THE compression‐ignition aircraft engine has arrived in practical form, but the question whether it has come to stay, or rather, whether it will completely displace the petrol…
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THE compression‐ignition aircraft engine has arrived in practical form, but the question whether it has come to stay, or rather, whether it will completely displace the petrol engine in course of time, is one on which opinion is much divided. The object of this article is to explore the question from a theoretical point of view.
THE Focke‐Wulf Flugzeugbau A.G. have recently brought out a new type, the L.102, suitable for advanced training, acrobatics, photography, touring, and sports flying, and capable…
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THE Focke‐Wulf Flugzeugbau A.G. have recently brought out a new type, the L.102, suitable for advanced training, acrobatics, photography, touring, and sports flying, and capable of conversion into a seaplane (in which form it is known as the W.102).
It has often been said that a great part of the strength of Aslib lies in the fact that it brings together those whose experience has been gained in many widely differing fields…
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It has often been said that a great part of the strength of Aslib lies in the fact that it brings together those whose experience has been gained in many widely differing fields but who have a common interest in the means by which information may be collected and disseminated to the greatest advantage. Lists of its members have, therefore, a more than ordinary value since they present, in miniature, a cross‐section of institutions and individuals who share this special interest.
WINTER set in almost with Autumn this year, and the results have been felt in libraries. Added to the season has been the monetary position of the world and the election in our…
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WINTER set in almost with Autumn this year, and the results have been felt in libraries. Added to the season has been the monetary position of the world and the election in our own country in particular. It was to be expected that the election would slow up the use of libraries, but such reports as reach us are to the opposite effect. There have been definite increases in work done. This is important in face of the budgetting difficulties of libraries that are prophesied. The enforced leisure of unemployment has fallen on many men of the distinctly employable and therefore of the reading class, and these are finding encouragement and at least a temporary escape from their plight in books and in reading rooms. They may even find some new occupational interest there; and all good librarians will exploit the opportunities which this time of stress affords to the utmost. It is most important to keep level‐headed over difficulties, which we hope may be temporary for libraries, and not to acquiesce in panic retrench‐ments while ceding what is necessary to the general welfare. We cannot cede much; we have never had a superfluity.
CAMBRIDGE did not disappoint the expectations of the more than one thousand persons who attended the conference. The organization worked without a creak in its machinery, thanks…
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CAMBRIDGE did not disappoint the expectations of the more than one thousand persons who attended the conference. The organization worked without a creak in its machinery, thanks to the work of Mr. W. A. Fenton, the Honorary Local Secretary, and his distinguished committee; the hospitality was liberal; the excursions well chosen and successful. As for the papers and addresses, which, after all, are the official reason for conferences, even if there was little that was epoch‐making, they were interesting, sometimes provocative, and almost invariably stimulating. Most of us returned to our libraries inspired and encouraged with the undoubted vitality of the library movement as manifested at Cambridge.
THE outline programme of the Library Association Conference at Cambridge has now been circulated. It is eloquent of the change that has come over the Library Association in recent…
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THE outline programme of the Library Association Conference at Cambridge has now been circulated. It is eloquent of the change that has come over the Library Association in recent years. Twenty years ago technical papers on cataloguing, binding, classification, class lists and similar matters were frequent. In this Cambridge programme questions of policy and organisation on the larger scale appear to be dominant. County libraries continue to occupy a large share of the programme. It must not be supposed, however, that the programme is not very varied, because that is its main characteristic. Literature, library architecture, publishing and bookselling from the points of view of the author, publisher, bookseller and librarian, university libraries, modern branch libraries, the place of reading in national life, and other subjects, combine very nicely with a civic reception, a garden party in a college garden, the annual dinner, and visits, at choice, to Peterborough, Bedford and Ely.
DURING the last eighteen months a large amount of my time has been devoted to the question of the establishment of municipal aerodromes in this country. In that time I have…
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DURING the last eighteen months a large amount of my time has been devoted to the question of the establishment of municipal aerodromes in this country. In that time I have inspected and reported upon some 125 sites.
IT has been suggested to me that some account of Aeronautical Research in England during the past ten years, its methods, its progress and a brief notice of the principal results…
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IT has been suggested to me that some account of Aeronautical Research in England during the past ten years, its methods, its progress and a brief notice of the principal results achieved would be of interest to the Congress.
ON landing on an aerodrome by day, a pilot must be flying into the wind in order to reduce velocity when he actually first touches ground, and therefore he requires to know in…
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ON landing on an aerodrome by day, a pilot must be flying into the wind in order to reduce velocity when he actually first touches ground, and therefore he requires to know in which direction the wind is blowing.
THE Polish aircraft firm of E. Plage i T. Laskiewicz, at Lublin, have recently produced an interesting new monoplane known as the Lublin R.X. which has been put through numerous…
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THE Polish aircraft firm of E. Plage i T. Laskiewicz, at Lublin, have recently produced an interesting new monoplane known as the Lublin R.X. which has been put through numerous tests with good results during the past winter. The constructors of this new machine are said to be the oldest manufacturers in Poland and have in the past built Ansaldo and Potez planes under license for the Polish Government. The R.X. is designed by Georges Rudlicki, who designed the two successful military machines known as the R‐VIII and R‐IX, which were the first aeroplanes to be entirely designed and built in Poland.