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Flight, February 16, 1928 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. 999. (No. 7. Vol. XX.) FEBRUARY 16, 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, Westcent, London. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free.United Kingdom .. 30s. Ad. Abroad .. .. 33s. Oct.* "Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency. CONTENTS Editorial Comment: PAGE Empire Air Communications .. .. .. .. .. 91 Bravo, Hinkler ! 92 A Tale of Two Cities 2 Short " Calcutta" 3 Supermarine S.5. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 94 Notices to Airmen .. ,. -. .. .. .. . UIO Private Flying : An " Avian " in South Africa .. .. .. 1IH Progress of the Autogiro .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 102 Light'Plane Clubs 104 Airisms from the Four Winds .. .. .. .. .. .. 105 Sir Philip Sassoon at Oxford .. .. ., .. .. .. 10B Royal Air Force .. 107 Service Rugby Football .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 107 Gloster Aircraft Company's Annual Dinner .. .. .. .. 108 Boulton & Paul Staff Dinner 108 " 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 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 Feb. 16 Airscrews at High F. Douglas, before ' Experiments on Model Tip Speeds." Mr. G. R.Ae.S. & Inst.Ae.E. Mar. 1 .... " Experiences with the Baghdad Air Mail." Wing-Com. R. M. Hill, before R.Ae.S. & Inst.Ae.E. Mar. 3 .... Rugby, Navy v. Army, at Twickenham Mar. 3 .... Aero Golfing Soc—Team Match v. Moor Park G.C. Mar. 15 .... " Testing of Materials Used in Aircraft Con- struction." Dr. Rudolf, before R.Ae.S. & Inst. Ae.E. Mar. 15 .... Aero Golfing Soc.—Winter Meeting, Sir Samuel Instone Challenge Cop ITH the launch, at Rochester, on Mondayof this week of the Short " Calcutta " three-engined flying-boat, yet anotherstep has been taken towards improved Empire communications. The ma-chine, as is well known, is intended for operation by Imperial Airways, Ltd.,when it has passed the usual tests at Felixstowe, and thus there is reason to hope that inthe not too distant future, we may see the beginning of a service operating over the sea whichEmpire j f j practicai utility. The South-Air Com- r . /. , T , ,munications ampton service to the Channel Islands has probably been of value in gathering experience, but that it now has any practical utility as a route, few will claim. The weekly round trip has been made, and the Supermarine machines have done remarkably well, frequently under extremely bad weather conditions, but the route chosen was scarcely worthy of the machines used on it, which would have been capable of operating a service over almost any other route offering greater prospects of practical utility. Not that we have any desire to be in any way unfair to Imperial Airways. Cher- bourg might have been a more useful terminus, but Cherbourg is a French port, and, moreover, a French seaplane service station, and it is thus not to be wondered at that there were difficulties in the way of arranging for the route to be laid there. With the new flying stock being produced at Rochester, how- ever, services of a very different character must be established if we are to make any real headway. The new machines, the first all-metal British flying- boats to be used for commercial work, with their three Bristol " Jupiter " engines, should, by their ability to fly on any two engines, be to all intents and purposes immune from forced landings, and thus routes of a very different nature should become avail- able. The new craft are designed to have a normal range of 500 miles, and it should not be difficult to find in the Empire portions of trade routes over which the operation of fast flying-boats would effect a very considerable speeding-up of communications. The Supermarine " Southampton " flying boats have arrived safely in the Far East, after an excellent
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