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Flight, January 14, 1926 AIRCRAFTENGINEER. 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. 890. (No. 2, Vol. XVIII.) JANUARY 14, 1926 TWeekly, Price 6d.[_ Post free, 7d. The Aircraft Engineer and Airships UJitorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2.Telegrams : Truditur, 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 IAGE Propaganda IS PuTchasiiiR I-"orcij,'n Aircraft lfi More " Economy " lel The Next Schneider Cup Ran- 1H Manoeuvrability '" Light "Plane Club Doings .-- 18 The Bristol "Cherub'• Series III 1^ Experimental Stress Analysis 22 Air Lines in South Russia 3 Personals ... ... ... ... ••• ••- •-• ••• ••• -•• -^ Royal Air Force -n R.A.F. Intelligence 5 Air Post Stamps '-K DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for 1926 Jan. 21 Jan. 26 Feb. Feb. Feb. 9 25 Mar. 4 Mar. 9 Mar. 18 April 13 inclusion in the following list :— Mai. J. S. Buchanan. "The Schneider Cup Race, 1925," beiore R.Ae.S. Lieut. Olechnovitch. " The Care and Main- tenance of Tools as an Important Factor in Workshop Routine," before Inst.Ae.E. Joint Meeting of R.Ae.S. and Inst.Ae.E. at R. Soc. of Arts. Mr. C. L. Lawrance, " American Aircraft Engine Development." Informal Meeting, Inst.Ae.E. Mr. A. J. Cobhani. " Long-Distance Aero- plane Flights," before R.Ae.S. Mai. G. H. Scott. "Development of Airship Mooring," before R.Ae.S. Mr. O. E. Simmonds, M.Ai, A.F.R.Ae.S., M.I.Ae.S. " The Development of Civil Marine Aircraft,' before Inst.Ae.E. Flight-Lieut. H. Cooch. 'Landing Aero- planes in Fof,"' before R.Ae.S. Mr. S. H. Evans, B.Sc. " The Performance of Modern Aircraft - with special reference to the Variable Wing,' before Inst.Ae.E. T is by now an open secret that one of the main causes of the recent amalga- mation into one company of the two leading German air transport com- panies, the Junkers Luftverkehr and the Deittscher Aero-Llavd, was the virtual failure of the Junkers concern, due, it is stated in some quarters, to extravagant management. There has been a perfect flood of correspondence on the subject in the German press, daily as well as aeronautical, Propaganda and feeling has run high, with all sorts of accusations, denials, praises and criticisms. Into this melee we do not feel called upon to be drawn. The matter is mainly one for Germany to settle, but that the accusations of bad management cannot very well apply to all the Junkers departments is forcibly brought home to one by a recent example of the methods of the Propaganda Alteilung. This takes the form of a supplement to the Deutsche Mvtor-Zeitschrift of December, 1925, in which a brief outline is given of the evolution of the Junkers type of construction from the earliest days to the present time, and concluding with illustrations and particulars of a number of Junkers aeroplanes. The point about the supplement is that it is published in English, and very good English too, even to the extent of using English aeronautical slang terms such as " soggy," if such can be called good English. The supplement is produced on good paper and the illus- trations are well printed and very clear. The machine descriptions are confined to a page per machine, with an illustration of the machine at the top of the page and the data relating to the type given in more or less tabular form. As the constructional methods are much tin- same in all Junkers types, the intro- duction and historical part covers the fundamental principle, and the tabulated data and photographs give the information necessary to describe the charac- teristics of each type. The supplement is a most excellent piece of propaganda for Junkers aircraft, and although it may be a part of the extravagant management, it does not point to ineffectual manage- ment, in this particular department at any rate. c
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