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Flight, April 15, 19:6 AIRCRAFTBNGINEEFL 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. 903. (No. 15, Vol. XVIII.) APRIL 15, 1926 ("Weekly, Pric« M.I Post Iree, 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. 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 PAGE The " Rundflug " Habit 215 Progress in. Germany 6 A Great Adventure ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 2HS Successful Long-Distance Work 216 Manoeuvrability of the " Gloster Gamecock " ... ... ... ... 217 The " Gloster Gamecock " 218 The Avro "Gosport - 222 Royal Aero Club Official Notices 224 The Amundsen-Ellsworth Polar Expedition 226 Royal Aeronautical Society Official Notices... ... ... ... ... 227 The Albatros L 72a 228 Royal Air Force 231 R.A.F. Intelligence 1 The Hampshire Aeroplane Club ... ... ... ... ... ... 232 Light'Plane Club Doings 232 Correspondence 232 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 April 21 .... Inst.Ae.E. visit to Mess-s.D. Napier and Sen, Acton. April 22 .... Capt. G. T. R. Hill. " The Tailless Aeroplane," before R.Ae.S. April 29 .... Lieut.-Ccl. V. C. Richmond. "Results of Recjnt Airship Flight Tests," before R.Ae.S. May 11 .... Capt. W. H. Sayers. "The Modern Theory of Aerofoils and its Application to Aeroplane De:ign," before Inst.Ae.E. May 19 .... Inst. Ae.E. visit to the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington. May 30 ... Gordon-Bennett Balloon Race, Antwerp. June 12 .... Inst. Ae.E. visit to Croydon Aerodrome. July — .... German Ssaplane Competition at Warne- munde. Aug. 9-15 French Light 'Plane Competition. Sept. 10-17 Two-Seater Light Aeroplane Competition, Lympne. Sept. 18 ... Grosvenor Challenge Cap, at Lympne. EDITORIAL COMMENT. N describing the regulations and arrange- ments for the German " Rundflug " last year we commented on the clever manner in which the course had been laid out with the object in view of affording as many of the public as possible an opportunity of seeing the competing machines, and thus creating a much wider interest than could be expected were the course confined to a circuit of one particular city, no matter how important in " Rundflug " itself At the time we exPressed the Habit hope that in future, British com- petitions might be planned along somewhat similar lines, and it is therefore with considerable satisfaction that we now learn from the Roval Aero Club that at least two of the competitions to be held during the coming summer will, as regards the courses to be covered, be closely similar to the Deutsche Rundflitg. The Light 'Plane competition for the Daily Mail prize, which has been postponed until September, will have its headquarters at the Lympne aerodrome as in previous years, but competing machines, instead of circling around the triangular course Lympne- Postling-South Hill, will radiate, so to speak, from Lympne to the following South Coast towns : Brighton, Eastbourne, Hastings, Dover, Ramsgate, Margate, Herne Bay, and Croydon. The full regu- lations are not available until next week, but we gather that the intention is that machines should each day fly out to one of these towns and back, once to the more distant ones and twice to the nearer ones, or in some cases out to one town and back in the morning and to another town and back in the after- noon. Thus, there should be an excellent opportunity for visitors to the various seaside resorts to see the competing machines, and it may be expected that in this way a very much greater interest will centre on the competition. Lympne is not exactly centrally situated, but it scores through having excellent accommodation for the machines, a good aerodrome, and surrounding country providing plenty of open spaces suitable for forced landings, so that there is
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