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Tiight, May 29, 1931 HUP 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. 1170, (Vol. XXIII. No. 22.) MAY 29, 1931 r Weekly, Price 6d.[Post free, 7Jd. Abroad, Sd. Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSVVAY, W.C.2. Telephone : (2 lines), Holborn 3211 and 1884. Telegrams : Truditur, Westrent, London. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free. United Kingdom .. 33s. Od. United States .. $8-75. Other Countries .. 35s. 0d* * Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency. (See last Editorial Page.) CONTENTS Editorial Comment: PAGE The Needs of Bombay .. .. .. .. .. .. 467 Specialisation .. .. .. .. . . .. . . .. 468 Catapulting a " Virginia " 469 Tour of France .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . - 471 Stockholm Aero Exhibition 473 Air Transport 476 Airport NeWs 8 THE AIRCRAFT ENGINEER .. .. .. .. .. .. • • 478o Private Flying and Club News 479 The Metal-Clad Airship. By C. B. Fritsehe 483 Airisms from the Four Winds 487 Royal Air Force 489 In Parliament 9 Aircraft Companies' Stocks and Shares 490 DIARY OF CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING EVENTS EDITORIAL COMMENT tantClub Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of imporfixtures arc invited to send particulars for inclusion in this list:— 1931 May28-June 13. Royal Tournament at Olympia.May 30. Air Union Reception of Capt. Costes, Croydon. May 30. Heston-Newcastle Air Race. "Jay 31. N.F.S. Air Pageant, Sherburn-in-Elmet, Yorks.June 2. R.A.F. Middle East Dinner at Connaugnt Rooms. June 3. Reception to I.C.A.N. at Park Lane Hotel.June5-6. Scottish Flying Club Air Display, Glasgow. June 6. Brooklands Ai? Display,in A6-Unc<>lnshire Ae.C. Meeting at Cleethorpes. June 6-12. F.A.I. Conference, Bucharest.June 7. N.F.S. Air Pageant, Hull. 3»«t Q ^""national Rally, Bucharest. illr i,' QiT League " Speed " Ball at the Dorchester Hotel.JuiMi^a,y ^'eek Me«ing, Marshall's School, Cambridge. Jure is D- Leicestershire Ae.C. " At Home " at Desford.JCT.B ™ Si" , - F1y*n6 Display and Polo Gymkhana at Halton. ^ i Va£ DisPlay. Bristol Airport S.B.A.C. Cup Race.2 Air Pageant, Reading. "ff" for Kinirs Cup Race. lDinner, Connaught Rooms. J"i: 25.' Kinjf'sc'd Brigade F1yinfi Club Meeting, Heston. Aue VS" M**'^-Rhon Gliding Competitions, Germany. Auii';2 ^ncnes.ter-Liverpool Inter-City Race. Ant Vi' S^fffe-on-Tyne Meeting. Sepi' 5 H»IH° 5,nd Norwich Club Meeting at Yarmouth. -y "• Halfi™ "'ying Meeting. Trophy Contest. NDIA was the first country in the British Empire, if not in the world, to establish a regular official air mail. That happened in 1919. The service connected Bombay with Delhi, if we remember right, and the aeroplanes used were military D.H. 10 twin- engined bombers. The schedule was very badly drawn up ; as a public service it was of very little use to anybody; the costs per ton-mile were appalling, and the experiment was speedily abandoned. India, in fact, had been rash. For once she had endeavoured ^o \eSid the world in up-to-dateness, and she had signally failed. The more usual and typical course is for India to follow some years behind the rest of what is called the civilised world. It was a fool, wrote Kipling, who tried to hustle the East. Repenting of her rashness and of her solitary ex- periment in leading the world, India has since given ample evidence of her repentance, and of her deter- mination to lag behind where civil flying is con- cerned. For years we have been told that the Government of India was preparing the air route from Karachi to Calcutta and on to Rangoon. What she has actually accomplished so far is an air service between Karachi and Delhi. We still wait hopefully for the extension on to Calcutta. The Calcutta- Rangoon section has been abandoned with a sigh of relief which could almost be heard across the Gulf of Arabia, the Red Sea, and the Mediterranean. That section must be left for the prospective Govern- ment of Burma when the schism is brought about. A fleet of Avro 10 machines has been ordered for the Calcutta-Delhi section, and we are assured that when they are delivered that section really will be opened. We must wait, and perhaps we shall see. Certainly the prime necessity of air transport in India is a link between Karachi and Calcutta. But, while Calcutta is the most important commercial city in India, as well as lying on the route which leads to Australia, Bombay comes a very good second in B 2
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