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Flight, January 28, 1926 ^- <ihe •S AIRCRAFT ENGINEEFL 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. 892. (No. 4, Vol. XVIII.) JANUARY 28, 1926 [-Weekly, Price *d.L Post free, 7d. Flight 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. id. 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 And THE AIRCRAFT ENGINEER 41 The Auxiliary Air Force 2 A Flying-Boat on Wheels. The Albatros L.72 43 Royal Aero Club Official Notices 45 Royal Aero Club Third Monthly House Dinner 45 Light'Plane Club Doings 7 THE AIRCRAFT ENGINEER 48a World's Records 49 Air Ministry Notices ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 50 Civil Aviation iu Ireland 50 Schneider Cup Race. By Ma.j. J. S. Buchanan 51 Security in the Air 4 Royal Air Force 5 R.A.F. Intelligence 55 Personals 5 Correspondence ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 56 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 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 .... Mai. G. H. Scott. " Development of Airship Mooring," before R.Ae.S. Mar. 9 .... 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. Mar. 18 .... Flight-Lieut. H. Cooch. " Landing Aero- planes in Fog," before R.Ae.S. April 13 .... Mr. S. H. Evans, B.Se. " The Performance of Modern Aircraft—with special reference to the Variable Wing," before Inst.Ae.E. April 15 .... Capt.G.T.R. Hill. "The Tailless Aeroplane," before R.Ae.S. April 21 .... Inst.Ae.E. visit to Messrs. D. Napier and Son, Acton. And The Aircraft Engineer EDITORIAL COMMENT. BlOMMENCING with this week's issue of FLIGHT, we publish the first of what will, we hope, be a long series of monthly supplements dealing with the more technical aspects of aviation, and emphasising THE AIRCRAFT ENGINEER, our sub-title, which, as our readers know, has formed part of the title of FLIGHT for a number of years. As all interested in the subject are aware, there is in existence a wealth of data on aerodynamic problems and phenomena, and a perhaps somewThat smaller amount of literature on struc- tural design. In addition, we have two excellent societies in the Royal Aeronautical Society and the Institution of Aeronautical Engineers, at both of which are read, at fairly frequent and regular intervals, papers dealing with various aspects of the art and science of flying. At first glance it might appear that there was little scope for elaborating subjects relating to the technical side of aeronautics. Yet we have felt, and we believe the great majority of our readers will agree with us, that a useful purpose can be served by the issue of technical supplements to FLIGHT such as that which we present to our readers this week. Concerning the vast amount of data available on aerodynamic subjects, it can be said that, generally speaking, far more data exist than can be made practical use of in the everyday work of designing aircraft, and that it is in the application of such data, in the sorting out and evaluation of the enormous amount of information in existence, that the difficulty lies. How much of such information is reliable, how much is immediately applicable to full-size aircraft, what correction factors must be applied, and so forth. In the main it rests with the practical aircraft designer to use his own judgment in these matters, and conse- quently it is, in the end, the practical man who has to make use of the data provided by the scientist. By obtaining the co-operation of a number of well- known British aircraft designers we hope to publish, in THE AIRCRAFT ENGINEER section of FLIGHT, articles dealing with the personal and practical experience of B 2
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