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1930
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Flight, January 3, 1930 AIRCRAFT ENGINEER AND AIRSHIPS 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. 1097. (No. 1. Vol. XXII.) JANUARY 3, 1930 [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. See lastEditorial Page.) CONTENTS Editorial Comment PAGE The New C.A.S. 1 One Year in the Life of the Canadian Company .. .. .. 4 Private Flying and Club News .. .. .. .. .. .. 6 Air Transport .. .. .. .. .. 7 Twenty-One Years of Flight .. .. .. .. .. .. 9 The New C.A.S. : Sir John Salmond's Career 89 Airisms from the Four Winds . . .. .. .. . . . . 90 Correspondence .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 91 Royal Air Force . .. .. 92 In Parliament .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 94 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— 1930 Jan. 3 .... Dinner Dance at Hanworth Club. Jan. 8 Private Exhibition of M. Bleriot's Film "25 Years of Aviation," by Guild of Air Pilots, at Edibel Cinema. Jan. 22 .... "The Strategical Mobility of Air Forces," Lecture, by Gp.-Capt. C. L. Courtney, before Royal United Service Inst. Feb. 5 .... Schneider Trophy Banquet at Savoy Hotel. Mar. 5 .... " Air Co-Operation with Mechanised Forces," Lecture, by Wing-Corn. T. L. Leigh- Mallory, before Royal United Service lust. June 28 .... Royal Air Force Display, Hendon. Sept. 6-28 .... Aero Exhibition, Stockholm, Sweden. Nov. .... Paris Aero Show EDITORIAL COMMENT LIGHT offers the very heartiest welcome congratulations to Air Chief Marshal Sir John Maitland Salmond, K.C.B., C.M.G., C.V.O., D.S.O., A.D.C., on his appointment as Chief of the Air Staff. This appointment was in- evitable. _ Sir John Salmond has earned it by sheer hard work and outstanding administrative ability. He is one of the few officers in any of the services who started by displaying great personal gallantry ; then proved himself an inspiring and gifted commander ; and h finally has developed into an organiser New C.A.S. ana- initiator of quite exceptional parts. The air force is a new service. Almost everything about it is new. Its functions and duties are always on the increase. Among the innovations which it has undertaken in the eleven years since the Armistice, there are two which are unique in importance. These are the air control of Iraq and the Air Defences of Great Britain. Each of these was started on its way by Sir John Salmond. Each of these involved a totally new conception of armed power and in particular of air power. Each had to be evolved out of a service which was itself new. There was in each case a minimum of precedent and tradition to guide the man in charge. It was laid upon this man first to formulate the principles which should guide the movement, and secondly, to mould the units of a young service into conformity with those principles. • In Iraq there were various circumstances which complicated the situation when Sir John was given the command. The country is mandated territory, possessing a King and a government of its own. Its liberation from the Turks was due to the army in India assisted by the navy. Units of the Indian army remained in the country. For the first time in history an air officer had to take the supreme com- mand over military units. Riots, rebellions, raids, and foreign attacks directed against the King of Iraq had to be dealt with by this air officer. Tribes, whose habits were turbulent but not necessarily seditious, had to be reduced to order with a minimum
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