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Flight, July 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. 814. (No. 31, Vol. XVI.) JULY 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 : Trudltur, Westcent, London. Telephone : Gerrard 1828 Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free : United Kingdom .. 30s. Ad. Abroad .. .. 33s. <W.* 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 * PACE Editorial Comment Air Mails 471 Aircraft at the Review of the Fleet 472 The Descamps-Brunct A.2 Sesquiplan 47: The Demonty-Poncelet Monoplane 474 Royal Aero Club Official Notices K Britannia Trophy, 1923 477 Progress in the Big Flights 8 New Scheme for Entering Account Officers into the K.A.F 47 Notices to Airmen 479 Royal Air Force Memorial Fund 47 In Parliament 4HO Personals 48 i Royal Air Force 481 R.A.F. Intelligence Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers 482 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 Tour de France for Light 'Planes King's Cup Race 2-Seater Light 'Plane Competition at Lympne Aero Golfing Society. Autumn Sleeting, at Moor Park Golf Club, for A.G.S. Challenge Cup presented by Cellon (Richmond) Ltd. Grosveuor Challenge Cup Race at Lympne. Schneider Cup Race, Baltimore Paris Aero Show. July 24- Aug. 10 Aug. 12 .... Sept. 29 Oct. 4 Oct. 2 .... „ 4.... October .... Dec. 5-21 EDITORIAL COMMENT. "]HE highly successful accomplishment by the American postal authorities of a fortnight's experimental day-and-night air mail service between New York and San Francisco naturally calls attention to a branch of commercial flying in which progress has hitherto been lament ably slow. Much has been written and spoken about the advantages of night-flying, and a few experiments have been carried out in this A. country by or on behalf of the Air Mails Ministry. It is to be feared, however, that of real progress and success there has been relatively little. On several occasions the experiments have had to be interrupted or abandoned on account of unfavourably weather, and generally speaking we appear to have tackled the subject in a rather half-hearted way so that it is scarcely sur prising if the results have been commensurate with the effort. Lighthouses have been established, it is true, and have given a very fair degree of satisfaction, but of prolonged experiment and sustained effort we have seen but little. It is, of course, obvious that in certain respects we are less favourably placed than are the Americans, inasmuch as but a short portion of the routes over which our machines operate is within our own boundaries, and that before con certed action can be taken we have to make extensive arrangements with other countries. The fact remains, however, that one of the chief reasons why air mails have not been the success one might have wished is to be found in the absence of regular night-flying services. It is of relatively small use to a business man to be able to send a letter by the morning's machine and getting it to Paris, for instance, by midday or so when, by posting the previous evening, his letter would catch the train and be delivered in Paris some time round about noon. Again, taking the services to Germany. The saving in time which can be effected is not very material when compared with the ordinary mails leaving London in the evening and being half-way into Germany by the time the aeroplane leaves London on the following morning.
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