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Flight, May 22, 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. 804. (No. 21, Vol. XVI.) MAY 22, 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. 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 Airships Exit Seaplanes Italian Semi-Rigid Airship "N.l " Dietrich-Gobiet Sport Monoplane.. Progress of Big Flights The 400 h.p. Lorraine-Dietrich Engine Aero Golfing Society Meeting Royal Aero Club Official Notices .. Personals Light 'Plane and Glider Notes Royal Air Force R.A.F. Intelligence In Parliament Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers PAGE 28S 285 286 288 2HO 291 292 293 29; 295 295 295 296 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 :— 1924 May 29 .... Wilbur Wright Lecture, Royal Aeronautical Society: 'Fuel Economy in Flight," by Lieut.-Col. H. T. Tizard, A.F.C. „ 31 June 9 Third Czecho-Slovak International Aero nautical Exhibition, Prague June 15 .... Gordon Bennett Balloon Race, Belgium. „ 21 .... F.A.I. Conference Opens, Paris. July 24-Aug. 10 Tour de France for Light 'Planes. Aug. 4 .... Aerial Derby at Lympne Sept. 8-13 Light 'Plane Competitions at Lympne Oct. 2 .... Aero Golfing Society. Autumn Meeting, at Moor Park Golf Club, for A.G.S. Challenge Cup presented by Cellon (Richmond) Ltd. EDITORIAL COMMENT. NDER our Parliamentary heading this week will be found a statement made by the Prime Minister on May 14, in answer to a question put by Sir Samuel Hoare, ex-Secretary of State for Air, regarding the present Govern ment's airship policy. From Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's reply it will be seen that the Labour Government has decided to reject the "Burney scheme," and has formulated in its .. . . place a scheme whereby the work of constructing new airships will be divided between the Government and a private under taking. Briefly, the present scheme appears to be as follows : The Government proposes to authorise the Air Ministry " to initiate forthwith a comprehensive programme of lighter-than-air research and experiment at Cardington, including full-scale experiments with one of the existing ships, which will be reconditioned for the purpose, and to undertake the early construc tion of a new airship of a capacity of 5,000,000 cubic ft. Simultaneously, the Air Ministry will give the Airship Guarantee Company |This company is that in which Commander Burney is interested.—ED.] the first offer of a contract for the construction of a second ship for commercial purposes." On the financial side of the question the Prime Minister stated that, in place of the initial outlay of £4,800,000 contemplated for the Burney scheme, and to be spread over a period of fifteen years, the new scheme would, owing to the clause providing for an option for the acquisition of the Guarantee Company built airship by the constructors, probably only involve an expenditure of £1,200,000 for the years 1924-25, 1925-26, and 1926-27. With reference to this statement by the Prime Minister, Sir Samuel Hoare pointed out that the two figures were not comparable, as those relating to the Burney scheme referred to the construction of six ships, while the present Government's scheme included the con struction of only two. It is somewhat difficult to form any very clear idea of the real plans contemplated by the Government, and new features may have been brought to light by
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