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FLIGHT, MARCH 11, 1932 Colonial and Middle Eastern Services, has been reduced by £58,250. Civil Aviation The gross total of Vote 8 (Civil Aviation) is £666,000, which includes a sum of £166,000 repayable by the Government of the Union of South Africa and other African Administrations in respect of the Air Service from Cairo to the Cape. The net total of this Vote is £473,000, an increase of £3,000 on last year's figure. Contractual sub sidy payments to Imperial Airways in respect of their European, Indian and African Air Services will amount in 1932 to £541,000, from which the above-mentioned figure of £166,000 must be deducted, leaving a net sum to be voted under this head of £375,000. The first machine on the through service between Cairo and Cape Town left Cairo on January 24, and the whole service is now in regular operation in extension of the previous preliminary service to Mwanza (Tanganyika). In the case of the route to India, the permission accorded by the Persian Government to Imperial Airways to fly along the Persian Coast expires on March 31. Its renewal is still under discussion with the Persian Government, and in the meantime preparations are in train for the use of an alternative route, if required. Provision has been taken for the ground organisation and other additional expendi ture which will be necessary, if this alternative route is brought into operation. The major project, referred to in last year's memo randum, for the extension of the Indian Service to Australia, has again had to be postponed owing to the economic difficulties in this country and in Australia. As a result of arrangements with the Manchester Cor poration, who will erect the buildings and pay a small charge, provision has been made to equip a Wireless and Meteorological Station at Manchester to serve the needs of civil aviation in the North of England. A small amount has been included for further urgent work on the surface of the London (Croydon) Air Port and for improving the lighting arrangements at that aerodrome and along the air route to the Continent. Meteorology Despite the developments dealt with below, the esti mated expenditure on Meteorology (Vote 9) during 1932, shows a net reduction of £1,000. The gross figure at £158,000 is £2,000 lower. J5J JS §S ON Wednesday, March 2, before the Royal Society of Arts, Mr. Gordon England delivered a lecture on " Soaring Flight: its Function in Aviation." The paper which Mr. Gordon England read was so comprehensive in its scope and so thorough in its detail that it would be quite beyond the space we have available to report it in full. He started by referring to the early work of the Wright Brothers, and submitted that both they and many other early pioneers did wrong to forsake their gliders at an early stage in their investigations, and suggested that had they continued their experiments we should have, by now, known a very great deal more about the air and how to use it than we do. Mr. Gordon England examined the position as regards gliding to-day, touching on the progress which has been made in Germany and France as well as in England. He then described the chief methods of instruction with their advantages and drawbacks, turning afterwards to scientific and technical development. He enlarged upon Herr Kronfelds' remark able performance in gliding from Hanworth to Chatham and back again, and stressed his own predilection for the SEE At St. James's Palace His MAJESTY THE KING held a Levee on March 8 at SI. James's Palace, at which the following were amongst those present: — Air Marshal Sir E. Ellington, Principal Air Aide- de-Camp ; Group Capt. F. K. Haskins, Aide-de- Camp in Waiting ; Lt. de Vaisseau A. Sala, French Air Attache ; Lt. Col. P. F. Bitossi, Italian Air Attache. The following were amongst those presented to H.M. the King:—Fit. Lt. T. Abraham ; Chaplain the Rev. J. Apple vard ; Wing Com. L. Bailey, A.F.C. ; Sqd. Ldr. H. Bowen, M.B.E. ; Sqd. Ldr. H. Brown : Sqd. Ldr. W. Bryant, M.B.E. ; Sqd. Ldr. A. Collier ; Fit. Lt. I. Cozens ; Lt. P. de Havilland ; Fit. Lt. F. Denny ; Sqd. Ldr. J, Puminy ; The civilianisation of the meteorological service in Iraq, the cost of which is in consequence transferred to this Vote from Vote 1, will be completed in 1932, and a full year's provision is included (£5,000). The consequent increase in the salary subheads is, however, partially set off by a saving of £4,000, to be obtained by discontinuing the separate organisation for Airship Meteorology. Expenditure on instruments and equipment will be re duced to £9,000, showing a reduction of £2,000, but receipts from the sale of instruments are also expected to be lower, so that the net saving under this subhead will be £1,000. Normal research items will be restricted to £1,000, but a special provision of £4,000 is included for research in meteorology and magnetism in Polar regions. This ex penditure will take the form of a grant-in-aid to the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and is part of the international programme for the Second Polar Year, the object of which is to repeat and extend the meteorological and magnetic survey which was carried out by international co-operation in 1882-3. A party of British meteorologists is to be sent to Fort Rae in Canada, where a British station was maintained during the First Polar Year fifty years ago. Building and renovation at meteorological stations are being restricted as far as possible, and expenditure on works services is reduced by £2,000. A variety of minor economies are being effected under other heads. Air Ministry Vote 10 (Air Ministry) is again reduced, and is lower than last year by £11,000. The saving is in the main due to the effect of the reduc tions in civilian salaries and in the pay of officers of the Royal Air Force decided upon last autumn, which more than offset automatic increases under incremental scales. In addition, as a result of a continuous review of staff in all departments, certain minor economies have been effected, despite the steady growth in the strength and activities of the Royal Air Force and the continuous development of Civil Aviation. LONDONDERRY. AIR MINISTRY, February 25, 1932. m s s tailless type of aircraft such as Herr Lippisch produced at the Wasserkuppe. Touching on the meteorological side, the lecturer said that in his opinion this was of the greatest importance to aviation, and there was no doubt that the sailplane offered a ready means of studying meteorological conditions, particularly with regard to thermic currents, their disposition and magnitude. In conclusion, he summarised the work of the British Gliding Association, and described the methods by which it, in so far as it was able, ensured the safety both of the aircraft and of their users. Col. the Master of Sempill was in the chair, and following the discussion, in which Maj. Petre, Capt. Needham, Sqd. Ldr. T. England, Messrs. Griffiths Brewer, Culver and Lowe Wylde took part, there was a film exhibi tion. One of these "was a record of a British party's visit to the Wasserkuppe, and was taken jointly by Mr. Ashwell Cooke and Mr. Hiscox. The other showed some of the activities of the Scarborough Gliding Club in the York shire district. Both were excellent, and together with the slides shown during the lecture gave the audience a very clear idea of gliding and the handling of sailplanes. & m @ F/O. E. Edwards ; Fit. Lt. E. George ; Group Capt. F. Haskins, D.S.C., A.D.C. ; Fit. Lt. L. Hyder ; F/O. M. Tenks ; Fit. Lt. H. Tollef. , Air Vice-Marshal N. MacEwen, C.M.G., D.S.O. ; Fit. Lt. F. Nuttall ; Wing Com. A. Orlebar, A.F.C. ; Sqd. Ldr. A. Paxton, D.F.C. ; F/O. N. Pearce ; Sqd. Ldr. H. Murray-Philipson, A.A.F. ; Fit. Lt A. Rogers, A.F.C. ; Fit. Lt. F. Rowland ; Fit. Lt. C. Rugg ; Sqd. Ldr. V. Scriven, A.F.C. ; Fit. Lt. H. Southey; Sqd. Ldr. C. Spackman, D.F.C. ; Sqd. Ldr. W. Swan ; Fit. Lt. C. Toogood ; Fit. Lt. T. Traill, D.F.C. ; Marshal of the RAF. the Lord Trenchard, G.C.B., D.S.O. ; Sqd. Ldr. C. Turner, A.F.C. ; Sqd. Ldr. S. Vincent, A.F.C. ; Sqd. Ldr. H. Wigglesworth, D.S.C. ; Sqd. Ldr. J. Woodhouse, D.S.O., M.C., etc. GORDON ENGLAND ON GLIDING 217
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