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1937
1937 - 1645.PDF
AIRCRAFT ENGINEER AND AIRSHIPS TRST AERONAUTICATWEEKLY IN JHE^WORLD .- FOUNDED WOO Editor C. M. POULSEN Managing Editor G. GEOFFREY SMITH Chief Photographtt JOHN YOXALL Editorial, Advertising and Publishing Offices -. DORSET Telegranu : Tmditur, Sedist, London. HERTFORD ST., COVENTRY. Telegrams : Autocar, Coventry. Telephone: Coventry 5210. GUILDHALL BUILDIXOS, NAVIGATION ST., BIRMINGHAM, 2. Telegrams: Autopress, Birmingham. Telephone: Midland 2971. SUBSCRIPTION RATES-. Home and Canada: Other Countries: Year, £1 Year, £1 HOUSE, STAMFORD STREET, LONDON, S.E.I Telephone : Waterloo 3333 (SO lines). •Jl',0, DBANKOATB. MANCHESTER, 3: Telegrams: lliffe, Manchester. Telephone Blackfriars 4412. 20B, RENFIELD ST., GLASGOW, 0.2. Telegrams: lliffe, Glasgow. Telephone: Central 4857. 13 o. 16 0. 6 month:. 16s. 6d. 6 months, 18s. Od. 8 months, 8s. 6d. 3 months, 9s. Od, No. 1487. Vol. XXXI. JUNE 24, 1937. Thursdays, Price 6d. The (coronation Display ONCE again Hendon day approaches and the thoughts of everybody turn to the chances of -fine weather for the great occasion. With few exceptions the R.A.F. Displays have been very fortunate, and mostly the sun has shone and everything has been glorious. May next Saturday be one of the best, and may the ladies' dresses which have survived Ascot make bright the enclosures at the aerodrome with no chrysalis-like mackintpshes and umbrellas to mar the butterfly-effect! One can hardly refrain from quoting Macaulay's line: "Unto "the great Twin Brethren hold we this solemn feast:" In -this case the names of the great Twin Brethren are Coronation and Expansion. Both will be honoured on Saturday, for this will be the greatest and most significant of all the R.A.F. Displays ever held. In the. first place, this is the Coronation Display, and our airman' King will by his presence there make it the occasion'of a Royah review and inspection of the Royal Air Force. It will rank in importance with the great naval review recently held in the Solent. _ Yet it will not interfere with the progress of the expansion of the Force, as a separate review would certainly do. At Hendon the King will see the best that his youngest fighting service can achieve, and yet everything done will be in the way of normal, useful work designed to increase the flying abilities and the fighting capacity of that Service. The Coronation has brought to this country a vast multitude of visitors from, the Dominions and Colonies, as well as from foreign countries. The majority of them are still in, Great Britain, and without doubt they will flock to Hendon in their thousands. The fame of the flying marvels to be seen there each year has spread to every corner of the British Empire and of the world, and even the least air-minded person who loves a good show has longed, when reading the accounts of Hendon in the papers of Melbourne, Auckland, Capetown, Ottawa, Calcutta, and the other great cities of the Em pire, to have affiance of witnessing such a wonderful spectacle with his or her own eyes. For many of them the chance has now come, and they will certainly take advantage of it. All of the great Dominions have Air Forces of their own, and their pilots fly right well. But money and time have been lacking to bring any Dominion Air Force up to the standard of the Royal Air Force in numbers and in equipment. Skilful flying has been seen at air displays in all the Dominions, and they will have set a standard by which those who have seen them will be able to appreciate the quality of the Hen don masterpiece. Unprecedented Numbers For the dwellers in the British Isles also this year's Display has a special significance because of the expan sion of the Air Force which is now in progress and all the interest which it has aroused. Last year the work of expansion affected the character of the Display. Its effect was to curtail the number of aircraft congregated at Hendon, because more could not be spared from the work of bringing new squadrons to birth and of train ing new pilots and new aircraftmen. Incidentally, the quality of the show last year did not suffer through the small numbers of machines engaged, and the Display was one of unusual interest. This year, however, the position has changed. Expansion has now produced some of its effect; the Air Force is already much larger than it was last June, and now an unprecedented num ber of squadrons and machines can be sent to Hendon without doing any harm to the work of expansion. Together with an increase in size has come an out standing increase in the quality of the machines which are. being supplied to the R.A.F. The public has read in the daily papers something about the remarkable per formances of which the Blenheim, the Battle, the Wellesley, the Harrow, and the Whitley are capable, and they have seen some photographs of the types pub-
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