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Flight, March 27, 1924 First Aero Weekly in the World. Founder and Editor: STANLEY SPOONER A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progress of Aerial Loeomotion and Transport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 796. (No. 13, Vol. XVI.) MARCH 27, 1924 rWeekly, Price 6<J. L Post tree, Id. 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. W.* These rates are subject to any alteration found necessary under abnormal t conditions and to increases in postage rates • European subscriptions must be remitted in British currency CONTENTS Editorial Comment The British Round-the-World Flight What " Flight " Saved the Nation .. World Flight Vickers " Vulture " Amphibian Round-the-World Flights Royal Aero Club Official Notices Light 'Plane and Glider Notes Auxiliary Air Force Bill in House of Lords Air Estimates Royal Air Force R.A.F. Intelligence In Parliament 169 170 171 172 176 178 179 ISO ISO 183 183 184 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 follovuing list:— March 31 R.Ae.C. Annual General Meeting (6 p.m.) May 31 -June 9 Third Czecho-Slovak International Aero nautical Exhibition, Prague 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 Senipill, 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. July 24- Aug. 10 Tour de France for Light 'Planes. Aug, 4 .... Aerial Derby at Lympne Sept. 8-18 Light 'Plane Competitions at Lympne The British Round- the-World Flight EDITORIAL COMMENT. ITH very little ceremonial the three British aviators left Calshot on Tues day, March 25, a few minutes after noon, on the first stage of their flight around the world. The manner of their send-off was in a measure sym bolical of the whole venture: no shouting, no fuss. Beyond the few thousand photographers, just a quiet gathering of a few directly interested in or concerned with the flight, and, the last preparations completed, the Vickers " Vulture " slid down the slipway, headed towards Southampton while taking off, circled back over Calshot, when the crew waved a final " Au revoir," and the machine quickly disappeared in the distance. King George had sent a message wishing the aviators God-speed, and Lord Thomson, on behalf of the Air Ministry, wished the venture luck, while Air-Marshal Sir Hugh Tren- chard added a message with best wishes from the R.A.F., and—the British round-the-world flight had opened. Behind the scenes, however, and only indicated by incidental glimpses, there lies a vast amount of insistent preparation. Into the machine Mr. Rex Pierson, backed by the Vickers' staff and workmen, has put all his best, and the " Vulture," although not incorporating a single experimental feature, has had introduced in its design and construction all the latest improvements that have been really thoroughly tried out. The Napier " Lion " fitted in the machine, as well as those spare engines sent to Tokio and Toronto, has had all the care bestowed upon it of which the Acton works are capable (and those who have seen the " Lions" and " Cubs " built will know what that means). Shell-Mex have arranged for the supply and distribution of petrol and oil at all the ports of call en route, and finally, in the equipment of the machine, every instrument and every accessory has been made by specialists in their own particular line of work. In a flight like this the question of good instruments is of more than ordinary importance, but the fact that, with the exception of the Reid turn indicator, all the instruments were made by c
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