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Flight, August 27, 1925 ENGINEER. First Aero Weekly in the World Founder and Editor : STANLEY SPOONER A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, sad Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 870. (No. 35, Vol. XVII.) AUGUST 27, 1925 ["Weekly, Price 6d.L Post free, 7d. FligHt The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C. 2. TelegTams : 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 abnormalconditions and to increases in postage rates • Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency CONTENTS Editorial Comment Amateur Flying London Aeroplane Club Inauguration Yorkshire Aeroplane Club's "Moih" Aviation and Imperial Defence The World's Duration Record PAGE 5-15 547 548 549 550 Light'Plane and Glider Notes .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 551 Aeronautical Research Committee Report ,. New York-Chicago Night Air Mail Service A Swedish Visitor Royal Air Force R.A.F. Intelligence 555 556 557 SS7 Air Post Stamps .. .. .. .. .. .. . . .. .. 558 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 Sept. 5 ... "Flight" Challenge Cup for Models at Sudbury. F.I.A. Conference at Prague. Maj.-Gen. Sir Sefton Brancker, K.C.B., A.F.C. " The Technical Lesson of Five Years of Air Transport," before R.Ae.S. Aero Golfing Soc. Autumn Meeting, Walton Heath. Maj. C. K. Cochran-Patrick, D.S.O., M.C, '" Aircraft Survey in Burma," before R.Ae.S. Schneider Cup Race, Baltimore, U.S.A. Mr. W. L. Cowley. "' Aircraft Transport Economy, before R.Ae.S. Sir Dugald Clerk, K.B.E., F.R.S., D.Sc, M.I.M.E., M.I.C.E., F.R.Ae.S. " Super- charging," before R.Ae.S. Sept. 19-28 Oct. 1 Oct. 8 Oct. 15 Oct. 24-29 Oct. 29 Nov. 3 Amateur Flying ^UGUST 19, 1925, is likely to become a date of some importance in the history of British aviation, since it was on this date that the first flight was made, at the Stag Lane aerodrome, by one of the new light 'planes belonging to the London Aeroplane Club, which is the light 'plane section of the Royal Aero Club of Great Britain. As befitted the importance of the occasion, the official opening speech was made by the Under-Secretary of State for Air, who again emphasised the importance of developing in our race that " air sense " which it is so earnestly desired to foster. Just as in the past the British have always had a peculiar love of the sea, so must we now endeavour to become, as even highly placed officials express it, a nation of " airmen." That the newly-formed light 'plane clubs can and doubtless will endeavour to do a very great deal towards attaining that ideal is not to be doubted for one moment, and their coming into being must therefore be welcomed by all who take a really serious interest in the future of the British Empire—which future, as is now becoming increasingly realised, must of necessity be largely interconnected with the subject of air communications. At the same time, we think a word of caution may not be out of place, and we trust we may be permitted to utter it without being accused of any intention of hampering the early and possibly somewhat faltering steps of the youngest offspring of the aviation movement. At the inauguration of the London Aeroplane Club's activities Lieut.-Col. Frank McClean very delicately, and for that reason perhaps not quite sufficiently clearly, pointed out that, although the light 'plane clubs were indebted to the Air Council for the financial support given, that support was no more than just sufficient to enable the clubs to carry on, provided no serious crashes occurred. We have here a warning which should be taken to heart, and the fact that Col. McClean did not make much of it should not be allowed to obscure the fundamental importance of the situation. To anyone
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