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1940
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558 JUNE 27, 1940 Troops on shore and ships in the narrow seas provided a multitude of targets, and it was inevitable that the bombers should do a certain amount of damage. But the British fighters also had not to search for their quarry. It came to them. They could not give com- plete protection—that is always impossible—but they so reduced the damage that an evacuation which in theory should have been out of the question was, in fact, successfully' carried out. The tactics of the German night raiders over Britain were the exact opposite to those employed over Dun- kerque. The raiders made no attempt at concentrated bombing. Consequently, though they escaped heavy losses, they did comparatively litt'e damage. Air TransportationT HE announcement by British Overseas Airways that the Empire route between Durban and Sydney is again in operation came remarkably promptly. It followed a few days of suspension of British air transport on the overseas routes, subsequent to Italy's declaration of war. We hope that a way may be found to connect this route to England and so to maintain our air communications with our own aircraft. The relation of Italian and other enemy territory to our routes in the Mediterranean and Africa is shown in an article on page 562. In the meantime, the long-awaited Pan American service from San Francisco to New Zealand, when it starts on July 12, will give us an air-mail link between this "outpost of democracy ' and our farthest "outpost of Empire." From New Zealand the trans-Tasman ser- vice is running regularly to Australia, and so the line of communication is complete. We must be thankful to our American cousins that we are able to use their air services at a time like this, but the situation reminds us how urgent is our need to establish, on a firm basis and for all time, our own air routes all round the world as soon as the present war will allow us. The last instalment of Dr. Cox's lecture on civil aviation appears in this issue, and we can do no better than take the path he has indicated. In the second instalment, published last week, he out- lined the development work which must be done, and provided useful graphs on stowage volume which clearly indicated the field of size in which the all-wing aeroplane might be expected to appear. He also dealt with the question of landplane or flying boat. In this concluding instalment Dr. Cox writes of the organisation needed for research and development, and also that very important subject, education. He has some things to sa ' on the economics of aviation which we have never heard anyone else sa 7, and they give one a brief glimpse of the work which is ahead. Every sentence of this lecture is packed full of valuable thought, and Flight has only been able to give a very-much-con- tracted version of the original. Those interested are urged to obtain a copy of the Journal of the Royal Aero- nautical Society when the full paper is published. Royal Canadian A ir Force photograph. A CHANCE FOR COMPARISONS. A Curtiss P-40 with 1,100 h.p. Allison engine and a Supermarine Spitfire with Rolls-RoyceMerlin on the tarmac at Uplands Airport, Ottawa. After this picture was taken the two machines were flown together, the American piloted by an officer of the Royal Canadian Air Force, a.-d the Spitfire by an officer of the U.S. Army Air Corps. Theoccasion was a visit to Canada by technical officers of the U.S. Army Air Corps. They flew from Dayton, Ohio, in a Douglas.
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