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Flight, September 7, 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. 1389. (VNO.336V') 2st1' Ye"r- SEPTEMBER 7, 1933 Weekly, Price 6d. Post Free, 7Jd. Abroad, Sd. Fditorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2. Telephone: (2 lines), Holbora 3211 and 1884. Telegrams : Truditur, Westcent, London. Subscription Rates, Post Free. UNITED KINGDOM t. d. 3 Months .. 8 3 6 „ .. 16 6 12 „ .. 33 0 UNITED STATES 3 Months .. $2-20- 6 .. $4-40 12 „ .. $8-75 OTHER COUNTRIES s. d. ! 3 Months .. 8 9 6 „ .. 17 6 12 „ .. 35 0 CONTENTS Editorial Comment • India and Air Mails Aircraft and the Army Air Regulations and Common Sense Blackburn " Baffin " The Marchese de Pinedo, A.F.C No. l (Fighter) Squadron Airisms from the Four Winds An Easy Course Calculator Airworthiness and Common Sense : By W. O. Manning Air Transport From the Clubs How Irvin Air Chutes are Manufactured Airport News Royal Air Force Briefly PAGE 88:5 884 884 885 88G 887 891 893 894 89 5 897 Will 902 903 9(14 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. Sept. 9. SePt. 10. Sept. 16. Sept. 17-24. Sept. 24. Sept. 29. Oct. Dec. 7-8. 15. Dec. 18-24. 1934. June i. Ju'y 3-9. Close of Model Engineer Exhibition, Rl. Horti cultural Hall, Westminster. Close of British Week Exhibition, Helsingfors, Finland. Bristol and Wessex Ae.C. Garden Party. " la Bienvenue Aerienne " at Rheims. "Air Survey Work." Lecture by Maj. H. Hem ming, at Wills Hall, Bristol. Stage and Screen Ae.C. Gymkhana and Theatrical Garden Party, Hatfield. B.G-A. Gliding and Soaring Competition. Close of entries for International Touring Competi tion (1934), Poland. 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. EDITORIAL COMMENT PPETITE comes from eating, says an old proverb, and the commercial com munity of India, having nibbled at the benefits of air mails, are growing voracious. The Associated Chambers of Commerce of India have received from one of the constituent Chambers a proposal that " a material reduc tion of the air mail charges for these documents (i.e., all commercial documents such as bills of lading, manifests, etc.) would be followed by a tremendous increase in the weight of mails carried, India and and consequentiy in the earnings of Air Mails the service; that the Government of India might, if persuaded of the im portance of the suggestion, move the Postmaster- General in London to take joint action with them in the matter; and that the questions (a) of removing the present inequality between the rates from India to the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom to India and (b) of discontinuing the existing surcharge for carriage of mails in India by air might be pressed equally strongly in respect of commercial docu ments." This proposal was, of course, circulated to the various Chambers of Commerce, of which the Calcutta Chamber is the most important. This Chamber extended its support to the proposals, but expressed doubts as to whether these particular requests would have much chance of meeting with favourable consideration. The Calcutta Chamber added that, while they had not been able to ascer tain the extent to which the carrying capacity of the aeroplanes was at present utilised, there was just a possibility that if it were agreed to make these con cessions in respect of bulky parcels, this might result in the shutting out of more important legitimate correspondence. Such a report by the Calcutta Chamber is not likely to result in the Government of India granting the desired concessions, and so for the present it seems likely that the commercial docu ments will continue to travel by sea. The remarkable point about this discussion is the attitude of the business men of India towards air mails. In the early days they seemed rather
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