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Flight, August 30, 1923 BNGINEEFL. First Aero Weekly in the World. Founder and Editor : STANLEY SPOONER A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progress of Aerial Loeoraotion and Transport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 766. (No. 35, Vol. XV.) AUGUST 30, 1923 rWeckly, Price 6d.L Post free, 7d. The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C. 2 Telegrams : Truditur, Westceut, 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 Editorial Comment PAGE The National Company .. .. .. .. ., ., 513 Aircraft Apprentices for R.A.F . .. .. 514 A.N.E.C. Light'Plane 515 Gothenburg Results.. .. .. .. .. .. ., .. 516 Aircraft Apprentices for the Royal Air Force .. .. .. .. 517 The Aerial Derby. Official Results 517 Light'Plane and Glider Notes 518 Re-Fuelling During Flight .. .. 5)9 National Air Transport 520 London-Paris Fares .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 521 Personals 522 Institution of Aeronautical Engineers 522 S. Smith & Sons'Sports 522 The Royal Air Force 3 R.A.F. Intelligence 3 London Terminal Aerodrome .. .. .. .. .. .. 523 Air Post Stamps 524 Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers .. . . .. . . .. 524 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 :— Gordon Bennett Balloon Race, Belgium Schneider Cup Seaplane Race at Cowes R.Ae.S. Inaugural Lecture Light 'Plane and Glider Competitions, Lympne Beaumont Cup Race at Istres, France "The Manoeuvres of Inverted Flight," by Sq.-Leader R. M. Hill, before R.Ae.S. " Present Developments in Aircraft Instru- ments," by Major Wimperis, before R.Ae.S. "The Thermodynamics of Aircraft Engines," by Mr. H. R. Ricardo, before R.Ae.S. "Airmanship at Sea," by Sqd.-Ldr. Maycock Entries close for French Aero Engine Com- petition " Air Strategy," by Wing Cmdr. Edmonds Sept. 23 Sept. 28... Oct. 4 .... Oct. 8-13 Oct. 14 ... Oct. 18 Nov. 1 .... Nov. 15 Nov. 29 .... Dec. 1 ... Dec. 13 ... 1924 Jan. 10 Jan. 24 ... " Materials from the Aeronautical Point View," by Dr. Aitchison and Mr. North " Fabric and Dopes,'' by Dr. Ramsbottom of The National Company EDITORIAL COMMENT. HAT the Air Minister, Sir Samuel Hoare, has a somewhat difficult problem to solve in assembling the constituent parts for the new National Aviation Company, can hardly be doubted. Upon the main point at least there need be little hesitancy. A National Company, to be worthy of its name, must essentially be absolutely free from all cliqueism. It should embody the widest possible range of efficiency, business acumen and integrity in its directorate, so that, after providing for the necessary consideration for and protection of the " private " capital invested in the concern, the conduct of the Company's affairs should be upon the most generous Imperialistic lines. It is to be hoped that Sir Samuel will see that the foundation is primarily laid upon a solid basis, and it will then be time enough to decide on individual appointments and representation of various interests upon the Board of Direction. Having regard to the vast future issues to the Empire which are involved in the proper functioning of such a corporation, whose work must necessarily be, at least at first, of a mis- sionary character, it is unthinkable' that any one group or section should be in the position to control the scope of the important operations which from the very first must come up for consideration. In this connection it is gratifying to learn that the controllers of one group of three existing companies are perfectly willing to await " selection " for the directorate of the National Aviation Company—or " Corporation," as we should prefer to see it called—after it is formed, as they hold strongly with the principle that it should be constituted without regard to any particular individuals or machines. All personal interests— subject to proper provision being secured for each operating company's present "goodwill"—should be sunk in favour of founding the Company as a national undertaking. Mr. Holt-Thomas, purely as an independent person and with the proviso that he does not seek or wish to be considered in the activities of the National Company, has been (as it emerges in a letter elsewhere from him) labouring bravely to untangle any difficulties of combination of present interests which have arisen, and we believe in this
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