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, Flight, May 13, 1926 fiHT 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. 907. (No. 19, Vol. XVIII.) MAY 13, 1926 rWeekly, Prlc* 6d.L Post free, 7d. Flight The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2. Telegrams : Truditur, Westoent, London. Telephone : Gerrard 1828. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free. Abroad 33s. 0d.*United Kingdom .. 30s. id. These rates are subject to any alteration found necessary under abnormalconditions and to increases in postage rates. • Foreign subscripiiotis must be remitted in British currency. CONTENTS Editorial Comment PAGE A Red-Letter Day 281 Vindication of the Light 'Plane 282 The Pole Reached 2 The "Stinson-Petroiter" 2S3 The Polar Flights' 284 The Vindication of the Light'Plane 285 General Mitchell's Apologia : By Major F. A. de V. Robertson ... 288 The Royal Air Force 289 R.A.F. Intelligence 9 C'obham entertained at Institution of Aeronautical Engineers 289 Personals 29U 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 19 .... Inst. Ae.E. visit to the National Physical Laboratory, Tedding ton. May 30 .... Gordon-Bennett Balloon Race, Antwerp. June 11 ... Independent Force (R.A.F.) Dinner Club Annual Re-union Dinner, Connaught Rooms, Great Queen Street, Kingsway. Jane 11-13 Belgian Light 'Plane and Touring Aeroplane Competition. June 12 .... Inst. Ae.E. visit to Croydon Aerodrome. July 8-24 .... Royal Tournament, Olympia July 9-10.... 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. Oct. .... Schneider Cup Race at Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.A. Nov.-Dec Paris Aero Show. A Red- EDITORIAL COMMEHT. UESDAY, May 4, 1926, is likely to be regarded as a red-letter day in more ways than one. On that day com- menced the general strike which has now for more than a week caused inconvenience, to put it very mildly, to millions of people in the British Isles,, and which, at the moment of writing, does not show any signs of coming to an end. As far as British aviation is concerned, the date is significant because on that date, for the first time in history, His Royal Highness the prince of Wales returned from Paris to London by air, thus putting the hall mark, as it were, on civil aviation as a recognised and safe means of transport. This is not, of course, the lirst time His Royal Highness has flown. In fact, during the war, it is known that the Prince of Wales did quite a considerable amount of flying, but it is the first time he has returned from abroad by air. In view of the fact that, had he so chosen, His Royal Highness might easily have been conveyed home by some special vessel of the Royal Navy, but that he chose the quicker and very much simpler way of returning by air, direct to the London Terminal Aerodrome at Croydon, shows that he is fully alive to the position of air transport at the present time, a fact which has been known for a long time, but of which the flight on May 4 was the outward and visible proof. Imperial Airways are to be congratulated upon having received such distinguished official recognition, as are also the makers of the aeroplane, Handley Page, Ltd., and of the engines, D. Napier and Son, Ltd. The pilot who had the honour of bringing His Royal Highness home was Capt. O. P. Jones, and it is worthy of note that during the greater part of the trip the Prince of Wales sat in the pilot's cockpit, alongside the pilot, to whom, at the end of the flight, he expressed his satisfaction with the trip. Among the members of his staff who accompanied His Royal Highness on the flight were General Trotter, his Private Secretary, and Wing Commander Smyth-Pigott, D.S.O., British Air Attache in Paris.
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