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Flight, August 31, 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. 1288 ^No.*^') 25th Year. AUGUST 31, 1933 Weekly, Price 6d. Post Free, 7|d. Abroad, 8d. Editorial Offitrs: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2. Telephone : (2 lines), HoJborn 3211 and 1884. Telegrams ; Truditur, Westcent, London. EDITORIAL COMMENT Subscription Ratei, Post Free. UNITED KINGDOM s. d. 3 Months .. 8 3 6 „ .. 16 6 12 „ .. 33 0 UNITED STATES 3 Months 6 12 $2-20 $4-40 $8-75 OTHER COUNTRIES 3 Months 6 12 d. 8 9 17 6 35 0 CONTENTS Editorial Comment : Air Mails and the G.P.O. K.A.F.O. Training Deutschland Flug, 1933 Air Transport The P.W.S.54 Airisms from the Four Winds An Amphibious Demonstration Tour Portsmouth, Isle of Wight Air Race IHL AIRCRAFT ENGINEER , . Prom the Clubs : Folkestone Aero Trophy Race Annual Report of Aeronautical Research Corr.rrittee Airport News The New BMW Xa Light 'Plane Engine New Irvin Parachute Harness Book Reviews A Simmoads-Corsey Control Development Royal Air Force Briefly PAGE 859 860 Sol 864 865 867 869 870 870a 87 1 875 878 87 .-I 879 881' 880 881 882 s«Pt. 1-4. Sept Sept 2. 2-4. DIARY OF CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING EVENTS "'' Secretaries ami others desirous of announcing the dates of important fixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in this list: — 1933. ' ^ug. 29-31. Swimming : Inter-Service Championships, Alder- , shot. -"g. 31-Sept. 9. Mocfel Engineer Exhibition, Rl. Horticultural Hall, Westminster. International Air Races and Gordon Bennett Balloon Race, Chicago. Norfolk and Norwich Ae.C. Garden Party. Austrian Ae.C. International Air Rally, Gastein, Austrian Alps. Maidstone Ae.C. " At Home." Isle of Wight Air Race. British Week Exhibition, Helsingfors, Finland. Thames Valley Ae.C. Garden Party and Display at Hook Aerodrome, Kingston Bv-Pass. Bristol and Wessex Ae.C. Garden Party, la Bietivenue Aerienne " at Rheims. Stage and Screen Ae.C. Gymkhana and Theatrical Garden Party, Hatfield. B.G.A. Gliding and Soaring Competition, international Rally at Cairo and Meeting of the F.A.I. Entries close at 12 noon for London-Melbourne Race. 4th International Congress for Applied Mechanics, Cambridge. Sept. 3. sept. 6. Sept. 4-10. '••ept. 6, |ePt. 16. Sept. 17-24 'ept. 29, <>«- 7-8. "ec. 18-24. 1"34. June i Ju'y 3-9, ROM time to time an agitation arises about the alleged lack of support given to air mails by the British General Post Office. Such allegations are easy to make. They provoke an enthusiastic " Hear, hear! " from all who are actively interested in aero nautics, while the public will either echo the sounds of approval or greet the remark with hisses, according to whether the listener is pro-aircraft or anti-aircraft in sentiment. To form a just opinion one should indulge in a little analysis Air ?^flls of the elements of the question. G.P.O? ^ a debater is actively interested in air transport and takes the view that Aeronautics is a great god whom it is the duty of everyone to worship and serve, he will certainly be applauded by his co-religionists, but his dogma will leave the thinking layman cold. It is mere dogma, and there is no argument in it. In these critical days everyone demands that a creed must be supported by argument. FLIGHT, because it is FLIGHT, is a devotee of the aeronautical cult ; but it is no bigot. It urges the use of aircraft when and where it will be of advantage to mankind. It holds, if we may misquote Scripture with no irreverent intention, that aircraft was made for man, not man for aircraft. To argue otherwise is to invite the scorn of the agnostics. Converts will never be made by such missionary tactics. We must then admit that the first duty of the General Post Office is, not to encourage and subsidise air services, but to provide the best possible mail transport for the public. Then, of course, one has to define the meaning to be given to the word ' best." It does not of necessity mean the cheapest or the most expensive or the fastest or the slowest sort of transport. In defining the word all sorts of considerations, some temporary, some permanent, some local, some national, etc., have to be taken into consideration. If air transport in any given circum stances fulfils the requirements of the " best " form of air transport, then it is the undoubted duty of the General Post Office to send its letters by air.
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