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Flight, March 29, 1923 AIRCRAFTENGINEER, 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. 74*. (No. 13, Vol. XV.) MARCH 29, 1923 reekly, Price 6d. ,Post free, 7d. • The Aircraft Engineer and Airships EiitorUl Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C. 2 Telegrams : Tniditur, Westcent, London. Telephone : Gerrard 1828 Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free : United Kingdom .. 30s. id. Abroad .. .. 33s. 0d.* 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 Sditorial Comment PAGE Aviation in House of Lords 167 Britain at I.L.U.G 168 •. The Light 'Plane 8 That Airworthiness Certificate 168 A.N.E.C. Light Aeroplane 169 Royal Aero Club Official Notices 173 Royal Air Force Reserve 173 Wing Radiators 174 Aviation in the House of Lords .. .. 175 Prize Designs for Air Mail Stamps 176 London Terminal Aerodrome .. 7 IniParliament 178 Royal Air Force 9 R.A.F. Intelligence 9 Models 180 Side-Winds 0 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 ; ApL 12 .... Lecture, " Some Controversial'Points in Aircraft Design," by F. T. Hill, before I.Ae.E. May 11 .... Lecture, " Experimental Flying," by Maj. M. E. A. Wright, before I.Ae.E. June 23 .... Grosvenor Challenge Cup, Lympne Jane 25-30 International Air Congress, London June 30 ... R.A.F. Aerial Pageant July .... Air Race for King's Cup July 20 .... Gothenburg Exhibition Aug. 1 .... Entries close from British Competitors for Schneider Cup Aug. 3-14 Rhon Gliding Competition Aug. 6 .... Aerial Derby Aug. 6-27 French Gliding Competition, near Cherbourg Aug. 8-12 F.I.A. Conference, Gothenburg. Sept. 23 Gordon Bennett Balloon Race, Belgium Sept. 28 .... Schneider Cup Seaplane Race at Cowes Dec. 1 .... Entries close for French Aero Engine Com- petition 1924 . .... -'•;. Mar. 1 — French Aero Engine Competition. INDEX FOR VOL. XIV. The Index for Vol. XIV of FLIGHT (January to December, 1922) is now ready, and can be obtained from the Publishers, 36, Great Queen Street, Kingsway, W.C. 2. Price Is. per copy (Is. Id. post free). Aviation in House of Lords serve until HE general feeling among members of the House of Lords on the Air question, as voiced during the debate on defence on March 21, was one of uneasiness at what is now beginning to be universally admitted to be our state of unpre- paredness in the air. For many months —even years—past we have been calling attention to some of the shortcomings of our defence scheme, notably in the matter of up-to- date aircraft. During the last twelve months the Royal Air Force has in the main been mounted on obsolete machines, " re-conditioned" so as to the country should be in a position to afford new equipment. The time has now come— in fact has long passed—when the R.A.F. must be provided with new machines, whether the country thinks it can afford the expense or not, and Vote 3 of the Air Estimates provides for a fair amount of capital to be spent on the purchase of new aircraft. Intimately connected with this urgent need for new equipment is the contemplated formation of new squadrons for home defence, but the general feeling is that, even including these, the forces available at home for defence purposes are on a scale very far from being adequate. The truth of this contention is not seriously challenged by anybody, and there is, in fact, a growing feeling in both Houses and among the public generally that it is possible to carry economy too far. As the Earl of Birkenhead said, this country can no more be content, during the next three, four, or five years, with a position of inferiority in the air than it would have been content with naval inferiority previous to 1914. The general realisation of this fact lends even greater significance to the statement by the Duke of Sutherland, Under-Secretary of State for* Air, that if the Cabinet came to the conclusion that the axiom laid down by the Coalition Government (that there would
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