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Flight, September 27, 1923 BNGINEEFL First Aero Weekly in the World. I Founder and Editor : STANLEY SPOONER A Jouraal devoted to the Interests, Pmetice, »&d Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 770. (No. 39, Vol. XV.) SEPTEMBER 27, 1923 [Weekly, Price 6d.Post free, 7d. Flight 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. Ad. Abroad .. .. 33j. Od.* These rates are subject to any alteration found necessary under abnormalconditions and to increases in postage rates • European subscriptions must be remitted in British currency I CONTENTS ^ i Editorial Comment PAGE The Schneider Cup Race .. .. .. 569 The Schneider Cup Seaplane Race.. . .. 571 American Navy-Wright Schneider Cup Challenger .. .. .. 575 The De H. Light 'Plane 576 Royal Air Force Cadets 580 Radio Research Board Report .. .. .. .. .. .. 580 R.A.F. Openings for Nurses . . .. .. .. .. . . 580 Personals 581 London Terminal Aerodrome .. .. .. .. .. .. 581 "La Course-Croisiere de la Mediterranee " .. .. .. .. 583 Gordon-Bennett Balloon Race 583 Falcon Airscrews .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 585 Air Ministry Notices 586 The Royal Air Force 7 R.A.F. Appointments .. .. 587 Air Post Stamps. By Douglas B. Armstrong 588 Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers.. .. .. .. .. 588 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 :— Sept. 28... Schneider Cup Seaplane Race at Cowes Oct. 4 .... R.Ae.S. Inaugural Lecture Oct. 8-13 Light ' Plane and Glider Competitions, Lympne Oct. 12 .... "Some Aspects of an Attempt to Fly Round the World," by Maj. W. T. Blake, before I.Ae.E. Oct. 14 .... Beaumont Cup Race at Istres, France Oct. 18 .... "The Manoeuvres of Inverted Flight," by Sq.-Leader R. M. Hill, before R.Ae.S. Oct 26 ... " Three-Ply in Aircraft Construction," by Capt. R. N. Liptrot, B.A., before I.Ae.E. Nov. 1 .... " Present Developments in Aircraft Instru- ments," by Major Wimperis, before R.Ae.S. Nov. 9 ... "Soaring Flight," by Dr. E. H. Hankin, before I.Ae.E. Nov. 15 .... "The Thermodynamics of Aircraft Engines," by Mr. H. R. Ricardo, before R.Ae.S. Nov. 29 .... "Airmanship at Sea," by Sqd.-Ldr. Maycock The Schneider Cup Race EDITORIAL COMMENT. 0M0RR0W (Friday) at 11 a.m. the starting signal for the first three machines will be given at Cowes, when possibly eight seaplanes will compete for the Schneider Trophy, represent- ing three countries—America, Great Britain and France. Italy had entered two machines, but at the last moment notification was received that these would not be present at Cowes, and the much-coveted Trophy will therefore be contested for by but three nations. What the outcome will be it is impossible to say. The American machines are extremely fast, although the United States have been deprived of their fastest unit by the accident to the 700 h.p. Navy-Wright seaplane. It is a curious fact that whereas the Americans have pinned their faith entirely to the twin-float seaplane type, both France and Great Britain will be represented by " single-float sea- planes " as it is now fashionable in official circles to describe the type that was once upon a time clearly and popularly denned by the term " flying boat." There was a time, and not so very long ago, when the controversy " boat or floats ? " was a very lively one. Just lately the subject seems to have received but little attention, owing probably to the fact that altogether the seaplane type of heavier-than-air craft has been sadly neglected in this country. • It is to be hoped that the Schneider Cup seaplane race will do something towards awaking a general interest in the seaplane, a type in which FLIGHT has often expressed its firm belief. If that should be the case the race will not have been flown in vain, whatever the immediate result of the contest. The British Empire, separated as its various component parts are by leagues of ocean, has a peculiar need of developing the seaplane type of machine, and in this as in other spheres of activity history will probably repeat itself. Great Britain was ever a nation of sailors, but sailors are conservative folk, and do not readily take to anything new. The consequence has been that, in spite of its great—and as yet almost untouched—possibilities, the seaplane has not received.
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