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Flight, January 6, 1916 i) v. First Aero Weekly in the World. Founder and Editor: STANLEY SPOONER. A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ROYAL AERO CLUB OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. No. 367. (Wo. 1, Vol. VIII.)] JANUARY 6, 1916. ["Weekly. Price Id I Post Free, ljd. FMtfh*. Editorial Office: 44, ST. MARTIN'S LANE, LONDON, W.C. Telegrams: Truditur, Westrand, London. Telephone: Gerrard 1828. Annual Subscription Kates, Post Free. United Kingdom ... 6s. 6d. Abroad iif. od. CONTENTS. • p. Editorial Comment: 1916 Roll of Honour British Air Services Honours for the R.N. A.S Constructional Details... Royal Aero Club. Official Notices From the British Flying Grounds A Mid-Air Battle Aircraft Work at the Front. Official Information A " Popular " Type Aeroplane Design Armchair Reflections. By " The Dreamer" Eddies. By"./Eolus" Aircraft and the War ... Lighter than Air Models Legal Intelligence 14 16 18 »3 »S •A; EDITORIAL COMMENT. HE announcement in our last issue of 1915 that, commencing with January 6th, the price of " FLIGHT " would be one penny per week instead of threepence, appears to have struck a very distinct note of satisfaction in many unexpected directions. Communications which have reached us upon the change are very encouraging, as demonstrating that the reduction to the lower price is indeed " a long felt want." It is a matter for surprise that an apparently so small a matter to the individual should make so great a difference, but it is evidently a fact that has to be accepted, that one penny is a matter of indifference to the million—whilst three pennies is an expenditure for quite serious consideration when it is recurrent at weekly intervals. We are, therefore, all the more satisfied that we have been able to give the advan tage to our supporters now that the commercial position of the industry has been placed upon a sufficiently solid foundation as to ensure its steady 1916. development. Although events have moved so rapidly in the past stages of Aviation Development, we have the most sanguine confidence that the future has even greater surprises in store in the same direction. The more the work of aircraft is studied and realised, the more certain is it to our mind that the controlling power in this world of ours in the years to come, will be that country which possesses, without fear of dispute, the supremacy of the air. And it is up to the British Empire to see that she is in that position, as she now is supreme on the sea, against the time, when it comes, for enforcing respect to British ideals of justice and freedom for the world's nations, large and small, should that freedom ever be challenged again by such another shameful combination as the Central European powers. The year nineteen hundred and sixteen will undoubtedly see even more advance in the compelling influence of aircraft than the year just past has evolved. There are no limits in our view to the enormous proportions to which in years to come the expansion of the navigation of the air will rise. That the present year will produce some slight reflections of what the future may have in store for aviation is equally certain. Under existing conditions all efforts will and should be directed to the perfecting and increasing of aircraft for offensive and defensive purposes — and the pity of it. But anything that tends to bring about more efficient and more stable machines cannot but help leave a grand legacy in its wake for the craft that will naturally follow in the coming days of peace. The daily growing experience gained from the ever-increasing demands made upon our Flying Services, however one may deplore the means, must necessarily help forward the art of navigation of the air, when in calmer times a more extended attention can be given to the sporting and commercial sides of the newly-born industry. Merely by way of inviting a more widespread and individual interest in this direction, elsewhere in the pages of "FLIGHT" this week is commenced a series of articles upon the Design of a " Popular" Type Aeroplane. In these articles, the endeavour will C
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