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Flight, August 26, 1926 GHT f 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. 922. (No. 34, Vol. XVIII.) AUGUST 26, 1926 TWeekly, Prlc« 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. QdS 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 On the Right Track 523 What is the Matter ? 4 Bournemouth Meeting 5 Armstrong-Siddeley " Genet " Engine 532 THE AIRCRAFT ENGINEER 532a Avro " Avian" ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 533 Royal Aero Club Official Notices 537 Short " Mussel " 538 Royal Air Force 541 R.A.F. Intelligence 1 Correspondence 2 Sidewinds... 542 DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of important 1926 Sept. 10-18 Sept. 12 .. Sept. 18 ... Oct. Oct. Oct. 24-28 ... Nov. 11-15 .. NoT.-Dec. ... fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in the following list:— Two-Seater Light Aeroplane Competition, Lympne. . Race Meeting at Prague. Grroivenor Challenge Cnp, 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. On the Right Track means of EDITORIAL COMMEHT. several ways the race meeting held at Bournemouth on Saturday and Sunday last deserves a place among the milestones of British post-war aviation. Tt is true the meeting could in no way rival an Aerial Derby with extremely high-speed machines competing for the " blue ribbon " of the air. The thrill of enormous speed was lacking. But the meeting did prove that our light 'planes are capable of excel- lent sport. When the light 'plane movement first commenced some years ago we ventured to express the opinion that this type of machine might be the reviving the Brooklands and Hendon atmosphere of old, the relatively low speed and general handiness of the light 'plane making it possibleHo hold races " around the sticks " as used to be the custom af Hendon before the war, and thus afford the spectators a much more intimate view of the races than is possible with modern projectiles which have to be flown high and cannot be got around the sharp corners of a course confined within the limits of an aerodrome. We think it can justly be claimed that the Bournemouth meeting proved this contention to be correct, for although competing machines did go somewhat outside the confines of the compara- tively small aerodrome, represented by the Ensbury Park racecourse,they were in sight practically through- out, except for a few moments when particularly daring competitors did a bit of " hedge-hopping." In consequence, visitors were able to follow quite closely the progress of each race, which naturally added enormously to the interest. We think that what assisted particularly in creating interest in the races was the fact that a large percen- tage of them were scratch races for machines of the " Moth " type. We have repeatedly pointed out in these columns that a handicap race in which there is a very great difference between the speeds of the limit and scratch man is not likely to be very exciting, while races between " one-design " machines, in which everything depends upon the skill of the pilot
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