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Flight, November 23, 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. 1300. /Vol. XXV.> I No. 47. J 25th Year. NOVEMBER 23, 1933 Weekly, Price 6d. Post Free, 7JcI. Abroad, 8d. Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2 Telephone: (2 lines), Holborn 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 OTHER COUNTRIHS s. d. 3 Months .. 8 9 6 „ .. 17 6 12 „ .. 35 0 CONTENTS Editorial Comment : The Censure rhat Failed The South African Air Force . . No. 502 (Ulster) (Bomber) Squadron Avros for Egypt Air Transport The Log of the " Astraea " (Conclusion). By Hudson Fysh Bristol " Perseus " : An Interesting New Sleeve-Valve Engine From the Clubs Airport News Air Traffic Control in Bad Weathar Airisms from the Four Winds Development of Aviation Lighting Brie v. Metropolitan Police A New Automatic Pilot Royal Air Force Correspondence PAGE 1163 1164 1165 1170 1171 1172 1177 1178 1180 1181 1182 1184 1185 1186 1187 1188 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. Nov. 23. Lincolnshire Ae.C. Annual Dance, "The Gaiety," Grimsby. Nov. 24. Central Flying School " Coming of Age " Dinner, at May Fair Hotel. Nov. 24. Yorkshire Ae.C. Annual Dance, Hotel Majestic, Harrogate. Nov. 25. Comrades of the R.A.F. Reunion Dinner, at Thames House Restaurant, Millbank, S.W.I. Nov. 25. Elec. and Wireless School Officers' Reunion Dinner, at R.A.F. Club, Piccadilly. Nov. 27. Cinque Ports Winter Dance, Leas Pavilion, Folkestone. Nov. 30. "Tail Buffeting." Lecture by Dr. W. J. Duncan before RA.e.S. Dec. 1. No. 3 Sqdn. R.F.C. and R.A.F. Reunion Dinner, at May Fair Hotel. Dec. 1. No.70 Sqdn. RAJ. Reunion Dinner, at R.A.F. Club, Piccadilly. Dec. 1. Martlesham Annual Dinner. Dec. 1. Lancashire Ae.C. Annual Ball, Midland Hotel, Manchester. Dec. 1. Hampshire Ae.C. Annual Dinner and Dance, South Western Hotel, Southampton. Dec. l. Leicestershire Ae.C. Dance, at Palais de Danse, Leicester. Dec. 2. De Havilland Works Annual Dinner, First Avenue Hotel, London. Dec. 6. A.I.D. Approved Inspectors'Dinner, Royal Victoria Hotel, Sheffield. Dec, 7. " Possible Future Development of Aircraft Engines." Lecture by A. H. R. Fedden before R.Ae.S. Dec. 8. Calshot Reunion Dinner, at R.A.F. Club, Piccadilly, W.l. Dec. 8. Airports Conference, Mansion House. Dec. 13. London Ae.C. Annual Dinner and Dance, Park Lane Hotel. EDITORIAL COMMENT EAL has been lacking, say the Opposi tion, in the Government when pushing the cause of disarmament at Geneva. Never have we heard a charge levied with less justification. Seldom in the history of human effort has a pleader so steadfastly refused to be dis couraged by rebuffs as have Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and Sir John Simon. The United States has rebuffed them, Japan has rebuffed them, Germany has rebuffed them, and yet they go on trying, trying, trying, to get the The Censure LeagUe 0f Nations to agree to some Failed measure of disarmament. They do not count it as a rebuff that Mr. Baldwin has made the very sensible remark that " Disarma ment will not stop war "—a remark which faces the facts and does not cling to beautiful but imprac ticable theories. Devotion of that sort is a speciality of the Liberal and Labour elements in politics, but so long as they do nothing worse than expend time and money at Geneva it would be heartless to con demn them for their admirable idealism. The National Government as a whole is not, how ever, completely unpractical in its disarmament efforts. In his reply to. the Censure Motion brought forward on Monday, November 13, by the amusing Mr. Morgan Jones, the Prime Minister declined to repudiate the reservation made in the British dis armament plan in favour of " police bombing " in outlying parts. On the contrary, he made the in teresting statement that there had not been an hour wasted by the Disarmament Conference in discussing this reservation, and that it had never at any time been raised as a serious obstacle to an agreement. At the same time the Prime Minister said that we had made it a condition with regard to changes in bombing that " civil aviation should be controlled internationally, more particularly in so far as civil aviation could become an immediate and serious menace to a civil population should war unfortunately break out." He followed this up with the striking passage: ' To scrap an Air Force and to develop on the lines that were now being pursued so rapidly and so successfully by our splendid engineers in
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