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Flight, August 20, 1925 AIRCRAFTBNGINEEFL 6s 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. 869. (No. 34, Vol. XVII.) AUGUST 20, 1925 [-Weekly, 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. 0d.* These rates are subject to any alteration found necessary under abnormalconditions and to increases in postage rates • Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency CONTENTS Editorial Comment PACE Egypt-India Air Service 531 Hawker Hedgehog 533 Beardmore W.B. XXVI Biplane 534 Royal Aero Club Official Notices 7 The R.A.F. and Army Manoeuvres .. .. .. .. .. .. 539 Sir Philip Sassoon at Halton 541 Air Ministry Notices 542 Royal Air Force 3 R.A.F. Appointments 3 la Parliament .. ., .. .. .. .. ., .. .. 544 Imports and Exports .. .. .. .. . . .. .. .. 544 DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of important fixture* are invited to send particular* for inclusion in the following list:— 1925 Aug. 24 .... Royal Air Force participation in Wembley Tattoo. (Continuing for five weeks.) Sept. 19-25 Federation Aeronautique Internationale, Prague. Sept. 22-25 Air Force Participation in Army Manoeuvres. (Between Aldershot and Salisbury Plain.) Accountant Officers' Examination, R.A.F. Aero Golfing Soc. Autumn Meeting, Walton Heath. Schneider Cup Race, Baltimore, U.S.A. Royal Air Force Cadetship Examination. Sept. Oct. 8 ... Oct. 24-29 Nov. 17 1926 Aug. .... Light Aeroplane Competition. HE official announcement, published elsewhere in this issue of FLIGHT, that provisional heads of agreement have been concluded between the Air Ministry and Imperial Airways, Ltd., for the operation of a civil air service between Egypt and India will not, we think, be received with unmixed satis- faction. For many years past FLIGHT has advocated, in season and out, the extension of the existing air „ „. T .. lines as the only way to make any realEgypt-India . Ai J. ..-.,. .-,. Air Service progress with civil aviation, and irom this point of view the announcement is certainly to be welcomed. The service which has been in operation by the Royal Air Force over portions of the proposed new route has demonstrated that technically the difficulties are not insurmount- able and, that being so, the time has obviously arrived when it becomes good policy to hand the route over to a civilian concern. So far, therefore, the new step must be received with satisfaction. We are not, however, at all convinced that the best interests of the Empire will be served by handing Imperial Airways, Ltd., another monopoly. Since its formation that company has not exactly proved itself capable of, or even anxious to, strike out along lines calculated to promote real progress, and, coming as it does so soon after a clamour, in certain quarters, for further Government assistance to Imperial Airways, Ltd., the official statement concerning the latest " plum " to be handed to that company reads some- what curiously. What is the actual position ? It is that since its inception, the " Million Pound Monopoly Company," as Imperial Airways, Ltd., has frequently been dubbed, has covered the mileage stipulated in order to earn the subsidy agreed upon, b\it it is common knowledge that its fleet of aeroplanes is becoming sadly depleted, and even an official answer to a question in the House of Commons could only discover twelve " efficient " aeroplanes at the disposal of Imperial Airways, Ltd. Quite apart from the fact that it would probably have been more correct to B 2 L-
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