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1939 - 0259.PDF
AIRCRAFT ENGINEER FIRST AERONAUTICAL WIEKLY IN THE WORLD .- FOUNDED 1909 Editor C. M. POULSEN Managing Editor G. GEOFFREY SMITH Chief Photographer JOHN YOXALL Editorial, Advertising and Publishing Offices: DORSET HOUSE, STAMFORD STREET, LONDON, S.E.I Telegrams : Truditur. Sedist, London. Telephone : Waterloo 3333 (50 lines). 8-XO, CORPORATION ST., COVENTRY. GUILDHALL BUILDINGS, NAVIGATION ST., BIRMINGHAM, 2. Telegrams : Autocar, Coventry. Telegrams: Autopress, Birmingham. Telephone: Gmentry 5210. Telephone: Midland 2971. 260, DEANSGATB, MANCHESTER, 3. 26B, RENFIELD ST., GLASGOW, C.2. Telegrams: Iliffe, Manchester. Telegrams: Iliffe, Glasgow Telephone: Blackfriars 4412. Telephone: Central 4857." SUBSCRIPTION RATES : Home and Canada: Other Countries: Year, £1 13 0. Year, «1 16 0. 6 months, 16>. 6d. 6 months, 18s. Od. 3 months, 8s. 6d. 3 months, 9s. Od. No. 1571. Vol. XXXV. FEBRUARY 2, 1939 Thursdays, Price 6d. The Outlook.. Airports U NDER the presidency of Lord Londonderry, the fifth annual Airports Conference and its Asso ciated Airports Exhibition began yesterday morning. The conference and exhibition have been organised by the Aerodrome Owners' Association, of which Lord Londonderry is President, and yesterday some 150 delegates, including representatives of 34 municipal authorities from all parts of the British Isles were due to. discuss the report of the activities of the Aerodrome Owners' Association during the past year. Much has happened during that year, and a begin ning was made with the "rationalisation" of inland air routes. To a great extent the British network of routes is influenced by the availability or otherwise of suitable airports, so that the municipalities and other owners of aerodromes, present or prospective, are very intimately concerned. This part of the conference was, somewhat naturally, held in private, but papers on subjects of general interest to all concerned in any way with airport problems are being read, and to these will be admitted all those who have been invited to the conference and exhibition which is being held at the Central Hall, Westminster. It is to be regretted that the airports exhibition is not open to the public. That there are practical diffi culties may be readily admitted. The A.O.A. has sent invitations to those who are directly interested, and doubtless it was felt that with a limited attendance there would be better opportunity to get down to brass tacks and discuss real business than if the general public had been admitted. It is a pity that it has not been found possible to make arrangements for keeping the exhibi tion together for a few days after the "official" dura tion. The public is greatly interested, and would have flocked to the exhibition in considerable numbers. See ing for itself the tremendous trouble taken to ensure safety at airports would go a long way towards giving the public confidence in air travel, and this confidence would benefit not only the air line operators but the aerodrome owners as well. As the public is not to be brought to the exhibition, Flight is bringing the exhibition to the public by review ing in this and next week's issues the vast variety of equipment shown by 54 firms at the exhibition (and others outside it), and our readers are recommended to study carefully the pages devoted to the airports exhibi tion. In addition we publish this week several very informative articles by specialists in different branches of the increasingly complicated business of aerodrome establishment and operation. The Guessing Competition yt IRCRAFT output in the different European coun- /~\ tries has become the topic of conversation in aviation circles the world over, and scarcely a week passes but someone or other commits his ideas on the subject to print. This would not matter were it not for the fact that a figure is apt to be quoted repeatedly, and before long the figure is likely to be accepted as a fact. Now figures can be made to prove almost any thing, and by themselves—without all sorts of qualifying ifs and buts—mean very little. Nevertheless, the article which the Editor of our greatly esteemed American contemporary Aviation of New York, Mr. S. Paul Johnston, writes in the January issue of his journal is worth studying, not only because Mr. Paul Johnston travelled extensively in Europe towards the end of last year, but because he is a very shrewd observer and a very popular person in aviation circles in all countries. He may, therefore, be assumed to have been shown a good deal of what
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