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Flight, October 6, 1927 I ENGINEER- v 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. 980. (No. 40. Vol. XIX.) OCTOBER 6, 1927 TWeekly, Price 6d.L Post free, 7d. The Aircraft Engineer and Airships I-.J'A-Hal Offices: 3fi, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2ielephone: Gerrard 1828. Telegrams: Truditur, Westcent, London. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free.United Kingdom .. 30s. 4d. Abroad .. .. 33s. 0d.* • Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency. CONTENTS Editorial Comment : PAGE Tin.1 Schneider Trophy Race .. .. .. .. .. 691 The Next Schneider Race .. . .. 692 The l-'lisht to Atrica 69U Return nt the Schneider 1 cam . . . . .. .. .. .. 693 The Schneider Race.. . . . . .. 695 Air Ministry Lunch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7011 Sherburn Meeting . . . . . . • • . . • • . . • - 701 Airisms From the Four Winds .. .. .. .. .. .. 7(14 Private Flying . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 706 Royal Air Force 709 R.A.W. Sports 710 Air Ministry Notices .. .. .. .. .. .. •• 710 " 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, on page xxviii. DIARY OF FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of important fixtures are wited to send particulars for inciusiov in this list :— 1927 Oct. 6 "Aviation." Mr. F. Handley Page, before R.Ae.S. and I.Ae.E. Oct. 13 '" The Practical Side of Performance Testing of Aircraft.' Sqdn.-Ldr. T. H. England, before R.Ae.S. and I.Ae.E. Oct. 20 .... Aero Golfing Soc. (Cellon Cup), Walton Heath. Oct. 20 .... " Safety Devices for Aircraft. ' Mr. M. L. Bramson, before R.Ae.S. and I.Ae.E. Nov. 3 .... Joint Meeting. " High Speed Compression Ignition Engine Research." Mr. H. B. Taylor, before R.Ae.S. and I.Ae.E. Nov. 17 " The use of the Wind Tunnel in the Predic- tion of Aeroplane Performance." Mr. R. K. Pierson, before R.Ae.S. and I.Ae.E. Nov. 24 .... " Modern Developments in Aircraft Instru- ments." Maj. C. J. Stewart, before R.Ae.S. and I.Ae.E. The Schneider Trophy Race EDITORIAL COMMENT. FRENCH aeronautical journal asks the question " Who won the Schneider Race J. " and proceeds to examine the subject, arriving at the conclusion that morally the Italians won it, because the Supermarine S.5 was similar to the Macchi M.52, which in turn was developed from the Macchi M.39, which in turn had been seen by the English before they designed the S.5. Yoila! The Italian aviation journal Aero- naittica, in its September, 1927, issue, published, in Italian and English, a rather long article under the title " Discutiamo di Priorita di Tipi " (A discussion on the priority of design), in which quota- tions from articles in FLIGHT are used to dispute our statement that " there can be no question of copying." This rather clumsy attempt to infer that the Macchi M.39 influenced Mr. R. J. Mitchell in his design of the S.5 falls entirely flat for the reason that Mr. Mitchell had designed the S.5 several months before the Macchi M.39 appeared in America where it won the Schneider race in 1926. The point which our Italian contemporary appears to have missed is that the photograph of the Macchi M.39 which appeared in FLIGHT of November 18, 1926, was the first to be published in this country. When we saw it we were struck by the similarity between this machine and the S.5 which latter we had but recently then been permitted to see at the Supermarine Works. At the time Mr. Mitchell had never seen even a photograph of the Macchi M.39, and for our Italian contemporary's remarks to have any weight, it would have been necessary for Mr. Mitchell to have decided, on or about November 18, as soon as he saw the photograph of the M.39, to design the S.5 on similar lines ! Other- wise, what could possibly have caused us to publish the remarks in our Editorial Comment of November 18, 1926, to which Aeronaut!ca takes exception ? The whole object of our Editorial Comment was to fore- stall any attempt at accusing Mr. Mitchell of copying, and to point out that he and Signor Castoldi had been designing the Supermarine S.5 and the Macchi M.39 simultaneously. We regret to see that
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