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Flight, March 15, 1928 HT AIRCRAFTBNGINEEFL 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. 1003. (No. 11. Vol. XX.) MARCH 15, 1928 ["Weekly, 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. Off.* * Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency. CONTENTS Editorial Comment: PAGE The Air Estimates .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 167 Hawker Leopard-Horsley .. .. .. .. .. .. 169 Breda A. 7 Monoplane 170 The Air Estimates .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 172 Flight-Lieuteuant Kinkead .. .. .. .. .. .. 177 Private Flying : An Owner on the Westland " V\ idseon " .. .. 178 Light'Plane Clubs 180 Guggenheim Safe Aircraft Competition.. .. .. .. .-. 1 SI Airisms from the Four Winds 182 Royal Air Force 183 In Parliament 3 Personals 3 R.A.F. Boxing 184 R.A.F. Memorial Fund .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 184 "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 DIARY OP CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the datesof important fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in this list •— 1928 Mar. 15 Mar. 15 Mar. 24 Mar. 28- Apl. 4 Apl. 7 Apl. &-9 Apl. 12 " Flying - Boat Maintenance." Fit.- Lieut. B. C. H. Cross, 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 Exhibition of Light Aeroplanes, Folkestone Drill Hall.Cinque Ports Flying Club Demonstration, Lympne Aerial Display, Suffolk Aeroplane Club, Hadleigh, " Some Aspects of the Development of the Slot." Mr. G. R. Volkert, before R.Ae.S. & Inst.Ae.E. 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 NET increase of £700,000 as compared with last year's Air Estimates, associ- ated, it is pointed out, with a decrease of £2,007,000 in the contribution from the Colonial and Middle Eastern Services Vote towards the cost of Air Services in Iraq, Palestine and Trans- Jordan, is the story which the Air for 1928-29 have to tell. Presumably, an actual " saving " of the difference between the increase of £700,000 and the two-million odd drop in the Colonial and Middle Eastern vote has been made on other heads, and a closer Estimates therefore, TheAir Estimates on other heads, and a perusal of the Air Estimates reveals several undesir- able directions in which such " savings " may be assumed to have been effected. In his Memorandum Sir Samuel Hoare elucidates most of the more obscure items in the Estimates, but attention might be called to certain additional points. For instance, the Memorandum states that developments during 1928 will result in bringing the total strength of the R.A.F. up to the equivalent of 73 squadrons in all. On the face of it that looks, satisfactory. But a closer examination reveals the fact that this " paper figure " includes the Fleet Air Arm, Army Co-operation and the squadrons stationed overseas. Thus, two new flights (the equivalent of a squadron) are to be formed for embarkation in aircraft carriers and battleships, bringing the strength of Fleet air units up to 25 flights (12-| squadrons.) Two new squadrons are being provided for India, and two flying-boat flights, of which one is to be located in home waters. Of Home Defence squadrons no word is said. Yet two or three years ago it was decided that 52 squadrons for Home Defence represented the minimum necessary to afford even reasonable
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