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Flight, August 28, 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. 1183. (Vol. XXIII. No. 35.) AUGUST 28, 1931 r Weekly, Price 6d.LPost 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: . PAGE Still Uncertain . . 851 India's Good Fortune .. .. .. .. .. . . .. 852 " Graf Zeppelin " in England . . . . . . . . . . . . 853 Death of Group Capt. Flack .. . . 856 The De Havilland Swallow Moth 856 Schneider Trophy Contest .. . . .. . . . . . . 857 Airport News .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 858 Private Flying and Club News S59 THE AIRCRAFT ENGINEER . . .. . . . . . . .. . . 862a Deutschlandflug 1931 863 Air Transport: The Popular Fokker . 868 Models 869 Airisms from the Four Winds Royal Air Force Aircraft Companies' Stocks and Shares &70 871 S72 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. 29. Flying Meeting at Yarmouth. Aug. 29. Gliding Meeting at Portsdown Hill.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.Sept. 5. Norfolk and Norwich Ae.C. Display at Yarmouth. Sept 5. Haldon Flying Meeting.Sept. 6. Air Pageant, Sherburn-in-Elmet, Leeds. Sept. 12. Schneider Trophy Contest.Sept. 16. "Development of Aircraft Manufacturing," Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture, by Glenn L. Martin,before R.Ae.S. Sept. 19. All-Women's Aviation Meeting at NorthamptonshireAe.C., Syweil. Sept.23-Oct. 11. French Two-Seater Light 'Plane Competition.Sept.26. Garden Party, Bristol and Wessex Ae.C. Oct. 3. Cardiff Ae.C. Air Pageant at Splott Aerodrome.Oct. 4-5. International Gliding Competition, Balsdean, Sussex. Oct. 8. Balloon Ascent, Lecture by Prof. Piccard before R.Ae.S.Oct. 15. " Protection of Metals in Aircraft Construction," I/ecture by H. Sutton before R.Ae.S.Oct.29. "Accidents in Civil Aviation," Lecture by Capt. A. G. Lamplugh before R.Ae.S.Nov. 5. " Safety in Spinning, " Lecture by H. B. Irving before R.Ae.S.Nov. 19. " Aircraft Vibration," Lecture by H. Constant before Dec. 3. "Wheel Brakes and Undercarriages," Lecture byS. Scott Hall before R.Ae.S. o*c. 10. " Air Flow—Demonstrations on the Screen by Means_ of Smoke," Lecture by W. S. Farren before R.Ae.S. Dec. 17. "Control Beyond the Stall," Lecture by Dr. G. V.Lachmann before R.Ae.S. EDITORIAL COMMENT T seems that Great Britain is not the only country which is suffering from bad weather. When our skies weep, and the chilly August wind cuts through our flannel suits, we sigh for Italian skies. On Lake Garda, we feel sure, the sun ever shines, and the soft zephyrs gently stir the sur- face of the waters, cooling the brow of man and guiding the Schneider pilot as he lands his seaplane. The French pilots, too, are surely fortunate men, living on a lake iust off the Cote still d'Azur. How blessed their lot com- ncertam parecj wj(-h nat of Great Britain's champions, who have to be content with the same waters which wash the Cote d'Argent, the " Silver Sea," as Shakespeare had it. Silver is but a chilly metal. On the stormy Solent we are accustomed to see flying held up for days at a time, especially at a period when we particularly need every possible flying hour. It seems, however, that Lake Garda is not always the sea of delight which fancy pictures it. The Italian Schneider team is sometimes kept ashore when its need for practice is even greater than ours. It was first announced that an official decision would be made on August 20 as to whether the Italian High Speed Flight had made sufficient progress to be able to follow up its challenge in the Schneider contest. Weather, it was stated, held up the prac- tice, and made a decision on that date impossible. Then, General Balbo was to go to Desenzano on the 23rd inst. to witness trial flights with the new racing seaplanes and make the announcement which is so eagerly awaited in Italy, in Great Britain, in France, and, in fact, throughout the world. Again bad weather is stated to have intervened, and the necessary preliminary tests have not yet been carried out. We are still left in suspense as to whether Italy will be able to bring a team to the Solent by Sep- tember 12. The suspense is very trying to all of us, and it must be especially harrowing to our pilots. The Italian team must feel the strain even more acutely. Now the great Italian air manoeuvres are A2
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