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Flight, April 30, 1925 CHT AIRCRAFTRNG1NEEFL 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. 853. (No. 18, Vol. XVII.) APRIL 30, 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. 4d. Abroad .. .. 33s. 0d.* These rates are subject to any alteration found necessary under abnormal conditions and to increases in postage rates • Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency CONTENTS Editorial Comment Airships Anti-Aircraft Recruiting The Pander Light Monoplane Visits Croydon The Dijon Aerial Lighthouse " Deutscher Rundflug, 1925" Air Ministry Technical Papers.. Two New Fokker MilitaryAeroplnnes.. Position of Airships in Aerial Transport. By Commander C. D. Burney Personals Royal Air Force Memorial Fund A Fairey Club Dinner and Concert Royal Air Force R.A.F. Intelligence Air Post Stamps Side-VVinds PAGE 251 253 254 256 257 260 261 262 263 264 264 265 265 266 266 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 Apr. 30 MayMay May May May May June June June June June July July 7 8 .... 20 .... 21 .... 28 29 .... 6 .... 7 .... 25 .... 27 .... 8-4 .... 26-Aug Wilbur Wright Lecture, Rear-Admiral D. W. Taylor : " Some Aspects of the Comparison of Model and Full-Scale Tests," before R.Ae.S. Aero Golfing Soc. Spring Meeting, Worplesdon. Capt. W. H. Sayers, Hons. Member: " A Resume of Achievements in Aviation during the Past Year," before I.Ae.E. Visit to the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, by I.Ae.E. Aero Golfling Soc. Match, Cassiobury Park. R.A.F. Middle East Dinner. Aero Golfing Soc. Match, Oxhey. Race Meeting at Hen don Aerodrome. Visit to Croydon Aerodrome, by I.Ae.E. Gordon Bennett Balloon Race, Brussels. Aero Golfing Soc. Match, Mid-Surrey. Royal Air Force Display, Hendon. Sing's Cup Race. 9 Vauville Light 'Plane and Glider Meeting. EDITORIAL COMMENT. Airships N spite of its title, " The Position of the Airship in Aerial Transport," the paper read by Commander Burney before the Institution of Aeronautical Engineers, and the discussion following the reading of the paper, might have been better entitled " The Problem of the Mooring Mast." However, as Col. Moore-Brabazon pointed out, a great deal of atten- tion was quite rightly given to this subject, which must of necessity play a very important part in any airship scheme, whatever, type of mooring mast is ultimately decided upon. At the moment it can be said that there are two schools, as far as mast-mooring is concerned. One, which has been called the Air Ministry School, believes that the proper place at which to attach a rigid airship to a mooring mast is in the extreme nose, where the cone attachment forms more or less a " point contact." The other, which we may call the Burney School, and whose case was admirably put by Commander Burney in his lecture, considers that whatever type of mast-mooring is chosen, it should be one which is applicable to mooring to a mast on land as well as to one placed on some suitable vessel such as a monitor. This, if we have understood the argument correctly, is the main point in Commander Burney's scheme. In his lecture Commander Burney pointed out that with the Air Ministry type of mooring, guy ropes are required for stopping what he called " sail- ing at the mast," i.e., a yawing from side to side as the airship is approaching the mast after having been attached to the mast cable. Now the point made by Commander Burney was that in land operations these guy ropes are attached some 1,000 ft. out from the base of the mast in order to give them an effective angle. Obviously, as he pointed out, at sea it will be impossible to provide points so far apart, and means must be found whereby any guy ropes or similar device used for stopping yawing must be attached to the vessel upon which the mast is built, or to the mast itself. It is this consideration which has led up to the suggested " forked " mooring masthead, in which two long arms, or platforms, approximately B 2
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