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t, March 17, 1927 AIRCRAFTENGINEER. 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. 951. (No. 11, Vol. XIX.) MARCH 17, 1927 [Weekly, Price 6d.L Post free, 7d. Flight 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. 0d.* * Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency. CONTENTS Editorial Comment PAGE The Air Estimates 155 And Civil Aviation ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 156 The Hawker " Horsley" 7 Huff-Daland " Cyclops" 158 Junkers G.Ml 159 Bournemouth Meeting ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 160 Air Minister's Estimates Speech 161 Airisms From The Four Winds 3 Uruguayan Airmen's Adventure 164 Light 'Plane Club Doings 165 Services Rugby Tournament 6 Royal Air Force 167 Institution of Aeronautical Engineers' House Dinner 168 Air Ministry Notices 8 Imports and Exports 168 " 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 For Sizes and Prices see Advert, page v. 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 Mar. 17 Mar. 17 Mat. 22 1 at. 26 ar. 26 ""'int. 29 w. 31 •Vill "Line Squalls." Mr. M. A. Giblett, M.Sc, before R.Ae.S. Aero. Golfing Soc. (Sir S. Instone Cup), Sun- ningdale. '' Aircraft Law.'' Mr. Lawrence A. Wingfield before Inst.Ae.E. • R.A.F. India Reunion Dinner, New Princes Restaurant. R.A.F. v. Army Rugby Match, Twickenham. . R.Ae.C. Annual General Meeting " Recent Model Experiments in Aerodynamics." Mr. E. G. Richardson, before R.Ae.S. International Aero Exhibition, Copenhagen. INDEX FOR VOL. XVIII. The Index for Vol. xviii of " Flight " (January to December, 1926) is now ready, and can be obtained from the Publishers,36, Great Queen Street, Kings- way, W.C.2. Price Is. per copy (Is. Id. post free). PERUSAL of the Air Estimates for 1927-28 issued recently, and a summary of which was published in last week's issue of FLIGHT, indicates that, gener- ally speaking, the policy that has been in force for several years now is being pursued, although in somewhat " de- celerated " form. Although presum- ably necessary, due to the urgent need for economy, the further postponement of the long overdue ~. .. expansion of the R.A.F. cannot but beThe Air r ., , , „ , .. ,, Estimates regretted by all who realise the ever- increasing importance of the air arm. In this connection we cannot refrain from referring to an interview granted to a representative of The Observer by Lord Thomson of Cardington, (who was Secretary of State for Air in the Labour Govern- ment of 1924) and published in the March 13 issue of that paper. If Lord Thomson has been correctly quoted—and there does not appear to be any reason to doubt that he has—his statement that the Air Estimates are lower than he expected them to be, indicates that even the Labour Party (or, at any rate, one of its most distinguished members) realises that whatever reductions have to be made in the two older services, it is not safe, from a national and imperial point of view, to go too far with economy in the air. What we are chiefly concerned with is not so much how much money we spend on the air as how we spend it. One statement of Lord Thomson's deserves, we think, to be very seriously taken into account by all who profess to give the subject of air defence more than a passing thought. Referring to the mistake in supposing that the expansion of the
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