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Flight, June 10, 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. 1224. (Vol. XXIV. No. 24.) JUNE 10, 1932 Weekly, Price 6d. | Post Free, " 7£d. Abroad, 8d. Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2. Telephone: (2 lines), Holborn 3211 and,1884. I Telegrams: Truditur, Westcent, London. Annual Subscription Rates. Post Free. United Kingdom .. 33s. Qd. United States .. $8-75. Other Countries .. 35s. Od. Editorial Comment: The Position in Australia Birthday Honours Worthy Down Private Flying and Gliding Birthdav Honours Airport News Airisms from the Four Winds Henly's Rallv The Industry Roval Air Force Air Post Stamps CONTENTS PAGE 501 502 503 510 515 516 518 519 520 521 522 June 10. June 11. June 12 June 12. June 12. June 18. June 18. June 19. June 21. 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 Night Flying Demonstration, Heston Airport. Close of Royal Tournament, Olympia. Finish of Tour de France. Herts and Essex Ae.C. Meeting at Broxbourne. Ae.C. of Germany Air Pageant at Tempelhof. June 13-14. Cricket : R.A.F. v. Incogniti at Uxbridge. June 15. Henlow R.A.F. Station Annual Sports. June 17-18. Night Flying Display at Ratcliffe Aerodrome. June 17-19. Isle of Man Race. June 18. Nottingham F.C. Air Pageant, Tollerton Aerodrome. 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. June 25. R .A .F. Display, Hendon. June25-26. International Tourist Rally, Boulogne. June 26. " Tatler " Concours d'Elegance, Brooklands. June 28. Visit to National Physical Laboratory, Teddington. June 29-30. Cricket: R .A. F. v. Army at the Oval. July 2. Arrival of Graf Zeppelin at Hanworth, 6 p.m. approx. Opening of Portsmouth Municipal Aerodrome. International Tourist Rally, Rheims. Meeting at Cote Hill Aerodrome, Rugby. R.A.F. Athletic Championships at Uxbridge. King's Cup Air Race, start and finish Brooklands. R.A.F. Athletic Championships at Uxbridge. 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. Jul y 22-31. International Meeting, Zurich. July 30-31. Skegness Air Pageant. Aug. 1. Cewes 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. Leicester Chamber of Commerce Day, at Desford. Divine Service at Ratcliffe Aerodrome, 2.30 p.m. 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. July 2. July 2-3. July 3. July5-7. July 8-9. July 9. July 9-10. Sept Sept. 4 Sept. 5 Sept. 8 Sept. 25 Oct. 1. Oct. 18. Nov. THE ROYAL AIR FORCE DISPLAY Lest you forget, June 25 is the day fixed for the Thirteenth Royal Air Force Display at Hendon—undoubtedly the Premier Aeronautical Event of the Year. The coming Display will include many new and attractive items which should not be missed ! The Position in Australia EDITORIAL COMMENT JIR transport in Australia is in an in teresting and critical state. For a number of years Australia occupied the proud position of being the foremost flying country in the Empire—in fact, from some points of view, it could have been called the foremost flying country in the world. We cannot deny that this last title must now go to the United States; while in our Empire, Canada has put up a stout challenge to Australia's supremacy. Now that bad times have descended upon the world, another threat to Australian air transport has arisen. The air reputation of Australia has depended chiefly on the operations of two subsidised companies:—West Australia Airways, Ltd., which operates weekly services from Wyndham, in the North, to Perth, and from Perth to Adelaide, and the Queensland firm, commonly known as Q.A.N.T.A.S., which runs weekly services between Brisbane and Camooweal. The Larkin firm carries on a service from Camooweal to Daly Waters, which is connected b / rail with Darwin. It only remained to connect Adelaide with Brisbane, and to link up Wyndham, Darwin and Daly Waters in order to complete the encircling of all Australia by aeroplane. Several attempts have been made to run air ser vices across the south-eastern part of Australia, but such services have entered into competition with effi cient railway services. This was such a heavy handicap to the aircraft that all such air lines have now been discontinued. The great merit of the West A 2
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