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Flight, January 8, 1932 AIRCRAFT TENGINEER 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. 1202. (Vol. XXIV. No. 2.) JANUARY 8, 1932 f 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 Klagdom 33s. Od. United States 18-75. Other Countries .. 35s. Od. CONTENTS Editorial Comment: Dangers of Air Attack New Year Promotions Temple Hunting in Central,'America : By R. A. Smith Concluded) Armstrong Whitworth and Siddeley Development in 1931 Pratt & Whitney " Hornet " Injection Engine New|Year Honours More Fairey Aircraft for Belgium Private Flying and Gliding The Flying Club Subsidy Airport News Air Transport: The Letov S.32 Airisms from the Four Winds The Industry Royal Air Force Air Post Stamps PAGE 23 24 25 28 •19 29 30 32 34 35 36 39 4li -t;< 44 Jan. 9 Jan. 13 Jan. 14 Jan. 15 Jan. DIARY OF CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of important fixtures art invited to send particulars for inclusion in this list:— 1932 Rugby : R-A.F. ». The Police, at Imber Court. Rugby : R.A.F. o. Middlesex. " Interference," Lecture by E. Ower, before R.Ae.S. D.H. Technical School Dance, at Portman Rooms, W. Rugby : R.A.F. o. Bristol, at Bristol. Rugby : R.A.F. v. Cambridge University, at Cam bridge. Rugby : R.A.F. v. Northampton, at Northampton. " Effect of Height on Range," Lecture by A. E. Wood- ward-Nutt and Flt.-Lt. A. F. C. Scroggs, before R.Ae.S. " Indoor Flying Models," Lecture by C. H. Barnes, at City and Guilds Eng. College, S. Kensington. Rugby : R.A.F. v. Leicester, at Leicester. Rugby : R.A.F. r. Bedford, at Bedford. " Some Aspects of Meteorology in Connection with Gliding and Soaring Flight, ' Lecture by Capt. F. Enrwlstle, at City and Guilds Eng. College, S. Kensington. Rugby : R.N. v. R.A.F., at Twickenham. Rugby : R.A.F. v. Coventry, at Coventry. " A Flight to Abyssinia," Lecture by Sqdn.-Ldr. J. L. Vachell, before R.U.S.l. Rugby : R.A.F. v. United Bank, at Ealing. " Flying Boats on Commercial Air Routes, Jan. 20. Jan. 23. Jan. 28. Jan. 28. .Ian Feb Feb 28. (>. 10. Feb. 13, Feb. 20 Feb. 24, Feb. 24 Feb. 29. Lecture by C. H. Jackson, at City and Guilds Eng. College, 8. Kensington. Mar. 4. Leicesterseire Ae.C. Annual Ball. Mar. 9. Rugby : R.A.F. v. Oxford University, at Oxford. Mar. 10. "Results with the New Wind Tunnel at N.P.L.," Lecture by E. F. Relf, before R.Ae.S. Mar. 16. "Development of Naval Air Work," Lecture by Commodore N. F. Laurence, before R.U.S.l. Mar.23. " High-Speed Flying," Lecture by Sqdn.-Ldr. A. H. Orlebar, before R.U.S.I. Mar. 26. Rugby : Army v. R.A.F., at Twickenham. Apl. 13. " The North-West Frontier of India," Lecture by Maj .-Gen. S. F. Muspratt, before R.U.S.l. June 25. R.A.F. Display. Hendon. EDITORIAL COMMENT HE air is an element in which we imagine that angels might fear to tread. In making this remark we are not alluding to the loading, span, section, or incidence of the wings of the ordinary Christmas-card angels, who so often appear to be on the point of stalling. We are thinking rather of the air as the path of the wicked bomber. To express a sensible opinion on the bomber's powers requires a certain study of recent history and subsequent developments; and Dangers of Raphael and Gabriel have never Air Attack qualified to write " p.s.a." after their names. Such considerations seldom deter the learned layman from telling the world what will happen in the air in the next war. Professor Gilbert Murray is a very learned layman, for whose opinion on a great many subjects we have unfeigned respect. A few days ago he presided over an Anglo-French Students' Conference on Disarmament, and is re ported to have said: " We have, no doubt, moral guarantees, but no material guarantees, against war from the air. You can destroy London; we can destroy Paris, but neither can defend. Even the Germans, with no military aeroplanes, have enough commercial aeroplanes to destroy Paris with bombs. The first step to material security is the prohibition of military aviation, as in Germany, and the inter- nationalisation of commercial aircraft companies.' That is the view commonly held by the layman, learned or unlearned, and fostered by the unlearned section of the Press. Professor Gilbert Murray's attainments in other directions do not make him an expert on questions of air warfare, and he seems to have absorbed all the standard claptrap commonly retailed by the sensational papers for the benefit of scaremongers and pacifists alike. The phrase " destroy London " comes easily to the tongue; but do those who use it consider what exactly is meant and implied by the phrase? Has anyone ever reckoned up the number of shells required to make a small town like Ypres uninhabitable? An aero plane bomb is only a long-range shell, and whether it is more or less accurate than the shell is still B
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