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January 10, 19-35 AIRCRAFT ENGINEER AND AIRSHIPS bounded in 1909 FIRST AERONAUTICALC1VEEKLY IN THE^WORLD OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB No. 1359. Vol. XXVII. JANUARY 10, 1935 Thursdays, Price 6d. By Post, 7Jd. Editorial, Advertising and Publishing Offices: DORSET HOUSE, STAMFORD STREET, LONDON, S.E.I Telegrams : Truditur. Watloc, London. Telephone : Hop 3333 (SO lines) HERTFORD ST., COVENTRY. Telegrams: Autocar, Coventry. Telephone: Coventry 5210. GUILDHALL BUILDING8, NAVIGATION ST., BIRMINGHAM, 2, Telegrams: Autopress, Birmingham. Telephone: Midland 2971. 260, DBANSGATE MANCHESTER 3. Telegrams: Iliffe, Manchester. Telephone : Blackfriars 4412. 26B, RENFIELD ST., GLASGOW, C.2. Telegrams: Hiffo, Glasgow Tel»phone: Central 4857 suBSCRrfnoR RATES : Home and Canada : Year, £1 13 0. Other Conntries : Year, £1 15 0. 6 months, 16s. 6d. 6 months, 17s. 6d. 3 months, 8s. 3d. 3 months, 8s. 9d. Desires and Hopes WHAT will 1935 bring forth to the world of fry ing? There are many things which we should like to see brought to pass in this year. First and foremost comes satisfactory progress with the programmes for Empire air lines and for R.A.F. expansion. We should also like to see a really sensible scheme of internal air lines and airports drawn up. We should like to see Great Britain recover some of the important world records, e.g., speed, altitude, and dis tance. Very emphatically we want to see appropriate and adequate steps taken to reduce the dangers of the power grid. With equal emphasis we want to see th<j tax on aviation petrol removed, or drastically reduced. Aids to bad weather flying by means of wireless control need development. The rules for the control of civil flying ought to be simplified. Of less general applica tion, but very desirable, is a good railway connection between Croydon and central London. We feel sure that during the year further investiga tion of a commercial air route across the Atlantic will be made, and in this connection we may mention the Mayo composite aircraft as holding out considerable promise. Likewise we feel that we need hardly call for energetic research for the development of a British controllable-pitch airscrew, evaporatively-cooled en gines, C.I. engines, sleeve-valve engines, and direct- injection engines. This research is certain to take place. More work will also doubtless be done on devices for widening the speed-range, such as flaps and slots. Much work has been done lately on increasing the speed of military aircraft, but still more needs to be done, and there is plenty of scope for effort in the direction of cleaning up these machines. Aeroplanes for the private owner are already good, but we may hope to see them still better by the end of I935. and if they could be turned out much cheaper than in the past flying would receive a great impetus. To those who wish to learn to fly but cannot afford to learn at a flying club, we would point out the desira bility of joining the R.A.F. Reserve as a sergeant-pilot and being taught to fly ab initio at the public expense. Men who pursue this course benefit by receiving free training, while they do a service to the State and help to make Great Britain more secure. In 1935 we want to see the R.A.F. Reserve expanded far beyond all previous limits. Such are some of our hopes; they are surely not extravagant. Anti-Air craft Units B ELOW we give extracts from Air Defence, by Major General E. B. Ashmore, which was published in 1929. It is perhaps unnecessary to remind our readers that Gen. Ashmore was in command of all the air defences of London at the end of the War, and afterwards was in command of the ground troops of air defence and was appointed In spector of Anti-Aircraft. He therefore has full know ledge of the subject, though he was an officer of the Army and not of the R.A.F. The organisation of the (ground) defences has, in fact, shown a fundamental weakness, due to divided responsi bility between the War Office and Air Ministry. . . . The ground troops have two masters pulling in opposite direc tions; the R.A.F. only want them efficient, the War Office only want them cheap. The Observer Corps . . . was handed over to the Air Ministry at the beginning of 1929. The sooner the rest of the ground organisation, the anti aircraft guns and searchlights follow the Observer Corps and come under the Air Ministry for administration and finance, as well as for operations, the better. Such a change should not involve any insuperable difficulties. The ground troops are Territorials, administered by Countv Associations; the Air Ministry has already Terri torial units of its own, administered in the same way. We are moved to make the above quotations by the news, emanating from the military correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, that a considerable part of the exist ing London Territorial divisions is to be converted into anti-aircraft units. He anticipates that 100 more search-
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