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Nnember 15, 1934. fmsr AERONAUTICAL AIRCRAFT ENGINEERAND AIRSHIPS <Jounded in 1909 by Stanley Spooner* DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS, THE PRACTICE AND PROGRESS OF AVIATION OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB No. 1351. Vol. XXVI. 26tb Year. NOVEMBER 15, 1934 Thursdays, Price 6d.By Post, 7Jd. Editorial, Advertising and Publishing Offices : DORSET HOUSE, STAMFORD STREET, LONDON, S.E.I Telegrams: Trudltur, Watloo, London. Telephone: Hop 3333 (50 lines). HERTFORD ST., COVENTRY. GUILDHALL BUILDINGS, 260, DKANSGATE, MANCHESTER 3. SOB, RENFIIXD ST.,NAVIGATION ST., BIRMINGHAM. 2. GLASGOW, C.2. Telegrams: Autocar, Coventry. Telegrams.- Autopress, Birmingham. Telegrams: Jliffe, Manchester. Telegrams: Iliffe, Glasgow.Telephone: Coventry 5210. Telephone; Midland 21)71. Telephone: Blackfriars 4412. Telephone: Central 48,r>7 SUBSCRIPTION Home and Canada : Year, £1 13 0. C months, 10s. (Id. 3 months, 8s. 3d.RATES: _-_..-.I: 6Other Countries : Year, £\ 15 0. t> months. 17s. (id. :* months, 8s. 9d. JSAodern Tendencies FOR many years it has been the custom of FlightTO publish, on the occasion of the Paris AeroShows, the fourteenth of which is opening to-morrow, a section dealing with the British Air- craft Industry. From the review published this week the interesting fact emerges that twenty-seven aircraft firms are in existence, and that twenty-one of these firms produce between them sixty-four distinct types of air- craft. Of these, twenty-eight are civil types and thirty-two military, while four are training machines. A few years ago a census of the proportion of civil to military types would have given very different results, and we see in the increasing number of civil aeroplanes an indication of the growing use of and demand for air travel. The overwhelming preponderance of the biplane type for military aircraft is commented upon elsewhere. Among the civil machines the ratio is reversed, and the monoplane has become the more popular, in the pro- portion of nineteen to seven. Rumbliings THE Lord Mayor's Show of 1918 was held in anatmosphere of coming victory and peace. TheLord Mayor's Show of 1934 has been held in anatmosphere of war talk which is certainly depress- ing. The Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Air both spoke at the Guildhall banquet, and the speeches of both were full of disappointment at the failure of the Disarmament Conference and the recent deterioration in the international situation. Mr. Churchill on the same day expatiated on the perilous situation and the danger to Great Britain. Mr. Lloyd George, a couple of days later, when opening an exhibi- tion of war photographs, said that he was not one of those who thought that war was quite imminent, but he suggested, by means of a graphic suggestion of an in- surance at Lloyd's, that he thought that war was prob- able within the next five or ten years. This harping on the same strain by four public men, some in office and some out, men representing the National Labour, the Conservative, and the Independent Liberal parties, is, to say the least of it, ominous. Before the Great War, though many men uttered warnings, there had been peace in Europe (outside the Balkans) for so long that it seemed incredible to the average British citizen that a great European war could ever become an actual fact. We were then all dream- ing a beautiful dream of peace, although a foreign war seemed a less unwholesome thing than were the quarrels in Ireland. Even though we experienced horrors pre- viously unknown in those four awful years, we may still feel thankful that things never came to the still more horrible pass of fighting Ulster to drive her unwillingly into severance from the United Kingdom, or of facing a mutiny in our own Army. Now no one disbelieves in the possibility of war. What has happened once can happen again. Yet it is strange that any section of European mankind should be even remotely willing to contemplate the possibility of attack- ing anyone else after the terrible experiences which all the combatants have gone through. War is not caused by the existence of armaments, but by some person or nation desiring to attack another nation in order to gain something. That any person or nation should have such a desire now, with the memories of the Great War still so poignant, is shocking to contemplate. The Air as the villainA LL speakers and writers are agreed that the next war, if ever it comes, will be more horrible than L the last. The air is always blamed for this pros- pect, though actually it is not the air by itself, but the possibility of chemical warfare used from the air, which is visualised by the speakers. Mr. Churchill said in the speech alluded to above that our greatest
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