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Flight, February 5, 1932 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. 1206. (Vol. XXIV. No. 6.) FEBRUARY 5, 1932 [• Weekly, Price 6d. LPost Free, 7£d. Abroad, 8d. Editonal Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAV, W.C.2 Telephone : (2 lines), Holborn 2311 and 1884. Telegrams : Truditur, Westcent, London. Annual Subscription Rates, Post Free. ijnited Kingdom .. 33s. Od. United States .. $8-75. Other Countries ., 35s. Od. CONTENTS Editorial Comment: A Tombstone White Hanoi-Paris Flight . . Vickers " Jockey " Royal Aero Club Official Notices Fuel Economv Private Flying and Gliding .. Airport News Air Transport Airisms from the Four Winds The Industry Air Ministry Notices Royal Air Force Air Post Stamps _ ^ PAGE 105 107 108 110 Ill 112 114 117 119 120 122 123 124 Feb. Feb. 6. 10. Feb. 11. Feb. 11. Feb. 13. Feb. 20. Feb. 22. Feb. 24. Feb. Feb. Feb. 24. 25, 29. Mar. DIARY OF CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous of amounting the dates of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in this list:— 1932 Rugby : R.A.F. v. Bedford, at Bedford. " Some Aspects of Meteorology in Connection with Gliding and Soaring Flight," Lecture by Capt. F. Entwistle, at City and Guilds Eng. College, S. Kensington. " Tests of Aircraft Components," Lecture by I. J. Gerard before R.Ae.S. Herts and Essex Aero Club Annual Dinner and Dance, Holborn Restaurant. Rugby : R.N. v. R.A.F., at Twickenham. Rugby : R.A.F. v. Coventry, at Coventry. British Gilding Association. Annual General Meeting. " A Flight to Abyssinia," Lecture by Sqdn.-Ldr. J. L. Vachell, before R.U.S.A. Rugby : R.A.F. v. United Bank, at Ealing. " Catapults," Lecture by P. Salmon before R.Ae.S. " Flying Boats on Commercial Air Routes," Lecture by C. H. Jackson, at City and Guilds Eng. College, S. Kensington. " Some Problems connected with High-Speed Com pression-Ignition Engine Development," Lecture by C. B. Dlcksee before R.Ae.S. Leicestershire Ae.C. Annual Ball. Rugby : R.A.F. v. Oxford University, at Oxford. "Results with the New Wind Tunnel at N.P.L.," Lecture by E. F. Relf, before R.Ae.S. "Development of Naval Air Work," Lecture by Commodore N. F. Laurence, before R.U.S.I. "High-Speed Flying," Lecture by Sqdn.-Ldr. A. H. Orlebar, before R.U.S.I. Mar. 24-28. London Gliding Club's Meeting at Dunstable. Apr. l. Entries close at ordinary fees for King's Cup Race. Rugby : Army v. R.A.F., at Twickenham. National Aircraft Show, Detroit, U.S.A. "Wing Construction," Lecture by H. J. Stieger, before R.Ae.S. "The North-West Frontier of India," Lecture by Ma],-Gen. S. F. Muspratt, before R.U.S.I. " Aero Engine Accessories," Lecture by W. L. Taylor, before R.Ae.S. "Air Port Development," Lecture by N. Norman. M before R.Ae.S. M» «£• Entrles close at double fees for King's Cup Race. waJ *8- Household Brigade Flying Club Meeting, Heston. may 22-30. Conference of Transoceanic Aviators at Rome. Mar Mar Mar 4. 9. 10. Mar. 16. Mar. 23. Apr. Apr. Apr. Apr. Apr. Apr. 2. 2-10 7. 13. 14. 21. INDEX FOR VOL. XXIII The 8-page Index for Vol. XXIII of "Flight" and "The Aircraft Engineer" (over 6,500 references) (January to December, 1931), is now ready and can be obtained from the Publishers, 36, Great Queen Street, Kingsway, W.C.2, price 1s. per copy, net (1s. 1d. post free). EDITORIAL COMMENT F ever man deserved our sympathy it is Mr. F. Tymms, M.C. A year ago he took over the office of Director of Civil Aviation in India with a glow ing prospect before him. Col. Shelmerdine had been sedulously sowing the fields, and he well deserved to reap the harvest, but when the harvest was almost ripe he was called to fresh fields and pastures new. It seemed that to Mr. Tymms had fallen the role of the labourer in the parable, who went into the fields A TWhitet0ne at the eleventh hour' but vvas Paid at the same rate as if he had worked all day. To all appearances it was certain that under his auspices there would be accomplished an air service right through from Karachi to Calcutta, and perhaps even on to Rangoon. It was no fault of his that the spade work had been already done, but it did seem a piece of glorious good luck for him that he should be the man to gather in the harvest. Then there descended, not the reaping hook, but the economy axe. The dismal tale is told in some detail on another page in this issue. It was Kipling, we believe, who in one of his earlier and less famous poems once wrote: (We quote from memory, and indeed we have never seen the lines in print.) " It is not good for the Christian white to hustle the Aryan brown, For the Christian riles, and the Aryan smiles, And he weareth the Christian down ; And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, With the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph drear ' A Fool Lies Here Who Tried to Hustle the East.' " A2
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