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Flight, October 27, 1927 AIRCRAFTBNGINEEFL 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. 983. (No. 43. Vol. XIX.) OCTOBER 27, 1927 TWeekly, Price 6d.L Post free, 7d. The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2Telephone: Gerrard 1828. Telegrams: Tntditur, 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 Safety Devices .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 745 The First Year's Flying . . .. .. .. .. .. 746 Encouraging Airmindedness .. .. .. .. .. 746 Short " Sturgeon " .. .. .. .. .. .. •• "47 Private Flying .. 748 Light 'Plane Clubs 9 THE AIRCRAFT ENGINEER .. .. .. .. .. .. 750a Airisms From the Four Winds .. .. .. .. •. • • 751 Death of Col. Nicholl 753 Safety Devices for Aircraft : By M. L. Bramson .. .. .. 754 Royal Air Force .. .. 755 Correspondence .. . . .. .. .. .. .. • • 756 Guggenheim Competition .. .. .. .. . - • • 756 Royal Aeronautical Society Official Notices . . . . • • • • 756 Imports and Exports 756 " 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 EVENT8 Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates oj important fixtures arc invited to send particulars for inclusion in this list :— 1927 Oct. 30 .... Aerial Meeting of Suffolk Aeroplane Clnb at Hadleigh Aerodrome. Nov. 3 .... Joint Meeting. " High Speed Compression Ignition Engine Research. Mr. H. B. Taylor, before R.Ae.S. and I.Ae.E. Nov. 9 .... " Commercial Air Routes." Air Vice-Marshal Sir Sefton Brancker, before Royal United Service Inst. Nov. 17 .... " The use of the Wind Tunnel in the Predic- tion of Aeroplane Performance." Mr. R. E. Pierson, before R.Ae.E. 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. HAT really matters is that we do seem to be getting on towards safety from the appalling risks following an invol- untary stall." This concluding sen- tence of Mr. M. L. Bramson's reply to the discussion following the reading of his paper on " Safety Devices for Air- craft" sums up the general impression left upon those who attended the lecture. A number of " aids to flying " which can reasonably come under the head of safety devices were dealt with by Mr. Bramson, but there can be little doubt Devices that the two wnicn attracted most attention were the new Handley Page automatic slot, and the Savage-Bramson anti-stall gear. There appeared to be a tendency among those present to assume that the advent of the Handley Page automatic slot, whose function is to open automatically when either or both wing tips are stalled, would do away with the necessity for any stall-warning device. Mr. Bramson pointed out, quite correctly we think, that although a machine in the stalled condition might be under perfect control if fitted with the automatic slots, it would be losing height at a rapid rate, and thus it was rather important that the pilot should be warned that this was happen- ing. As Mr. Bramson also pointed out, incidence is the basis for both the Handley Page automatic slots and the Savagc-Bramson anti-stall gear, so that, presumably, there is a possibility of making the same incidence mechanism operate the slots and the stall warning. The daily press has got hold of the new Handley Page automatic slot device before the company was ready for publication, certain foreign patent ques- tions being yet incomplete, and thus may have done a certain amount of harm. We do not propose to run the risk of adding to the difficulties of the Handley Page firm by publishing, this week, technical parti- culars of the new slot mechanism, but there can, we think, be no harm in mentioning briefly that the new slots are entirely automatic in action, requiring no attention from the pilot, are extremely simple mechanically, add but very little extra weight to a machine, and finally should not cost a great deal to
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