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JANUARY 3, 1929 EDDIES. By AEOLUS A HAPPY and Prosperous New Year to one and all from the staff of FLIGHT, Editorial and Administrative. f THE above by way of reciprocation and appreciation of the pile of Season's Greetings to FLIGHT, to hand from practically every corner of this little globe of ours. ONE little greeting from a member of 'M (A.C.) Squadron, R.A.F., was particularly interesting (from the personal point of view), as may be judged by the accompanying photograph. Stationed at Quetta, in N.W. India, our reader writes that : .' Whilst on operations in Iraq I had occasion to pass through In the Bazaar at Zubair : An interested Eastern reader of "Flight." the town of Zubair on the way to Shiabah. In the bazaar I came across an Arab, sitting peacefully in his shop, perusing a copy of FLIGHT. In the accompanying photograph he is smiling, probably thinking after all that it is much better to be a shopkeeper than an Ahkwan and being bombed bv the R.A.F." AIR-MAIL users may take heart at last that l>efore the end of the century is reached the Post Office may begin to consider the issue of an air-mail stamp—or perhaps even a series of values. At least they have taken their courage in both hands and are about to venture upon a special stamp in connection with the Postal Union Convention which, in 1929, takes place in London. The only other instance of this daring departure is the Commemorative stamps of Id. and 1 \d. values issued for the Wembley Exhibition. IT is to be hoped that the reported rinding of a bottle message purporting to be signed by Amundsen, giving a description of the tragedy of the Latham seaplane which set out to help the crew of the Italia, is not another fatuous practical joke. It is difficult to understand the psychology of this type of imbecile who can think it humorous thus to A GOOD example of modern methods of educating the youth of today is forthcoming in the Schoolboys' Own Exhibi- tion being held at the New Horticultural Hall, Westminster. There, amongst amass of instructive " exhibits," is one of the control car of R.33 and a " Jupiter" engine. The practical interest which this has created amongst the boy visitors who " want to know " must well repay the originator of the idea of placing these on view. MR. HARRY PRESTON, of Brighton—the Harry Preston— writing to the Sunday Dispatch last Sunday upon the " Greatest Moment in my Life "—I wonder ! —says :— " In the days of the flying pioneers Grahame-White was in Brighton. I had just acquired the Royal Albion Hotel, and he offered an aerial view of it. I accepted. Up we went. The engine roared and rattled. Thegimcrack machine swayed and shook as though it would fall to pieces any moment, circling the pier and swooping so low over the hotel we nearly hit the chimney pots. Just as we roared clear George Graves looked out of a top-floor window and waved a cloth he had snatched off a table. Grahame-White saw him and playfully banked and swooped back. And then I yelled and grabbed the pilot's shoulder. He pulled her nose up just in time. There were some telegraph wires stretched across the roof which he hadn't noticed. We missed them by a few inches only." " THE Higher the Fewer." In the early days of FLIGHT a paragraph appeared pointing out that at long last this " legend " had been justified by the conquest of the air. Now it seems it may once more revert to its back legendary place as, if theorists and optimistic forecasters are to be relied upon, in the years to come it is the upper atmosphere which will be crowded by high-speed aeroplanes travelling at any- thing up to 500 or 600 m.p.h. (perhaps) and the lower strata will \>e for the slow coaches only. You never know.• Mrs. B. Simonius, who recently took her pilot's certi-ficate at the Basel aerodrome. MRS. B. SIMONIUS—whose portrait appears on this page the feelings of those to whom such devastating. jokes " are her aviator's certificate at the Basel aerodrome on an Avro " Avian " (" Cirrus ") 'belonging to her husband, who is 13 .......
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