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Flight, January 31, 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. 788. (No. 5, Vol. XVI.) JANUARY 31, 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. 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 In National and Imperial Interests .. "Victory" America's Second Rigid Airship—" Z.R. 3 ' R.A.F. and Imperial Defence The New Air Ministry Air Ministry Notices Personals N ew Legs for Old Royal Air Force R.A.F. Intelligence In Parliament Air Post Stamps Side-Wind 57 59 60 63 67 67 68 68 69 69 69 70 7ii DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dales of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in the following list :— Feb. 7 .... "Airmanship at Sea," by Sqd.-Ldr. Maycock, 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. Mar. 24 .... British entries close for Schneider Cup and Gordon Bennett Balloon Races 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. June 15 .... Gordon Bennett Balloon Race, Belgium June 21.... F.A.I. Conference Opens, Paris Aug. 10 .... Tour de France for Light 'Planes EDITORIAL COMMENT, OR several years now controversy has centred round the " One Service, one uniform, one badge " problem, origin ally and for so long advocated in the pages of FLIGHT, as the one and only healthy solution of the most efficient working of the Royal Air Force. Not unnaturally, perhaps, having regard to human nature, prejudices and traditions in the older Services have loomed large in the arguments for and against a separate Air Service, the la ' National mam feature of which, in most cases, interests nas ^een a non possumus attitude by reason of the custom since Nelson's or Wellington's time having held good in some other groove. For the credit of the War Office, those in high places were quick and willing to recognise the entirely new set of circumstances which the element of the Air had brought into being. From the first month in the War, Army commanders grasped the help of the Air Arm with both hands, and, as history has recorded, some of the Allies' most critical situations at the time of the German break through Belgium were saved by utilising the services of the aeroplane. On the other hand, the Admiralty, from the first, refused to regard the realm of the Air other than from a contemptuous aspect, with the result that their attitude was reflected. throughout the Navy down to the lowest unit. Had the Admiralty early taken the Air Force seriously in like manner to the War Office, there might have been quite a different series of happenings to record in the History of the Great War, as it will ultimately be handed down to posterity. All too late, it dawned upon a few of those who had the power to move in matters strategic, that there really might be something in these beastly things after all, with the result in the later phases of the War that advantages which were lost through the negligence of aircraft in the earlier stages, were strikingly in evidence with the assistance of the Air Arm. When a repentant repents, he usually repents whole-heartedly, and so, it may be conceded that the Admiralty having at last "repented" of its former
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