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Flight, March 13, 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. 794. (No. 11, Vol. XVI. MARCH 13, 1924 rWeekly, 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. Ai. Abroad .. .. 33s. Off.* 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 Air Estimates Armstrong Siddeley "Wolf" The Phoenix "Cork" Air Estimates 1924-1925 .. Personals Royal Air Force R.A.F. Intelligence .. In Parliament.. Aircraft Manufacturing Co. Ltd. R.A.F. Memorial Fund 141 143 144 151 ] 53 154 154 154 ; 55 156 DIARY OP 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 :•—: Mar. 20 .... Annual Meeting of Inst.AeE. Mar. 20.... " The Report of the Aeronautical Research Committee's Panel on Scale Effect," fcy Capt. W. S. Farren, before R.Ae.S. Mar. 24 British entries close for Schneider Cup and Gordon Bennett Balloon Races. Mar. 26 .... Visit to Works of S. Smith and Sons (M.A.), Ltd., Crieklewood. Inst. Ae. E. 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. April 11.... «' Radial Engines for Aircraft," by Mr. S. M. Viale, before Inst. Ae. E. April 23.... Visit to National Physical Laboratory.-Tedding- ton. Inst. Ae. E. April 25 Aero Golfing Society Team Match, Oxhey Golf Club. 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. NET increase of two and a half million sterling. Thus, briefly, one can define the 1924-25 Air Estimates, a summary of which is published on pp. 151-152. The amount seems small enough in view of the long leeway which this country has to make up, but if the figure of 14£ millions representing the net estimate this year is considered rather inadequate, there is some little consolation to be found in the fact that, small as it is compared with the T *e corresponding figures from the Army Estimates an(^ Navy Estimates, it represents an increase, while the other two fighting services have had to be content with amounts repre senting a considerable decrease as compared with the figures of 1923-24. Thus, apart from actual amounts, things are moving in the right direction, and the curves of service expenditure are, in our view, trending the right way, those for Army and Navy sloping downwards, that representing the Air sloping upwards. This is what FLIGHT has for years maintained was the inevitable development. We have never been of the opinion that the Air is ready at once to replace the Army and Navy, and we think it will be a considerable time yet before the Air can do that. But we do believe that the relative importance of the Air will continue to increase, and that this view is correct seems to be confirmed by the present estimates. From our point of view, naturally, Vote 3 (Tech nical and warlike stores) is the most interesting. £5,144,500 is asked for under the heading : Aeroplanes seaplanes, engines and spares. The corresponding figure last year was £3,620,000, so that under this head an increase of £1,524,500 is contemplated. The . manner in which it is intended .to apportion this amount is as follows : Complete machines, £2,789,700 ; complete engines, £1,450,700 ; machine spares, etc., £483,000 ; and engine spares, £421,000. There is no detail information as to what proportion it is intended to spend on aeroplanes, and how much on seaplanes. The figure asked for, £2,789,700, looks somewhat imposing, but that it is by no means extravagant will be' realised when it is pointed out that, putting the average value of a complete aeroplane at £9,000
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