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Flight, January 3,'1924 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. 784. (No. 1, Vol. XVI.) JANUARY 3, 1924 fWeekly, 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. Ad. 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 The Imperial Air Transport Company "Dixmude" A Roumanian Aeroplane. The Sesefsky Biplane Death of Eiffel Imperial Air Transport Co. Light 'Plane and Glider Notes Loss of the '' Dixmude " Air Ministry Notices Air Force Reserve of Officers Correspondence London Terminal Aerodrome Coupe Commodore Louis D. Beaumont R.A.F. Memorial Fund Royal Air Force R.A.F. Intelligence Air Post Stamps .. .... 2 "3 4 ? 7 9 10 ! 1 II 12 12 12 13 13 14 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 :— 1924 Jan. 9 . Jan. 10 Jan. 24 Feb. 7 Feb. 21 Mar. 1 Mar. 6 Mar. 20 April 3 " Water-Cooled Aero Engines, "by A. J. Rowledge, before Inst, of Automobile Engineers. " Materials from the Aeronautical Point of View," by Dr. Aitchison and Mr. North, before R.Ae.S. " Fabric and Dopes,'' by Dr. Ramsbottom. before R.Ae.S. " Airmanship at Sea," by Sqd.-Ldr. Maycock, O.B.E., R.A.F., before R.Ae.S. " Aerial Photography and Survey,'' by Mr. H. Hamshaw Thomas, before R.Ae.S. French Aero Engine Competition. "Sound Detection," by Major Tucker, before R.Ae.S. " The Report of the Aeronautical Research Committee's Panel on Scale Effect," by Capt. W. S. Farren. " The British Aviation Mission to the Imperial Japanese Navy," by Colonel the Master of Sempill, before R.Ae.S. 7N aviation circles the most important event of the week has been the publica tion of the text of the agreement between the President of the Air Council on the one hand and the British, Foreign and Colonial Corpora tion on the other concerning the formation of the new Imperial Air Transport Company, or " Million Pound Monopoly Company " as it was dubbed while its foundation was being discussed. Elsewhere in The Imperial this issue 0f FLIGHT will be found a AlCompnaSr?yrtfairly fuU summary of the text of the agreement, from which it should be possible for our readers to form a very good idea of the most important points involved. The formation of the new company is, of course, the direct outcome of the recommendations made by the Hambling Committee, which was called to consider the best ways and means of encouraging commercial aviation by a system of subsidies. It will still be recollected that the main result of the deliberations of the Hambling Committee was the recommendation that one single powerful company be formed to take the place of the four existing air transport concerns, and that subsidies be granted to such company over a period of 10 years, the main difficulty with the previous subsidy arrangements being that the firms concerned were not given sufficient security of tenure. (A summary of the findings of the Hambling Committee was published in FLIGHT of March 1, 1923.) Personally we are strongly against anything in the nature of a monopoly, and the proposed company is very much of a monopolistic character. It must be admitted, however, after perusing the text of the agreement, that if a monopoly company is unavoidable—and after the evidence called by the Hambling Committee, it appears certain that it is unavoidable if commercial aviation is to be given a fair chance to develop along the right lines and on a sufficiently large scale—the agreement indicates that every possible care has been taken to eliminate, or, at any rate, reduce to a minimum, all foreseeable pitfalls and evils attending any institution immune from competition.
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