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Flight, February 23, 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. 1000. (No. 8. Vol. XX.) FEBRUARY 23, 1928 fWeekly, Price 6d.L Post free, 7d. Flight 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. id. Abroad .. .. 33s. Od* 'Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency. CONTENTS Editorial Comment: PAGE Croydon-Australia, 16 Days 109 Testing the " Slot " 110 The Short " Calcutta " 2 THE AIRCRAFT ENGINEER .. .. .. .. .. .. 116a Royal Aero Club Official Notices 118 Private Flying : Flying Clubs of South Africa 119 Bert Hinkler's Record Flight 121 Light'Plane Clubs 122 Airisms from the Four Winds .. .. .. .. .. .. 123 Sir Philip Sassoon at Oxford 124 Royal Air Force .. 125 In Parliament 126 Personals 6 Imports and Exports 126 Society 01 Model Aeronautical Engineers .. .. .. .. 126 " 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 xxx. 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 :— Royal Aero Club Monthly House Dinner Yorkshire Aeroplane Club Supper Dance " Experiences with the Baghdad Air Mail." Wing-Com. R. M. Hill, beiore R.Ae.S. & Inst.Ae.E. Rugby, Navy v. Army, at Twickenham Aero Golfing Soc.—Team Match v. Moor Park G.C. " Testing of Materials Used in Aircraft Con- struction." Dr. Rudolf, before R.Ae.S. & Inst. Ae.E. Aero Golfing Soc.—Winter Meeting, Sir Samuel Instone Challenge Cup Rugby, R.A.F. v. Army, at Twickenham Aerial Display. Suffolk Aeroplane Club 1928Feb. Feb. Mar. Mar. Mar. 29 29 1 3 3 Mar. 15 Mar. 15 Mar. 24 Apl. 8-9 INDEX FOR VOL. XIX. The Index for Vol. xix of " Flight " (January to December, 1927) is now ready, and can be obtained from the Publishers,36, Great Queen Street, Kings- way, W.C.2. Price Is. per copy (Is. Id. post free). EDITORIAL COMMENT EAVING Croydon aerodrome, London, on the morning of Tuesday, February 7, Mr. " Bert " Hinkler arrived at Port Darwin, Australia, on Wednesday, February 22, having covered the dis- tance of 11,000 miles in 16 flying days. In view of the low power of the " Cirrus " engine (80 h.p.), the flight must rank among the very finest in the history of flying, and the Empire has cause to be proud of " Bert " Hinkler. What makes the Croydoti- flignt avj tne more noteworthy is that 16SDa*ys' Hinkler flew solo, with no passenger to relieve him of the controls for even short periods, and having to be his own navi- gator as well as his own mechanic, ground engineer and general factotum. One is compelled, in this connection, to make comparisons with Col. Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic from New York to Paris last year. Lindbergh covered, it is true, a much greater distance in one flight than Hink- ler has done, but he did " get it over and done with." Hinkler, on the other hand, has had to stick it for day after day, and arriving at the aerodrome after a whole day's flying he has had to look after his engine and machine before there was any rest for himself. Only a pilot with long experience can fully realise what this must have meant, and admiration for the determination and grit of the " great little man " can be absolutely unstinted. In our issue of February 9 we wrote " If he can get to Australia in three weeks or a little under, he will have done wonders. If he should be compelled to take longer, small blame to him. As the pioneer, so to speak, of long-distance flights on a low-powered machine (London-Turin and Sydney-Bundaberg non-stop in the Avro ' Baby ' many years ago) his reputation
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