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Flight, October 18, 1923 BNGINEEFL 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. 773. (No. 42, Vol. XV.) OCTOBER 18, 1923 rWMkly, Price 6d.L Post free, 7d. 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. 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 Lympne .. " .. R33 —and After .. 634 The Light 'Plane Meeting at Lympne 635 The Supermarine "Sea Eagle" Weathers a Gale 648 Royal Air Force 649 R.A.F. Intelligence 9 London Terminal Aerodrome .. .. .. .. .. .. 649 Air Post Stamps 650 Imports and Exports .. .. ,. ,, .. v .. 650 Society o[ British Aircraft Constructors .. 650 Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers .. .. .. ., .. 650 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 :— 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. NOT. 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 Nov. 30.... f'The Result of Twelve Years' Welded Tube - : . Construction and the Development of Cantilever Wings," by A. H. G. Fokker, before, I.Ae.E. Dec. 1 .... Entries close for French Aero Engine Com- petition Dec. 9 .... "Water-Cooled Aero Engines," by A. J. Rowledge, before I.Ae.E. Dec. 13 .... " Air Strategy," by Wing Cmdr. Edmonds Dec. 14 .... "Leader Cable Systems for Electrical Steering of Aeroplanes," by J. Gray, before I.Ae.E. 1924 Jan. 10 .... " Materials from the Aeronautical Point of View," by Dr. Aitchison and Mr. North Tan. 24 .... " Fabric and Dopes," by Dr. Ramsbottom EDITORIAL COMMENT. HE thanks of the aviation community inparticular, and of the Nation generally, are due to His Grace the Duke ofSutherland, who, having realised the possibilities of the light 'plane, wasthe first public man in this country to give encouragement by offering asubstantial prize with the object of developing this type of flying machine. The other donors of prizes, the Daily Mail, Abdulla and Co.,Sir Charles Wakefield, and the S.M.M.T. Lympne ^ g C M C M T TJ who foHowed the splendid example set by the Duke of Sutherland, enabled the amount of prize money to be so enlarged as to bring in a splendid entry list. To all thus concerned every credit and appreciation is also due. The outstanding performances of the meeting are not easy to sort out from such an excellent average as that established at Lympne. The two machines that tied for the two major prizes for fuel economy are both outstanding examples of the aeroplane designer's art. The "Wren," with its diminutive engine, is amazingly good both in performance and in stability and controllability. The A.N.E.C. mono- plane touched wider extremes than any other machine at the meeting. Its economy was equal to that of the " Wren," although the Blackburne engine is of 700 ex. capacity as compared with the 398 c.c. of the " Wren's" A.B.C. It attained the greatest altitude of the meeting, and it was but 2 m.p.h. slower than the winner of the speed competition, the Parnall " Pixie," which had much smaller wings. During the whole of the meeting the only work done on the A.N.E.C. monoplane was the changing of sparking plugs. We think this is a performance with which Mr. Shackleton, the designer of the A.N.E.C., may well be satisfied, as a start. Hinklei 's total mileage of 1,000 miles on the Avro monoplane, with 700 c.c. Blackburne engine, was an equally fine performance, and is, perhaps, of greater practical value than extreme economy. In the whole of that 1,000 miles flight Hinkler did not have a single forced landing, a fact that must remain as a great testimonial to the Blackburne engine. Macmillan's speed " record " of 76-1 m.p.h. on the Parnall " Pixie," with 500 c.c. Douglas, definitely
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