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Flight, August 23, 1928 BNGINEEFL ' 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. 1026. (No. 34. Vol. XX.) AUGUST 23, 1928 ["Weekly, Price 6d.L Post free, 7d. The Aircraft Engineer and Airships Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2. Telephone: Holborn 3211. Telegrams: Truditur, Westcent. London. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free. United Kingdom .. 30s. Ad. Abroad .. .. 33s. Qd.* * Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency. CONTENTS Editorial Comment : PAGE The Air Defence Exercises.. .. .. .. .. .. 719 R.A.F. Manoeuvres 721 Private Flying : Capt. Broad Breaks Endurance Record .. .. 729 Light'Plane Clubs 731 The Orly Light 'Plane Meeting 733 A Flying Schoolhouse .. 4 Airisms From the Four Winds .. .. .. .. .. .. 735 Royal Air Force .. 737 Air Ministry Notices .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 737 Side Winds 738 "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 xxviii. 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 Aug. 27-31 U.S. National Baby 'Plane Meeting, Milwaukee Sept. 8 16 American National Air Races, Los Angeles, Cal. Sept. 10-21 French International Light 'Plane Meeting at Orly Sept. 12 .... Italian International Meeting 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 1929 Oct. 31 .... Guggenheim Safe-Aircraft Competition Closes OR many years FLIGHT has held the view that it is impossible entirely to prevent a determined enemy from making successful raids on London or any large city which a potential enemy might select as his objective. It is possible to inflict casualties on a raider to such an extent that it becomes doubtful whether raiding is worth while, but in order to do so an Air Force much larger and with much greater reserves in personnel and The Air machines than anything yet contem- Exercises plated would be required. In no form of warfare is it more true that " the best defence is attack " than in air war, and this at once means the necessity for developing to the utmost the type of machine required for attack, and the personnel, ground equipment, etc., which go with it. The air defence exercises that concluded last week have been intensely interesting, and give ample food for reflection. The official communiques give the number of raids, etc., but it will be long before the staff of A.D.G.B. has digested all the details at its disposal and decided what lessons have been learnt from these four days of exercises. Very likely those conclusions will never be made available to the public. But ordinary laymen looking on can come to certain tentative conclusions, which possibly may not coincide with the conclusions of the more popular daily papers. First one might notice the words of M. Maurice Pax in the Petit Parisien. He wrote :—" The English coldly remark that they stand to suffer a heavy reverse in the course of an aerial attack. They note that an enemy might easily force their lines of defence ; they do not try to hide the fact that the heart of London might be stricken ; they recognise calmly, loyally, courageously that a great enemy offensive in the air might be a tragic disaster for them. This is not pessimism ; it is reason, cold reason." Few R.A.F. officers, we believe, will deny those general conclusions, but they might have been based much more surely on the exercises of last year, when the weather was so bad that it gravely hampered the defence. This year the sky was often very clear,
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