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Flight, December 30, 1926 AIRCRAFT First Aero Weekly in the World Founder and Editor: STANLEY SPOONER A Journal devoted to the InteresU, Practice, and Progress of Aerial Locomotion Bnd Transpoit OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 940. (Ne. 52, Vol. XVIII.) DECEMBER 30, 1926 rweekly, 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. 4d. 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 Progress of Commercial Aviation The Seaplane Cairo Flight First Imperial Air Route Air Ministry Notices to Airmen Civil Aviation in Australia PAGE 859 860 861 862 864 865 Airisms from the Four Winds 866 THE AIRCRAFT ENGINEER ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 866a The New Short All-Metal Airscrew 867 Rugby Football 868 Albatros L.68A School Machine 869 Monthly House Dinner at Royal Aero Club: "Airships" 870 Royal Air Force 871 R.A.F. Intelligence 1 R.A.F. Electrical and Wireless School, Flowerdown 872 Personals 872 " 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 invited to send particulars for inclusion in the following list :— 1927 Jan. 6 Jan. 13 Jan. 20 Feb. 10 Major B. C. Carter, A.R.C.Sc. D.I.C., A.F.R.Ae.S. "Dynamic Forces in Aircraft Engines," before R.Ae.S. 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. H. Glanert, M.A., F.R.Ae.S. "The Theory of the Autogiro," before R.Ae.S. Mr. H. P. Follana, F.R.Ae.S., M.B.E. (Honours Member). Paper, to be announced later, before Inst.Ae.E. EDITORIAL COMMENT. F we look back over the 23 years of flight—indeed, if we only look back as far as the last Imperial Conference in 1923, we must be struck by the speed and the extent of the progress that has already been made. You will see. in the comprehensive memorandum entitled ' The approach towards a system of Imperial Air Communications ' that I have circulated, a picture of civil air transport as it is to-day. You will note that widerProgress of d id ' uge j bej d f hCommercial c. ,, , , , ^ ,. ..Aviation since the last conference the mileage covered by the regular air routes of the world has more than doubled. You will note the technical improvement that has been made with machines, engines, wireless and meteorology. Machines have become more powerful, more depend- able, and, as I think the members of the Conference who made flights at Croydon will admit, more com- fortable. As to safety, what better record could there be than the 5,000,000 miles flown by British services for four fatal accidents, and the million miles flown in Australia for a single fatal accident ? " At the end of the year, in the last issue of FLIGHT of 1926, this passage from the statement on Imperial Air Communications made to the Imperial Con- ference, 1926, by Sir Samuel Hoare, the Secretary of State for Air, and published in " The Approach towards a System of Imperial Air Communication," issued by H.M. Stationery Office, sums up very briefly the progress that has been made in civil aviation up to the present time. It also affords an oppor- tunity for having one final look around, as it were, at the position of British civil aviation at the close of the year. Sir Samuel's statement that " since the last conference the mileage covered by the regular air routes of the world has more than doubled " is interesting, and augurs well for the future of com- mercial aviation. If, however, we examine the figures for British aviation, the picture is, unfortu- nately, less promising. To quote from the memorandum a few statistics : In 1919 the mileage flown over the regular air routes
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