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Flight, July 6, 1933 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. 1280 /Vol. XXV. \ \ No. 27. / 25th Year. JULY 6, 1933 Weekly, Price 6d. Post Free, 7Jd. Abroad, 8d. Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2. Telephone: (2 lines), Hoiborn 3211 and 1884. Telegrams : Truditur, Westcent, London. Subscription Rates, Post Free. UNITED KINGDOM s. d. 3 Months .. 8 3 6 „ .. 16 6 12 „ . . 33 0 UNITED STATES 3 Months .. S2-20 6 .. $4-40 OTHER COUNTRIES 1 s. d. 3 Months .. 8 9 6 „ .. 17 6 12 „ . * .. »8'75 12 „ .. 35 0 Editorial Comment : The King's Cup Rare The Great Italian Flight Only a " Spartan " would attack the " Hevford " The King's Cup Air Race Italian Formation Flight . . Airisms from the Four Windt Handley Page " Heyford " Air Transport Airport News Liverpool's New Airport Air-minded Ulster From the Clubs Two Japanese Military Machines Book Reviews Royal Air Force Air Post Stamps PAGE 655 656 657 658 663 665 666 671 673 674 677 678 679 680 681 .682 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 : — 1933. July 8. King's Cup Air Race, Hatfield. July 8. Maidstone Ae.C. Air Display. July 8. Sir Philip Sassoon " At Home," for Delegates of the World Economic Conference, at Trent, New Barnet. Jul y 11 - IS. R .A .F. Athletic Championships, Uxbridge. July 14. R.N. Flying Club Annual General Meeting, at R.U.S.I., Whitehall, 6p.m. July 15. Herts and Essex Ae.C. Meeting at Broxbourne. July 16. Yorkshire Trophy Race, Sherburn-in-Elmet. July 17. International Rally, Dieppe. July 22. Official Opening of Maidstone Airport and Ae.C. July 22-23. Cinque Ports Club Flying Meeting. July 22. Cardiff Ae.C. Annual Air Pageant, Splott Aerodrome. July 22-24. International Rally on the Belgian Coast. Aug. 5. Maidstone Ae.C. All-Women's Air Rally. Aug. 7. Scarborough Ae.C. Flying Meeting. Aug. 12. London-Newcastle Race. Aug. 13-20. International Gliding Competition, Wasserkuppe, Germany. Sept. 1-4. International Air Races and Gordon Bennett Balloon Race, Chicago. Sept. 9. Kent Air Pageant, Maidstone Airport. Sept. 9. Essex Aviation Display, Maylands Aerodrome, Romford. Sept. 16. Bristol and Wessex Ae .C. Garden Party. EDITORIAL COMMENT ING GEORGE gave a badly-needed fillip to popular interest in flying when in 1922 he first presented a cup for an air race. It was given at a moment when things aeronautical were at a low ebb and interest in them was even lower. But when it was known that there was to be an air race round Great Britain for a cup presented by the King, tremendous popular interest was at once aroused, and in every city on the route, except London, huge crowds assembled to watch the aero- , „ planes arrive and depart. What an '"lace "P extraordinary field turned out to com pete! " Kangaroos," Avro " Babies," a " Gnu," a " Vulcan," a Martinsyde, over half-a- dozen De Havillands of various categories, a sky writing S.E. 5.A, and an early type " Siskin " as scratch—then the very latest word in air speed. There were twenty-two machines in all, of which just eleven got back home to Croydon. The race was won by F. L. Barnard in a venerable D.H.4.A with " Eagle " engine, which had been bought by the Instone firm before they began to take an active interest in air transport, and had been converted to a cabin fuselage in the Avro sheds at Hamble. That D.H.4 really played no small part in leading up to the formation of Imperial Airways, and it was not unfitting that it should win the first King's Cup. The list of the competing pilots, too, is interesting. Among them were Hinkler, Longton, Spenser Grey, Kenworthy, Cockerell, Haig, Uwins, Raynham, Leslie Hamilton, F. L. Barnard, and Courtney. The popular interest in the King's Cup each year continued in the Northern and Midland cities for several years. Strangely enough, it was the coming of the " Moth " which, in a way, led to a decline in that popularity. The light aeroplane led many thousands to take a practical interest in flying, but it also led to a swarm of entries for the great handicap race, all more or less indistinguishable to the non technical public. In the early years there was no very great difficulty in being able to recognise a " Vulcan," an Avro " Baby " or a " Kangaroo," though the man on the aerodrome felt highly pleased A 2
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