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Flight, September 3, 1925 ••>:•• BNGINEEFL 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. 871. (No. 36, Vol. XVII.) SEPTEMBER 3, 1925 ("Weekly, Price 6a.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 abnormalconditions and to increases in postage rates * Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency CONTENTS Editorial Comment PAGE Schneider Cup Challengers.. .. .. .. 559 Junkers G.24L 561 Light'Plane and Glider Notes 565 Piero Magni " Vittoria 1924" 6 Personals 569 American Aviation Meetings .. . . .. . . .. . . .. 569 Aeronautical Research Committee Reports.. .. .. .. .. 570 Royal Aeronautical Society Official Notices .. 572 Royal Air Force 573 R.A.F. Intelligence 3 Air Post Stamps 4 DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of important fixture* art invited to send particulars for inclusion in the following list :— 1925 Sept. 5 .... " Flight" Challenge Cup for Models at Sudbury. Sept. 19-28 F.I.A. Conference at Prague. Oct. 1 ... Mai .-Gen. Sir Sefton Brancker, E.C.B., A.F.C. " The Technical Lesson of Five Years of Air Transport," before R.Ae.S. Oct. 8 ... Aero Golfing Soc. Autumn Meeting, Walton Heath. Oct. 15 .... Maj. C. E. Cochran-Patrick, D.S.O., M.C. " Aircraft Survey in Burma," before R.Ae.S. Oct. 24 29 Schneider Cup Race, Baltimore, U.S.A. Oct. 29 .... Mr. W. L. Cowley. " Aircraft Transport Economy," before R.Ae.S. Nov. 3 .... Sir Dugald Clerk, E.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. F all the International air contests, few appeal more strongly than that for the Schneider Seaplane Trophy, which is, of course, the speed race of the world for machines of the seaplane type. The history of the Schneider Cup race will probably be familiar to the majority of our readers, but, for the benefit of those who have not followed aviation from its earlier days, it may be recalled that the Cup has been held twice by Great Britain. The first time Schneider a British machine and pilot lifted the Challengers Cup was at Monaco in 1914, when Mr. Howard Pixton won a smashing victory over the French competitors, flying a Sopwith twin-float seaplane fitted with Gnome engine. Then came the war 1914-18, when, of course, the race for the coveted seaplane trophy could not be held, and it was not until 1919 that the next Schneider Cup race took place. That year's race was held off Bournemouth, in extremely misty weather which caused the majority of the competitors to abandon the race. The only exception was Janello, on a Savoia flying-boat, who completed the course, and was awarded the Cup, although there was considerable difference of opinion as to whether or not he had correctly rounded the mark boats, the weather being so thick that it was difficult to make accurate observations. The Schneider Cup then remained in Italy until 1922, when the race was won by Capt. H. Biard, on a Supermarine flying boat, with Napier " Lion " engine. As a result of Biard's winning the Cup, the 1923 -Schneider Race was held in England, and was won by the American pilot, Lieut. Rittenhouse, on a Curtiss Navy twin-float seaplane with Curtiss D.12 engine. The 1924 Schneider Cup race was to be held at Baltimore, U.S.A., but in this Great Britain was not represented, the machine designed and built for the race by the Gloucestershire Aircraft Co. having been damaged in a test flight. This year, fortunately, there is every chance that B 2
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