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1934
1934 - 1231.PDF
Aeventter -'-'. 1934. AIRCRAFT ENGINEERAND AIRSHIPS <Jounded in 1909 by tStanleu Spooner= DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS. PRACTICE AND PROGRESS OF AVIATION OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB No. 1352. Vol. XXVI. 26th Year. NOVEMBER 22, 1934 Thursdays, Price 6d.By Posl, 7Jd. Editorial, Advertising and Publishing Offices : DORSET HOUSE, STAMFORD STREET, LONDON, S.E.I Telegrams: Truditur, Watloo, London. Telephone: Hop 3333 (50 lines). HERTFORD ST, COVENTRY GUILDHALL BUILDINGS, 280, DEANSGATE, MANCHESTER, 3.GUILDHALNAVIGATION ST., BIRMINGHAM, 2. Telegrams: Autocar, Coventry. Telegrams: Autopress, Birmingham.Telephone: Coventry 5210. Telephone: Midland 2971. SUBSCRIPTION Home and Canada: Year, £1 13 0. fl months, 10s. 6d.RATES : Other Countries : Year, £1 15 0. 6 months. 17s (id. Telegrams: Iliffe, Manchester.Telephone: Blackfriars 4412. 26B, RENFIELD ST.,GLASGOW, C.2. Telegrams: Ilifie, GlasgowTelephone : Central 4857. :', months, 8s 3d.3 months, 8s. l)d At Last! In P. IT is many years since Flight first mentioned the pos-sibility of arranging a flat rate for Empire air mails,and since that time there have been a number of notable sponsors for the scheme. Now, at last, our progressive Postmaster-General has inaugurated a system whereby letters are sent to Im- perial destinations at two distinct rates—3d. and 6d. for each half-ounce. Naturally, correspondence to certain places costs no less than before; users of the India air mail, for instance, do not benefit in any way, though people who are sending letters to Malaya gain as much as sixpence on the new rates. But simplicity is the salient feature of the new de- velopment. There must be thousands of people who would be only too pleased to pay a little extra for the benefit of having their letters read a few days—or weeks —sooner, and consequently of receiving a quicker reply. These people have only been deterred by reason of the relative complications involved. Everyone who has posted a letter to a part of the Empire knows the stamp or stamps that are required, but few have known the poundage necessary for air-mail letters, and in their ignorance they have imagined the affair to be a great deal more complicated than it actually was. A start has been made. The twin rates are still high in comparison with those for surface transport; but, as the air is used by more people, these will undoubtedly settle down Some day, we hope, all mails will be sent by air as a matter of course—at the present surface rates. For the present we must be content with the fact that internal mails are to be sent by air when such a course will expedite delivery and where a suitable air line com- pany has entered into contract with the Post Office. In other words, all mails are. theoretically, air mails, and there will be no necessity for the sender to affix an air- mail label or to examine an Air Bradshaw before posting his letter. . ans FEW of the thirteen Paris Aero Shows which havepreceded it have equalled in interest the (juator-zieme Salon de VAviation, at present being held in the Grand Palais des Champs Elyse"es, Paris. Perhaps there is some significance in the fact that the word Aviation has been substituted for Aeronautique. The subject is certainly becoming one of plain flying rather than one of more or less obscure science—at any rate to the man in the street. Curiously enough, the change in the title seems to have coincided with the total disappearance of " freaks." At each of the thirteen previous Paris shows onv. could always count upon a certain number of mirth-provoking contraptions. This year there is not even an unorthodox machine, if one excepts two or three which are dis- creetly tucked away on the first floor, where one may easily miss them altogether. There is an air of apology about this hiding of the three novelties. One is the Mignet " Pou du Ciel," described and illustrated in Flight recently. The second is the "all-wing" mono- plane, fitted, incidentally, with a Pobjoy engine. Whether or not this actual machine has flown, several of similar type have, and there is nothing impossible, or even very speculative, about the principle. The third is a rather unusual amphibian flying boat, in which the wheels are partly housed in the outboard floats. The take-off from the water may be somewhat impeded by the projecting wheels, but there is no reason to think that the machine does not represent quite a workable scheme. For the rest, the seventy or so aeroplanes and sea- planes, with the two other amphibians, are all fairly straightforward types with no nonsense about them. They all appear serviceable craft, some prettier than others, but each and every one obviously capable of doing the work for which it was designed. As might have been expected, small civil types arc in the majority. They include something for every
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