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Flight, May 28, 1925 AIRCRAFTENGINEER. First Aero Weekly in the World Founder and Editor : STANLEY SPOONER A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, »>d Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 857. (No. 22, Vol. XVII.) MAY 28, 1925 ["Weekly, Price 6d.L Post free, 7d. FligKt 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. Od* 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 PAGE Long Distance Flights 315 Aerial Surveying . . 316 Round-Germany Flight .. .. .. .. 316 The Round Germany Flight 317 Brussels-Congo Flight 327 Brussels-Kinshasa Flight Celebration 329 Aerial Survey of England . . .. .. .. 330 Air Ministry Exhibit at Wembley 330 Royal Air Force 331 R.A.F. Intelligence 1 In Parliament 1 Air Ministry Notice 332 Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers .. .. . . .. .. 332 DIAEY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS Clvh Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in the following list :— 1925 13 Royal Tournament, Olympia. R.A.F. Middle East Dinner. Aero Golfing Soc. Match, Oxhey. 9 Deutscher Rnndfiug. Visit to Croydon Aerodrome, by I.Ae.E. Gordon Bennett Balloon Race, Brussels- Entries close foi King's Cup Race. Independent Force (R.A.F.) Re-Union Dinner, R.A.F. Club, 7.45 p.m. Aero Golfing Soc. Match, Mid-Surrey. Royal Air Force Pageant, Hendon. R.A.F. Iraq Dinner, Holborn Restaurant, at 8.15 p.m. King's CUP Race. 9 Vauville Light 'Plane and Glider Meeting. Royal Aero Club Race Meeting at Lympne. F.I.A. Conference at Prague. Aero Golfing Soc. Autumn Meeting, Walton Heath. Schneider Cup Race, Baltimore, U.S.A. May! May May May Jane June JaneJane June June Jane July July Aug. Sept. Oct. Oct. 28-Jnne 28 .... 29 ... 31-June6 .... 7 .... 12 ....23 .... 25 .... 27 .... 27 .... 8-4 .... 2&-Aug. 1-8 .... 19-28 8 .... 24-29 EDITORIAL COMMENT. HE first successful flight from Belgium to Congo was celebrated on Friday of last week, vhen the directors of Handley Page, Ltd., entertained Lieut. Thieffry and his mecanicien, de Bruycker, at a gathering at the Savoy Hotel. The achievement is, indeed, one of which all concerned may well be satisfied. The climatic ar>d geographical difficulties were extra- ordinarily great, and when they were successfully overcome it was due to the British Long- machine and engines no less than to the Flights skiN of the Belgian crew. Sir Samuel Hoare very7 rightly pointed out the advantages of personal inspection and intercourse, and Mr. J. H. Thomas, in his telling phrase about talking to instead of at one another, called attention to the very great instrument for goodwill among nations which aviation forms. On every hand these facts are beginning to be admitted, and consequently the importance of long-distance nights as a preliminary to regular air routes is becoming increasingly great. The Brussels-Kinshasa flight, a brief resume of which is given elsewhere in this issue, has again shown what can be accomplished by a British machine and British engines under very trying conditions. The flight of Mr. Cobham and Sir Sefton Brancker to India and back is another excellent example. These and other flights have demonstrated that the British aircraft industry is capable of undertaking work of this strenuous nature, and that nothing is required except the further opportunity to put up similarly good performances. In this connection attention is inevitably called to the two long-distance flights which are planned, and to which Sir Samuel Hoare referred in an interview recently. One of these will be from Egypt to South Africa, and the other from Egypt to Nigeria. Sir Samuel very rightly expressed the opinion that such flights, mainly over British territory, would do more good and be of greater practical value than flights outside the British Empire, and would be a very
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