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Flight, August 14, 1931 AIRCRAFT1NGINEER 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. 1181. (Vol. XXIII. No. 33.) AUGUST 14, 1931 r Weekly, Price 6d.[Post free, 7Jd. 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 .. 33s. Od.* • Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency. (See lastEditorial Page.) CONTENTS Editorial Comment: PAGEAnother Record Broken 799 The Launch of the " Akron " 800The 1931 S.6 801 An Avro Mail 'Plane 802Mollison Beats Scott 8 1931 Schneider Contest 9Airport News . . . . .. • . • . . .. • • 811 Barros Stall Warning Device 812Private Flying and Club News . . . . . . .. . . 813 Gliding • 814•Air Transport .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 815 Circuit of Italy 816Airisms from the Four Winds .. . . .. .. .. .. 821 Launch of the " Akron " 822Royal Air Force 823 Halton No. 1 School of Technical Training (Apprentices) . . . . 823The Industry 4 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:— 1931Aug. 15. Scarborough Ae.C. Air Pageant. Aug. 15. Manchester-Liverpool Inter-City Race.Aug. 15. Irish Ae.C. Meeting, Baldonnel Aerodrome. Aug. 18-19. Visit of Graf Zeppelin Airship to Hanworth.Aug. 22. Northants. Flying Party at Horsey Toll. Au£. 22. Newcastle-on-Tyne Air Pageant, Cramliugton.Aug. 29. Flying Meeting at Yarmouth. Aug.29-Sept.5. Boulogne Air Week. Aug.29-Sept 7. U.S. National Air Races, Cleveland, Ohio.Sept. 2. Exhibition of Aerodrome Lighting at Croydon Aero- drome.Norfolk and Norwich Ae.C. Display at Yarmouth.Sept. Sept. 5. Haldon Flying Meeting.Sept. 12. Schneider Trophy Contest. Sept. 16. "Development of Aircraft Manufacturing," WilburWright Memorial Lecture, by Glenn L. Martin, before R.Ae.S.Sept. 19. All-Women's Aviation Meeting at Northamptonshire Ae.C., Sywell.Sept.23-Oct. 11. French Two-Seater Light 'Plane Competition. Sept. 26. Garden Party, Bristol and Wessex Ae.C.International Gliding Competitiou, Balsdean, Sussex. Balloon Ascent, Lecture by Prof. Piccard before R.Ae.S."Protection of Metals in Aircraft Construction," Lecture by H. Sutton before R.Ae.S." Accidents in Civil Aviation," Lecture by Capt. A. G. Lamplugh before R.Ae.S." Safety in Spinning, " Lecture by H. B. Irving before R.Ae.S." Aircraft Vibration," Lecture by H. Constant before R.Ae.S.'• Wheel Brakes and Undercarriages," Lecture by S. Scott Hall before R.Ae.S." Air Flow—Demonstrations on the Screen by Means of Smoke," Lecture by W. S. Farren before R.Ae.S." Control Beyond the Stall," Lecture by Dr. G. V. Lachmann before R.Ae.S. Oct.Oct. Oct. Oct. Nov. Nov. Dec. Dec. Dec. 4.8. 15. 29. 5. 19. 3. 10. 17. EDITORIAL COMMENT HE record for the time which a light aeroplane takes to fly between Eng- land and India is being lowered so frequently and so substantially that it is difficult to keep track of the changes. Mr. Mollison and his Gipsy " Moth " have accomplished the trip in less than ten days, and already we hear of plans by himself and by Air Commodore Kingsford-Smith to reduce the time still further. We hardly know whether to wonder at each feat or to . , take it as a matter of course. One Record°BroLn can become sated with wonders of achievement as well as with grandeur. Visions of glory! Spare my aching eyes," sang a Welsh bard in a poem which many of us had to learn in our childhood. We also remember a kind of Utopia described by the Grand Inquisitor in " The Gondoliers " where " Dukes were three a penny " (or thereabouts). So now hollow-eyed pilots who have sacrificed their sleep to speed across the world faster than anyone has done before are so numerous that none of them can command the admiration which is really his due, and which each would have received had his flight been made a few years earlier. Quite naturally and rightly it is always the pioneer whose name lives in our memory. Though the Channel is now flown many times a day throughout the year, it is Bleriot whom we shall always re- member as the Channel flyer par excellence. More pilots than we can readily remember have now flown between England and Australia, but Ross Smith was the first pilot who made the flight, and Hinkler was the first to do it in a light aeroplane. Hinkler's record stood for over two years, and it was a record in so many ways that it will probably always be considered the most remarkable and meritorious of all the flights between the two countries. Kingsford- Smith beat Hinkler's time last year. This year Scott beat that of Kingsford-Smith; and now Mollison has substantially lowered Scott's record. In all this succession of great flights, one factor alone seems constant and calculable. That is the
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