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Flight, July 13, 1933 AIRCRA1T 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. 1281. /Vol. XXV. \ \ No. 28. ) 25th Year. JULY 13, 1933 Weekly, Price 6d. Post Free, 7Jd. Abroad, 8d. Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2. Telephone : (2 lines), Holborn 3211 and 1884. Telegrams : Truditur, Westcent, London. s UNITED KINGDOM s. d. 3 Months .. 8 3 6 „ .. 16 6 12 „ .. 33 0 ubscription Rates, Post Ft UNITED STATES 3 Months .. J2-20 6 „ .. $4-40 12 „ .. 18-75 ee. OTHER COUNTRIES s. d. 3 Months .. 8 9 6 „ .. 17 6 12 „ .. 35 0 CONTENTS Editorial Comment : The King's Cup The King's Cup Airisms from the Four Winds Air Transport The New Avro Cadet From the Clubs Egyptian International Meeting National Physical Laboratory Airport News The Air League The Industry Book Reviews Royal Air Force Handley Page, Ltd PAGE 683 685 699 701 702 706 708 708 709 710 711 712 7:;; 714 DIARY OF CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of important taxJ* xture$ are invited to send particulars for inclusion in this list :— July 15. Close of RAJ". Athletic Championships, Uxbridge. July 14. R.N. Flying Club Annual General Meeting, at R.U.S.I., Whitehall, 6p.m. July is. 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. Jul y 22. Cardiff Ae .C. Annual Air Pageant, Splott Aerodrome. July 22-24. International Rally on the Belgian Coast. July 24-28. Lawn Tennis:R.A.F.Championships, Hurlingham. July26. Inter-Services Athletic Championships, Portsmouth. July 31-Aug. 1. Lawn Tennis : Inter-Services Championships, Wimbledon, uuiy 31-Aug. 4. Lawn Tennis : Airmen's Championships, Halton. Aug. 5. Maidstone Ae.C. All-Women "s Air Rally. Aug. 7. Scarborough Ae.C. Flying Meeting. A"£. 12. London-Newcastle Race. Aug. 13-20. International Gliding Competition, Wasserkuppe, Aug. ,9.2o. G*™™y-5th Annual Canadian Air Pageant, St. Hubert Air port, Montreal International Air Races and Gordon Bennett Balloon Race, Chicago. v• Kent Air Pageant, Maidstone Airport. 9. Essex Aviation Display, Ma viands Aerodrome, Sent ifc Romford. Bee IR sto1 and Wessex Ae.C. Garden Party. 8-24. International Rallv at Cairo and Meeting of the * .A.I. Sept. 1-4. Sept Sept EDITORIAL COMMENT ERY seldom in the history of air racing has there been a more popular win than that of Capt. Geoffrey de Havil- land in the King's Cup on Saturday last. He is a veteran, though he is by no means an old man. In age he is in the early fifties, we believe, but during the war—and the war is not really so very long ago—it was believed that a man was too old for flying at 30. Perhaps an exceptional man. whose nervous system remained younger than his years, might continue to potter about The in the air in some very foolproof ma- King's Cup chine, but as for racing—well, there, at any rate, youth must be served. Capt. de Havilland, however, has continued to race as well as to potter about in the air. Of course he races machines of his own design, and last Saturday he was racing to and from his own aerodrome. In fact, everything was as de Havillandish as it could possibly be. Had he remained aground to see a " Leopard Moth " win with Broad holding the stick, it would still have been a great day for " D.H."; but to pilot the winning machine himself and wipe the eyes of all the youngsters was a very unusual degree of triumph. As everyone unfeignedly likes " D.H.," everyone was delighted to see him win. As for the race itself, the form which it took was a drastic attempt by the Royal Aero Club to shake off the atmosphere of apathy which in recent years has been threatening to envelop this great annual event. Handicap racing cannot be intended to " improve the breed " of aeroplanes. It takes an event like the Schneider Contest to do that. There fore it follows that one of the main objects of the King's Cup must be to stimulate interest in flying among the general public. We believe that that was stated to be one of the objects for which His Majesty presented his first cup in 1922. For the last few years the racing has not been very exciting, and even the journalists who have described it have had to draw on their imaginations (always a difficult task for a journalist) to make the public who did not go to see it believe that it was a " thrilling " event and a " tense air drama! " A2
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