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Flight, December 3, 1925 AIRCRAFTENGINEER First Aero Weekly in the World Founder and Editor i STANLEY SPOONER A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, »nd Progress of Aerial Loeomotion and Transport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 884. (No. 49, Vol. XVII.) DECEMBER 3, 1925 rweekly. Price M.L Post free, 7d. Flight The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY W C 2Telegrams : 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 PAGE Aviation and Our Public. Schools 789 The Royal Aero Club House Dinners 790 Kingston Metal-Hull Flying Boat 791 Teaching the Young Idea 793 Royal Aero Club Official Notices 794 American Aviation. By C. R. Fairey 794 Light'Plane Club Doings 797 Coppa d'ltalia 798 Installation Problems on Radial Air-C'doled Engines. By R. Fedden 799 Royal Air Force 801 R.A.F. Intelligence 1 In Parliament 1 Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers 802 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 Dec. 3 Dec. 15 Dec. 16 1926 Jan. 12 Jan. 26 Feb. 9 Feb. 23 Feb. 25 Mar. 9 Prof. B. Melvill Jones, A.F.C., A.F.R.Ae.S. " The Control of Stalled Aeroplanes," before R.Ae.S. M. E. Dewoitine. " The Advantages of Metal Construction," before Inst.Ae.E. Air Vice-Marshal Sir W. Sefton Brancker. " Air Communications in the Middle East," before Royal United Service Institution. Mr. C. Howarth. " Some Aspects of Full- Scale Experiments," before Inst.Ae.E. Lieut. Olechnovitch. "The Care and Main- tenance of look as an Important Factor in Workshop Routine," before Inst.Ae.E. Informal Meeting, Inst.Ae.E. Mr. 0. E. Simmonds, M.A., A.F.R.Ae.S., M.I. Ae.S. " The Development of Civil Marine Aircraft," before Inst.Ae.E. Mr. A. J. Cobham. " Long-Distance Aero- plane Flights," before R.Ae.S. Informal Meeting, Inst.Ae.E. and Annual Meeting. EDITORIAL COMMENT. VERY great deal has been written andspoken during the last few years of the importance to the British Empireof developing in the general public the " air sense," as it has been called,in order to ensure the sound progress of aviation, both military and civil,and the inauguration of the light 'plane club scheme is, of course, a direct practicalstep towards attaining the desired end. That the light 'plane club scheme in itselfAviation and suffices nobody will seriously claim. Our Public T . ' . /, -i vi- ,t Schools " ls' or should be, one link in the chain, and, if success is to be won, it is very necessary to exploit every avenue likely to lead to further progress. The formation of University Squadrons is another link, and a most excellent one, but does not commence, from the educational point of view, until those concerned have, in a measure, already chosen their life's work. At the other end of the scale we have, or are about to have, the Auxiliary Air Force squadrons and centres ; again a most excellent link in the chain. But in all these we are dealing in the main with those who have already attained man's estate, and whose outlook upon life has, therefore, presumably already been more or less formed. What is still lacking is the inculcation of the vast possibilities of the air into the plastic minds of those still in the receptive stage and to whom after all, we shall have to look for our future in the air. It is therefore with the very greatest satisfaction that we learn of a scheme, initiated by Major Victor Stammers and Major H. Hemming, recently submitted to the Air Ministry by the Air League of the British Empire. An outline of this scheme is published elsewhere in this issue of FLIGHT, from which it will be seen that it has for its object to send a pilot- lecturer on tour to some of our public schools, there to give lectures on aviation, demonstration flights on a suitable machine, and passenger flights to such of the boys as are willing and have obtained the consent of their parents and the headmaster of the school.
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