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Flight, May 8, 1931 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. 1167. (Vol. XXIII. No. 19.) MAY 8, 1931 r Weekly, Price 6d.LPost free, 7 id. Abroad, 8d. Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2. Telephone : (2 lines), Holborn 3211 and 1884. Telegrams : Truditur, Westcent, London. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free. United Kingdom .. 33s. Od. United States .. $8-75. Other Countries .. 35s. Od.* • Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency See last Editorial Page.) CONTENTS Editorial Comment: PAGE The Hare and the Tortoise 397 An Indian Air Force .. .. .. .. • - . . - - 398 The Metal " Martlet" 399 Tour of France .. .. . . . . .. .. .. • • 400 Airport News 402 Private Flying and Club News 404 Gliding » Air Transport 300 Hours* Test of *' Jupiter " Engine Sails and Aerodynamics Airisms from the Four Winds A.I.D. Annual Dinner The Long Range Flying Boat : by Major Rexmie l<oyal Air Force Models 406 407 408 408 409 411 413 417 418 DIARY OF CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of importantfixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in this list:— 1931May 6-16. Glider and Sailplana Exhibition, Royal Agricultural Hall.May 9. Flying Meeting, Bridgend, Glam. May 9. Model Engineer Cup Competition, Sudbury. May 14. "Metal-Clad Airship." Lecture, by C. Fritsche,before R.Ae.S. May 14. "Petrol Engines for Models" Lecture by E. T.Westbury, before T.M.A.C., Junior Inst. Engi- neers, Victoria Street, S.W.I.May 15. London Air Defence Club Dinner at Trocadero. May 15-31. Stockholm Aero Show.May 16. Reading Ae.C. Meeting. May 23. Start of Whitsun Continental Cruise, Heston.May 24. N.F.S. Air Pageant, Nottingham. May 25. Scarborough Ae. C. Opening Meeting.May25-26. Northamptonshire Ae.C. Flying Meeting at Sywell. May 28-June 13. Royal Tournament at Olympia.May 30. Heston-Newcastle Air Race, for '• Newcastle Evening World " Trophy.May 31. N.F.S. Air Pageant, Sherburn-in-Elmet, Yorks. June 2. R.A.F. Middle East Dinner at Connaugbt Rooms.June 6. Brooklands Air Meeting. June 6. Lincolnshire Ae. C. Meeting at Cleethorpes.June 7. N.F.S. Air Pageant. Hull. June g. International Rally, Bucharest.June 9. Air League " Speed " Ball at the Dorchester, Park Lane, W.June 20. Flying Display and Air Pageant, Bristol Airport. June 21. N.F.S. Air Pageant, Reading.June 26. R.A.F. Dinner Club Annual Dinner. June 27. Royal Air Force Display, Hendon.July 10-19. Circuit of Italy. July 22. Household Brigade Flying Club Meeting, Hest on.July 25. King's Cup Race. July 25-Aug. 9. Rhon Gliding Competitions, Germany.Sept. 5. Haldon Flying Meeting. Sept. 12. Schneider Trophy Contest. EDITORIAL COMMENT a recent issue we prophesied that a result of recent rapid flights across the Empire would be that a section of the Press, being unable to distinguish between the needs of a passenger service by air and those of an air mail service, would take up a sarcastic attitude towards the passenger service Airways across Africa. Our prophecy A shadow has been cast over of Imperial has been fulfilled, the subject by the tragic death of Commander Glen Kidston, but the lessons of his fineThe ,H/*re effort remain a fit subject for discus- Tortoise si°n- We have received cuttings from the Natal Mercury and the Natal Advertiser, both dealing with the subject. The Mer- cury appears to us to take a very sensible view of the matter. It records some remarks of Mr. Samp- son, the Union Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, to the effect that air mail development must go slowly (not meaning, we presume, that the machines must necessarily fly slowly) and find its own feet until the country's requirements are known. The paper proceeds: "There can no more be based on the achievement of the Lockheed Vega a comparison of what Imperial Airways machines can or ought to do than there can be between what Imperial Airways and the United States air mails are doing. Condi- tions are totally dissimilar. . . . Even in the trans- port of mails the time factor is not always the para- mount concern." The Advertiser has one cautious sentence: " We are not going to say that Imperial Airways can do more than up to now it has done. This is a matter for experts to decide." But the rest of a two-column article gives the impression that the paper is strongly convinced that Imperial Airways certainly ought to do considerably more. The text of the article is an amusing story, alleged to have been told by Lord Dunsany (we are unable at the moment to verify the reference), concerning a Veld fire which broke out shortly after the famous race between the hare and the tortoise. The wild animals of the Veld decided that a neighbouring tract must be warned, and con- sulted as to who should be the messenger. Logicians pointed out that the tortoise had recently defeated
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