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sailors one and ~ all, either professionally or as amateurs, there is little doubt that seaplanes would be favourably regarded by potential customers. In spite of the scant encouragement given to seaplanes in this country, British seaplanes and amphibians are unsurpassed, and it would, we think, be a great pity if the excellent opportunity of proving to the world what we know to be a fact were lost. Surely we, as one of the alleged victorious nations, should be able to afford to compete commercially with our late enemy, not to mention our gallant French Allies. France, in addition to sending two air squadrons of her Aviation Militaire, has booked no less than 11,200 sq. ft. of floor-space. Germany has taken 12,400 sq. ft., Italy 2,600, and Czecho- slovakia 2,200 sq. ft. Many of the best-known French constructors are exhibiting, while from Germany no less than four aircraft firms are sending machines. Professor Junkers is sending one machine. Claude Dornier is sending no less than four of his all-metal types, while the Albatros works will exhibit one, probably the commercial monoplane. Udet of Munich, who has recently constructed a light single-seater sporting model with 35 h.p. Haacke engine, will show one aeroplane, probably this type. Italy will be represented by a Caproni machine, and the Czecho State Aircraft Factory of Prague are sending two. It would be a strange sight indeed if France and Germany were left to represent aircraft manufacturing Europe, without a representative from Great Britain. It is not as if this were an exhibition pure and simple. Flying will be in full swing at the aerodrome adjoining the exhibition, and here potential customers will see for themselves how the various types behave in actual flight. Thus the exhibition affords a unique opportunity of demonstrating our machines against those of other nation?. An international flying meeting, such as the Aerial Derby, the Gordon Bennett, the Coupe Deutsch, and the Coupe Schneider, usually bring together machines which are more or less of racing type. Useful as such meetings are, they have not, cannot possibly have, the same direct utility as a meeting which attracts machines of all sorts of different types, from com- mercial passenger carriers to single-seater fighters. Experience in South America has shown that orders are apt to go to the firms who have representatives and demonstration machines on the spot rather than to possibly better machines which are known only by reputation. It would be a sorry affair if the same thing should happen again so much nearer home, when an opportunity offers within flying distance of our aircraft works. R Ae C FEBRUARY 22, 1923 xv nc v, establishment of an associateship Assocteteshlpopen. to all by the Royal Aero Club marks a new milestone in the life of our governing institution of sporting aviation. Full particulars of the new scheme will be found elsewhere in this issue. It will be seen that associate membership will be obtainable for the very reasonable outlay of one guinea. Looked -upon merely as a business proposition, this in itself should be an attractive offer, as the associate membership badge entitles the holder to free admission of all flying meetings and competitions held under the control of the Royal Aero Club. Thus an associate, if he only attends four meetings in the year, will have got his membership for nothing. As there are other benefits, such as short flights at Croydon for half-fare, and free use of the information bureau that is to be established at the R.Ae.C., the new scheme should prove very attractive, and should result in the joining-up of quite a large number. As to the objects of the new branch of the R.Ae.C., these are various, but chief among them is the raising of funds for the purpose of offering prizes in connec- tion with flying meetings. In the past the R.Ae.C. has in the main had to be content with the adminis- tration and award of prizes offered by others, the financial position of the Club not having been such as to allow of putting up any really substantial prizes. The result has been that several of our races, notably the Aerial Derby, have not attracted the foreign representatives who should have made the competitions really interesting. It is to be hoped that the establishment of the associateship will result in such aqcession to the Club funds that really attractive prizes can be offered in connection with the various meetings to be held during the coming summer. Those who join will have the satisfaction of knowing that, as an addition to making a small investment which can only be regarded as attractive to them personally, they are helping the Royal Aero Club to assist aviation in a very practical manner by enabling it to encourage the participation in sporting flying. The whole scheme should have a sort of snow-ball effect, more members meaning greater interest, and greater interest meaning again better " gates," better " gates" enabling the Club t© improve the programme, which in turn should increase the interest. If anyone is anxious to help aviation, but cannot afford to do so in any but a very small way, it would be difficult to imagine a better way of doing it than by becoming an associate. '••f Medals for Gallantry AT its monthly meeting last week the committee of the Royal Humane Society made the following awards :— Bronze medals to Flight-Lieut. E. J. P. Burling, R.A.F., and Lieutenant Rupert de H. Burton, R.N., for their gallantry in saving a man under the most difficult and dangerous conditions when their flying boat was obliged to come down and was wrecked in a heavy sea off Swanage on September 12. Anti-Aircraft Territorials. ... • . " ' '.,:.; NEW conditions of service have been prescribed by the Army Council for the Territorial anti-aircraft units of the Air Defence Brigades. Members of these brigades will be required to serve during a national emergency, when called upon, in the anti-aircraft defences of the United Kingdom, even though no order calling out the Territorial Army for actual military service is in force at the time. When so called out they will receive the pay and allowances issuable to a regular soldier of corresponding rank and arm and the gratuity given to Territorials on employment. Members of an anti-aircraft artillery brigade will be re- 100 quired to perform forty-five drills in the first year and twenty in subsequent years. In the Royal Engineers anti-aircraft battalions the requisite number of drills are forty and twenty and for signallers forty-five and fifteen. Men who served for at least six months during the War in an anti-aircraft unit, in the Royal Artillery or Royal Engineers, or in a signal unit will be regarded as trained and eligible for the trained man's bounty as soon as they are certified by their commanding officers to be otherwise efficient. Men with former service in the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, Signals Corps, or R.N.V.R., and with experience in anti-aircraft duties, may be enlisted up to the age of 45. City of London Anti-Aircraft Territorials. : :: ; ' _r A MOVEMENT has been started at Lloyd's to raise an anti^ aircraft battery forming one of the six batteries required in connection with the two anti-aircraft brigades of the City of London Territorial Association at Putney. Recruiting is being hampered by the delay of the War Office in passing the association's plans, submitted nearly a year ago, for the reconstruction of the old Yeomanry premises at Putney.
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