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Flight, November 6, 1924. First Aero Weekly in the World Founder and Editor: STANLEY SPOONER A i Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progress of Aerial Loeomotion and Transport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 828. (No. 45, Vol. XVI.) NOVEMBER 6, 1924 rWeekly, Price 6d. Post free, 7d. FligHt The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offices. : 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, VV.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 * PAGE Editorial Comment The New Government • 703 Air Defence 704 The Curtiss "P.W.8" Biplane 5 Light'Plane and Glider Notes 707 A New''Avro" Aerodrome .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 709 Air Defence 710 Royal Aero Club Light Aeroplane Competitions: Some Comparisons 711 Royal Air Force .. 713 R.A.F. Intelligence 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 Nov. 7 Nov. 12 Nov. 13 Nov. 19 Nov. 21 Nov. 26 Nov. 27 Dec. 4 Dec. 5-21 Col. N. T. Belaiew, C.B.: " Steel v. Lighter Alloys," before I.Ae.E. Mr. 6. S. Wilkinson (Chief Designer, Napiers): "The Heart of a Lion," before Cambridge Univ. Ae.S. Professor L. Bairstow, C.B.E., F.R.S., F.R.Ae.S. (Zaharoff Professor of Aeronautics, Univer sity of London): " Skin Friction," before R.Ae.S. Mr. C. G. Grey (Editor, The Aeroplane): " Aircraft in the Next War,'' before Cambridge Univ. Ae.S. Dr. A. P. Thurston, M.B.E., F.R.Ae.S., M.I.A.E., Hons. Member: " Graphic Methods of Aircraft Structural Design," before I.Ae.E. Lt.-Comdr. S. E. Deacon, R.N. : «' The Air Port of Croydon," before Cambridge Univ. Ae.S. Dr. G. C. Simpson, C.B.E., F.R.S. (Director, Meteorological Office): " Thunderstorms," before R.Ae.S. Colonel F. Searle, C.B.E., D.S.O. (Managing Director, Imperial Airways, Ltd,): •* The Maintenance of Commercial Aircraft," before R.Ae.S. Paris Aero Show. EDITORIAL COMMENT. NCE more the curtain has descended upon the latest of the all-too-lengthy pro cession of Air Ministers passing in an almost incessant stream across the political stage, and by the time this week's issue of FLIGHT is distributed to our readers it will in all probability be known who is to be our next Air Minister. It is regrettable that under the British constitution these changes should be necessary, and T, N surely the time has arrived—a hope we Government nave before expressed—when the heads of our fighting services should be placed outside political manipulation and thereby freed of the uncertainties with which they have hitherto been faced. As it is, a new Air Minister has barely time to begin to become familiar with his very specialised work before he is summarily removed from office, and a new man starts all over again. That the objection to this procedure is not, it is true, perhaps, as serious as might be expected at first glance seems to have been demonstrated by the work done by the late Air Minister and Under-Secretary of State for Air who are now " retiring." In the main they have but continued the policy inaugurated by their pre decessors in office. Nevertheless, it should be evident mat men with such vital reponsibilities would work under much more favourable conditions if they had the assurance that they would be left in peace, independent of political intrigue, to carry out their task. Looking back upon the short period during which they have held office, the regime of Lord Thomson and Mr. Leach may be said to have had certainly no ill consequences, even if nothing very startling in the way of progress has been accomplished. In all fairness it should be admitted that both have had little time in which to do other than what they did do : continue the work to which they sxicceeded when they assumed office. Perhaps Lord Thomson, who has become personally popular everywhere, will go down in history as the Air Minister who definitely revived airships. It was significant that when he assumed office he took the title Lord Thomson of Cardington, and although his Government did not see fit to adopt
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