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but rather to a dislike of the Cruiser programme. In any case, the effect will presumably be that con- tinuity of policy may be counted upon, a fact of the greatest importance to future Empire defence. Turning to the Civil Aviation Branch, it is found that a sum of £93,265 is to be voted, and this does not represent the total because of the non-inclusion of the proportion of the annual million pound vote to which we have already referred. The ordinary vote for development of civil aviation is one of £57,965, and as the amount allotted from the Special Provision last year was £36,000 and for the previous year £24,371, our contemporary thinks that " under the law of averages the same branch should benefit this year by an extra forty or fifty thousand pounds." This would thus bring the vote for development of civil aviation up to well over £100,000, and the total civil aviation vote would be something like £138,000, a figure of which Australia may be justly proud. Alto- gether the 1926-27 Australian Air Estimates set an example for the rest of the British Empire to follow, and the Mother Country at any rate will be unanimous in expressing to our cousins down under a " Well done, Australia." „ . Alan Cobham, our greatest exponent of Homeward T- • • 1- u J v Bound Empire aviation, has commenced his return journey, and during the next few weeks the thoughts and best wishes of the entire SEPTEMBER 2, 1926 British aviation community will be with him and his companions. The difficult outward journey was successfully accomplished, and there is no reason whatever to believe that the homeward flight will not be equally successful. We are personally glad that Cobham intends to make a bit of a " dash " home. We at home know that a more or less leisurely cruise is at least as great a test of machine and engine as is a long non-stop flight such as those which pilots of other nations have been making lately, but there is no gainsaying the fact that the latter are infinitely more spectacular, and are likely to be much more discussed among the general public. On the outward trip Cobham demonstrated to the full the reliability of the machine and engine, and the feasibility of organising a seaplane route between London and Australia. That having been proved, a rapid return flight would result in a convincing proof of the capacity of the de Havilland machine and its Siddeley " Jaguar " to make long non-stop flights at least as meritorious as any made by pilots of other nations. Cobham has already started well, his flight from Adelaide to Oodnadatta, a distance of some 650 miles, being accomplished in one day. If he can maintain long stages of somewhere near this length throughout he should soon be with us once more. May his luck hold. The Royal Air Force Memorial Fund THE usual meeting of the Grants Sub-Committee of the Fund was held at Iddesleigh House on August 26: Lieut.- . Commander H. E. Perrin was in the chair, and the other Member of the Committee present was Mr. Walter S. Field. The Committee considered in all fourteen cases, and made grants to the amount of £71 2s. 6d. The next meeting was fixed for Thursday, September 9, at 2.30 p.m. Comdr. John Rogers, U.S.N., Killed COMMANDER JOHN ROGERS, U.S.N., who made the historic seaplane flight from San Francisco to Honolulu last year, was killed in an aerc plane accident at Philadelphia on August 27. R.A.F. Flying Accidents As the result of an accident near Cambridge to a Grebe of No. 19 Squadron, Duxford, on August 18, Pilot Officer Roy Nugent Treherne Gape, the pilot and sole occupant of the aircraft, was killed. As the result of an accident at Hucclecote, Gloucester, to a " Gamecock " aeroplane of No. 43 Squadron, Henlow, on August 19, Flight Lieut. Hugh Robert Junor, D.F.C., the pilot and sole occupant of the aircraft, was killed. As the result of an accident near Worthy Down, Winchester, to a Vickers Virginia of No. 58 Squadron, Wrorthy Down, on August 23, Pilot Officer Hugh James Fitzgerald Kempthorne, the pilot and sole occupant of the aircraft, was killed. NAPIERS FOR DUTCH EAST INDIES : The machine shown above is a Fokker, type C.V., one of a batch built by the Fokker works for the Dutch East Indian Military Air Force. It is a two-seater reconnaissance biplane with Napier "Lion " engine, and is credited with a top speed of 147 m.p.h., a ceiling of 21,300 ft., and a useful load of 2,112 lb. The famous Dutch designer shows a decided preference for British aero engines. 544
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