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NOVEMBER 20, 1924 AN AERIAL TOUR TO INDIA AN important flight from London to India has just been planned, and will probably commence one day next week. Alan J. Cobham, the famous long-distance air-taxi champion, will be the pilot, while the passenger will be none other than Air Vice-Marshal Sir Sefton Brancker, our energetic Director of Civil Aviation, who seems to live in the air. The machine, of course, will be the D.H.50 (Siddeley " Puma ") The objects of this enterprise—for which the Air Ministry and the British aircraft industry are jointly responsible—are, in the main, twofold. In the first place it is intended to survey the aerial possibilities of a route to India. Secondly, on arriving in India, the Director of Civil Aviation will be able to attend the conference with the Indian Government in January next for the purpose of settling the various matters connected with the big airship scheme now under development—the site, erection, etc., of the airship base in India. <s> <$> Graphical Methods of Aircraft Structural Design READERS are reminded that it is tomorrow, Friday, November 21, that Dr. A. P. Thurston is reading his paper on " Graphical Methods in Aircraft Structural Design," before the Institution of Aeronautical Engineers. The subject is one that should appeal especially to those actively engaged in our aircraft drawing offices, and we would recommend all who can possibly do so to attend the meeting. Dr. Thurston has had, very long experience of structural design, and was at one time in charge of this section at the Air Ministry. $> <3> It should be noted that no attempt at " record flights ' will be made on this trip, for inasmuch as a great deal of varied information will have to be collected en route, the journey must necessarily occupy some time—probably about two months. Furthermore, Sir Sefton is anxious to study very closely possible new air routes, over which Imperial Airways, Ltd., may extend their services, while the question of the use of aeroplanes as feeders to the airship route will also form an important item requiring investigation. The route to be taken on this aerial tour—which will cover some 14,000 miles—will include Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, Bucharest, Constantinople, Angora, Aleppo, Baghdad, along the Persian Gulf to Karachi, and Calcutta. Many diver gencies will, of course, be made here and there. During Sir Sefton's stay in India the D.H.50 will, in all probability, give a series of demonstration flights in order to " show off " its admitted excellent qualities. <•> <5> At the same time he is not likely to prove tied down by such routine methods as may obtain at the Ministry, and is sure to introduce innovations. Graphical solutions, if of reason able accuracy, are often to be preferred owing to the ease with which errors become apparent. For that reason, and also because the Institution of Aeronautical Engineers can now be said to have attained a position where it must be taken seriously, the meeting deserves a very full attendance. The meeting will take place at the Engineers' Club, Coventry Street, and will commence at 6.30 p.m. <s> <•> AIR MAIL SERVICES IN COLOMBIA: In our issue for October 23 we published .a report on the successful air mail services operated in Colombia by the "Scadta." Above we reproduce two photographs, one showing an aerial view of Barranquilla—the seaport terminus of the service—and the other showing one of the Junkers seaplanes, which are employed on portions of the service, starting from the Magdalena river for Bogota. 736
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