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Flight, July 19, 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. 1021. (No. 29. Vol. XX.) JULY 19, 1928 rWeekly, Price 6d.L Post trae, 7d. Flight The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2. Telephone: Holbom3211. Telegrams: Truditur, Westcent. London. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free. United Kingdom .. 30s. id. Abroad .. .. 33s. 0i.* • Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency. CONTENTS Editorial Comment : PAGE Subsidies 605 Subsidies to Civil Air Transport Services 606 King's Cup Air Race 607 Paris Aero Show „ .. „ .. 609 THE AIRCRAFT ENGINEER .. .. .. .. .. .. 614a Private Flyjng: Lady Heath's Seaplane Record .. .. .. 615 light'Plane Clubs 616 Airisms From the Four Winds .. .. .. .. .. .. 617 De Havilland Sports 8 ID Parliament 620 Royal Air Force 1 Personals 2 Imports and Exports .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 622 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. For Sizes and Prices, see Advert, on page iii. 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 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 of 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 Oct. 8 Aero Golfing Soc—Team Match v. Stage G.C. Oct. 24 Aero Golfing Soc—" Cellon " Challenge Cup 1929Oct. 31 Guggenheim Safe-Aircraft Competition Closes |T cannot be said that the Note by the Secretary of State for Air on the prin- cipal provisions agreed to be embodied in the new contract with Imperial Airways, Ltd., for a weekly service between England and India, combined with daily services on certain routes in Europe, is really explicit. True, it gives the actual details of the maximum amounts to be paid out in subsidies each year for the new period of ten years contemplated, but it Subsidies leaves out many details about which one would very much like full informa- tion before being convinced that the new basis is really likely to bring us any nearer than did the old one to the day when, as Mr. Churchill has expressed it, civil aviation can " fly by itself." As far as can be gathered from-Sir Samuel Hoare's Note, the text of which is published on the next page, the main point in the new agreement is to be the extension of the subsidy period to a total of fifteen years as against the ten years originally intended as the limit. That is to say, commencing on April 1st, 1929, the subsidy is to run for a period of ten years, whereas under the original agreement it would have terminated in five years from that date. Another point to note is that the amount of the subsidy has been greatly increased. Under the original agreement a total of £1,000,000 was to be paid in subsidies, the sliding scale being arranged as follows : Each of the first four years £137,000 ; fifth year £112,000; sixth year, £100,000; seventh year, /86,000 ; eighth year, £70,000 ; ninth year, £52,000 ; tenth and last year, £32,000. It was not verv long before it became evident that the original basis was not an unqualified success, and a few years ago a change was made, mainly in the subsidy- earning basis, which was changed from one of plain mileage to one of " horse-power-miles." That appears to be retained in the proposed new agree- ment, at least for the European services, on which, the Secretary of State for Air states, a minimum of 425,000,000 horse-power miles must be flown per annum. B2
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