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Flight, June 3, 193C AIRCRAFT ENGINEER AND AIRSHIPS First Aeronautical Weekly in the World. Foimded 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. 1223. (Vol. XXIV. No. 23.) JUNE 3, 1932 r Weekly, Price 6d. [Post Free, 7 d. Abroad, td. 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: Research The Gipsy-Engined Swift New Methods of Research Miss Earhart at the Royal Aero Club Private Flying and Gliding Challenge de Tourisme International Royal Aero Club Official Notices .. Air Transport Airport News Ainsms from the Four Winds Royal Air Force Models PAGE 479 481 482 486 4S7 493 494 495 497 498 499 500 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 June 3-17. National Aviation Day Displays. (See p. 486.) June 4. Henly's Rally and Gymkhana, Heston. June 4. Bristol Airport Summer Flying Meeting. June 4. Leicester Ae.C. Flying Display and Motor Gymkhana at Ratcliffe Aerodrome. June 4-12. Tour de France. June 7. Junior Ae.C. Dinner at Ham Bone Club, W. June 11. Close of Royal Tournament, Olympia. June 12. Herts and Essex Ae.C. Meeting at Broxbourne. June 12. Ae.C. of Germany Air Pageant at Tempelhof. June 17-18. Night Flying Display at Ratcliffe Aerodrome June 17-19. Isle of Man Race. June 18. Hull Air Display. Reading Ae.C At Home, Woodley Aerodrome. Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party, Hanworth. Aero Golfing Society : " Flight " Challenge Cup. Bramshott G.C. June21-28. Blackpool Air Pageant, Stanley Park. June25. RAJ. Display, Hendon. June25-26. International Tourist Rally, Boulogne. June 28. Visit to National Physical Laboratory, Teddington. Opening of Portsmouth Municipal Aerodrome. International Tourist Rally, Rheims. Meeting at Cote Hill Aerodrome, Rugby. King's Cup Air Race, start and finish Brooklands. July 9-10. International Tourist Rally and Meeting, Cler mont-Ferrand . July 14. International Rally, Saint-Brieuc. July 16. Shanklin Air Pageant. July 16-17. International Meeting, Dieppe. July 22-31. International Meeting, Zurich. July 30-31. Skegness Air Pageant. Aug. 1. Cowes Air Pageant. Aug. 11-28. International Touring Competition, Berlin. Aug. 15-16. Cricket : R.N. v. R.A.F. at Lords. Aug. 19-21. 4th Annual Canadian Air Pageant, St. Hubert, Quebec. Aug. 20. Ryde Air Pageant. Sept. 3. Leicester Chamber of Commerce Day, at Desford. Sept. 4. Divine Service at Ratcliffe Aerodrome, 2.30 p.m. Sept. 5. F.A.I. Conference at The Hague. International Meeting, Vincenza, Italy. Gordon Bennett Balloon Race, Basle. Bristol and Wessex Ae.C. Garden Party. Aero Golfing Society : Cellon Challenge Cup, West Hill G.C. , 18-Dec. 4. Paris Aero Show. . June 19. June 21. July 2. July 2-3. July 3. July 8-9. Sept. 8. Sept. 25. Oct. 1. Oct. 18. NOT. EDITORIAL COMMENT HE Director of Scientific Research does not rise to speak nearly as often as many would like him to do. When he does say something, it is always well worth listening to, and when, as on May 26, he was delivering the Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture, Mr. Wimperis was both entertaining and informative. It is one of his greatest charms that, in spite of his exalted position as Director of Scientific Research, he is very human indeed, and has the gift of expressing abstruse Research problems in such terms that even the non-technical can grasp the subject in a general way. In his Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture to the Royal Aeronautical Society Mr. Wimperis had chosen to speak on new methods of research in aeronautics, and this he did in such a way that probably no single member of his dis tinguished audience failed to obtain a very good idea of the reasons for our new research equipment and the main purposes for which that equipment is being created. If there is any criticism of the lecture to be made, and it did not call for any, it can only be on the score of modesty. Mr. Wimperis did not, perhaps, impress upon his audience, as he might very well have done, the importance of Great Britain's contri bution to aeronautical research. In fact, certain sections of the lecture almost inferred an apologia for the relatively modest dimensions of some of the new research equipment about to be put into service in this country. That was hardly necessary, although Mr. Wimperis could well have mentioned that in the last Air Estimates research was one of the items to suffer from the economy " axe." He did not do so. On the contrary, he explained why, with much more modest equipment than that which is at the disposal of the American National Advisory Committee, he hoped to do all that was necessary. That is a very modest way of pointing out that without sacrificing efficiency, British aeronautical research is endeavouring hard to save the taxpayer's money in these difficult times. On the technical side it was interesting to those B
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