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Flight, July 5, 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. 1019. (No. 27. Vol. XX.) JULY 5, 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: Holborn3211. Telegrams: Truditur, Westcent. London. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free. United Kingdom .. 30s. Ad. Abroad .. .. 33s. 0d.' • Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency. CONTENTS Editorial Comment : PAGE The R.A.F. Display 521 Royal Air Force Display.. .. .. .. .. .. .. 523 King's Cup Air Race 530 Airisms From the Four Winds ,, ,. .. .. .. .. 531 Private Flymg: Blackpool Air Pageant 533 Light'Plane Clubs 534 British Aircraft and Aero Engines .. .. .. .. .. 535 Paris Aero Show 569 Visitors from Italy .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 58(1 Luncheon to the Bremen Crew .. .. .. .. .. .. 581 Royal Air Force 582 EDITORIAL COMMENT " 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 inclusion in this list— 1928 June 29— July 15 Paris Aeronautical Salon July 6-7 Blackpool Flying Meeting July 19 .... Air Display at Colchester July 20-21 King's Cup Race and Siddeley Trophy Tour, Hendon July 20-22 Light Plane Meeting at Rotterdam July — .... Aerial Derby Aug. 4 .... Close of Philadelphia Bulletin Atlantic Flight Prize Aug. 6 ... Air League Challenge Cup, Norwich Aug. 27-31 U.S. National Baby 'Plane Meeting, Milwaukee Oet. 7 28 International Aircraft Exhibition, Berlin Oct. 8 .... Aero Golfing Soc—Team Match v. Stage G.C. Oct. 24 .... Aero Golfing Soc.—" Cellon ' Challenge Cup 1929 Oct: 31 Guggenheim Safe-Aircraft Competition Closes T is always easier to criticise than to praise, and when the greatest and most spectacular flying event of the year has just taken place it is, most people will admit, the duty of FLIGHT to be as critical as possible and to point out any matter, great or small, in which the Royal Air Force Display seemed to be lacking or to be capable of improvement. It is only when one approaches the display of 1928 in this spirit that one realises how very R^F nearly perfect it was. The fact that Display fragments of the blazing kite balloon set fire to part of the oil refinery before the bombers got to work on it is hardly a matter for criticism. In fact, only one item on the programme did not produce its full intended effect, and for this comparative failure it would hardly be fair to blame the organisation. The item in question was the artillery observation. It was not the fault of anybody that quite a number of spectators thought that the Bristol machine was dropping bombs on the enemy gun. It was just sheer bad luck that the shell which ought to have destroyed the gun proved to be a dud. But it would have been better if the friendly battery had been located beyond the railway line, so that the observation aeroplane could have manoeuvred in front of the spectators instead of behind them. This was absolutely the only item which lacked the success of the rest of the programme. For all the other items we have nothing but praise. Everyone who has watched the Display each year since its beginning must realise the difficulty of ringing the changes and finding something novel year by year. This applies particularly to aerobatics and air fighting. This year the selection was made with consummate skill. There was not too much " stunt- ing," and what there was was excellent of its kind. A crowd now is not very much interested if a number of aeroplanes are turned loose in the sky to tumble about at their good pleasure. This mistake was avoided. The two Lynx-Avros, the single Gamecock, and the two Genet-Moths, each in turn, gave a well considered display of aerobatics in which each c2 •-...*:,
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