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Flight, April 5, 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. 745. (No. 14, Vol. XV.) APRIL 5, 1923 rWeekly, Price 6d.L Post free, 7d. J; : , The Aircraft Engineer and Airships MditorimJ Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C. 2 Telegrams : Truditur, Westcent, London. Telephone : Gerrard 1828 Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free: United Kingdom .. 30$. id. Abroad .. .. 33s. 04.* 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 ' . '.. i~ V CONTENTS Editorial Comment That Million-Pound Company 181 Airships as Aircraft Carriers 2 Going—GOING 182 The 220 h.p. Lawrance Air-Cooled Aero Engine .. 183 A Discussion of German and English Methods of Computing Aeroplase Performance: By F. Radclifie, B.Sc. (Vic.) 185 Royal Aero Club Official Notices 189 London Terminal Aerodrome .. • • • • .. • • • • 190 Royal Air Force 191 R.A.F. Intelligence 1 Personah .. .. 191 In Parliament 192 Side-Winds 2 DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for ApL May 12 .... 11 .... Jane 23 .... June 25-30 JuneJuly July Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Sept. Sept. Dec 30.... .... 20 .... 1 .... 3-14 6 .... 6-27 8-12 23 28 .... 1 .... 1924 Mar. 1.... inclusion in the following list ; 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.Grosvenor Challenge Cup, Lympne International Air Congress, London : R.A.F. Aerial Pageant Air Race for King's Cup ~ Gothenburg Exhibition Entries close from British Competitors for Schneider Cup Rho'n Gliding Competition ' * - Aerial Derby French Gliding Competition, near Cherbourg F.I A. Conference, Gothenburg. Gordon Bennett Balloon Race, Belgium Schneider Cup Seaplane Race at Cowes Entries close for French Aero Engine Com- petition 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). .. - , ThatMillion- Pound EDITORIAL COMMENT. CTING with remarkable promptitude— in fact, almost too much so—on the recommendations of the " Hambling Committee," the Air Ministry has announced its readiness to receive proposals from responsible persons for _ the formation of an air transport company on the lines suggested in the Hambling Report—i.e., the company to be formed with a capital of £1,000,000, and the Government to subscribe as subsidy to the company another £1,000,000, spread over a period _ _ of ten years. While we agree that, Company speaking broadly, the scheme appears to be sound, once it has been admitted, as it now has on all sides, that it is necessary to subsidise civil aviation, there are, as we have previously pointed out, a great number of " if's " to be settled in advance of asking the country to back the scheme with a million. Fundamentally, the whole object of this or any other subsidised scheme is, on the one hand, to provide good communications between various parts of the Empire, and, on the other, to keep alive a vigorous aviation industry upon which the country could draw in time of need. Under the term aviation industry we include not only manufacturing and designing concerns, but also the pilots, engineers and ground staff of the air lines themselves, who should be regarded as a strong link in the new Reserve. If the matter is examined carefully, it is found that, while the formation of such a company would in all probability fulfil the first requirement, i.e. provide good communications, it does not follow ipso facto that the second would be met. In a previous issue we pointed out as a possible contingency that the company—assuming it to have been formed—might decide to design and build its own machines. In that
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