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Flight, December 9, 1926 AIRCRAFTBNGINEEFL 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. 937. (No. 49, Vol. XVIII.) DECEMBER 9, 1926 TWeekly, Price 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. 04.* 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 The Paris Aero Show 799 Paris Aero Show : General Views 801 Paris Aero Show 802 British Engines. Accessories, etc. ... ... ... ... ... ... 810a Personals 813 Light'Plane Club Doings 814 " From the Four Winds " 5 Air Ministry Notice to Airmen 81G In Parliament 817 Imperial Defence 8 Royal Air Force 9 R.A.F. Intelligence 819 Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers 820 "FLIGHT" PHOTOGRAPHS. To those desirous of obtaining copies of "Flight" Photographs, these can be supplied, enlarged or otherwise, upon application to Photo. Department, 36, Great Queen Street, W.C.2 DIARY 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 Dec. 3-19 Paris Aero ShowDec. 9 .... Captain F. Entwistle, B.Sc. " Wind Structure in Relation to Air Navigation," before Inst.Ae.E. Dec. 16 ... Wing Comdr. C. D. Breeze, A.F.C., R.A.F. " The Training of Aircraft Apprentices," before R.Ae.S. EDITORIAL COMMENT. HE general impression left upon one's mind after a tour of the Grand Palais in the Champs Elysees, where the tenth International Aero Exhibition is at present being held, is that if there is little that is startlingly new, or strik- ingly original, the general quality of the exhibits, as far as aircraft are concerned, is considerably above that of previous Paris Aero Shows. Where hitherto the machines that gave one the impression of being purely experi- J^h? mental formed quite a large percentage, Aero*Show tn's year there are very few machines which have not been flown, and only one or two about which there can be any doubt as to whether they ever will fly. That in itself is some- thing to the good. The fact that nearly all the weird designs which adorned (?) the earlier exhibi- tions have disappeared is a healthy sign that the French aircraft industry is beginning to settle down to really serious work. We say French, because, in spite of the presence of a few foreign exhibitors of aircraft, the Salon is in the main of a very French character. Great Britain cannot be said to be adequately represented by one machine, no matter how good that machine may be, and the fact that owing to transport trouble this machine was late in making its appearance on its stand, early visitors to the Grand Palais had no opportunity of knowing there was a representative of British aviation in the show. When the transport fiends had done their worst, those responsible for the show arrangements worked like Trojans, and lost no time in getting the machine and stand into shape. Considering the very great effort which France is making in the matter of commercial air lines, it cannot be said that the proportion of commercial to military types is large, nor that the commercial machines shown represent, except in one or two cases, any real advance compared with those shown at previous Salons. Apparently, much still remains
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