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1959
1959 - 0051.PDF
FLIGHT, 2 January 1959 13 Stanley Spooner—founder-editor of "Flight"—portrayed a few years before his death in 1940 An Historical Outline of "Flight's" Progress Over the Years, Marking our Golden Jubilee NOW WE ARE FIFTY ON this day fifty years ago—January 2, 1909—the firstissue of Flight was published. Strictly speaking, it wasnot the very first issue to be prepared: in order to establish copyright, certain pages of The Automotor "journal, which had formerly been dealing with aeronautics as a side- line, were bound up in Flight covers and deposited at the British Museum. But that is a mere technicality of publishing. Our founder was Stanley Spooner, who died in 1940, and his first leader showed that he was a man who knew what he was about. He wrote : — "It is not as a youthful stranger—entirely unknown to the aero-nautic world—that we seek to introduce ourselves to everyone who is taking a special interest in mechanical flight; but rather isit as the dutiful offspring of a journal, which has for long earned On the left, below, is the front cover of the first of a tew issues published during 1908 to establish copyright. The contents were pages of "The Automotor Journal" dealing with aeronautics. The second picture shows the frontispiece of the first issue available to the public, dated January 2, 1909. Illustrated is one of Lord Brabazon's earliest flights, at Issy FLIGHT A Journal devoted to the Interests/ Prank*, and Protfrw** af -»"*»-— -- Aerial Loc&metlan a*S< Transport. -——'———.•'—.—,—• LORRAINEDIETRICH MASS CARS 71, UU6«»&«S IW>ftO, - tw>rrm« witu w. RENAULT A. OAM. & Co , BENZ I ROLLS-ROYCE A JmtfMl tfevuted to the Interests, Practice, and Pnttfraui «ff AcrinJ Locomotion and Transport
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