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Flight, November 15, 1928 NT ENGINEER. 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. 1038. (No. 46. Vol. XX.) NOVEMBER 15, 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. 4d. Abroad .. .. 33s. 0d.* * Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency. CONTENTS Editorial Comment : PAGE Sir John Salmond and the R.A.A.F 981 Portuguese Flight to Africa .. .. .. 983 Sir Samuel Hoare's Guildhall Speech 984 The Bristol " Jupiter " Family-II 5 Airisms From the Four Winds .. .. . . .. .. .. 987 Machinery of R. 101 : By Wing-Commander Cave-Browne-Cave .. 988 Private Flying: Household Brigade Flying Club " at Home " .. 989 Light 'Plane Clubs 991 Royal Australian Air Force .. .. .. .. .. . 993 Royal Air Force .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 995 Air Ministry Notices ,. .. .. .. .. .. .. 995 Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 996 " 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 v. 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 NOT. 15... Lecture, " Aeroplane Engines in Flight,'1 by R. J. Penn, before R.Ae.S. Nov. 22.. Lecture, " Weight of Aircraft," by Mai. T. M. Barlow, before R.Ae.S. NOT. 29... Lecture, " Production Problems," by F. Sigrist, before R.Ae.S. Dec. 3-8 International Aeronautical Exhibition, Chicago, 111. Dec. 6 . Lecture, " Control of Aeroplanes by Alulas," by Capt. A. P. Thurston, before R.Ae.S. Dec, 12-14 International Conference on Aviation, Wash- ington, U.S.A. 1929 July 16-27 7th International Aero Exhibition, Olympia Oct. 31.... Guggenheim Safe-Aircraft Competition Closes EDITORIAL COMMENT EFORM of the Royal Australian Air Force is a subject that has for some years past been discussed in the Commonwealth, and naturally con- flicting opinions were held as to what should be done. Our contemporary, Aircraft, of Melbourne, urged that only an outside authority of great experience could give an opinion which all parties would respect, and that course was ultimately adopted. It is typical of the sound «^™«"i°o^^ commonsense which has all alongsalmon and . n , „ ... „ & the R.A.A.F. inspired the Commonwealth Govern- ment's attitude towards flying, that Air Marshal Sir John Salmond should have been invited to report on the present condition of the R.A.A.F. and advise as to its future. While cabled items concerning the report reached this country some time ago, we are able to publish in this issue of FLIGHT a fairly full summary of the report itself. The cabled summaries laid too much stress on the sentence, " the R.A.A.F. would be totally unfit to undertake war operation in conjunction with the Navy or Army." As the only operational units of the R.A.A.F were one fleet co-operation flight using Seagulls, and two composite sqiiadrons of which only one-third of the personnel was regular, while in each squadron there was one flight of D.H. 9s, one of D.H. 9A's, and one of S.E.SA's, it did not need the visit of an Air Marshal from Great Britain to arrive at a conclusion which must already have been perfectly obvious to Air Commodore Williams, Chief of the Australian Air Staff. In fact, if we divide Sir John Salmond's report into two halves, destruc- tive criticism and constructive suggestions, we find the latter infinitely the more interesting of the two. The destructive section contains only two points of real interest : (1) The system of the composite squadron must, of course, go by the board ; and (2) the Experimental Station at Randwick should be closed down. The latter is particularly interesting,, as it recalls the old-time feeling in Great Britain between the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough and the Trade. Australia was dabbling with a sort of Farnborough factory, and Sir John Salmond says
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