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Flight, September 10, 1925 BNGINEEFL First Aero Weekly in the World Founder and Editor i 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. 872. (No. 37, Vol. XVII.) SEPTEMBER 10, 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 : Tniditur, 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 abnormal conditions and to increases in postage rates • Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency CONTENTS Editorial Comment PAGE Airships 575 The Italian N.2 Airship 577 The" Shenandoah" Disaster .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 580 The Home of the Panders 581 Aeronautics at B.A. .. . . . 583 Aeronautical Research .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 586 Two Italian Competitions .. .. .. .. . . . . .. 588 Royal Air Force 589 R.A.F. Intelligence • 589 DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of important fixture* are invited to send particulars for inclusion in the following list:— 1925 Sept. 19^28 F.I.A. Conference at Prague. Sept. 27-Oct. 7 " On to New York " Contest. Sept. 27-Oct. 10 American "National Aviation Meet," Mitchel Field, Long Island, N.Y. Sept. 28 .... Ford Trophy, Detroit, U.S.A. Oct. 1 .... Maj.-Gen. Sir Sefton Brancker, K.C.B., A.F.C. " The Technical Lesson of Five Years of Air Transport," before R.Ae.S. Oct. S .... Aero Golfing Soc. Autumn Meeting, Walton Heath. Oct. 10 .... Pulitzer Trophy, Long Island, U.S.A. Oct. 15 .... Maj. C. K. Cochran-Patriek, 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. NOT. 3 .... 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. CRAP the lot !" is a slogan that has been used in various connections in recent years, and not infrequently it has been applied to airships ; nor was it to be expected that the recent calamity in the United States, which resulted in the loss of the rigid air- ship " Shenandoah," with a number of valuable lives, would prove an exception, and the catastrophe has been made the occasion in certain quarters, not only in this country but Airships throughout the world, for advancing the claim that airships never have been and never will be any use. This is, perhaps, only natural, and in the grief and bitterness accompanying the loss of valuable lives, and in many cases personal friends, one is frequently apt to denounce as dangerous and futile the immediate cause of the catastrophe. It was so in Germany after the losses of some of the earlier Zeppelin airships. It was so in Great Britain, and, to some extent, in the United States, after the loss of the R.38. It was so in France after the disappearance without trace of the French airship " Dixmude " ; and it is so after the most recent regrettable loss of the " Shenandoah." Yet if one examines dispassionately the facts in so far as they have at present become known, there is nothing whatever in the accident to damn airships as such. Briefly, the facts, or such of the facts as have hitherto come to light, are that the United States airship " Shenandoah," proceeding on a cruise to the Middle West, was caught in a thunderstorm and broke her structure in the air. This much, at any rate, can be accepted as actual fact. There has never yet been an airship accident but that some one or other has alleged some omission or negligence on the part of those responsible for the construction or equipment of the airship. Something of the sort happened after the " Dixmude " disaster, and when the R.38 broke up and fell into the Humber a number of rumours were circulating, most of them wholly :. H 2
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