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Flight, July 12, 1928 AIRCRAFTENGINEER- First Aeronautical Weekly in the World. Founded January, 1909 s 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. 1020. (No. 28. Vol. XX.) JULY 12, 1928 ["Weekly, Price 6d.L Post fr«e, 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 Paris Show 583 K.A.F. Display at Blackpool .. 585 Blackpool Air Pageant .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 586 Rome-Brazil Non-Stop Flight .. .. .. .. .. .. 594 H.M. Airship R 100 595 Paris Aero Show .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 596 Royal Aero Club Official Notices 600 Private Fly'iig : Private Owners at Blackpool . . .. .. 601 Light'Plane Clubs 601 Airisms From the Four Winds .. 603 Royal Air Force 4 Air Ministry Notice .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 604 " 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 July 19 ... Air Display at Colchester July 20-21 King's Cup Race and Siddeley Trophy Tour, Hendon and (finish) Brooklands July 20-22 Light Plane Meeting at Rotterdam July — .... Aerial Derby Aug. 4 .... Close o! Philadelphia Bulletin Atlantic Flight Prize Aug. 6 .... Air League Challenge Cup, Norwich Aug. 27-31 U.S. National Baby 'Plane Meeting, Milwaukee Oct. 7 28 International Aircraft Exhibition, Berlin Aero Golfing Soc—Team Match v. Stage G.C. Aero Golfing Soc- " Cellon " Challenge CupOct. 8Oct. 24 1929 Oct. 31 Guggenheim Safe-Aircraft Competition Closes EDITORIAL COMMENT :F the Paris Aero Show of 1928 does not present any startlingly brilliant innova- tions, it can at least be said of it that it is a Show devoid of " freaks." There was a time when one might always count on some very unorthodox designs making their appearance in the Grand Palais, usually for the first and last time. This year design appears to be settling down along fairly well-defined lines, although there is still a diversity of types among which Parfs ** *s imPossible to say that this or Show that preponderates to any marked extent. One still sees the " full " biplane, the sesquiplane, the low-wing monoplane, the high-wing monoplane, and occasionally the " normal " monoplane, i.e., with wing about halfway up the sides of the fuselage. If any one type appears to be making headway it is the high-wing monoplane, which one finds employed on machines of widely different classes, from the small commercial or " feeder line " machine, to the large night bomber. Whether this wing arrangement has come to stay, or is merely a passing phase, is difficult to say. Aerodynamically there is very little to choose between one arrangement and another, and ulti mately the choice of wing arrangement will be decided by practical considerations. Downward view is one of the advantages of the high-wing monoplane, but in a service machine the forward and upward view is probably less good than that obtained with certain biplane arrangements. Structural design has not changed much since the last Paris Show, at least as regards French machines. Duralumin is still by far the most popular material for metal construction, and as we have pointed out on previous occasions, this is but natural in view of the fact that France has available large supplies of aluminium from which to make the alloy. When it comes to the manner of using the material, it cannot be said that French designers reach the same degree of refinement as do British. Plain box spars of rectangular section with the corners rounded are employed in very many cases. In others the " box section is built up from webs and flanges joined by c
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