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Flight, April 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. 797. (No. 14, Vol. XVI.) APRIL 3, 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. 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 I CONTENTS Editorial Comment Imperial Airways, Limited Flying and Wembley K.Ae.C. Gold Medal The Armstrong-Whitworth "Awana" Troop-Carrier Canadian Helium for Airships.. Summary of Five Years' U.S. Air Mail Operations Royal Aero Club Official Notices Round-the-World Flight Air Ministry Notices.. ., ., ,. Royal Aeronautical Society Official Notices The National Seaplane Club Imperial Airways Instone Air Line Personals In Parliament "Ad Astra" The Boeing P.W.-9, Royal Air Force R A.F. Intel igence Air Post Stamps Pursuit Biplane 185 186 186 187 190 190 191 192 194 195 195 196 196 197 197 197 198 199 15)9 200 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:— April 23 .... Visit to National Physical Laboratory, Tedding- ton. Inst. Ae. E. April 25 ... Aero Golfing Society Team Match, Oxhey Golf Club. May 31-June 9 Third Czecho-Slovafc International Aero nautical Exhibition, Prague 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 Lyinpne Sept. 8-13 Light 'Plane Competitions at Lympne EDITORIAL COMMENT. ICKNAMED at its inception the " Million Pound Monopoly Company," and re ferred to in the agreement made by the Air Ministry with the British, Foreign, and Colonial Corporation, Ltd., as the Imperial Air Transport Co., Ltd., the new combine which took over, on Tuesday of this week, the ser vices hitherto operated by four separate companies, will be known, in future, as Imperial Airways, Ltd. This is certainly a less cumbersome imperial tjtje ^.jian ^^ SUggested in the agree- Limited' rnent, and, doubtless, the company will speedily adopt and be known by the initial letters " I.A.L." Incidentally, it may be noted that, by coincidence or otherwise, these letters are the same as the initial letters of the Instone Air Line. The new company, it may be recalled, has been formed with a capital of £1,000,000, while the Government is committed to another million spread over ten years, the amounts payable by the Government each year being so apportioned as to become smaller and smaller every year. A certain minimum mileage has been stipulated before these subsidies become payable. As we have repeatedly pointed out in these columns, we are very much against monopolies of any sort, nor do we venture to think that the present company will prove an exception. At the same time, it was becoming obvious that the old arrangements did not promise the progress and development which is neces sary if the advantages of commercial aviation are to be fully realised, and after long deliberations, and the views of many bodies and individuals having been obtained, the Hambling Committee came to the con clusion that the formation of a single powerful com pany offered the best solution to the problem. Time alone will show whether or not this view is correct. In the meantime, the new company is now a fail accompli, with the following board of Directors:— Sir Eric Geddes (Chairman), Lord Invernairn, Sir George Beharrell, Sir Herbert Hambling and Major J. W. Hills (representing the Air Mini'stry), Colonel F. Searle (Managing Director), Colonel Barrett-Lennard, Sir Samuel Instone, and Mr. Hubert Scott-Paine,
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