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Flight, January 7, 1926 First Aero Weekly in the World Founder and Editor: STANLEY SPOONER A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progress cf Aerial Locomotion and Transport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 889. (No. 1, Vol. XVIII.) JANUARY 7, 1926 fWeekly, Price 6d.|_ Post free, 7d. 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. Orf.* 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 Profit ard Loss 1 Air Control 2 Airship Clubs... Blackburne Thrush Light 'Plane Engine 3 Italy's Air Organisation... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 7 Light'Plane Club Doings S Aeronautical Research Committee Reports ... ... ... ... 9 Royal Aeronautical Society Official Notices 9 Wright-Bellanca Six-Scater 10 With Seaplane and Sledge in the Arctic ... ... ... ... ... 11 Advisory Committee Report on Atmospheric Pollution 12 Correspondence ... 2 Royal Air Force 13 R.A.F. Intelligence 3 Air Post Stamps 4 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:— 1926 Jan. 7 .... Prof. A. J. Sutton Pippard. "The Experi- mental Stress Analysis of Frameworks," before R.Ae.S. Jan. 0 .... Aero Club of Belgium 25th Anniversary Banquet. Ian. 11 .... F.A.I. Conference, Paris. Jan. 12 .... Mr. C. Howarth. "Some Aspects of Full- Scale Experiments," before Inst.Ae.E. Jan. 13 .... London Aeroplane Club Inaugural Dance, Suffolk Galleries, Suffolk Street, W. 1. Jan. 21 .... Maj. J. S. Buchanan. "The Schneider Cup Race, 1925," before R.Ae.S. Jan. 26 ... Lieut. Olechnovitch. "The Care and Main- tenance of Tools as an Important Factor in Workshop Routine," before Inst.Ae.E. Feb. 4 .... Joint Meeting of R.Ae.S. and Inst.Ae.E. at R. Soc. of Arts. Mr. C. L. Lawrance, " American Aircraft Engine Development." Feb. 9 .... Informal Meeting, Inst.Ae.E. or so would of the sums involved, Profit and Loss ;S might have been anticipated, the first published annual figures of Imperial Airways, Ltd., a resume of the pro- ceedings of whose first ordinary general meeting was published in last week's issue of FLIGHT, showed a loss. Nobody who had been watching the air traffic at Croydon during the last year have expected otherwise. In view the actual loss is not, of course, a particularly serious one. The explanation given for the deficit is that the first vear °f the company s existence is regarded as mainly an experimental period, and that the work of centralising the control, from the four separate companies working when Imperial Air- ways Ltd. came into being, into a single organisation, was a considerable handicap. While there is, of course, no den\nng that this reorganisation must for a time have resulted in some dislocation and loss of time, it wrill not, we think, be generally agreed that the company's activities have since been such as to give any great hope for an immediate improvement. The period may be regarded by the directors as experimental, but on the other hand, the company started with the advantage of the accumulated experi- ence of the four operational companies that had been working for a considerable period, so that there was not, or should not have been, very many problems of a new character to solve. Each of the four com- panies had very extensive knowledge of the particular route operated by it, and the exact capabilities of all the machines were well known. It is thus somewhat difficult to appreciate what there can have been, of a very experimental character, to discover. Reference is also made in the report to a delay that occurred during the early part of the company's financial year, owing to " regrettable and serious labour troubles." Presumably, what is meant here is the dispute with the pilots, who rightly insisted upon a rate of pay commensurate with the nature of the work they had to do. If it had not been for the fact that the company seemed to regard the air line pilots as little more than taxi-drivers, this delay B 2
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