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Flight, May 3, 1928 ZURCEAFT First Aeronautical Weekly in the World. Founded January, 1909 Founder and Editor : STANLEY SPOONER A journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progrew of Aerud Locomotion and Tnuuport OFFFCIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No. 1010. (No. 18. Vol. XX.) MAY 3, 1928 Veekly, Price 6d. Post tree, 7d. The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2. Telephone: Holborn3211. Telegrams: Truditur, Westccnt. London. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free. United Kingdom .. 30s. Ad. Abroad .. .. 33s. 0d.* • Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency. CONTENTS Editorial Comment : A Memorable Lecture Three British World's Records Three New World's Records for Britain Use of Patents on Foreign Aircraft Rolls-Royce " F " Type Engines Royal Aero Club Official Notices Private Flying : Aerodromes Light 'Plane Clubs Flying-Boats Airisms From the Four Winds .. Royal Air Force In Parliament PAGE '295 296 298 299 Mill) .'KM ;«IS 307 3119 312 3J4 314 " 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 OF CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for tnflusion in his lt<it>—• 192S May 5 May 10 Aerial Pageant, Filton, Bristol "The Design and Construction of Modern Rigid Airships." Mr. B. N. Wallis, before R.Ae.S. and Inst.Ae.E. May 17 .... Aero Golfing Soe.- Spring Meeting, "Flight" Challenge Cup May 18 .... Martlesham Heath Reunion Dinnei (Coimaught Rooms, 7 p.m.) May 24— June 9 Royal Tournament, Olymj.ia May 27-28 Light 'Plane Meeting, Hamble May 30 .... Wilbur Wright Lecture " The Slotted Wing." Mr. F. Handley Page, before R.Ae.S. and Inst.Ae.E. June 3-9 R.A.F. Rifle Association Prize Meeting June 7 .... 7th Annual Middle East Dinner June 9 .... Light 'Plane Meeting, Castle Bromwiflh EDITORIAL COMMENT HE Royal Aeronautical Society with which is incorporated the Institution of Aeronautical Engineers is to be very warmly congratulated on the quality of the papers read before it recently. In place of the somewhat " academic " nature which at one time was charac- teristic of the majority of the papers, the Society now appears to get papers of a much more practical and " live " character. The change cannot, we think, but add to the prestige and »« A i., standing of the Society, and if this newMemorable ,., fe , • . • j -i r • , Lecture quality can be maintained, the Society should benefit in the manner most desirable, i.e., by a greatly increased membership. Certainly the papers read recently have been both interesting and instructive. To no paper does this apply more strongly than to that presented by Herr Claudius Dornier on April 26. To begin with, as pointed out by the chairman, Col. the Master of Sempill, it was in itself a great honour that so famous an aircraft designer should have come personally to this country to present a paper on a subject very dear to British aviation circles. But that the paper should have been so thoroughly detailed, so perfectly frank in placing " the cards on the table," so scrupulously painstaking in forming the basis of comparison on known and proved facts (except for the type " E " boat, which is not yet completed but the data relating to which were estimated with the very greatest care from known examples), is not only a testimony to Herr Dornier's courage but also to his sportsmanship. After all, the day will come when there will be competition in the world's market for flying-boats, and by his frank exposition of the case for the flying-boat Herr Dornier has set an example which, were it to be followed by other designers, could not fail materially to assist progress and development. It seems likely that even now the great majority of those who heard Herr Dornier's paper have not entirely grasped the full value of it. This is almost inevitable, since the tables and graphs which accom- panied it were not included in the printed copy of the paper, but were merely thrown on the screen as lantern
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