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Flight, December 28, 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. 731. (No. 52, Vol. XIV.) DECEMBER 28, 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. \i. Abroad .. .. 33s. ai* 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 Another Year of Aviation The R.A.F. in 1922 Commercial Aviation Sporting Aviation The Paris Aero Show,:iQ22 Gliding, Soaring and Air-Sailing In Parliament.. .. Notices to Airmen London Terminal Aerodrome Oil-Cooling: By Granville Bradshaw Royal Air Force R.A.F. Appointments.. Personals Royal Aeronautical Society Official Notices PAGE 779 77') 780 780 781 787 787 7^S 788 789 7(.U 791 793 7>« 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 ; 1922. Dec. 15- Jan. 2... Paris Aero Exhibition. F.A.I. Paris Conference. Lecture, " Seaplane for Commercial Duties," by Haj. D. C. M. Hume, before I.Ae.E. Lecture, " Wind Tunnel Work at the N.P.L.," by W. L. Cowley, before I.Ae.E. Third Air Conference at the Guildhall. 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. French Aero Engine Competition. 1923. Jan. 3 .... Jan. 12 .... Jan. Feb. Feb. Feb. Mar. Apl. 26 .... 6-7.... 9 .... 23 .... 15 .... 12 .... May 11 .... June Dec. 1 .... 1924. Mar. 1 .... EB1TOIREAL, COMMEHT. AKING it all around, the year which is just closing has been a somewhat uneventful one so far as aviation, and especially British aviation, is con cerned ; 1922 has seen no epoch- making flights such as the London- Australia t>r Transatlantic flights of previous years, while in ordinary sporting aviation it is to be feared that this country is lagging sadly Anoth Y behind. On the other hand, the period of Aviation °^ depression which Britain, in common with all others, has been passing through, certainly appears to be drawing towards a close. Personally we are of opinion that the bottom of the curve has been reached, and that from now onwards there will be a rise, slow at first, but gradually increasing as time goes on. Thus, although there is much in the past year which one must view with regret, there is also a good deal for which to be thank ful, and it is quite possible that in years to come 1922 will stand revealed as having been far more full of results than is possible to appreciate at the moment. It is usually the case that not until distance in time has lent perspective can we see things in their true proportions, and we are still too close, even to the beginning of 1922, to have that perspec tive. • • • Th RAF "^S ^ar ES ^e R°yal A"" F°rce is con" in 1922'. ' cerned, 1922 has certainly not been the dull year of which civilian aviation can complain. We do not propose here to attempt to give even a brief review of what has happened in and to the R.A.F. during the past year. To do so at all adequately would require several issues of FLIGHT. But a few isolated milestones which stand out on the road of progress may be recalled in order to form, as it were, certain fixed points on which future events in the R.A.F. may well be found to pivot. Thus the believers in and supporters of a strong Air Force may well claim with satisfaction that 1922 was of importance in that it was the year in which the R.A.F. received its Magna Charta. It will be recalled that at the Air Conference Capt. Guest reminded some of his critics that the Air Ministry had been engaged in a fight for its very existence. B 2
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