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Flight March 39, 1934 AIRCRAFT ENGINEERAND AIRSHIPS FirsrAeronautical 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 /Vol. XXVI.No. 1318. ~no??3.") 26th Year. MARCH 29, 1934 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. Telegrams: Truditur, Westcent London. UNITED 3 Months6 „ 12 „ Subscription Rates, Post Free. KINGDOM s.8 .. 16.. 33 d. 3 6 OTHER COUNTRIES 3 Months . 6 0 12 „. s. 8 . 17. 35 d. 9 6 0 CONTENTS PAGE Editorial Comment : Air Mails and Air Passengers .. .. .. .. .. 295 Railway Air Services, Ltd 296 Vickers-Supermarine " Seagull Mark V" 297 From the Clubs 301 Air Transport 3 Plessey Aircraft Radio Equipment 306 THE AIRCRAFT ENGINEER .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 306A Surveying Western Australia for Gold 307 Airisms from the Four Winds .. .. .. •. • • • - 308 New Aircraft 310 Airport News 3 Correspondence 4 Royal Air Force 315 Aircraft Companies'Stocks and Shares .. •• •• •• •• 316 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:— 1934. Apr. 5. " Engines." Lecture by Capt. A. G. Forsythbefore RAe.S. Apr. 7-10. Forum Club Aviation Exhibition.Apr. 12. " Speed and the Future of Commercial Aircraft." Lecture by M. Louis Breguet before R.Ae.S.Apr. 16, 23, 30. "Gyroscopes." Series of Lectures by Prof. J. G. Gray before Royal Society of Arts.Apr. 22. Northamptonshire Ae.C. Tea Party and Opening of New Club Buildings.Apr. 23-27. 35th International Aviation Conference, Geneva. Apr. 26. •• Landing In Fog." Lecture by Dr. Rttd Stusselbefore R.Ae.S Apr. 27-May 6. International Aero Show, Geneva.May Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture, before RAe.S. May 17-June 2. Royal Tournament, Olympia.May 21. Guild of Air Pilots Garden Party. May 24. Empire Air Day.May 26. Heston Air Navigation Trials. May 27. Deutsch de la Meurthe Cup.June 1. Entries close at 12 noon for London-Melbourne Race.June 2. Brooklands Air Raoe Meeting. June 3. London Aeroplane Club Garden Party, HatSeld.June 9. Reading Ae.C. Annual " At Home." June 16. R A.F. Reserve Flying Club Annual Flying Display,Hatfield. June 23. Lancashire Ae.C. Air Display, Woodford.June 30. Royal Air Force Display, Hendon. July 3-9. 4th International Congress for Applied Mechanics,Cambridge. July 7. Opening oFLeicester Airport.July 8. French International 12 Hours1 Reliability Trial. July 13-14. King's Cup Race. Start and finish at Hatfield.July 21-22. French Grand Prix. July 28. Bristol and Wessex Ae.C. Garden Party.July 29. London-Sherburn Race (York County Aviation Club) Aug. 11. London-Newcastle Race (Newcastle-on-Tyne Ae.C.)• EDITORIAL COMMENT N our last issue we published large extracts from a paper read before the Rotary Club of Bombay by Mr. N. Vintcent, manager of the Tata Air Lines. The Tata service from Karachi to Bombay and Madras has been running for nearly 18 months, and it has achieved the wonderful record of 100 per cent, efficiency in running to schedule. This experience is certainly not very long, compared with the records of Imperial Airways, West Australian Airways, and Qantas, but still is suf- ar^d ficient t0 give Mr- Vintcent a right to Air Passengers De heard with attention when he speaks on air-line policy. It should also be remembered that his experience of commercial flying has not been confined to that very successful 18 months. He was once a pilot of the Air Survey Co., and then the business acumen of the Tata firm had been devoted to the study of the question for a couple of years or more before the air line began to operate. That it began to show profits, as Mr. Vintcent told his hearers, after little more than a year's working confirms the wisdom of the planning. Therefore the opinions of Mr. Vintcent are valuable. He divided air transport into two categories, one that is directly subsidised by a State, and the other which is paid for services rendered. He gave it as his opinion that direct subsidies, although necessary in the early days, have now become undesirable. He compared a company in receipt of a direct sub- sidy to a child left among quantities of easily obtain- able food—he need not, in fact, have confined the simile to a child—and said that both were apt to become lazy. On the other hand, an organisation existing upon payment for the services it renders to the public has a strong incentive to increase its efficiency to obtain a greater volume of business. He considered that the best method of building up an efficient system of air transport by a Govern- ment was by granting air mail contracts and by pro- viding every modern aid to safe flying. His only criticism of the Government of India was, not that it had refused to grant any subsidies, which he called a wise refusal, but that it had not provided
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