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Flight, March 1, 1928 S AIRCRAFTENGINEER* AIRSHIPS 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. 1001. (No. 9. Vol. XX.) MARCH 1, 1928 rWeekly, Price 6d.L Post free, 7d. Flight The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offices : 36, GREAT QUEEN" STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2. Telephone : Holborn 3211. Telegrams: Truditur, Westcent, London. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free. United Kingdom .. 30s. 4d. Abroad .. .. 33s. (irf. * Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in liritish currency. CONTENTS Editorial Comment: PAGE 10U1 127 Gloster"IVB" 129 The Great Flying Boat Cruise 135 Private Flying : Flying Clubs of South Africa 136 Light'Plane Clubs 138 Bert Hinkler's Record Flight „ 139 Amsterdam to Batavia and Back : By Flight-Lt. G. A. Koppen .. 143 Personals 146 Airisms from the Four Winds 147 Royal Air Force .. .. 8 In Parliament 148 " 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 i. 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 Mai. 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. & lust. Ae.E. Mar. 15 .... Aero Golfing Soc— Winter Meeting, Sir Samuel Instone Challenge Cap Mar. 24 .... Rugby, R.A.F. v. Army, at Twickenham Mar. 28- Apl. 4 Exhibition o! Light Aeroplanes, Folkestone Drill Hall. Apl. 7 .... Cinque Ports Flying Club Demonstration, Lympne Apl. 8-9 .... Aerial Display, Suffolk Aeroplane Club 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 SFXOND ENGLISHMAN FLIES. —Mr. J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon, who is so well known in connection with ballooning, and who is a member of the Committee of the Aero Club of Great Britain and Ireland, is the _ r,_r second Englishman to fly with his own machine, sharing with Mr. Henry Farman that distinction. On December 3rd, at Issy, he made three consecutive flights of 500 to 600 metres each, our photograph above 1001 being secured during one of these. The motor he employed is an ordinary 50-h.p. Vivinus ; the aeroplane, upon the lines of the Voisin- Farman biplane, was also constructed by MM. Voisin Freres.'' This inscription appeared under the frontispiece photograph, which was published on p. 1 of FLIGHT No. 1, Vol. I, of January 2, 1909. In No. 1001, this week's issue, we record that another Englishman flies his own machine more than 11,000 miles in 16 days. His name is " Bert " Hinkler, his machine the Avro " Avian," and the motor he employed is an ordinary 80 h.p. " Cirrus." The 999 numbers of FLIGHT published between No. 1 and No. 1001 have recorded most of the steps which have made such progress possible, and it is with, we think, justifiable pride that we look back upon the times when Mr. (now Col.) Moore-Brabazon went careering around Issy on his old Voisin " box kite " with the peculiar " side curtains." Justifiable be- cause in those days there were many who could not see flying ever amounting to anything. Not only so, but by many, even among our close friends, we were regarded as being just a little bit mad to start an aviation journal. Surely such a publication, although it might interest a few enthusiasts, could
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