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Flight, November 13, 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. 829. (No. 46, Vol. XVI.) NOVEMBER 13, 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 : Truditur, Westcent, London. Telephone : Gerrard 1828 Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free : United Kingdom .. 30s. Ad. Abroad .. .. 33s. Od* 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 Airships .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 715 Air Racing in Czechoslovakia .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 717 Sir Samuel Hoare's Guildhall Speech 718 Col. Brmsmead's Flight Round Australia 719 Light'Plane and Glider Notes 720 The Driggs-Johnson Light Monoplane 721 The "Holland" Light'Planes 2 Personals .. 724 Royal Air Force 5 R.A.F. Intelligence Air Post Stamps 726 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. 13 .... Professor L. Bairstow, C.B.E., F.R.S., F.E.Ae.S. (Zaharoff Professor of Aeronautics, Univer sity of London): " Skin Friction," before R.Ae.S. Nov. 19 .... Mr. C. G. Grey (Editor, The Aeroplane)'. " Aircraft in the Next War,'' before Cambridge Univ. Ae.S. Nov. 21 .... 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. Nov. 26 .... Lt.-Comdr. S. E. Deacon, R.N. ; "The Air Port of Croydon," before Cambridge Univ. Ae.S. Nov. 27 .... Dr. G. C. Simpson, C.B.E., F.R.S. (Director, Meteorological Office) : " Thunderstorms," before R.Ae.S. Dec. 4 .... Colonel F. Searle, C.B.E., D.S.O. (Managing Director, Imperial Airways, Ltd.) : " The Maintenance of Commercial Aircraft," before R.Ae.S. Dec. 5-21 Paris Aero Show. Dec. 12 .... Commander J. C. Hunsaker (C.C.), U.S.N., Assistant Naval Attache to the American Embassy, London : " Notes on Design," before I.Ae.E. EDITORIAL COMMENT. HE announcement made recently by Sir Trevor Dawson, Vice-Chairman of Vickers, Ltd., and Chairman of the Airship Guarantee Co., is the first official intimation that an actual start has been made under the scheme adopted by the late Government for the resumption of airship work in Great Britain. The early history of airships in this country will be well known to readers of FLIGHT, .. and it will suffice to recall briefly that ips a^er the War there followed a period of vacillation in official circles between enthusiasm and apathy on the question of airships. The flight of R.34 to America and back was the outcome of the former, but the terrible calamity which overtook the R.38 over the Humber, coupled with a general demand for economy everywhere, resulted in the abandon ment of airships altogether. It will still be recol lected how from various sources an endeavour was made to save the existing airships, among their most ardent supporters being Mr. Ashbolt, Agent-General for Tasmania, who advocated airship services to Australia. However, nothing came of the different suggestions, the Air Ministry, never wildly enthu siastic in airship matters, appeared to lose interest, and the net result was that the airship personnel, what little was left after the R.38 catastrophy, was dispersed and the airships were allowed to " rot in their sheds." Then suddenly the Admiralty discovered that it could do with a few airships, although having pre viously taken no noticeable interest in them, and from being the Cinderella of aircraft, airships came once more into the limelight. Among those who fought valiantly and consistently for the resumption of airship work was Commander Dennis Burney, who put forward one scheme after another, only to have them turned down on various grounds. By persist ing, however, he at last succeeded in getting the matter reconsidered, although in a somewhat modified form, and, under the late Labour Government, a scheme was sanctioned whereby Commander Burney's company, the Airship Guarantee Co., was given the option of building one ship While a second was to be
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