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Flight, September 16, 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. 1238. (Vol. XXIV. No. 38.) SEPTEMBER 16, 1932 Weekly, Price 6d. Post Free, 7£d. Abroad, 8d. Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, VV.C.2. Telephone: (2 lines), Holborn 3211 and 18S4. Telegrams: Truditnr, VVesteent. London. Subscription Rates, Post Free. UNITED KINGDOM s. d. 3 Months ... 8 3 6 „ ... 16 6 12 33 0 UNITED STATES 3 Months 6 12 S2.20 84-40 S8-75 OTHER COUNTRIES s. d. 3 Months ... 8 9 6 „ ... 17 6 12 35 0 CONTENTS Editorial Comment : A Flight which would b- worth while Scotland's Auxiliaries Private Flying The Scud II The 1932 B.G.A. Open Soaring Competition The Bibesco Challenge Cup The Royal Aero Club ; Notices Air Transport : Australia-England Air Mail Airport News Airisms from the Four Winds The Industry .. . . . . .... The Royal Air Force A Chocolate Delivery Van PAGE Hfifl K65 S72 875 S7(^ S77 879 880 882 883 884 885 886 DIARY OF CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous oj announcing the dates of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in this list:— Sept. 17. Thanet Air Race, from Ncthercourt Flying Ground, Ramsgate. Sept. 17. S.African Air Rally, Rand Aerodrome, Germiston. Sept. 17-25. London Gliding Club Camp, Dunstable. Sept. 18. Women Engineers' Flying Meeting at Stoneham Park, Southampton. Sept. 24. Essex Aviation Display at Hillmans' Aerodrome, Maylands, Brentwood. Sept. 24. No. 45 Sqdn. R.A.F. Reunion Dinner, at Overseas League Club House, Park Place, S.W.I. Sept.25. Ladies'At Home at Sywell. Sept. 25. Yorkshire Trophy Air Race Meeting. Sept.25. Gordon Bennett Balloon Race, Basle. Sept. 26. Charter Day Pageant, Hendon Aerodrome. Oct 1. Bristol and Wesscx Ac.C. Garden Party. Oct. 1-23. Berlin Sporting Flying Exhibition. Oct. 6. " Air Navigation." Lecture by Capt. N. Macmlllan, before R.Ae.S. and G.AJA.N. Oct 8-9. Chatham Air Display. Oct. 18. Aero Golfing Society : Cellon Challenge Cup, West Hill G.C. Oct. 20. " Flying Conditions on the West Coast of Africa." Lecture by Fit.-Lieut. W. G. Pudney, before R.Ae.S. Nov. 3. " Civil Primary Training." Lecture by H. G. Travcrs, before R Ac.S. Nov. 10. "Airscrew Design." Lecture by D. L. Hollis-WU- liams, before R.Ae.S Nov. 18-Dec 4. Paris Aero Show. Nov. 24. "Evolution of Aircraft Wireless Equipment." Lec ture by Sqdn.-Ldr. H. Leedham, before R.Ae.S. Dec. 1. " Behaviour of Fluids in Turbulent Motion." Lecture by A. Fage, before R.Ae.S. Dec. 8. "Air Survey." Lecture by Lieut. J. S. A. Salt, before R.Ae.S. Dec. 15. " Airship Development Abroad." Lecture by Sqdn.-Ldr. R. S. Booth, before R.Ae.S. 1933. Feb. 2. Mar. 23. " Operation of Aircraft Over Tropical Routes." Lecture by A. Plesman, before R.Ae.S. " Seaplane Research." Lecture by H. M. Garner, before R.Ae.S. t IT -a* 1 -v i~i A Flight which would be worth while EDITORIAL COMMENT ROM Atlantic flights, some successful, some tragically fatal, and some filled with ghastly possibilities (happily un fulfilled) of drowning children, it is a relief to turn to a project which is practical and should be useful. Capt. R. H. Mcintosh proposes to make a rapid flight this autumn down the West Coast of Africa with the object of drawing attention to the commercial possibilities of this route. He is emphatic in disclaiming any intention of setting up the West Coast route in rivalry to the more easterly route established by Imperial Airways; but he believes that the West Coast has possibilities of its own which deserve fuller investigation . For one thing, the great circle route between England and Capetown runs very near the West Coast, and this route will therefore be followed by the Fairey (Napier) long-range monoplane when it sets off in the early winter on its attempt to fly non-stop to the Cape. Capt. Mcintosh is of the opinion that if he, with the help of another pilot, were to make a quick flight of about three days from England to the Cape at about the same time, the dual event would draw much public attention to the West Coast route, and lead business men along that route to consider the best way in which the aeroplane can give them help. When he flew over a great part of Africa last year with Mrs. Westenra, he made some enquiries about the business prospects of a West Coast air route, and found that important business interests in South Africa were keenly interested in his ideas and assured him that if such an air line could be built up it would most certainly find any amount of traffic. Another consideration is that if British aircraft hold aloof from this route much longer, they will leave it open for foreign enterprise, and before long a com bined French-Belgian-German syndicate may estab lish themselves on it. French air lines are very active in North-West Africa, and the Belgians are also active in the Congo. Junkers' interests have, it seems, gained control of civil air transport in the B
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