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Flight, February 7, 1929 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. 1050. (No. 6. Vol. XXI.) FEBRUARY 7, 1929 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 i EmpireiAviation De Havilland " Hawk Moth " The Air Route to India .. Junkers J.38 Slate All-Metal Airship .. FACE 91 93 99 100 101 National Flying Services 102 Air-Cooled Engines in Service Eddies Private Flying : From New York to Miami Light 'Plane Clubs Airisms From the Four Winds Royal Air Force In Parliament Air Ministry Notice Westland Aircraft Society .. 102 103 104 106 108 109 109 110 110 " 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. 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— 1929. Feb. 14 .... '« Air cooled Engines in Service," by A. H. R. Fedden, before R.Ae.S. and Inst.Ae.E. Feb. 28 .... Lecture, "The Flutter of Aeroplane Wings," by R. A. Frazer, before R.Ae.S. and Inst.Ae.E. Mar. 7 .... Lecture, " Airscrew Body Interference," by C. N. H. Lock, before R.Ae.S. and Inst.Ae.E. Mar. 14 .... Lecture, " Engine Performance Tests," by Wing-Commdr. C. B. Hynes, before R.Ae.S. and Inst.Ae.E. Mar. 18 .... Lecture, " The Helicogyre," by V. Isacco, before R.Ae.S. and Inst.Ae.E. Mar. 27 .... Royal Aero Club Annual General Meeting. Mar. 29-30 Cinque Ports Flying Club Easter Meeting, Lympne. INDEX FOR VOL. XX The Index for Vol. xx of "Flight " (January to December, 1928) is now ready, and can be obtained from the Publishers,36, Great Queen Street, Kings- way, W.C.2. Price Is. per copy (Is. Id. post free). EDITORIAL COMMENT HE official announcement of the in- auguration, on March 30 next, of the first link in the Empire air service to India and onwards which we publish this week is one of the most encouraging statements that have been made for a very long time. The more im- patient air enthusiasts would have launched out with this scheme many years ago, while even those who, although firm believers in E . the extreme importance to the EmpireAviartion °* good air communications between its various parts, realised the difficulties, were beginning to become disheartened and to wonder whether a start would ever be made. The definite fixing of a date for the inaugural flight is proof that at long last we are to get going, and any avoidable delay which has occurred can doubtless still be made lip. That there have been difficulties in the way cannot be denied. Some of these have been technical, and it has not really been until comparatively recently that we could definitely be assured that machines of suitable type would be available. But the chief obstacles have been political. It must be realised that on a route like that from London to Karachi, a number of countries have to be flown over, frontiers crossed, and in some instances landings made. It was not to be expected that friendly arrangements could be made in a hurry, and the fact that at last all the necessary formalities and agreements have been fulfilled is to the credit not only of the British representatives whose work it has been to make the arrangements, but to the broad view taken by a number of foreign governments, who have realised that although concessions had to be made, ultimately it would be of mutual advantage to have efficient long-distance air lines operating B 2
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