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Flight, January 27, 1927 AIRCRAFT&NGINEEFL First Aeronautical Weekly in the World. Founded January, 1909. 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. 944. (No. 4, Vol. XIX.) JANUARY 27, 1927 [Weekly, Price 6d.L Post free, 7d. The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2. Telephone : Gerrard 1828. Telegrams : Truditur, Westcent, London. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free: United Kingdom . . 30s. id. Abroad . . . . 33s. fid.* * Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency. CONTENTS Editorial Comment PAGE Security in the Air 41 The Air League 2 Private Flying 2 Schneider Cup this Year ... ' 42 Avro" Aldershot" 43 Avro " Aldershot "—" Typhoon " Engine ... ... ... ... ... 44 Airisms from the Four Winds 6 THE AIRCRAFT ENGINEER 46A De H. "Moth" (1927) 47 Air Progress in South Africa 8 "Aviation " at R.Ae.C. Monthiv House Dinner 49 Oil Cooling • ... 5" Royal Air Force 51 R.A.F. Intelligence 1 Light 'Plane Club Doings 51 " 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 this list :— 1927 Feb. 1 .... " Super-charging for Aero Engines." Mr. A. H. R. Fedden, before R.Ae.S. Feb. 10 .... Paper (to be announced later). Mr. H. P. Folland, before Inst.Ae.E. Feb. 17 "The Design and Operation of Commercial Air craft." Major R. H. Mayo, before R.Ae.S. Feb. 22 .... "The Manufacture and Testing of Mechanical Units for Aircraft." Lieut.-Colonel L. F. R. Fell, before Inst.Ae.E. Mar. 3 "The Spinning of Aeroplanes." Mr. L. W. Bryant, before R.Ae.S. Mar. 8 .... "Portable Hangars." Major H. N. Wyllie, before Inst. Ae.E. N a short time the Air Estimates for 1927-28 may be expected to be pub- lished, and, very naturally, there is considerable speculation in aviation circles as to what they will reveal. Until the return of Sir Samuel Hoare from his Eastern tour it seems unlikely that any announcement will be made, but doubtless the Secretary of State for Air will lose no time upon his return. We are naturally without knowledge of the policy of the Govern- Secunty ment as regards this year's Budget, but the Air ^ must not be forgotten that the general strike and the coal strike have to be paid for, and that will mean that once more " economy " will necessarily be the watchword. On the other hand, there is an opinion prevalent among aviation folk that a very considerable unspent balance remains from last year's Air Estimates, and this balance must be returned to the Treasury. Now, we have no means of knowing, at the moment, from which votes this balance is mainly left over, but it seems reasonable to suppose that a goodly proportion of it has been " saved " from the vote for " Technical and warlike stores "—in other words, from the vote for aircraft and engines. If that is actually the case, it points to the fact that once more there has been uncertainty and lack of system in the method of placing orders. This is a subject to which we have previously referred. Under the present arrangement aircraft firms can never be assured of how their orders will come along. The consequence, is that what usually happens is that for the first few months of the financial year most of the firms have little or no work to do. Staffs have to be kept down to a minimum, workmen have to be discharged in the hope that when orders do materialise the men will still be available. Then (perhaps) an order is placed, and if it be one of any magnitude the firm is faced with the problem of getting their men together again. Follows a period of feverish activity, involving more often than not a great deal of overtime working. By the time the order is completed there is usually another period of
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