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Flight, December 29, 1927 CHT 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. 992. (No. 52. Vol. XIX.) DECEMBER 29, 1927 ("Weekly, Price 6d.|_ Post free, 7d. Flight The Aircraft Engineer and Airships EOUorud Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2 Telephone : Gerrard 1828. Telegrams : Truditur, Westcent, London. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free. United Kingdom .. 30s. Ad. Abroad .. .. 33s. 0d.m * Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency. CONTENTS Editorial Comment: PAGE 1927 S75 De Havilland 61 878 THE AIRCRAFT ENGINEER .. .. .. .. .. .. 880a Private Flying : The Joys of Joy-riding .. .. .. .. 882 Light 'Plane Notes 883 Airisms From the Four Winds .. .. .. .. .. .. 884 Royal Air Force 5 In Parliament 885 Air Ministry Notices .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 886 Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers .. .. .. .. 886 "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 xxii. 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 Dec. 31 1928 Jan. 6 Feb. 1 Aug. 6 Sept. — Entries Close for R. 38 Memorial Prize (R.Ae.S.). Federation Aeronautique Internationale Con- ference, Paris. " Aircraft in Small Wars." Wing-Comdr. R. H. Peck, before Royal United Services Inst. Air League Challenge Chip Schneider Trophy Race. Oct. 7-28 .... International Aircraft Exhibition, Berlin. Oct. 31 .... Guggenheim Safe-Aircraft Competition Closes. HIS being the last issue of FLIGHT in 1927, and nothing outstanding having occurred recently to call for any special comment with the exception of the disappearance of yet another trans- atlantic aspirant, there is an oppor- tunity for "taking stock" of the aviation situation, for looking back on the year that is just drawing to a close, and for attempting to evaluate the progress which 1927 has given us. In doing so, it is necessary to pay due regard to what has been accomplished abroad during the period under review in order to retain a true perspective when viewing matters at home. There is little doubt that 1927 can be written down as the year of the great flights. Never before in the history of flying, not even in the famous year of 1919, has there been such a number of long-distance flights, each beating the preceding one by a very considerable distance. There has, however, been this difference : that, whereas in 1919 almost all the great flights could be claimed by Great Britain (the transatlantic, the England-Australia and England-South Africa, etc.), a large percentage of the great air journeys of 1927 were made by machines and pilots of nationalities other than British Lest it should be thought that this fact might give cause for uneasiness, it might be well to state emphatically that this is not the case. Other nations have carried out flights that will live for ever in the history of aviation, such as the American transatlantic flights by Lindbergh, Chamberlin, Byrd, Brock, etc., and the Pacific flights by pilots of the same nationality. We have no desire to belittle in the least degree the achievements of these gallant aviators. Far from it. They took their lives in their hands and faced tremendous risks. All honour to them. But for each successful attempt there were two or three unsuccessful, and it is no good closing our eyes to the fact that the victories over time and distance were dearly bought. The attitude of FLIGHT towards such undertakings is already well known, and it will suffice if we state once more as our firm convic- tion that unless and until long-distance flights over the open sea can be made on marine aircraft possessing
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