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1930
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FLIGHT, JANUARY 3, 1930 A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport. A SECOND ENGLISHMAN FLIES. -Mr. J. T. C. Mrere Brab-u™, who i.< scswHl known in eenaution with bailoaaing.and who is A member of (he Committee of the Aero Club of Great Britain and Ireland, tfs th« second Encjiiihn^an to fly with his own machine, sharing; with Mr. Henry Farman that distinction. On Pccember 3rd, at Iwy, he made threecompetitive flights of 500 to 600 metres each, our pho'o^rtph above being secured during eat of these. The motor he employed u 4n ordinary 50'h.p. Vlvkius; the aeroplaiu, upon thf Urtes of ttie Voisin-Farman biplane, was also constructedJa MM. VBtfJA Fi UPON completing 21 years of publication of FLIGHT, ithas seemed to us of interest to give a review of theprogress made in flying during the last two decades. It was, we can assure our readers, no easy task to decidewhat form such a review should take, and many different ''schemes " were discussed before a decision was reached,we believe, however, that the manner of presentation chosen will meet with the approval of most of our readers. Spacebeing a very important consideration, we have decided, as regards the review of aircraft, to make this largely pictorial,even a small photograph giving a much better idea of a machine than descriptions occupying a much larger space,•furthermore, it very soon became obvious that we should not have the space to publish photographs of more than asmall percentage of British machines produced during the last 21 years. That being so, the bulk of the photographspublished on pages 31 to 66 show pre-war aircraft. ,, r Correspondence columns have of late indicated thatthere exists among readers a widespread desire to be told something of the " Old Times," and we feel that these photo-graphs of pre-war machines, although being no substitute for articles specially devoted to the subject, will serve to showwhat manner of mounts the early aviators had to fly. The Photograph on this page, which shows the first page of thearst number of FLIGHT, illustrates Moore Brabazon's Voisin biplane of late 1908, and this is an excellent example for comparison with modern aircraft. By way of explaining and describing in a more technical way the progress made in 21 years, we have asked a number of specialists to review their own particular sphere, and the response has been most gratifying. There are, however, two omissions for which we should here apologise : We had asked two world-famous British designers to write for us their impressions of twenty-one years of progress, one to deal with the aerodynamic design of aircraft and the other with the progress in structural design. It was, however, found that one designer was abroad and would not return until Christ- mas, i.e., too late to give him time to do the article, while the other was so extremely busy with his ordinary work that he could not spare the time. We feel that FLIGHT'S review of the last two decades is somewhat incomplete without these two articles, but there was no help for it, and we had to go to Press without them. The articles* which we do publish, dealing with subjects other than general practical aircraft design, will, we think, be found to be of surpassing interest, and we are especially gratified that the authors, all well-known in the British aviation world and all very busy men, should have found the time to give FLIGHT readers the benefit of their specialised knowledge of the subjects dealt with. 11 D 2
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