment. On the face of it, this state of affairs certainly does appear to indicate that there is something radically wrong somewhere. We rather think, however, that the root of the trouble lies deeper, and may have been over looked by those who are advocating that the subsidy should be devoted to the newspaper service. It is not, to our mind, a question of passenger or news paper service, but of why London-Paris at all. The real difficulty of the whole position is this—that the London-Paris route is not suitable for an air service established on commercial lines. The route is, as we have repeatedly pointed out in these columns, already so well served by train and boat that aircraft, in order to compete in point of time sufficiently to effect any great saving, must be of fairly fast type. This means high power expenditure per passenger carried, which, with other things, again means uneconomical operation. Add to this the fact that passenger machines have to have large cabins, equipped with comfortable seats, with heating apparatus, with wireless, and with a dozen other things which together form so much dead weight to be carried, detracting from the paying load of the machine. Thus, without going into great detail, it will easily be realised that fundamentally the passenger machine is considerably handicapped, and that if it is to be
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