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Flight, July 24, 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. 1178. (Vol. XXIII. No. 30.) JULY 24, 1931 [" Weekly, Price 6d.LPost free, 7£d. Abroad, 8d. Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2. Telephone : (2 lines), Holborn 3211 and 18S4. Telegrams : Truditur, Westcent, London. Annual Subscription Rates Post Free. United Kingdom .. 33s. Od. United States .. SSw5. Other Countries .. 33s. Od* * Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency. (See lastEditorial Page) CONTENTS Editorial Comment : The Air Exercises '"=* King's Cup Air Race .. .. •• •• •• •• ..711 Airport News: Another Municipal Venture .. .. .. '23 Private Flying and Club News .. • • • • • • • • .. / 26 THE AIRCRAFT ENGINEER .. .. •• -• •• •• /26A The Arrow " Active" .. .. •• •• •• •• .. >27 Airisms from the Four Winds .. .. • • - - • • • • 730 The Air Exercises . . .. .. • • • • • • • • • • "32 Air Transport: Sir Alan Cobham's African Flight 734 Notices to Airmen .. .. .. .. • • • • - • • • 735 Correspondence . . .. .. . • • • • • • • • • '^o Circuit of Italy 737 Instructors'Certificates .. .. .. •• •• •• . . /3S Changes in the R.A.F. Higher Command . . . . . . . . 739 In Parliament 740 Royal Air Force 1 From the Emerald Isle 742 DIARY OF CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of importantfixtures are invited to send particulars tor inclusion in this list : — 1931 July 25. King's Cup Race. July 25-30. Conference on Medical Utility of Aviation in the Colonies, at International Colonial Exhibition, Paris. July 25-Aug. 9. Rhon Gliding Competitions, Germany. July 27-28. Cricket. R.A.F. v. Free Foresters at Camberley. Aug. 1-2-3. Southdown Skysailing Club's Annual Flying Meeting. Aug. 3-4. Cricket. R.A.F. v. R.N. at Halton. Aug. 15. Scarborough Ae.C. Air Pageant. Aug. 15. Manchester-Liverpool Inter-City Race. Aug. 22. Newcastle-on-Tyne Meeting. Aug. 29-Sept. 5. Boulogne Air Week. Aug. 29-Sept. 7. U.S. National Air Races, Cleveland, Ohio. Sept. 5. Norfolk and Norwich Ae.C. Display at Yarmouth. Sept. 5. Haldon Flying Meeting. Sept. 12. Schneider Trophy Contest. Sept. 23-Oct. II. French Two-Seater Light 'Plane Competition. Sept. 26. Garden Party, Bristol and Wessex Ae.C. The Air Exercises EDITORIAL COMMENT WO 3?ears have passed since the air defence of London was last tested by exercises on a grand scale. In 1929 there were no exercises, and last year the exercises took the form of a war between the North and the South of the country. This last scheme gave ample opportunity to the commanders to show their ingenuity and their power of improvisa- lion. Such schemes should be of great assistance to Air Officers in preparing for a war overseas, but they hardly touch upon the specific reason for which the command Air Defence of Great Britain exists. During the last two years it is reasonable to suppose that considerable progress has been made in elaborating the scheme for defending London from air attack. We hope that the Corps of Observers, which is the pivot of the whole scheme, has increased in numbers and has been improved in training, in organisation, and in technical equipment. Tt would be hard to give too high praise to those volunteers who enrol in the Observer Corps, with the status of special constables, in order to play a most important part in the defence of the country. They work more or less in secret. The public has no opportunity of seeing them or their work. Presumably in time of war they would have a uniform, but in peace time they wear ordinary mufti clothes. They carry no colours, perform no ceremonial parades in the presence of Royalty, and in fact dispense with most of the appur- tenances which help to attract the Territorial soldier. But if the observers round the coast fail, their failure may let a squadron of enemy bombers through the defence into the London area, and cause the destruc- tion of an arsenal or some other important target. The men who do this quiet, all-important work de- serve the highest honour from the community. The Observer Corps, we may take it, has made progress in the last two years. We may be equally certain that the anti-aircraft guns and the search- lights have not stood still. We know that the Royal Air Force has made progress. A number at least of the squadrons of A.D.G.B. are now equipped with up-to-date aeroplanes. Obviously the time was ripe 709
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