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Flight, January 24, 1924 First Aero Weekly in the WorM. 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 I No, 787. (No. 4, Vol. XVI.) JANUARY 24, 1924 [Weekly, Price 6d. L 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 .. .. 33s. Od.* 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 New Air Minister .. .. ., Reorganising Research.. .. .. .. Magnan Monoplane Glider Royal Aere Club Official Notices Light 'Plane and Glider Notes Alt Ministry Notices Personals Materials in Aircraft Construction. By L. Altchison Reminiscences. By L. Howard-Flanders.. Curtiss-Reed Metal Airscrew Royal Air Force R.A.F. Intelligence Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers 41 42 43 45 46 47 47 48 52 54 55 55 56 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 :— . Jan. 24 .... "Fabric and Dopes," by Dr. Ramsbottom, before R.Ae.S. Feb. 7 .... "Airmanship at Sea," by Sqd.-Ldr. May cook, O.B.E., R.A.F., before R.Ae.S. Feb. 21 .... " Aerial Photography and Survey," by Mr. H. Hamshaw Thomas, before R.Ae.S. Mar. 1 .... French Aero Engine Competition. Mar. 6 .... "Sound Detection," by Major Tucker, before R.Ae.S. Mar. 20 .... " The Report of the Aeronautical Research Committee's Panel on Scale Effect," by Capt. W. S. Farren. April 1 .... Entries close for Schneider Cup and Gordon Bennett Balloon Races April 3 .... " The British Aviation Mission to the Imperial Japanese Navy," by Colonel the Master of Sempill. before R.Ae.S. Jnne 15 .... Gordon Bennett Balloon Race, Belgium June 21.... F.A.I. Conference Opens, Paris EDITORIAL COMMEIT. ;N Sir Samuel Hoare, the Air Minister in Mr. Baldwin's Government, was found an ideal man for the post. Of clear and far-seeing outlook, he had the added valuable asset of being a highly- trained business man with no hide^- bound traditions to hamper his deci sions. At the time of his appointment we applauded it for these reasons, qualified with the proviso that, in practice, we could only hope to see his great talents properly applied, and thus N Th^. leave it and " wait and see." As every Minister one knows, Sir Samuel made good in every sense of the word, and for that reason it is a matter for great regret that an executive position of this character cannot be outside the shifting sands of politics. At the same time, there are undoubtedly always as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it, and j as the new Air Minister, Brig.-Gen. Thom son, is, like Sir Samuel Hoare, somewhat of an untried quantity in the administration of the affairs of the Air, we can only again hope that results will more than justify the appointment which Mr. Ramsay MacDonald has been pleased to make. General Thomson's past record is of such a nature that at least there should be great promise of his taking a very strong line in our Air Control in the direction of the Services, and we hope equally strong in regard to the development of the Civil Side, whether as a unit in itself or as allied to the R.A.F. side of the problem. In regard to Brig.-Gen. Thomson's career, the son of Major-Gen. David (Thomson, he was born in 1875, and was commissioned in the R.E. He served in the Mashonaland and South African campaigns, passed through the Staff College *and was on War Office Staff from 1911-14. In August 1914, he went to France on the Staff of the First Army Corps under Sir Douglas Haig, and in 1915 became Military Attache to Ru mania, and later was head of the Military Commission there. He visited Russia both before and after the Kerensky revolution. He served in Palestine and was at Versailles as British Military Representative on the Supreme War Council.
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