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Flight, February 15, 1934 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. 1312. /Vol. XXVI.V No "XXVIA• 7. ) 26th Year. FEBRUARY 15, 1934 Weekly, Price 6d.Post Free, 7jd. Abroad, M. Editorial Offices: 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2 Telephone (2 lines), Holborn 3211 and 1884. Telegrams : Tiuditur, Westcent, London. UNITED 3 Months6 12 „ Subscription KINGDOM s. d.8 3 .. 16 6.. 33 0 Rates, Post Free. OTHER COUNTRIES 3 Months .6 ,, 12 s.8 . 17. 35 d. 6 0 CONTENTS Editorial Comment :Reductio ad absurdum " Over the Mountain PassesA Three-Seater " Hawk " . American Aviation FinanceAir Transport Short " Scion "From the Clubs Airisms from the Four Wind:Airport News For Fast CommunicationDisarmament New Aircraft Engine Cowling : By J. D. North (Discussion)Correspondence •' Heyfords " for the R.A.F.Royal Air Force Briefly PAGI141 143144 145146 147149 150152 153154 155157 159160 161162 DIARY OF CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING EVENTS Club Secretaries and others desirous of announcing the dates of importantfixtures are invited to send particulars for inclusion in this list:— 1934.Feb. 16. Bristol and Wessex Ae.C. Annual Ball, Grand Spa Hotel, Clifton.Feb. 16. De Havilland Technical School Annual Ball, Stag Lane, Edgware.Feb. 21. "Development of Aircraft and Its Influence on Air Operations." Lecture by Sq. Ldr. R. V.Goddard before R.U.S.I. Feb. 22. Herts and Essex Ae.C. Annual Dinner and Dance,Wharncliffe Rooms, Hotel Gt. Central, London. Feb. 23. British Gliding Association Annual General Meeting,at R.Ae.S. Feb. 24. No. 10 Sqdn. R.A.F. Reunion Dinner.Mar. 1. "Speed and the Economics of Air Transport," Lecture by Maj. F. M. Green before R.Ae.S.Mar. 2. Norfolk and Norwich Ae.C. Annual Dinner and Dance, Arlington Rooms, Norwich.Mar. 6. "Relation of the Molecular Structure of Fuels to Their Behaviour in Diesel Engines." Lecture byG. D. Boerlage before R.Ae.S. Mar. 15. "Some Developments in Aircraft Construction."Lecture by H. J. Pollard before R.Ae.S. Mar 21. " Some Problems of a Technical Service." Lectureby Wing Com. G. W. Williamson, before R.U.S.I. Mar 24. Services Rugby : R.A.F. v. Army, at Twickenham.Apr. 5. "Engines." Lecture by Capt. A. G. Forsyth before R.Ae.S.Apr. 12. "Speed and the Future, of Commercial Aircraft." Lecture by M. Louis Breguet before R.Ae.S.Apr. 26. "Landing in Fog." Lecture by Dr. Riid Stussel before R.Ae.S.Apr. 27-May 6. International Aero Show, Geneva. May Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture, before R.Ae.S.May 26. Heston Air Navigation Trials. June 30. Royal Air Force Display, Hendon. INDEX FOR VOL. XXV. The 8-page Index for Vol. XXV of "Flight"and "The Aircraft Engineer," January to Decem- ber, 1933 (with over7024 references for "Flight"and 197 references for "The Aircraft Engineer "— 7221 in all), is now ready and can be obtained fromthe Publishers, 36, Great Queen Street, Kingsway, W.C.2, price Is. per copy (Is. Id. post free). EDITORIAL COMMENT K. BERNARD SHAW is the greatest jester of our age. He can reduce the most serious subject to ridicule with an air of the most profound wisdom. Like Jack Point, however, he might say: " Oh, winnow all my folly and you'll find a grain or two of truth among the chaff." So, in his broad- cast causerie the other evening, under the title of " Whither Britain," Mr. Shaw took the idea of air bombing, which General Groves and those of his supporters are trying to popularise, and Reductio treated it to a dose of common sense ad absurdum disguised as nonsense. It will be useful to recall his exact words. " Are we to be exterminated," he asked, " by fleets of bombing aeroplanes which will smash our water mains, cut our electric cables, turn our gas supplies into flame- throwers, and bathe us and our babies in liquid- mustard gas from which no masks can save us? Well, if we are it will serve us right, for it will be our own doing. But let us keep our heads. It may not work out in that way. What will London do when it finds itself approached by a crowd of aeroplanes capable of destroying it in half-an-hour ? London will surrender. White flags and wireless messages ' Don't drop your bombs; we give in ' will fill the air. But our own squadrons will have already started to make the enemies' capitals surrender. From Paris to Moscow, from Stockholm to Rome, the white flags will go up in every city." That is how the arch-burlesquer naturally would put it. It would have spoilt his joke to have sug- gested that the wireless messages might arrange for a
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