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Flight, December 8, 1927 CHT f BNGINEEfL TR§HIPS \ 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. 989. (No. 49. Vol. XIX.) DECEMBER 8, 1927 ["Weekly, Price 6d.L Post free, 7d. The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial OJHces: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2 Telephone : 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 Lditorial Comment : PAGE Wursf: ;UKI Worse 831 Tht-LoiiK-Rango FlyiiiK-Koat 832 The Long-Range Flyiug-Boat : Maj. R. I). Kennir 833 Koyal Aero Club Associated Council •• •• •• •• •• S36 Private Flying : Westland Widgeon Abroad .. .. .. .. 837 Light 'Plane Clubs 838 Airisms From ihe Four Winds .. . . .. .. .. .. 840 Sir Charlf-Wake-field Dinner 842 imperial Airways Report . . . . . . . . . . • . 842 Royal Air Force 843 In Parliament .. . . . . . . . . .. . . .. 843 Air Post Colle. ting 4 Corrcapomlni" c .. . . . . . . .. . . • • • • S44 Air Ministry Notice 844 " 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 dates of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in this list:— 1927 Bee. 8 Dec. 15 Sec. 31 1928 Feb. 1 Oct. 7-28 1929 Oct. 31 " Fog." Capt. F. Entwistle, before R.Ae.S. and I.Ae.E. " The Development of Torpedo-Carrying Air- craft." Maj. A. F. Bumpus, before R.Ae.S. and I.Ae.E. Entries Close for R. 38 Memorial Prize (R.Ae.S.). "Aircraft in Small Wars.' Wing-Comdr. R. H. Peck, before Royal United Seivices Inst. International Aircraft Exhibition, Berlin. Guggenheim Safe-Aircraft Competition Closes. EDITORIAL COMMENT AST week we referred to the announce- ment that the Air Ministry was not contemplating an attempt this year on the world's speed record for seaplanes, and we then pointed out that the long delay in transporting the Schneider Trophy machine from Venice to London would probably, in any case, prevent the attempt being made this year. Xow comes the news that the Air Ministry not only does not intend to make the attempt on the speed Worse record, but that for the next Schneider Worse Trophy race Service pilots will not be provided. Something of the sort might really have been expected from the fact that the latest Air Force List shows that the pilots of the " High-Speed Flight " have been distributed to other Air Force stations. Had it been intended that Royal Air Force pilots should take part in the next race, this year's team would presumably have been kept together. The fact that they have been scattered seems to indicate sufficiently the policy of the Air Ministry. What are the precise reasons of the Air Ministry for coming to this decision is somewhat of a mystery at the moment, although it is freely rumoured that objection to the " publicity " which the race inevitably gives to the service pilots concerned is at the root of the matter. While we have every sympathy with the Service point of view that officers and gentlemen in His Majesty's Forces should be above such things as "limelight " and vulgar publicity, we fail to see that R.A.F. pilots are in this respect overstepping the limits of seemly behaviour. Why, it might well be asked, should it be worse for R.A.F. officers to fly in the Schneider race than for Service personnel to " perform " for the benefit of the public at the Olympia Tournaments ? When one comes right down to brass tacks (we nearly wrote " Brass Hats ") the Air Ministry's attitude is not a little illogical. Most of all do we sympathise with the pilots themselves. We are quite convinced that no one disliked the publicity incidental to the Schneider Trophy race more than did the pilots themselves, but they faced it cheerfully because of the great honour bestowed upon them in choosing them to represent the British B2
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