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Flight, September 11, 1924. First Aero Weekly in the World Founder and Editor: STANLEY SPOONER A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progress of Aeri&l Locomotion and Transport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 820. (No. 37, Vol. XVI.) SEPTEMBER 11, 1924 [ Weekly, Price 6d. Post free, 7d. Flight The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C. 2 Telegrams : Truditur, Westcent, Loudon. Telephone : Gerrard 1828 Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free : United Kingdom .. 30s. 44. 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 ——• PAGE Editorial Comment * Well Done! 559 The Lympne Machines .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 560 Spanish Aircraft Carrier "Dedalo " 56 An Arctic Avro 561 Mooring Dirigibles at Sea 562 Royal Aero Club Official Notices 563 Light 'Plane and Glider Notes 4 Report of Aeronautical Research Committee .. •. .. .. 568 living Accidents in the R.A.F. 569 World-Flight 570 Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers 57 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 :— 28 Eliminating Tests for Light 'Plane Competition at Lympne. 1924 Sept »» M Oct. 27- 27- Oct 29- Oct. 2 . 8 Wireless Exhibition at Albert Hall, Kensington. 4 2-Seater Light 'Plane Competition at Lympne. Aero Golfing Society. Autumn Meeting, at Moor Park Golf Club, for A.G.S. Challenge Cup presented by Cellon (Richmond) Ltd. ,, 2 .... Lieut.-Col. H. T. Tizard, A.F.C., F.R.Ae.S. (of the Department of Scientific and In dustrial Research), Chairman: Inaugural Lecture. ,, 4 .... Grosvenor Challenge Cup Race at Lympne. ,, .... Schneider Cup Race, Baltimore. „ 16 .... Dr. A. Rohrbach (of the Rohrbach Metall- Flugzeugbau Co.) " Large All Metal Sea planes," before R.Ae.S. ,, 30 .... Major J. S. Buchanan, A.F.R.Ae.S. (of the Technical Department, Air Ministry): " The R.Ae.C. Light Aeroplane Competi tions," before R.Ae.S. Dec. 5-21 Paris Aero Show. EDITORIAL COMMENT. ijHEN the two American Douglas world - cruisers, carrying Lieut. Lowell Smith and Lieut. Arnold, Lieut. Nelson and Sergt. Ogden respectively, arrived at Boston on September 6, they had virtually accomplished the tremendous task of circling the globe by air. They still have to cross the American con tinent, it is true, but compared with the stages already covered this should prove a relatively simple w matter, and, barring accidents, should be Done! successfully carried through within the next week or so. It is no exaggeration to say that the entire world has followed the flight with the keenest interest, nor that without exception the aviation world in general, and the British aviation community in particular, will mix with its applause a sigh of relief that the undertaking has been carried through to a successful conclusion without the loss of life. Many must have been the occasions during the period between March 17 and September 6 when it was toss and go whether some particular emergency was successfully met or sudden disaster cut short the attempt. That two out of the four machines which started should have got through is testimony to the skill and daring of the crews, no less than to the perfect organisation which alone made the flight possible, and the regret of Major Martin, who crashed into a mountain on one of the Alaskan islands during a fog quite early in the world-flight, must have become tempered with satisfaction as he learned of the-way in which Lieut. Lowell Smith took over the leadership and carried the expedition through. It is often asked by those who have not made a special study of aviation what is the use of such a flight. To answer that question is a matter of some difficulty, not because the usefulness is hard to dis cover, but rather on account of the innumerable directions in which the lessons learned can be of value to future aircraft development. Thus from the technical standpoint the world- flight will undoubtedly prove to have been of more than ordinary value. It is on flights such as this that any small defects in technical equipment are
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