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Flight, April 9, 1925 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. 850. (No. 15, Vol. XVII.) APRIL 9, 1925 rWeekly, 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. id. 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 PAGEEditorial Comment Supremacy .. .. .. .. .. .. ., ., .. 207 "Amateurs" 208 " Many Congratulations, Airship!" .. .. .. .. .. .. 209 R.A.F. Cadetships 210 Light'Plane and Glider Notes 211 Light 'Plane Club Doings 1 Three Savoia Seaplanes 212 Award of Britannia Trophy .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 216 Royal Aeronautical Society Official Notices 217 Personals 217 Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers 218 Royal Air Force 219 R.A.F. Intelligence 9 In Parliament 220 Correspondence 0 Air Ministry Notices 220 DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing Ihe dates of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in the following list :— 1925 Apr. 23 .... Colonel F. Searle : "The Maintenance of Commercial Aircraft," before R.Ae.S. Apr. 24 ... Commander C. D. Barney, C.M.6., M.F., R.N. : " The Position of the Airship in Aerial Transport," before I.Ae.E. Apr. 80 .... Wilbur Wright Lecture, Rear-Admiral D. W. Taylor: " Some Aspects of the Comparison of Model and Full-Scale Tests," before R.Ae.S. May 8 .... Capt. W. H. Sayers, Hons. Member : " A Resume of Achievements in Aviation during the Past Year," before I.Ae.E. May 7 -. Aero Golfing Soc. Spring Meeting, Worplesdon. May 20 .... Visit to the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, by I.Ae.E. May 21 .... Aero Go)fling Soc. Match, Cassiobury Park. May 29 .... Aero Golfing Soc. Match, Oxhey. June .... Race Meeting at Hendon Aerodrome. June 6 .... Visit to Croydon Aerodrome, by I.Ae.E. EDITORIAL COMMENT. |EFERENCE has been made in FLIGHT repeatedly during the last few months to the lamentable position in which Great Britain finds herself in the matter of world's aviation records. To the much graver issues at stake we have hitherto refrained from referring, hoping that matters would mend without too much unwanted publicity. The general press, how- ever, has now taken the matter up, and one of our „ foremost aircraft constructors has pub- licly referred to the present eclipse of British air supremacy, so that there no longer appears to be any good reason for reticence. Two daily papers in particular have made the subject prominent, although to some extent from different points of view. In the Daily Mail Mr. Harry Harper has in a series of articles uttered words of warning concerning the fourth-rate position into which Great Britain has been allowed to drift from her pinnacle of leadership immediately after the War. The articles will doubtless be described by many as alarmist propaganda, yet who, having had experience of aerial warfare during the latter part of the War, 1914-18, will doubt that when there is another war the air will play a much greater part, and may even play a quick and decisive part. While we are not prepared to agree with Mr. Harper in all he sets forth, there is sufficient cause for serious alarm, and we think he and the Daily Mail deserve well of the community for a very timely warning, as it is only by influencing public opinion that matters can be remedied. The aeronautical correspondent of the Morning Post, writing less on generalities and more on specific shortcomings, has, we think, stated the case briefly and clearly. The sum total of his arguments is that British aeroplanes, and particularly British fighting aeroplanes, are inferior in performance to the " opposite numbers " of several other nations, and he very correctly points out that this lamentable fact, for it must be admitted to be a fact, unpleasant as is the admission, is due not to any shortcomings on the part of British aircraft designers and constructors, but to the system in force whereby our designers are handicapped by official interference.
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