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Flight, July 29, 1926 CHT 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. 918. (No. 30, Vol. XVIII.) JULY 29, 1926 rweekly, Pric« 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. Abroad .. .. 33s. 0d.*United Kingdom 30s. Ad. 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 PAGE Lympne ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 457 Warnemumk' ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 458 Handley Page " Hendon " 459 Air Mails 461 Vacancies for Apprentice Clerks, R.A.I-" 461 Royal Aero Club Official Notices 462 Lynipne Light 'Plane Meeting 2 An Interesting Trip With a " Jupiter " Kngine 463 THE AIRCRAFT ENGINEER 464» German Seaplane Competition ... ... ... ... ... ... -165 Sports at Halton ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 466 Parents' Day at Halton 467 Yorkshire Meeting 8 The Royal Air Force 9 R.A.F. Intelligence 469 Light Plane Club Doings 469 Correspondence 470 Imports and Exports 47n Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers 470 DIART 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 July 19-Ang. 7 French Competition for Multi-engined Seaplanes, St. Raphael-Frejus. July 31 .... Entries close (at special fee) for Light'Plane Competition, Lympne. Aug. 9-15 .... French Light 'Plane Competition. Sept. 10-17 Two-Seater Light Aeroplane Competition, Lympne. Sept. 18 .... Grogvenor Challenge Cup, at Lympne. Oct. .... Schneidei Cup Race at Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.A. Oct. 24-28 ... Coppa del Mare, Italy. Nov. 11-15 .... Coppa d'ltalia, Italy. Nov.-Dec Paris Aero Show. EDITORIAL COMMENT. Pi|—N^ISAPPOIXTING is a term somewhat apt H*p-La«s£3-« to come to mind in looking through the list, published elsewhere in this issue of FLIGHT, of the entries for the two-seater light 'plane competition for the Daily Mail Prizes, totalling £5,000, which is to be held under the competition rules of the Royal Aero Club at Lympne in September next. The number of entries, 16, is not in itself all that it might have been, but it is not in the L m n actual number of entries that the disappointment lies so much as in the fact that but very few new machines appear to have been entered. It is somewhat of a reflection on the aircraft industry that out of the new types entered the majority has been entered not by " the trade " but by private individuals and clubs. That independent efforts by " outsiders " should be so much in evidence is, of course, a matter for congratulation, and everyone will wish these venturesome sportsmen all good fortune in the competition. Theirs is the right spirit. But that the aircraft industry has not responded more generally and generously can only be regarded as disappointing. We realise, of course, that the design and construction of even a small two-seater light 'plane is no cheap proposition, but the prizes offered are on such a gene- rous scale in proportion to the cost of the machines that it might have been expected that many more firms would have come forward, merely regarding the competition as a venture financially, and quite a reasonable venture at that. Then there is the effect of winning such a competition, which is not readily assessed but which must be very considerable. It ma)' possibly be that many firms do not see any use for the type of machine which the competition is likely to produce, and so have refrained on that score from entering. But for the sake of British sporting flying 1he scant response of the industry is to be regretted. On the other hand, possibly quite a number of firms may have decided that even by designing entirely new types they were not likely to do much better, under the rules of the competition, than with their existing
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