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Flight, February 19, 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. 1208. (Vol. XXIV. No. 8.) FEBRUARY 19, 1932 r Weekly, Price 6d. LPost Free, 7id. 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. CONTENTS Editorial Comment: The Persian Gulf The Fairey (Napier) Long Range Monoplane Standard Planes for Home Construction .. The P.B. Scarab Airport News Royal Aero Club Official Notices Private Flying and Gliding Air Transport Airisms from the Four Winds Testing Structural Components The Industry The Royal Air Force PAGE 145 147 MS 150 150 151 152 154 156 157 159 163 Feb. 20. Feb. 22. Feb. 24. Feb. Feb. Feb. Feb. 24 25. 25. 29. Mar. I. Mar. 2. Mar. Mar. Mar. Mar. Mar. 4. 5. 5. 4. 10. 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:— 1932 Rugby : R.A.F. v. Coventry, at Coventry. British Gliding Association, Annual General Meeting. " A Flight to Abyssinia," Lecture by Sqdn.-Ldr J. L. Vachell. before R.U.8.I. Rugby : R.A.F. v. United Bank, at Ealing. " Catapults," Lecture by P. Salmon before RAe.S. Football : RAJF. v. Kent at Margate. " 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. Dicksee before R.Ae.S. " Motorless Flying." Lecture by E. C. Gordon England, before Roy. Soc. Arts. Leicestershire Ae.C. Annual Ball. Lloyd's Register Cricket Club Annual Reunion and Dinner, May Fair Hotel. Rugby : Army v. R.N., at Twickenham. 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.SJ. " 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. 1. 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 Maj.-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, ., before R.Ae.S. May I. Entries close at double fees for King's Cup Race. 4 y Jo Skegness Air Pageant. vi y J?' Household Brigade Flying Club Meeting, Heston. lay 22-30. Conference of Transoceanic Aviators at Rome. »ay 28. London-Newcastle Air Race for " Newcastle Evening World " Trophy. Brookiands Meeting. Bristol Airport Summer Flying Meeting. Hull Air Display. Mar. 16. Mar. 33. Apr. 2. Apr. 2-10. Apr. 7. Apr. 13. Apr. 14. Apr. 21. 'ay 28. •' <me 4, -:une 18. The Persian Gulf EDITORIAL COMMENT HE future of the air route down the Persian Gulf is an extremely impor tant matter, and the position regarding it at the moment is very interesting. The present agreement with the Persian Government expires in April, and a report has come through from Teheran that the Shah's Government does not intend to renew it. On Wednesday last Mr. O. E. Simmonds tried to extract some informa tion on the subject from the Under-Secretary of State for Air, but the only answer given was that negotiations with the Persian Government are still in pro gress, that alternative proposals are also under active consideration by His Majesty's Government, but that at the present juncture " My noble friend " was not in a position to make any further public statement on the subject. The history of the Persian Gulf air route is not too happy. On December 27, 1926, the then Air Minister, Sir Samuel Hoare, set off with a party from Croydon, at an unpleasantly early hour, to open the new Imperial Airways route to India by flying there in a " Hercules." Despite a rather narrow escape fronrdisaster through a sandstorm at Jask, the flight was quite a success. But, after the cheering and the shouting had died, it was realised that the Persian Government had not given permission for Imperial Airways to make regular use of the aero dromes down the Persian shore of the Gulf. Great Britain was left high and dry, and looked consider ably foolish. Long negotiations continued, and we heard the opinion expressed that things would prob ably have gone much better if the matter had been placed in the hands of the experienced diplomats of the Foreign Office. The Air Ministry could only bring a 'prentice hand to bear in these international negotiations, and perhaps for that reason they were unduly protracted. The days of Kipling's A.B.C. (Aerial Board of Control), which can regulate the traffic of the world, are not yet. It may, or may not, be the destiny of the Air Ministry to swallow up the Admiralty and the War Office, but until the A.B.C. comes into being it is probable that the A2
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