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Flight, January 21, 1926 AIRCRAFTENGINEER^ First Aero Weekly in the World Founder and Editor: STANLEY SPOONER A Jou nal devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 891. (No. 3, Vol. XVIII.) JANUARY 21, 1926 TWeekly, Pries M.L 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. U. Abroad .. .. 33s. 0d* 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 The Line of Least Resistance 27 Controllability 29 Hawker Single-Seater Fighters for Denmark ... ... ... ... 30 Aviation in Ireland ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 33 Security in the Air 34 Correspondence 5 Royal Aeronautical Society 60th Anniverary 36 Federation Aeronautique Internationale 6 An Air-Cooled Liberty Engine 37 Across Australia in Two Days 8 Light'Plane Club Doings 8 Royal Air Force 39 R.A.F. Intelligence 9 Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers ... ... ... ... ... 40 Imports and Exports 40 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. 21 .... Mai. 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.A.E. at R. Soc. of Arts. Mr. C. L. Lawrance, " American Aircraft Engine Development." Feb. 9 .... Informal Meeting, Inst.Ae.E. Feb. 25 .... Mr. A. J. Cobham. "Long-Distance Aero- plane Flights," before R.Ae.S. Mar. 4 .... Maj. G. H. Scott. "Development of Airship Mooring," before R.Ae.S. Mar. 9 .... Mr. O. E. Simmonds, M.A., A.F.R.Ae.S., M.I.Ae.S. " The Development of Civil Marine Aircraft," before Inst.Ae.E. Mar. 18 .... Flight-Lieut. H. Cooch. "Landing Aero- planes in FOP," before R.Ae.S. April 13 .... Mr. S. H. Evans, B.Sc. " The Performance of Modern Aircraft—with special reference to the Variable Wing," before Inst.Ae.E. IRITAIX'S history in the air, since the war, 1914-18, has been a peculiar one. After the war we reduced what was then the most magnificent Air Force in the world, to a mere nucleus. Personnel was discharged on a whole- sale scale. Materiel was stored or destroyed. Research was reduced to a minimum, all the aircraft construction firms tottered, figuratively, on the brink of bankruptcy, and more than one disappeared. In The Line short, the nation revelled in an orgv of Least , ,, ' ,, „ , T> •, • -i •Resistance °* economy. Great Britain having, in a spirit of example and of goodwill towards all men, sacrificed her leading position in the air, won at enormous cost in blood and treasure during the war, took time to look around, when lo and behold, with the exception of Germany (at one time imagined to be conquered), other nations had signally failed to follow suit. Not only did the great nations maintain their air strength, but a number of smaller nations were quick to realise the vast possibilities which an air force offered, and were commencing to build up air forces of their own. It speedily became clear that we had been over prompt in indulging in our good intentions—and in imagining that we were saving money on defence. Somewhat of a panic was the not unnatural result, and by 1923 the Government had realised that " economy " could be, and indeed had been, carried too far, in fact to the verge of foolhardiness. In that year an air programme was adopted which at the time was considered to represent the minimum necessary for the defence of the country against air attack. During the following years the 1923 policy was adhered to by successive Governments (including the Labour Government of 1924), and our air defences were slowly but gradually being built up —much too slowly in the opinion of many—until it had become accepted that no Government would dare again to contemplate such drastic " cuts " as those which shortly after the war very nearly resulted in the total disappearance of the British aircraft industry. Yet we are now told that reductions almost as drastic are contemplated. The Government—a Conservative B 2
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