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Plight, January 26, 1928 \\ C? 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. 996. (No. 4. Vol. XX.) JANUARY 26, 1928 (Weekly, Price 6d.L Post free, 7d. The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2. Telephone : Gerrard 1828. Telegrams : Truditur, Westeent, London. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free. United Kingdom .. 30s. id. Abroad .. .. 33s Od* "Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency. CONTENTS Editorial Comment : " This Airship Business" .. King's Cup Race .. .. .. Fokker T. IV Seaplane Airships .. .. Royal Aero Club Official Notices .. THE AIRCRAFT ENGINEER . . .. Private Flyiug : The Mohawk " Pinto " Light 'Plane Clubs Model Aircraft Exhibition . . . . Airisms from the Four Winds . . .. Royal Air Force . . .. . . . . Correspondence . . . . . . . . PAGE 47 48 49 51 54 54A 55 56 57 58 60 "PLIGHT" 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 CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in this list :— 1928 Jan. 26 .... " Schneider'TrophS Machine Design. Mr R. J. Mitchell and Capt. G. S. Wilkinson, before R.Ae.S. & Inst.Ae.E. Feb. 1 ... Aircraft in Small Wars." Wing-Comdr. R. H. Peck, before Royal United Services Inst Feb. 2 .... " Ground Transport for an Air Organisation.'' Flt.-Lieut. R. E. H. Allen, before R.Ae.S. & Inst.Ae.E. Feb. 7 .... " The Maintenance and Repair of Aero Engines." Wing-Com. J. G. V. Fowler, Joint Meeting R.Ae.S. & Inst.Ae.E., and Inst.A.E. Feb. 16 ... '' Experiments on Model Airscrews at High Tip Speeds." Mr. G. P. Douglas, before R.Ae.S. & Inst.Ae.E. " This Airship Business ' EDITORIAL COMMENT ,T is difficult to understand the raison d'etre of the book entitled "This Air- ship Business," by E. F. Spanner. Although obviously antagonistic to airships, the author has not selected his evidence quite so patently one-sided as did '' Neon '' in the somewhat similar book published a while ago. Mr. Spanner does at least make a pretence at being fair. And yet in places he is most unfair, although his unfairness has the appearance of being unintentional. The book appears at a time which might suggest that its publication has an ulterior motive over and beyond the author's concern for the welfare of those who may be persuaded to risk their lives in this alleged terribly dangerous fashion ! In many ways the book reminds one irresistibly of a certain class of modern novel written by a woman. The author is so anxious to drive home his points that he makes very liberal use of italics. So much, in fact, that about one-third of the book is printed in italics, with the inevitable result that nothing stands out. It is like a speaker hammering home his points by striking fist on fist, but overdoing it to such an extent that every sentence is so emphasised, and he becomes merely tiresome to watch and listen to. But for the fact that Mr. Spanner has so written his book that it might give the non-technical reader the impression of being a really serious criticism, we should not have dealt with it at such length as we have done in this issue of FLIGHT. Pseudo technical writings, however, are apt to catch the unwary, and to be given an importance far beyond their legitimate value, and for that reason we have thought it necessary to review " This Airship Business " at considerable length. That in so doing we may be playing the part of the clergyman who warns people against a play, and merely succeeds in filling the theatre, cannot be helped. And if our review sells a few hundred extra copies of the book (it will scarcely run into thousands at' 25s. per copy) it may at least tend towards spreading " air-mindedness." Put in the briefest possible form, what Mr. Spanner appears to have done, as regards the technical sections
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