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Flight, August 12, 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 Transport OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 920. (No. 32, Vol. XVIII.) AUGUST 12, 1926 rweekly, Price «d.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* 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 Civil Aviation ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 487 Concours d'Avions Economiques 489 Civil Aviation Report 492 Canadian Civil Aviation Report 494 Light'Plane Club Doings 5 An Interesting Trip With a " Jupiter " Engine 496 Personals 499 Another " Moth •'Tour 499 Lympne Meeting 9 Royal Air Force Memorial Fund Cobham Arrives in Australia Royal Air Force R.A.F. Intelligence In Parliament 499 5(10 5(U 5C1 501 Correspondence 502 Club DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of important 1926 Aug. Aug. Sept. Sept. Sept. Oct. Oct. Oct. 2 NOT. 9-15.... 21-22 10-18 12 ... 18 .... 24-28 .'.'.' 11-15... Noy.-Dec fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in the following list:— French Light 'Plane Competition. Bournemouth Race Meeting. Two-Seater Light Aeroplane Competition, Lympne. Race Meeting at Prague. Groivenor Challenge Cap, at Lympne. Schneider Cup Race at Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.A. Stefanik Prize Race at Prague. Coppa del Mare, Italy. Coppa d'ltalia, Italy. Paris Aero Show. EDITORIAL COMMENT. WO separate reports upon Civil Aviation have come to hand during the last few days. One is that entitled " Annual Report on the Progress of Civil Avia- tion," issued by the Directorate of Civil Aviation, Air Ministry, and the other is a fascinating volume bearing the title " Report on Civil Aviation," which includes reports of civil operations for other Government Departments, undertaken by the Royal Canadian Air Force for the year 1925, Aviation an<^ *s Polished by the Department of National Defence, Ottawa. Both these annual reports are extremely interesting, and, incident- ally, they invite comparison. The Air Ministry Annual Report, as usual, gives a number of statistics relating to the use of air travel. The Canadian Report, while furnishing plenty of facts and figures, gives something more, and can, perhaps, be described as a much more " human " document, in spite of its official parentage. Doubtless this is in some measure due to the very nature of civil aviation in Canada, which is, to a very large extent, concerned with aerial surveying, fighting forest fires, forestry patrols, and suchlike " picturesque " occupations, while at home—outside " joy-riding," air taxi work, sky-writing, and a certain amount of surveying and photography—civil aviation seems to consist mainly in doing just so much flying as is necessary to earn the subsidy and no more, most of the passengers being still, one suspects, people who use the air lines for the " thrill " which they manage to derive from it, not to mention the satisfaction to be got out of boasting to friends afterwards about the flights. Certainly the report for 1925-26 does not show much progress in the directions which count : Empire air communica- tions, London-Paris-Basle-Zurich, London-Ostend, London-Cologne, and London-Amsterdam still mark- ing the extent of our achievements in the air, even if not actually the limits of our secret ambitions. A thousand pardons. We are wrong. There is one more route : the Southampton-Channel Islands one, which, according to the report, is operated weekly (from. B 2
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