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Plight, May 20, 1926 AfRC&AFTI ENGINEER^ 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. 908. (No. 20, Vol. XVIII.) MAY 20, 1926 TWeekly, Pries 6d.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 30J. 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 A Triumph for the " Gasbng'' The Miniature Reserve Amundsen's Polar Flight Air Transport in the Strike. By Lieut.-Commander H. E. Perrin Light'Plane Club Doings Another Bristol Jupiter Performance The " Felix " Model Monoplane The Royal Air Force In Parliament Air Post Stamps 302 PAGE 291 292 293 295 298 299 30(1 31M 3(11 Club DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of important 1926 May June June June July July July Aug. Sept. Sept. Oct. 30 .... 11 .... 11-13 12 .... &-24 .... 9-10.... 11-27.... 9-15 10-17 18 .... Nov.-Dec fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in the following list:— Gordon-Bennett Balloon Race, Antwerp. Independent Force (R.A.F.) Dinner Club Annual Re-union Dinner, Connaught Rooms, Great Queen Street, Kingsway. Belgian Light 'Plane and Touring Aeroplane Competition. Inst. Ae.E. visit to Croydon Aerodrome. Royal Tournament, Olympia King's Cup Race, Hendon. German Seaplane Competition at Warne- munde. French Light 'Plane Competition. Two-Seater Light Aeroplane Competition, Lympne. Grosvenor Challenge Cap, at Lympne. Schneider Cup Race at Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.A. Paris Aero Show. A Triumph for the ' Gasbag " EDITORIAL COMMEMT. 0, after all, the airship, and the semi- rigid airship at that, has proved itself an effective craft for journeys over polar regions. It may even be that by their cruise Captain Amundsen and his companions have demonstrated that the airship is an effective craft for polar exploration, but at the moment it is not possible to form an estimate of the degree to which the journey just successfully accomplished approached to real exploration. As a hast " survey of the strip of the polar basin within sight of the course followed by the Xorge, doubtless the flight has provided a good deal of information. One fact has been stated over and over again—presumably as the outstanding piece of knowledge gained by the trip —namely that the air travellers saw no land. On the face of it, we do not know that the world is very much better or worse off for that knowledge, since even if it had been discovered that the polar basin were solid with platinum, for instance, the finding of that precious material would hardly revolutionise the world. By establishing the fact, however, that there is no land to be found, perhaps others may now be spared from further adventures to discover terra firma in the unknown wastes of the north, and thus the flight may, at any rate, have had that one practical result. As we have said, it may be that it was found during the trip that the airship does provide a means for exploration under Arctic conditions, but so far there is no indication that this was so. All that can be stated at the moment is that the airship enabled a very gallant company to traverse and survey thousands of square miles of regions not previously seen by the eye of man, and to ascertain that within the belt which came under observation, no land was found. It can also be said that by no other means could this end have been accomplished, and to Captain Amundsen and those of his companions who had previous experience of arctic and antarctic travel, it must have been a revelation to find themselves being trans- ported across the vast ice fields without physical c
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