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Flight, July 20, 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. 1282. /Vol. XXV. \ \ No. 29. ) 25th Year. JULY 20, 1933 Weekly, Price 6d. Post Free, 7i<l. Abroad, 8d. EiUorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2. Telephone : (2 lines), Holbom 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 .. $2'20 6 .. S4-40 12 „ .. $8-75 OTHER COUNTRIES s. d. 3 Months .. 8 9 6 „ .. 17 6 12 „ .. 35 0 CONTENTS Editorial Cemment : Mails from Calcutta 750 Hours Imperial Reliability The Helicopter Handley Page " Heyford " Air Transport : Report on Civil Aviatien Royal Air Ferce Staff College Airisms from the Four Winds Airport News : Cork as a Terminal Airport From the Clubs The Angers " 12 Hours Contest " Flying Doctor in Australia An American Four-Seater : The " Waco " Correspondence Electro-Deposition of Metal The Air Exercises Royal Air Force R.A.F. College, Cranwell PAGE 715 716 71* 717 71S 721 • 723 727 729 731 734 735 737 738 739 74(1 741 742 DIARY OF CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING EVENTS Mub ^Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of important jtxtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in this list:— 1933. ' Jul y 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. July22-24. International Rally on the Belgian Coast. July 24-28. Lawn Tennis:R.A.F.Championships, Hurlingham. July26. Inter-Services Athletic Championships, Portsmouth. u'y 31-Aug. 1. Lawn Tennis : Inter-Services Championships, Wimbledon. y 31"Aug. 4. Lawn Tennis : Airmen's Championships, , Halton. 2"8- 5. Maidstone Ae.C. Ail-Women's Air Rally. u8- 7. Scarborough Ae.C. Flying Meeting. Aug.L2, London-Newcastle Race. "g-13-20. International Gliding Competition, Wasserkuppe, AUG i a •> Germany. «• 19-20. 5th Annual Canadian Air Pageant, St. Hubert Air- Sem l A P°rt> Montreal International Air Races and Gordon Bennett Balloon sept 9 K?a,e!;Chlca8°- »•• '• Kent Air Pageant, Maidstone Airport. SeP«- «. Essex Aviation Sept. 16. B^ "' 18"2^JJntcrnation»1 Rally at Cairo and Meeting of the Display, Maylands Aerodrome, • Bristol and Wessex Ae.C. Garden Party. EDITORIAL COMMENT HIS week the incoming mail plane from India brings letters which have flown straight from Calcutta. That is an event of very great importance in the history of Empire communications. On another page we give a resume of the report on the progress of Civil Aviation in 1932, from which it appears that the total weight of letters carried on the India service amounted to 60,000 lb. during the year. It was a substantial improvement on the figures of the previous year, but if Mails from anyone were to adopt the methods of Calcutta the Auditor General of the Australian Government, take the total expenditure of Imperial Airways, or the total amount of subsidy paid to them, and work out the cost of carrying each letter to India (disregarding all other aspects of the work of Imperial Airways), we might arrive at a very shocking figure. In short, the air-borne corre spondence between Great Britain and India, though increasing in bulk every year, is still disappointing. If, on that account, we were to be asked the old war-time question, " Are we downhearted? " our answer would emphatically be in the negative. The steady growth of the volume of mails alone would forbid such a frame of mind. Apart from that, we have always recognised that an air mail service which came to an end at such a place as Karachi would never be able to attract a large volume of correspond ence. An extension to Delhi could do little to improve matters. Delhi is mainly of political importance. The Tata air line improved matters considerably by extending the air service to Bombay and Madras, the second and third most important commercial cities in India, but that extension was not begun until after the monsoon was over, that is to say in October, and so it made little difference to the volume of air-borne mail for last year. Even if it is very useful and meets a long-felt want, a new air service must always take some time before ic wins popularity with the public. It will be in teresting to study the effect of the Tata service in next year's report. The thing needed above all others to make the air A'2
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