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Flight, January 6, 1927 lUj^^ ENGINEER, r 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. 94i. (No. 1, Vo,. XIX.) JANUARY 6, 1927 FKEkSM 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. i]d.* These rates are subject to any alteration found necessary under abnormal conditions and to increases in postage rates. * Foreign subscriptions must he remitted in British currency. CONTENTS Editorial Comment PAGE 1926 1 New Three-engined Commercial Flying-Boat: The Short " Calcutta " 3 Royal Aero Club Official Notices 5 The R.A.F. Cairo-Cape Flight 6 New Year Honours 7 Airisms from the Four Winds 8 Napier •'Lion" Series 8 Aero Engine 9 Light 'Plane Club Doings 10 Royal Air Force 1 R.A.F. Intelligence Westland Aircraft Society Rearrangement of Forecast Districts 12 Cairo-Karachi Air Mails 1 " 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 EBHTORHAIL COMMEHT. ""^gSj«i^^""jN the whole, a very satisfactory year. ^PPsw This, we think, must be the verdict lj§§ll 1 on the year which has just come to 5yf!jbp'^ a close. If there was much in 1928 TPHJ^<X that might have been better, there ^&SUiib&gt;/^ was certainly a great deal that might ^^||FK_C' very easily have been a lot worse. For aviation in general the year has been a good one, with considerable activity in most countries manufacturing aircraft, and after all the number of new and improved types 1926 of machines produced forms some index to the progress made, although the use that has been made of such aircraft as has been produced is, perhaps, a no less important factor. As far as Great Britain is concerned, the year did not promise well when the 1926-27 Air Estimates were published, since the expansion that had been contemplated was seriously curtailed. In spite of this, however, it seems f$ply clear that, at any rate, the majority of our aircraft firms have been able to carry on at least, even if some have undoubtedly had a somewhat lean time. In this connection we cannot refrain from putting in a strong plea for greater consideration for the aircraft industry: It is an incontrovertible fact that in an industry initially existing almost exclusively for the supply of material for a fighting service the continuity of orders is of relatively greater importance than the actual magni tude of the orders. In the past the British aircraft industry has suffered severely—and we think un necessarily—from the spasmodic manner in which orders have been issued. Firms would be feverishly bus 7 for a few months, and would then be almost at a standstill for a long period while awaiting the next order. We cannot believe that this is unavoid able. It appears likely that when the Air Estimates come to be issued it will be found that a considerable increase all around is contemplated so as to make up the leeway which last year's curtailed Estimates brought with them. Would it not, at the same time, be possible to revise the present system of placing orders, so that firms might be told early what amount 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:— im Jan. 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. 1 .... Mr. A. H. R. Fedden, F.R.Ae.S. " Super charging for Aero Engines," before R.Ae.S. C
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