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Flight, July-22, 1926 'ipeAIRCRAFT 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. 917. (NO. 29, Vol. XVIII.) JULY 22, 1926 [Weekly, Price 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 .. 30s. id. Abroad .. .. 33s. 0d.m 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 The German Seaplane Competition The Hawker " Hornbill " The Avro " Gosport " Progress of the Bristol " Jupiter " Light 'Plane Club Doings PAGE 439 441 442 444 445 Air Ministry Vacancies 44ii Air Ministry Accountant Officers 44K The Hawker " Hornbill " 447 German Seaplane Competition ... ... ... ... ... ... 44S French Light 'Plane Competition 453 Hawker Sports 453 Short's Sports Club 4 The Royal Air Force ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 455 R.A.F. Intelligence 455 In Parliament ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 455 DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of important 1926 July 8-24 .... July 11-27... July 19-Aug. July 31 .... Aug. 9-15 .... Sept. 10-17 Sept. 18 .... Oct. Oct. 24-28 .... Nov. 11-15.... NoT.-Dec fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in the following list:— Royal Tournament, Olympia. German Seaplane Competition at Warne- munde. 7 French Competition for Multi-engined Seaplanes, St. Raphael-Frejus. Entries close (at special fee) for Light 'Plane Competition, Lympne. French Light 'Plane Competition. Two-Seater Light Aeroplane Competition, Lympne. Grogvenor Challenge Cup, at Lympne. Schneider Cup Race at Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.A. Coppa del Hare, Italy. Coppa d'ltalia, Italy. Parig Aeio Show. EDITORIAL EAPLANES are somewhat to the fore at the moment. Mr. Cobham is on his way to Australia in one. The Marquis de Pinedo has just turned turtle in another. The Cairo-Cape-Cairo-Eng- land flight, under Commander Pulford, completed its last stage en hvdravion, and, finally, a very important com- petition is being held at Warnemunde, on the Baltic, for which no less than 17 machines have been entered, and in which a considerable number of British engines are taking part. So that, one way and The German anotner the seaplane is a topical subject Seaplane . , T, r . ... , * , T, ' Competition ]us* now- The attitude of r LIGHT towards the seaplane, and more parti- cularly the commercial seaplane, is already well known, and we shall not here weary our readers with a repetition of the arguments in favour of a much greater use of this type in commercial work than has been made hitherto. Suffice it to say, that we welcome wholeheartedly the German competition for seaplanes intended for the carriage of mails. It is to be hoped that this competition, donated with prizes totalling little short of £20,000, may, first of all, accomplish the purpose for which it was intended : to produce German commercial seaplanes ; and, secondly, and incidentally, that the example thus set by our late enemies may serve to bring forward a subject which FLIGHT has always had, and which, in our opinion, the British Empire should have, very much at heart. It is now a good many years since we had in this country a competition for commercial aircraft, and the one we did have—at Martlesham and Felixstowe in 1920—was, it is to be feared, a little premature. It was held before we really knew very much about what was wanted, and which were the features to be chiefly aimed at. By now we have had several years' experience of civil aviation, and it should be possible to draw up a set of rules tending to produce just those features which might be expected to make for com- mercial efficiency and for reliability. The commercial aeroplane has been developed in the hard school of experience during the last six years or so, but the commercial seaplane seems to have received very
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