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Flight, February 17, 1927 CHT BNGINEEFL 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. 947. (No. 7, Vol. XIX.) FEBRUARY 17, 1927 [Weekly, Price 6d.L Post free, The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT (JUEKN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2 Telephone: Gerrard 1828. Telegrams: Truditur, Westcent, London. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free: United Kingdom .. 3Us. id. Abroad . . .. 33s. Cld.* * Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency. CONTENTS Editorial Comment PAGE The End of a Great Flight 79 An Ambitious Project 80 Light'Planes Denned 0 The Halton H.A.C.l 2 Royal Aero Club Official Notices 84 The Ford Aerial " Flivver " 5 Light'Plane Club Doings 6 Pinedo Flight 87 Airisms from the Four Winds ... 88 "Experimental Light'Plane Club" 9 Personals 90 An American Submarine Seaplane-Carrier 9U Roj'al Air Force 1 Correspondence ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 92 Air Ministry Notices 92 Imports and Exports 2 "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 this list:—1927 Feb. 15 .... Hampshire Air Pageant. Feb. 17 « The Design and Operation of Commercial Air- craft." Major R. H. Mayo, before R.Ae.S. R.A.F. v. Navy, Rugby Match. Twickenham. "Aviation in Australia," Flt.-Lt. J. Renison Bell (R.A.A.F.), before Inst.Ae.E. " Artificial Light as an Aid to Aerial Naviga- tion," by Mr. H. N. Green, before Illumin- ating: Eng. Soc. Aero Golfing Soc. Match, Rickmansworth. " The Spinning of Aeroplanes." Mr. L. W. Bryant, before R.Ae.S. "Portable Hangars." Major H. N. Wyllie, before last. Ae.E. Feb. 19 Feb. 22 Feb. 22 Feb. 28 Mar. 3 Mar. 8 Y the time this week's issue of FLIGHT reaches the hands of our readers the Secretary of State for Air, Sir Samuel Hoare, Lady Maud Hoare, and their small party, including Major C. LI. Bullock, Sir Samuel's Private Secre- tary, Corporal Hetherington, the Air Minister's batman, and Major Woods Humphery, of Imperial Airways, Ltd., will have arrived back at Croydon from their long tour to India. That is unless the fog that has been The End paralysing England during the last few Plightea days, takes it into its head to spoil everything by preventing the Air Minister's party from adhering to their intention of returning to London by air from Paris. The whole tour has gone through without a hitch, and it would be just like our contrary weather to prevent the last item on the programme from being carried out in its entirety, and thus prevent a fitting finish to what must for ever remain a very memorable flight. These notes are necessarily being written a couple of days before the date scheduled for Sir Samuel Hoare's return, and thus we are faced either with practising what, we believe, the daily press terms " intelligent anticipation," or else put up with the somewhat in- vidious position of writing of the future something which our readers will read only after the event to which reference is made has taken place. There is, however, one way out of the dilemma, namely, to dis- regard entirely the manner and even the time of Sir Samuel's home-coming, merely taking it for granted that he will assuredly arrive before Friday next. If that line is taken it becomes possible to congratulate the x\ir Minister, Lady Maud, and the other members of the party on their return from the finest pro- paganda flight ever undertaken, and to wish them a very hearty " welcome home." Seriously, however, there can be no doubt that by their tour to the East, Sir Samuel and Lady Maud Hoare have done a vast deal of good for British avia- tion. The fact that a Cabinet Minister has flown some 12,000 miles without a hitch has been favourably commented upon not only in the British press at
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