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Flight, December 23, 1926 1 IIh^-=1KM HT ENGINEER^ jr 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 AEWO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 939. (No. 51, Vol. XVIII.) DECEMBER 23, 1926 f Weekly. Price 6d.L Post free, 7d. Flight TAe 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. Od* 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 Towards the Rising Sun ... 841 Another Pioneer Venture... ... ... ... ... ... ... 842 Paris Aero Show 1923 843 Light'Plane Club Doings 855 Airisms from the Four Winds S Royal Air Force S57 R.A.F. Intelligence 857 In Parliament 7 Imports and Exports ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ••• 858 " 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 dales of important fixtures are intited to send particulars for inclusion in the following list :— 1927Jan. 13 ... Professor F. C. Lea, D.Sc, M.Inst.C.E., M.I.Mech.E. " Some Experiments on the Effects of Repeated Stresses on Materials," before Inst.Ae.E. Jan. 25 .... Mr. F. S. Barnwell, B.Sc, O.B.E., A.F.C., F.R.Ae.S. (Honours Member). " Some Notes on the Design of Airscrews," before Inst.Ae.E. Feb. 10 ... Mr. H. P. Folland, F.R.Ae.S., M.B.E. (Honours Member). Paper, to be announced later, before Inst.Ae.E. EDITORIAL COMMENT. LTHOUGH so far very bad weather conditions have rather interfered with its progress, the flight of the first of the De Havilland " Hercules " aeroplanes, with three Bristol " Jupiter " engines, may be regarded as marking an important milestone in the history of British aviation. All too long has Great Britain been content to sit down and operate a heavily subsidised air route between London and Paris—a route which is never likely to be of any particular use to anyone except as asort of ful] "scale experimental establish- ment, but which we have had to keep alive because other nations operated subsidised air services over it. The real salvation of British civil, sometimes euphemistically called " com- mercial," aviation lies, without a doubt, in aviation planned and carried out on Imperial lines, and the departure, on Saturday last, December 18, of the first " Hercules " marks the beginning of real practical Imperial aviation. As our readers are already aware, the new three-engined de Havilland machines are intended for the Cairo-Karachi route, the portion of which from Cairo to Baghdad has been operated by the Royal Air Force for some considerable time, but which is to be handed over, early in the new year, to Imperial Airways, Ltd., a contract having been signed according to which this company is to be subsidised for running the service as a civil under- taking. At first the service is intended to be a fortnightly one in each direction, and meteorological, wireless and refuelling stations have been established along the route at Cairo, Gaza, Rutbah, Baghdad, Basra, Bushire, Bundar Abbas, Chahbar and Karachi. It might be objected that machines with three engines of 425 h.p. each represents a good deal of power to use on a machine designed to carry comparatively few passengers, but it should be recollected that, not only will machines have very strong head winds to fight, B2
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