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Flight, April 4, 1929 • GHT AIRCRAFTBNGINEEFL 6£> 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. 1058. (No. 14. Vol. XXI.) APRIL 4, 1929 ["Weekly, Price 6d.L Post free, 7d. 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 PACE Real Empire Aviation .. .. .. .. .. .. 267 Air Route to India .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 269 International Flying Meeting at Lympne „ .. .. .. 275 Light'Plane Clubs 281 Going Ahead in New Zealand .... .. . . . . .. 2So Airisms From the Four Winds .. .. ,. .. .. .. 284 " Disrespectfully Dedicated to the ' Ground Flyer ' " .. .. 285 Eddies 286 Royal Air Force 287 Company Doings .. 288 DIAEY 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. April 11 .... Lecture, " Wind Tunnel Methods of the Eiffel Laboratory," by M. Lapresle, before R.Ae.S. and Inst.Ae.E. April 18 .... Lecture, " R.101," by Col. V. C. Richmond, before R.Ae.S. and Inst.Ae.E. April 19 .... A.I.D. Technical Staff Association Dinner, Hotel Russell.A P«1 Exhibition of Sporting and Touring Aircraft, Switzerland. May 21 .... Northampton Air Pageant. June 19-22 F.I.A. Conference, Copenhagen. June 27-30 Rotterdam International Air Meeting. July 5-6 .... King's Cup Race. July 13 .... R.A.F. Display at Hendon. July 16-27... 7th International Aero Exhibition, Olympia. July 25 .... Bleriot Cross-Channel Flight Anniversary Fete, Calais. July 28 .... International Flying Meeting, Sweden. Aug. 1-14.... French Light Plane Meeting, Orly. Aug. 15 .... International Balloon Race, Poland. Sept. 6-7 Schneider Trophy Race, Solent. Sept. 10-20 Aero Club de France Meeting, Le Baule. Oct. 1 Gordon-Bennett Balloon Race, St. Louis, U.S.A. °ct. 31 .... Guggenheim Safe-Aircraft Competition Closes. EDITORIAL COMMENT T long last a start has been made with a real Empire Air Route. Saturday, March 30, 1929, deserves to go down in history as a red letter day for British aviation. It was on that day that an Armstrong-Whitworth " Argosy " belonging to Imperial Airways, Ltd., left Croydon aerodrome on the first stage of the air line to Karachi, and the machine carried Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for Air, and the Lady Maud Hoare, his wife, both of whom have already earned the gratitude of British aviation by a previous flight to India in the de Real Havilland " Hercules" some vears Empire , ,. , , . . • ,Aviation ag°' when the trans-desert air route was first taken over by Imperial Airways from the R.A.F. This country is fortunate in having a Secretary of State for Air who loses no opportunity to " practise what he preaches," and whose wife is ever ready to bear him company. We wish them both a safe and pleasant journey to Egypt, where they intend to leave the aircraft in order to examine on the spot some of the problems at the northern end of the next Empire air route, that from Egypt to the Cape. As regards the London-Egypt-India air route, full particulars of this will be found elsewhere in this issue of FLIGHT. The outstanding features of this route are the transport of mails and passengers from London to Karachi in a week, and the fact that but for a night's journey by train from Basle to Genoa, the entire trip may be made in British aircraft driven by British engines and manned by British crews. This fact will doubtless be a source of comfort to many travellers who have taken the trouble of studying the statistics and reputation of Imperial Airways. A study of the time-table shows that, leaving London aerodrome on a Saturday morning, the traveller or mails as the case may be reaches Karachi on the following Saturday, having saved something like a week by using the air line. Just at present, it may be assumed that mails will provide the bulk of the traffic. The new Armstrong-Whitworth " Ar- gosies " which are to operate the London-Basle B2
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