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Plight October 23, 1931 AIRCRAFTINGINEER 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. 1191. (Vol. XXIII. No. 43.) OCTOBER 23, 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 .. 35s. Od.* * Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency. (See last Editorial Page.) CONTENTS Editorial Comment: PAGE Short-Service Commissions . • . • • • • . •. • • 1055 Civi! Flying in 1930 1056 Two New Military Aircraft. . • - - - .. . . .. . . 1057 An Interesting Light Aircraft 1062 The Braun Relative Altitude Meter 1063 Royal Aero Club Official Notices ..1064 Report on the Progress of Civil Aviation. . . . . . .. .. 1065 Correspondence .. . . . . . . - . - . . . . . 1067 Private Flying and Club News 1068 Air Transport: The Douglas Delphin Amphibian . . . . 1070 Airport News 1073 Airisms from the Four Winds 1074 Training the R.A.F 1076 Royal Air Force 7 Imports and Exports 1078 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:— 1931Oct.27, " By Air to Baghdad." Lecture by Mrs. Fender Chal- mers at the Electrical Association for Women,15, Savoy St., Strand, W.C.2 (3 p.m.). Oct.28. Football. R.A.F. v. Hampshire, at Bournemouth.Oct.29. "Accidents in Civil Aviation," Lecture by Capt. A. G. Latnplugh before R.Ae.S.Oct.31. Rugby. Combined Services v. Bristol, at Bristol. Nov. 5. " Safety in Spinning," Lecture by H. B. Irving beforeRAe.S. Nov. 18. " Flying Boats in Empire Defence,'' Lecture by Wlng-Com. R. M. Bayley, before R.U.S.I. Nov.19. "Aircraft Vibration," Lecture by H. Constant beforeR.Ae.S. Dec, 3. "Wheel Brakes and Undercarriages," Lecture byS. Scott Hall before R.Ae.S. Dec. 10. "Air Flow—Demonstrations on the Screen by Meansof Smoke," Lecture by W. S. Farren before RjVe.S. Dec. 17. "Control Beyond the Stall," Lecture by Dr. G. V.Lachmann before R.Ae.S. 1932Jan.14. Jan.28. Interference," Lecture by E. Ovver 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.' A Flight to Abyssinia," Lecture by Sqdn.-Ldr. J. L. ,_ Vachell, before R.U.S.I.Mar.10. "Results with the New Wind Tunnel at N.P.L.," Lecture by E. F. Relf before R.Ae.S.1 Development of Naval Air Work," Lecture by Com- modore N. F. Laurence, before R.U.S.I.High-Speed Flying," Lecture by Sqd.-Ldr. A. H. Orlebar, before R.U.S.I.The North-West Frontier of India," Lecture by Maj.-Gen. S. F. Muspratt, before R.U.S.I. Feb.24. Mar. 16. Mar. 23. Ap . 13. EDITORIAL COMMENT HERE will soon be fewer Short-Service officers in the Royal Air Force. The Air Ministry has announced that the conditions governing the grant of Short-Service commissions have been altered as from October 1, 1931. In future candidates must be unmarried and must be between the ages of 18 and 22. Previously the age limits were 18 and 25. These new conditions narrow the field. They permit of fewer applications. At the same time they offer somewhat better prospects to those who Short ^Q receive Short-Service commissions. Commissions The reduction of the age limit permits all the S.S. officers to compete for permanent commissions. The new regulations do not suggest that the number of permanent commissions granted will be increased, but the percentage will be increased. In other words, there will be fewer officers transferred to the reserve and to the thorny path of civil life after five years in the service. Cer- tainly the new regulations do not say specifically that the number of S.S. officers is to be reduced, but it is a fair deduction from these regulations to assume that they will be. It is a recognised method of checking recruiting to raise the standard, and that is practically what is being done in this case. This innovation is all to the good. Of recent years the number of airmen pilots has been increasing, and now it has evidently reached the stage at which it has become possible to reduce the proportion of S.S. officers without reducing the number of pilots in the force. That number, of course, is always on the increase as new squadrons are formed. The process of expansion is slower than we should like to see, but it is controlled by financial and inter- national considerations, for which the Air Ministry by itself is not responsible. Still, though the expan- sion is slow, it never stops. The increase in the number of squadrons must be accompanied by an increase in the number of higher posts, though this latter increase must be even more gradual. An addition of half-a-dozen more squadrons or flights may not call for the retention on the active list of another Air Vice-Marshal, but the tendency must be in that direction. A 2
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