Aviation

Abstract

THE successful aviation week recently concluded at Rheims should do much to popularise aviation, if that subject is not sufficiently popular already. The large number of newspapers and periodicals devoted to aerial navigation is, however, sufficient evidence of the amount of public interest which centres round the new form of locomotion. At a railway bookstall at Tarbes, in the Pyrenees, a few weeks back, the present writer saw no fewer than five different papers devoted to flying machines. Possibly the number of such journals is equal to, even greater than, or at any rate comparable with, the number of successful flights that have been performed; it certainly appears as if the frequency with which a new journal comes out is not small in proportion to the frequency of aeronautical successes. Indeed, at the present rate, the assigning of new titles to these journals will soon take the form of a problem in permutations and combinations.