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Flight, May 6, 1926 CHT AIRCRAFTX ENGINEEFL TR§HTPS 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. 906. (No. 18, Vol. XVIII.) MAY 6, 1926 TWeekly, Pric« 6d.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 Eree. United Kingdom .. 30s. Ad. Abroad .. .._ 33j. Od* These rates are subject to any alteration found necessary under abnorraa conditions and to increases in postage rates. * Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency. CONTENTS Editorial Comment PAGE A Depressing Book 2fi7 An Interesting Sunijestion 2KN Over Harrow Hill 269 The Goodyear " Pilgrim " Airship ... ... ... ... ... ... 270 K.A.F. Reorganisation ... ... ... ... ... .-. ... -•• 272 Royal Aero Club Official Notices 273 Spanish Flight to Manila 273 World's Air Records 4 The Eiat A.-I'll Aero Engine 5 Air Minister at Academy Banquet 270 Sir Sefton Brancker on Air Transport 7 A.N.E.C. 3 for Australia 277 Correspondence 27S The Royal Air Force 9 In Parliament 9 Air Mail Stamps 2?0 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 May 6 .... Aero Golfing Society, Meeting at Hunter- combe May 11 ... Capt. W. H. Sayers. "The Modern Theory of Aerofoils and its Application to Aeroplane Design," before Inst.Ae.E. May 19 .... Inst. Ae.E. visit to the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington. May 20 June 5 Royal Tournament, Olympia May 30 ... Gordon-Bennett Balloon Race, Antwerp. June 11-13 Belgian Light 'Plane and Touring Aeroplane Competition. June 12 .... Inst. Ae.E. visit to Croydon Aerodrome. July 8-10 .... King's Cup Race, Hendon. July 11-27.... German Seaplane Competition at Warne- munde. Aug. 9-15 .... French Light 'Plane Competition. Sept. 10-17 Two-Seater Light Aeroplane Competition, Lympne. Sept. 18 ... Grosvenor Challenge Cup, at Lympne. Depressing Book EDITORIAL ROM the narrower, British, point of view, one of the most depressing books published in recent times is that entitled " The International Aerial Time Table " of which the first issue has just been issued by the Lep Transport and Depository Ltd. The book is depressing because, out of a tota of 32 pages of aerial time tables, fares, etc., but two are occupied by Imperial Airways Ltd. A more scathing comment on British civil, so-called " commercial," aviation it would be difficult to imagine. With all our resources, with all our " million pound monopoly company," with the best aeroplanes in the world, we can only manage four insignificant air lines. One of these is the London- Paris route, which was, of course, the first regular air route to be operated. The remaining three are the London-Ostend-Amsterdam, the London-Brussels- Cologne, and the Southampton-Guernsey. If the British contribution to commercial aviation is disappointing as regards the bulk which it occupies, taking pages in the book as a basis, it is perhaps even more so if one enters into the study of the time table in detail. Selecting the London-Paris service first, it is seen that the time tables show three departures per day in each direction. Well and good, but index letters and foot notes reduce even these three services to one per day, the other two not being scheduled to come into operation until May 14 and May 15, respectively. The one service operated at the moment (we are writing, of course, without any reference to what increase in the services the abnormal conditions during the strike may call temporarily into being) leaves both London and Paris at noon. The other two, when they come into operation, will leave London at 7.55 a.m. and 5 a.m., respectively, and Paris at 1.45 p.m. and 5 p.m. On the London-Ostend-Amsterdam route a daily service is scheduled to leave London at 8 a.m. and arrive at Amsterdam at 10.35 Amsterdam time. A Sunday service is also shown, extending as far as B 2
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