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Flight, October 13, 1927 I ENGINEER. 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. 981. (No. 41. Vol. XIX.) OCTOBER 13, 1927 TWeekly, Price 6d.[_ Post free, 7d. The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2Teleptoae : Gerrard 1828. TelegTams : Truditur, Westcent, London. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free. United Kingdom .. 30s. id. Abroad .. .. 33s. Qd. * * Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency. CONTENTS Editorial Comment: PAGE Guggenheim Entries.. .. .. .. .. .. .. 711 " H.P." as Optimist.. . .. 712 Revival of tbe Semi rigid .. .. .. .. .. .. 712 A New Parnall Machine .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 713 Royal Aero Club Banquet to Schneider Team .. .. 714 Private Flying: Bristol Club's Official Opening .. .. .. 716 Light'Plane Clubs 72u Airisrns From the Four Winds .. .. .. .. .. .. 722 New British Airship .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 724 Guggenheim Competition Entries .. .. .. .. .. 725 " Aviation ": By F. Handlcy 1'age 726 Royal Air Force .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 727 Royal Aeronautical Society and Inst. of Aeronautical Engineers .. 728 "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 Chtb Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in this list :— 1927 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. EDITORIAL COMMENT. ;LTHOUGH the opening date for the receipt of applications for entry into the Daniel Guggenheim Safe Aircraft Competition was September 1, 1927, it is extremely gratifying to be able to record, as stated elsewhere in this issue of FLIGHT, that already no less than seven formal applications have been received by the organisers of the competition. Still more welcome is the news that out of the seven, five are from British aircraft firms. FLIGHT has already devoted a considerable amount of SPaCe' not onl>r to the ruleS and TeS^a- tions of the competition, but also, in THE AIRCRAFT ENGINEER technical supplement, to the views of British designers as to the possibility, or otherwise, of complying with the requirements with machines of more or less orthodox type. The list of British entries published this week affords an interesting opportunity for speculation, since in only two cases is it possible to form an approximate idea of the general type of aircraft involved. That the machine entered by the Cierva Autogiro Co., Ltd., will be of the rotating wing type may be taken for granted, and in this connection, possibly it is significant that one of these machines has recently accomplished successfully a 50-mile cross-country flight, piloted by its inventor. When first commenting upon the Guggenheim competition, we pointed out that the requirements appeared to point to a machine of the rotating wing type, such as the " Autogiro," or else to a non-stalling machine such as the Hill " Pterodactyl." At the moment, no entiyhas been made by-Capt. Hill, or by the West- land Aircraft Works, but as there is still nearly two years before the competition closes, it may be assumed as a probability that such an entry will be made. The only other machine concerning which one can make a reasonable guess is the Handley Page entry. By now it appears to be an open secret that the latest Handley Page automatic wing tip slot has every appearance of delinitely having overcome the trouble of control at and beyond the stall, and that without the slightest addition to the work of the pilot, and
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