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Flight, September 25, 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. 1187. (Vol. XXIII. No. 39.) SEPTEMBER 25, 1931 r Weekly, Price 6d.[.Post free, 7$d. 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 PAGE Editorial Comment: Interceptors on the Coast .. .. .. •. .. . • 963 R100 964 8,000 Miles in a Flying Boat 965 The Three-Kilometre Record 6 D.H. Moths in the Arctic 968 Record Engine Speed Indicator .. .. . . .. . . . . 9H9 Ontario Provincial Air Service .. . . .. • • • • • • 971) THE AIRCRAFT ENGINEER .. .. .. .. • • • • • • 970a Private Flying and Club News 971 Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • 974 Airport News .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 975 Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture.. .. .. .. .. .. 975 Airisms from the Four Winds .. .. .. . • • • • • 976 Royal Air Force 977 Aircraft Companies Stocks and Shares .. . . . . .. . • 978 DIARY OF CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING EVENTS : Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in this list:—I 1931 ! Sept. 26. Garden Party, Bristol and Wessex Ae.C.i Sept. 29. Junior Aero Club Schneider Trophy Dinner and : Entertainment.Oct. 3. Cardiff Ae.C. Air Pageant at Splott Aerodrome. Oct. 3-4. International Gliding Competition, Balsdean, Sussex.i Oct. 8. Balloon Ascent, Lecture by Prof. Piccard before R.Ae S. Oct. 15. "Protection of Metals in Aircraft Construction,"Lecture by H. Sutton before R.Ae.S. I Oct. 27. "By Air to Baghdad." Lecture by Mrs. Pender Chal-mers, at the Electrical Association for Women, 15, Savoy St., Strand, W.C.2 (3 p.m.).Oct. 29. "Accidents" ID Civil Aviation," Lecture by Capt. A. G. Lamplugh before R.AC.S.Nov 5. " Safety in Spinning, " Lecture by H. B. Irving before R.Ae.S.Nov. 19. " Aircraft Vibration," Lecture by H. Constant before R.Ae.S.Dec- 3. " Wheel Brakes and Undercarriages," Lecture by S. Scott Hall before K.Ae.S.Dec. 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.1932 Jan.14.Jan.28. Mar. 10. 1 Interference." Lecture by E. Ower before R.Ae.S. ' Effect of Height on Range," Lecture by A. E. Wood-ward-Nutt and Flt.-Lt. A. F. C. Scroggs before R.Ae.S.'Results with the New Wind Tunnel at N.P.L.," Lecture by E. F. Relf before R~Ae.S. EDITORIAL COMMENT CCORDING to a recent Air Ministry weekly order, No. 25 (Fighter) Squadron will before Christmas be re-equipped with the " Fury " inter- ceptor fighter instead of the " Siskin." No. 25 F.S. is a very fine squadron, and well deserves the honour. We congratulate Squadron-Leader H. M. Probyn, D.S.O., and his pilots. We are sure that they will make a fine showing with the " Fury." Somehow we can never think of No. 25 as flying T anything but " Grebes." Our mind Interceptors n - , , , ,, , , on the Coast always goes back to the days when Squadron-Leader Peck commanded No. 25 F.S., and in two consecutive Hendon dis- plays showed us the pitch of perfection to which it was possible to bring squadron evolutions in the air. The standard then set by No. 25 F.S. was not, in our opinion, equalled until the Display of 1930, when No. 43 F.S. reached an equally high stage of accuracy. Perhaps it is only a coincidence that these two squadrons are the first two selected to receive the " Fury " interceptor. If it seemed probable that it was the merits of these two squadrons which has been the cause of their selection for this honour, there would be little to say about the matter except to offer them our congratulations. But they have one other point in common besides their merit. They are both sta- tioned on coast aerodromes. There are only two coast aerodromes belonging to the Fighting Area, namely, Tangmere, near Chichester, and Hawkinge, near Folkestone. No. 43 lives at Tangmere, and No. 25 at Hawkinge. The course of events, there- fore, inevitably suggests that it is the location of these two squadrons rather than their merits which has been responsible for their selection as intercep- tors. At first seeming, it is the natural thing to place interceptor squadrons on the coast. They are the only squadrons which have any chance at all of climbing up to engage raiding bombers at the point of entry into England. The " Fury " aero- plane is specially designed to climb at a phenomen- ally fast rate, and to reach its greatest efficiency at A 2
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