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light, October 2, 1924. Firs? 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. 823. (No. 40, Vol. XVI.) OCTOBER 2, 1924 [Weekly, Price 6d. Post free, 7d. Flight The Aircraft Engineer and Airships tdkorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C. 2 Telegrams : Truditur, West cent, London. Telephone : Gerrard 1828 Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free: United Kingdom .. 30s. id. Abroad .. 33s. 0d.* rhese rates are subject to any alteration found necessary under abnorma conditions and to increases in postage rates * European subscriptions must be remitted in British currency CONTENTS PACE Editorial Comment Lympne 631 Flying Over Spain 3 Two-seater Light 'Plane Competitions at Lympne .. .. .. . . 634 pritish World Flight Attempt 641 Kound-the-World Flights Second Round Australia Flight 644 Bristol " Jupiter " in France Royal Air Force .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 645 R.A.F. Intelligence 64 Personals 64 Institution of Aeronautical Engineers .. .. .. .. .. 646 Royal Aeronautical Society Official Notices 64 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 Sept. 27- Oct. Oct. 8 29- Oct.4 2 .... 16 30 Dec. 5-21 Wireless Exhibition at Albert Hall, Kensington. 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. Lieut.-Col. H. T. Tizard, A.F.C., F.R.Ae.S. (of the Department of Scientific and In dustrial Research), Chairman: Inaugural Lecture. Grosvenor Challenge Cup Race at Lympne. Schneider Cup Race, Baltimore. Dr. A. Rohrbach (of the Rohrbach Metall- Flugzeugbau Co.) " Large AH Metal Sea planes," before R.Ae.S. 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. Paris Aero Show. EDITORIAL COMMENT. HE initial stages of the competitions for two-seater light 'planes at Lympne provided numerous surprises. In the first place, the eliminating trials, which everybody had regarded as child's play, proved far more difficult to pass than had been expected, and in fact only a relatively small proportion of the entrants succeeded in passing the tests during the two days set aside for the purpose, Saturday and T Sunday-, September 27 and 28. Second- ly, the troubles encountered after the start of the actual competitions were much more numerous and a great deal more serious than antici pated. The result has been that out of the 19 machines entered but eight were admitted to the competitions when these started on Monday morning. Even this relatively small number had, by Tuesday evening, been reduced to six by the almost simul taneous failure of the engines of the two Parnall " Pixie Ilia " biplanes. At the time of going to press with this week's issue of FLIGHT there remained in the competitions only the following machines : No. 1, the Bristol " Brownie " ; No. 3, the Cranwell biplane ; No. 4, the Beardmore " Wee Bee " ; No. 5, the Westland " Wood Pigeon " biplane ; and Nos. 14 and 15, the Sopwith-Hawker " Cygnet I " and " Cygnet II." The question will naturally be asked : What was the cause of all these failures ? Summed-up in a few words perhaps the answer to that question may be said to be that the capabilities of the 1,100 c.c. engines had been over-estimated by those responsible for drawing up the rules. Yet this explanation is not, we fear, entirely true. Last year's competitions for single-seater light 'planes demonstrated that a very good performance could be obtained with an engine of 750 c.c. only, even with engines not specially designed for the purpose. When the cubic capacity for this year's competitions was limited to 1,100 c.c. it was not, perhaps, realised that the weight of the two-seater machines would be such as to make the extra engine allowance insufficient. Furthermore, at the time no engine of 1,100 c.c. was in existence which B 2
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