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Flight, September 20, 1928 AIRCRAFTBNGINEEFL 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. 1030. (No. 38. Vol. XX.) SEPTEMBER 20, 1928 rWeekly, Price 6d.L Post free, 7d. FligHt 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. id. Abroad .. .. 33s. 0d* * Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency. CONTENTS Editorial Comment: PAGE Orly 787 Our "Maple Leaf"' Number .. .. .. .. .. 78$ The Orly Light 'Plane Meeting 789 Aviation in Canada .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 797 Royal Aero Club Official Notices 821 Private Flying .. . . . . .. .. 822 Light 'Plane Clubs . .. .. 824 Airisms From the Four Winds .. . .. .. .. .. 826 Royal Air Force .. .. .. .. 827 Correspondence .. .. .. .. .. 828 The Airship Club 828 " 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 xlix. 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 Sept. 10-21 French International Light 'Plane Meeting at Orly Sept. 29 .... Northampton Air Pageant Oct. 7-28 Internationa] Aircraft Exhibition, Berlin Oct. 8 .... Aero Golfing Soc—Team Match v. Stage 6.C. Oct. 24 .... Aero Golfing Soc.—" Cellon " Challenge Cup Deo. 3-8 .... International Aeronautical Exhibition Chicago, 111. Dec. 12—14 International Conference on Aviation, Wash- ington, U.S.A. 1929 Oct. 31 .... Guggenheim Safe-Aircraft Competition Closes » FLIGHT •' SUBSCRIPTIONS The attention of readers is called to the fact that a " FLIGHT '' subscription form wiil be found on page 1. Orly EDITORIAL COMMENT LTHOUGH the "Circuit of France" is not yet completed, and delays and breakdowns may still change the placing of competitors, there is every probability that the French Light 'Plane Competition, which commenced _ at Orly on September 10, will be won this year by Great Britain. It will be recollected that the competition was divided into two distinct sections : a series of technical tests and a reliability tour of France. It was in the former that the points were gained which established the placing of competitors. In the reliability test, which is now proceeding, it is only a question of covering the prescribed stage each day be- tween the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., 60 points being awarded every competitor who completes his stage within that time. Thus it is not possible to gain extra points in this test, although it is, of course, possible to lose points by failure to complete one or more stages. In fact, Herr Lusser, the leader up to the present, failed to complete one of his stages in the time limit set, and thereby lost 60 points. Unfortu- nately, he appears to be missing, and may have met with an accident. While reliability is obviously a very desirable quality in a light 'plane, and the test was very rightly included in the competition, the technical interest of the meeting lies rather in the various tests of the first section of the competition. In our issue of August 2, 1928, we referred, in Editorial Comments, to the relative chances of a machine like the little Klemm-Daimler and one like the de Havilland "Moth." From these very rough estimates, we arrived at the conclusion that in the " Efficiency Test," where marks were awarded on a basis of useful load carried, speed over the 400-km. circuit, and fuel consumed for that dis- tance, it should be possible for the " Moth " to beat
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