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Flight, November 1, 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. 1036. (No. 44. Vol. XX.) NOVEMBER 1, 1928 rweekly. Price 6d.L Post free, 7d. EDITORIAL COMMENT 33s. (Id.* 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 .. • Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency. CONTENTS Editorial Comment : Moving at Last Municipal Aerodromes .. .. .. .. The Small Flying-Boat PAGE 945 946 946 First " Gipsy Moth " Seaplane .. . .. 947 VVestland " Wizard " .. .. ., Air Mail to Dutch East Indies .. '• Graf Zeppelin " Return Flight Berlin Aero Show Private Flying: A Canadian Air Day .. Light 'Plane Clubs Airisms From the Four Winds Aviation and the British Empire The " Autogiro" European Tour Royal Air Force Air Ministry N'otice to Ground Engineers Personals 948 950 951 952 955 957 959 960 960 962 962 962 " 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 Prices and Sizes, see Advert, on page hi. 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 Nov. 1 Lecture, " Testing of Adhesives for Timber," by W. D. Douglas, before R.Ae.S. Nov. 8 Lecture, " Machinery Installation of R.101." by Wing Com. T. R. Cave Browne-Cave, before R.Ae.S. Nov. 15.... Lecture, "Aeroplane Engines in Flight,"' by R. J. Penn, before R.Ae.S. Nov. 22 Lecture, " Weight of Aircraft,' by Maj. T. M. Barlow, before R.Ae.S. Nov. 29... Lecture, '" Production Problems,'' by F. Sigrist, before R.Ae.S. Dec.3-8.... International Aeronautical Exhibition, Chicago, 111. Moving at Last T appears that at long last we are really going to take Empire air routes seriously, and to begin to make proper use of the one type of aircraft which will, in the future, be of greater value to the British Empire than to any other nation in the world : the flying boat. It is announced that an Imperial Airways survey party will leave England during the early part of this month to examine and choose bases for the Mediterranean section of the projected route to India. Hitherto, the only tangible expression of interest in the flying boat on the part of Imperial Airways has been the Southampton-Channel Island service, and it was feared in many quarters that the new Short " Calcutta " flying boats might be put to no better purpose than flying over this route, which is of little consequence and ill-suited to serious development. The announcement that the Mediterranean section —from Genoa to Eg3*pt—is to be operated by flying boats, and that it is hoped to open the service, a weekly one in each direction, in April of next year, will be welcomed by all who believe that the great future of British aviation lies in long Empire routes. The survey party will, it is understood, select certain intermediate sites, the main points of the Mediterranean route having already been chosen. From Genoa the flying boats will call at Rome and Naples, but at present no definite choice of route has been made thence onward to Crete, where Suda Bay has been chosen as the base. From Crete the route will, in order to shorten the passage over the sea, go straight across to the African coast, and then along the coast to Alexandria, there to connect up with the existing Cairo-Basra service. It is estimated that the trip from London to Karachi, when the whole route is in operation, will be accomplished in something like a week. The success of the trans-desert service has conclusively proved that there is a need for speeding up com- munications, and the new " link " in the chain cannot but give a great impetus to the further development of the air route which will one day join London to
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