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Flight, October 8, 1925 AIRCJZ4FTENGINEER. First Aero Weekly in the World Founder and Editor i STANLEY SPOONER • Journ.l devoted to the Interests, Pr«etice, aad Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 87*. (No. 41, Vol. XVII.) OCTOBER 8, 1925 [•Weekly, Price M.L Post free, 7d. Flight The Aircraft Engineer and Airships **°rial °ffi"s: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W C. 2.lelegrams : 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 abnormal conditions and to increases in postage rates • Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency CONTENTS Editorial Comment Civil Aviation .. 647 Third Prague Aviation Meeting 649 Light Aeroplane Competition, 1926 650 A British World's Record 651 Schneider Cup Competitors 2 Civil Aviation Annual Report 655 Air Ministry Notices 657 The Lessons of Six Years' Experience in Air Transport. By Maj.-Gen. Sir S. Brancker 8 Royal Air Force 662 R.A.F. Intelligence 2 New Rates of Pay ., 663 Auxiliary Air Force .. .. • • 663 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 Oct. 8 .... Aero Golfing Soc. Autumn Meeting, Walton Heath. Oct. 10 .... Pulitzer Trophy, Long Island, U.S.A. Oct. 10 .... 28 Squadron (R.A.F.) Re-union. Oct. 15 .... Mai. C. K. Cochran-Patrick, D.S.O., M.C. " Aircraft Survey in Burma," before R.Ae.S. Oct. 16 ... Sir Samuel Hoare at Lincoln Guildhall Meeting. Oct. 24 .... Schneider Cup Race, Baltimore, U.S.A. Oct. 24-27 Eliminating Trials for Coppa del Mare, Naples. Oct. 28 .... Coppa del Mare, Naples. Oct. 29 .... Mr. W. L. Cowley. " Aircraft Transport Economy," before R.Ae.S. Nov. 4 ... Group-Capt. W. F-MacNeece. "The General Principles of Air Defence," before Royal United Service Institution. Nov. 10 .... Wing-Corn. T. R. Cave-Browne-Cave, C.B.E., F.R.Ae.S. " The Evaporative Cooling of Aero Engines and Condensation of their Exhaust Gas," before R.Ae.S. Nov. 11-14 Eliminating Trials for Coppa d'ltalia, Rome. EDITORIAL COMMENT. a curious coincidence the publication of the Annual Report of the Directorate of Civil Aviation and the presentation of the first paper of the new session of the Royal Aeronautical Society, written by the Director of Civil Aviation, Major-General Sir Sefton Brancker, and read for him, in his absence, by Major Mayo, took place almost simultaneously. To some extent the two covered the same ground, „. .j although Sir Sefton's paper naturally Aviation deals with many aspects of the question of civil aviation upon which the Annual Official Report does not touch at all. The Annual Report on Civil Aviation is, in a way, a disappointing document in so far as the statistics show in every case, except the amount of cargo carried, a considerable decrease on the previous year's figures. We are here referring to Table A in the Report, which deals with British Civil Aviation, and with that part of it commonly referred to as commercial, i.e. not including " joy riding," etc. The latter, incidently, shows a very healthy increase, both in the number of machine-flights, in the machine- mileage, and in the number of passengers carried. If one takes the table dealing with the statistics for the Cross-Channel services, both British and foreign, it is found that the number of British flights is approximately the same as during the previous year, while there is a slight decrease in the number of passengers carried. There is a slight increase in the number of French flights, i.e. from 993 to 1,355, and a vast increase in the number of passengers carried by French aircraft, which has grown from 2,107 during the year ending March 31, 1924, to 5,645 during the year ending March 31, 1925. These figures are significant, and we are afraid that if statistics were available up to the end of September, for instance, the results would be found to be even more unfavourable to British avia- tion, due mainly to the decrease in the number of machines in regular use by Imperial Airways, during the last six months or so. Of the Cross-Channel B 2
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