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Flight, April 26, 1928 /URClkAFTENGINEER. 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. 1009. (No. 17. Vol. XX.) APRIL 26, 1928 rWeekly, Price 6d.L Post free, 7d. The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2. Telephone: Holborn3211. Telegrams: Truditur, Westcent. London. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free. United Kingdom .. 30s. id. Abroad .. .. 33s. 0d* • Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency. CONTENTS Editorial Comment : PAGE Are we going too fast ? ,. .. .. .. .. ,, 277 The Alluring Atlantic 278 The Night Bomber 279 Napier Racing Engine .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 280 German-Irish Atlantic Flight .. .. .. .. .. .. 284 Bristol-Jupiter 100 Hours'Test 285 Across the Arctic By Air 286 THE AIRCRAFT ENGINEER .. .. .. .. .. .. 286a Private Flying : Flying to Australia .. .. .. .. .. 28S Light'Plane Clubs 289 Vickers-Potts Oil Cooler 291 Airisms From the Four Winds .. .. .. .. .. .. 292 A.I.D. Dinner 293 Royal Air Force .. 294 Air Ministry Notices .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 294 Personals 294 " 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 Apl. 26 May May 5 17 May 18 May June June June 28 7 9 " The Design and Construction of Modern Rigid Airships." Mr. B. N. Wallis, before R.Ae.S. and Inst.Ae.E. Aerial Pageant, Filton, Bristol Aero Golfing Soc—Spring Meeting, "Flight" Challenge Cup Martlesham Heath Reunion Dinner (Connaught Rocms, 7 p.m.) Light 'Plane Meeting, Hamble 7th Annual Middle East Dinner Light 'Plane Meeting, Castle Bromwich 910 Aero Golfing Soc—Team Match v. R.A.F. Are we going too fast ? EDITORIAL COMMENT T the annual dinner of the A.I.D. Technical Staff Association, Mr. C. R. Fairey referred to the subject of flying crashes, complaining that much pub- licity was given to these by the daily press, but very little to the greatly increased mileage per accident, and less still to the fact that flying is getting safer every day, while the proportion of crashes due to material failures is, as Mr. Fairey very rightly pointed out, "microscopic." In point of fact, the technique of aircraft design and construction has now reached a very advanced position. So much so, that it is beginning to be questionable whether the technical side has not out-distanced the personal. What we have in mind is this : Machines are being produced with greater and greater horse- power and higher and higher performance. While we would be the last to claim that higher performance necessarily means a machine more difficult to handle, it is scarcely to be denied that by its very nature, its great speed and enormous power excess, the high- performance aircraft, although very possibly not demanding greater skill in some respects, does place in the hands of a pilot the possibility of carrying out with comparative ease certain evolutions which a smaller power excess would prevent him from even attempting. It is at any rate a possibility that this very fact may in itself constitute a danger. Owing to the system in force in connection with service accidents, details of the causes of these, and of the findings of the official investigations are not available to the general public, and so it is almost impossible to obtain accurate information or compile statistics which might throw light on the subject. The Air Ministry will, of course, be in possession of these, but as we have said the public at large is not. It would be interesting to know, for instance, what percentage, during, say, the last two years, of crashes happened to modern high-performance single-seaters, what percentage on older and slower types. It may be, of course, that statistics show that the question of type has little or no bearing on the B 2
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