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Flight, February 26, 1925 ENGINEEFL 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. 844. (No..9, Vol. XVII.) FEBRUARY 26, 1925 TWeekly, 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. 0<2.« These rates are subject to any alteration found necessary under abnormalconditions and to increases in postage rates * European subscriptivns must be remitted in British currency CONTENTS PAGE Editorial Comment The Air Estimates 105 Airdisco "Cirrus" Engine ., ,. .. .. .. ,, .. 107 Royal Aero Ciub Official Notices .. .. .. .. .. .. 110 Light 'Plane and Glider Notes Ill Light'Plane Club Domgs 112 Air Estimates .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. 113 Photo-Elastic Methods of Measuring Stress 116 America's Super-Zeppelin 117 Light Aeroplane Engine Development .. .. .. .. .. 118 Royal Air Force 121 R.A.F. Intelligence 1 In Parliament 1 Beardmore Aircraft for Abroad 122 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 :— 1925 Mai. 4 .... Alan Chorlton, Esq. (Managing Director of Messrs. Beardmore, Ltd.) : " The All Steel Aircraft," before C.U.Ae.S. Mar. 5 .... Lieut.-Col. C. B. Heald, C.B.E. (Medical Adviser to the Director of Civil Aviation, Air Minis- try) : " Some Medical Aspects of Air Trans- port," before R.Ae.S. Mar. 6 .... M. E. Dewoitine : " The Advantages of Metal Construction," before I.Ae.E. Mar. 11 .... G. Bradshaw, Esq. : " The Failure of the Petrol Engine as a Prime Mover." Presidential Address. Election of Officers. Before C.U.Ae.S. Mar. 19 ... Capt. F. Tymmus : "Practical Navigation of Aircraft," before R.Ae.S. Mar. 26 .... Dr. Eckener (Managing Director, Zeppelin Airship Co.) : " Modern Zeppelin Airships," before R.Ae.S. (Society of Arts). Apr. 8 .... Visit (Details announced later). Apr. 23 .... Colonel F. Searle : " The Maintenance of Commercial Aircraft," before R.Ae.S. INDEX AND TITLE PAGE FOR VOL. XVI. The Index and Title Page for Vol. XVI of FLIGHT (January to December, 1924) is now ready, and can be had from the Publishers, 36, Great Queen Street, London, W.C. 2, price Is. Id. post free. EDITORIAL COMMENT. N apparent net increase of £652,000 characterises this year's Air Estimates. In view of the various expansions contemplated or in course of develop- ment, this may appear little enough, but perhaps a rather more correct picture can be formed as to the import- ance the air arm is assuming if, to the net total of £15,513,000 shown in the Estimates, are added the amounts provided in the Civil Service and Revenue Department Estimates, ™e and the £1.320.000 which is the Ad- Estimates miralty's contribution in respect of the cost of the Fleet Air Arm. If that is done, the total net expenditure on our air arm and aviation in general reaches the figure of £17,129.762. There can, we think, be little doubt that the Air Estimates will be passed substantially as they stand, as no section of the community wishes to deprive the nation and the Empire of an adequate protection in the air. The only question that can be raised is that of the method of allocating the various sums, and so long as the nation is satisfied that we are getting value for the money spent, there will, we feel sure, be little tendency to grumble, severe as is the taxpayer's burden in other directions. The memorandum by Sir Samuel Hoare, published in full elsewhere in this issue of FLIGHT, explains fairly explicitly the various Votes and the re-arrange- ments that have been made. In the main, this year's Air Estimates follow previous ones, with the chief exception that this year the Admiralty is, for the first time, to be " allowed " to pay for its own air section. This fact has been regarded in certain quarters as being possibly the " thin end of the wedge," and as marking the beginning of the revival of a separate Naval Air Service. We reallv do not think this need necessarily be so, as pointed out in an article on the Air Estimates and the other B2
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