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Flight, August 5, 1926 /^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 Ti ansport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 919. (No. 31, Vol. XVIII.) AUGUST 5, 1926 rWeekly, Prlc* *d.I 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. 4d. Abroad .. .. 33s. 0d.* These rates are subject to any alteration found necessary under abnormal conditions and to increases in postage rates. • Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency. CONTENTS Editorial Comment PAGE "Southampton" ... ... ... ... ... ... ••• ••• 471 Warnemiinde ... .. ... ... ... ... ... ... ••• 472 Paris (Orly) 472 Bournemouth 2 Armstrong-Whitworth " Argosy " 473 Bournemouth Aviation Meeting 47<i Cruise of the " Southamptons " 477 German Seaplane Competition 9 Personals 480 An Interesting Trip With a " Jupiter " Engine Continued) 481 The R.A.F. in Training 482 "Smith's" 483 Supermarine Rowing Regatta 484 Royal Air Force 5 R.A.F. Intelligence 485 In Parliament 5 Correspondence 6 Club DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of important 1926 July Aug. Aug. Sept. Sept. Oct. 19-Aug. 9-15 21-22 10-18 18 .... • ... Oct. 24-28 NOT. 11-15 ... Nov.-Dec fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in the following list:— 7 French Competition for Multi-engined Seaplanes, St. Raohael-Frejus. French Light 'Plane Competition. Bournemouth Race Meeting. Two-Seater Light Aeroplane Competition, Lympne. Grosvenor Challenge Cnp, at Lympne. Schneider Cnp Race at Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.A. Coppa del Mare, Italy. Coppa d'ltalia, Italy. Paris Aero Show. 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT. IRECTLY and indirectly, Great Britain has been fairly busy " showing the flag " by air lately. Cobham is hard at work doing it in the East. The flight of two Supermarine " Southamp- tons " has just returned from a 7,000- miles' cruise to Aboukir and back ; and, finally, a British aero engine has won first place in the German seaplane competition at Warnemiinde. Perhaps it is significant that in Southam a^ tnree undertakings the class of air- ton craft involved is the seaplane, and it is a somewhat curious coincidence that the three types of craft concerned are all different, one being a single-engined twin-float seaplane, the other a twin-engined biplane flying-boat, and the third a single-engined twin-float low-wing monoplane. Perhaps it is permissible to assume from this fact that there is still room for all three types, according to special requirements. In the case of the two " Southampton " flying- boats with Napier " Lion " engines, the cruise to Aboukir and back was undertaken as an ordinary service exercise to a pre-determined time-table, and it is indicative of the quality and reliability of modern British aircraft materiel that, with the exception of a delay of one day during the latter portion of the return journey, this time-table was adhered to throughout the cruise. In this issue of FLIGHT we publish a brief account of the cruise which, couched, as it is, in terse official language, does not, perhaps, give that touch of picturesque " local colour " with which it would have been invested by a civilian writer describing a flight of a civilian machine, but which is no less valuable on that score. One sentence from the account deserves to be emphasised; it reads as follows : No trouble whatsoever was experi- enced either with the aircraft or with the Napier Lion engines with which these machines are fitted. When it is remembered that the cruise was one ^Sf nearly 7,000 land miles (11,200 km.), and that this distance was covered by two machines, making the flight the equivalent of a flight by a single machine B 2
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