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Flight, July 27, 1933 AIRCRAFTENGINEER 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. 1283 /Vol. XXV.\ ( No. 30. / 25th Year. JULY 27, 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. 7 Jegiams : Truditur, Westcent, London. Subscription Rates, Post Free. UNITED KINGDOM s. d. 3 Months .. 8 3 8 „ .. 16 6 12 „ 33 0 UNITED STATES 3 Months .. $2-20 6 .. $4-40 12 „ .. 18-75 OTHER COUNTRIES s. d. 3 Months .. 8 9 6 „ .. 17 6 12 „ .. 35 0 CONTENTS Editorial Comment : # The High Speed Record The Risk Hard Luck and Good Luck . Ford Aerodrome from the Air The Mollisons' Atlantic Flight Tour of France Petrol from Coal Wiley Post Flies round the World Cinque Ports International Rally . Muskel Plug Airisms from the Four Winds I HE AIRCRAFT F.NGINEER From the Clubs Air Transport Airport News Air Fxercises Royal Air Force Aircraft Companies' Stocks and Shares PAGE 743 744 744 745 74fi 74S 749 750 751 75:, 754 754a 755 761 763 764 765 766 DIARY OF CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING EVENTS c tub Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of important jixlures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in this list:— 1933. J"ly 28, Close of R.A.F.Lawn Tennis Championships, Hurling- ham. July 31-Aug. 1. Lawn Tennis : Inter-Services Championships, Wimbledon. uly 31-Aug. 4. Lawn Tennis : Airmen's Championships, Halton. Au8. 7. Scarborough Ae.C. Flying Meeting. A"£- 6-9. Leicestershire Ae.C. Aerial Tour. Aug. 12. London-Newcastle Race. Ang. 13-20, International Gliding Competition, Wasserkuppe, Germany. Aug- 19-20. 5th Annual Canadian Air Pageant, St. Hubert Air port, Montreal ufi 31.- Sept. 9. Model Engineer Exhibition, Rl. Horticultural Hall, Westminster. <=Pt. 1-4. International Air Races and Gordon Bennett Balloon Race, Chicago, ept- 9. Kent Air Pageant, Maidstone Airport. • 9. Essex Aviation Display, Ma viands Aerodrome, Romford. '"•16- Bristol and Wessex Ae.C. Garden Party. 18-24, International Rally at Cairo and Meeting of the F.A.I. EDITORIAL COMMENT AS it, we wonder, a desire to appeal to the gallery which made Lord London derry mention the danger to life as one of the reasons why the R.A.F. is not to try to recover the high-speed record? Two main reasons were given in his reply to Lord Gorell in the House of Lords, expense and risk. The Secretary of State would know that any talk of avoiding risk to life would gain him support from a certain section of. the public, and so would strengthen his hand in sticking to a The High certain decision, which may have been Speed Record arrived at for entirely different reasons. In this case most people will probably take the view that expense is the only, or at least the governing, reason for the decision to allow Italy to keep unchallenged the high-speed record which was so finely won for them by Agello. We remember that the last Government refused to bear the expense of defending the Schneider Trophy, which would have gone to Italy by default if Lady Houston had not come to the rescue. The present decision bears a very strong family resemblance to that of the last Government, but in this case the talk of risk to the pilots has been adduced to support the case. The general order to all Government Departments to avoid spending money on anything except social services is well known to be very stringent. This stringency is enough to account for any refusal to spend, even though it may mean refraining from a profitable investment Lord Londonderry seemed to be at pains to show that other reasons had helped to affect his decision. He doubted whether further research work at the present moment would prove as valuable as the research work in 1926 and 1928 had proved. He asserted that our last two Schneider victories had actually been followed by a decline in our export trade in " this industry." In fact the Secretary of State tried to discount all the arguments which could be brought up by those who think that Great Britain ought to win back the high-speed record if she can. Knowing how deeply the economy argu ment must weigh with every head of a Department, the citizen may be pardoned if he thinks that the A 2
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