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1922
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LONDON TERMINAL AERODROME JULY 27, 1922 Monday evening, July 24. DESPITE usual, but inexplicable, fluctuations, passenger traffic on the various London-continental air routes continues to show signs of a definite improvement, and air-line managers are beginning to take quite an optimistic view of the situation, though the riyalry between the different lines remains as keen as ever. Alterations are being made in the times of one or two of the services. The K.L.M- resume their 10 a.m. service to Rotterdam and Amsterdam today, and will cease running the 6.15 a.m. early morning monoplane which was put on to supply newspapers for the conference at the Hague. The Instone Air Line, now that they are in a somewhat better position as to machines, are resuming their mid-morning service to Brussels, and one of their machines will in future leave the air-station for Brussels at 11.45 a.m. A striking example of the value of the air services to provincial business men was afforded on Wednesday, when a Liverpool business man- travelled to Paris on the 5.30 a.m. Daimler newspaper machine. He remained at business in Liverpool right up to the end of the day on Tuesday evening, and, in fact, did not leave Liverpool until after gp.m., reaching London at about 4 a.m. on Wednesday morning. A car was waiting at the station to take him to Croydon, and he was in Paris before 8 a.m. This is a striking illustration of the value of the air services in connection with the night trains from the provinces, and it is a point which the various air services might do well to take up. The advantages offered by air travel on-the existing lines are far greater in the case of provincial business, i>oth passenger and goods, than is the , case with London, and it would," perhaps, pay one of'the ; air-lines to concentrate; on an effort to get provincial business. The Instone Air Line-have now obtained delivery of three Yickers " Vulcans," and all of them have been put on service. This machine is known to the staffs at the air-station by the familiar name of " The Flying Pig," and it certainly is the - most peculiar-looking machine on any of the services. Whims of an American Passenger MR. YOUELL left for Penzance with an American passenger who wished to see " the end of Britain," on Friday morning ; but, after arriving at Yeovil, his passenger expressed a desire I to see Birmingham instead. Humouring him in this strange fancy, Mr. Youell flew on to Birmingham, and arrived back at Croydon on Saturday evening. During the week-end, the Surrey Flying Services were busy taking up 55. joy-riders, although the weather spoilt business again, and the crowds were by no means as large as could have been wished. The Surrey Flying Services have now three Avros available for taxi work and joy-rides. Two of these are fitted with 120 h.p. Clergets, and the other with an 80 h.p. Renault. Commander Perrin, of the Aero Club, was at the air-station on Saturday with a bundle of posters announcing the Aerial Derby. He tells me that it is expected that both Sadi Lecointe and Kirsch will take part in the race, which will once again assume an international character. Mileage Figures from Amsterdam THE K.L.M. announce that the machines entering and leaving their aerodrome at Amsterdam have now flown a total distance of 1,000,000 kms. This total includes the machines that were flown by Airco and Handley Page in conjunction with the K.L.M. in the early days, and also the machines operated by the French companies on the Paris- Amsterdam route. The newspapers which now go to Paris each morning at 5.30 a.m. on one of the Daimler D.H-34's, had a remarkably rapid trip on Monday last. From the moment of leaving the air-station at Croydon to the actual delivery at the Paris office, by motor-car from Le Bourget, the time was only 2 hours 7 minutes. The Napier-engined Handley Page W.8 made a rapid journey to Paril on Wednesday, taking only 1 hour 42 minutes by the official messages. This was claimed in the daily newspapers as a record for a passenger machine. It is certainly a record for a twin-engined machine, but is away behind the times made by single-engined passenger machines. A Napier-engined Airco 16, piloted by Mr. Powell, accom plished the journey between London and Paris in 1 hour 26 minutes, while a similar machine, on an entirely different occasion, flew from Paris to Croydon in 1 hour 27 minutes. On Monday morning, Maj.-Gen. Sir W. S.- Brancker, Director of Civil Aviation, visited the aerodrome in order to perform the opening ceremony in connection with the new repair and test shops of the Daimler Airways. Taking as his text, onepf the Daimler D.H.34 " expresses," which those who attended the function inspected with great interest, and which has, during th« last three months, flown a distance of .53,000 miles. Gen. Brancker made some very pertinent observations. One thing he said was that he believed that in three years' time commercial aviation would be on a paying, unsubsidised basis, and that in ten years there would be a widespread network of airways throughout the Empire. One specially notable fact in connection with the Daimler " express," which has put up the 53,000 miles record in three months, is that official inspection has shown it to be, if anything, in better flying trim than it was on the day on which it first began flying between London and Paris. Weather Forecasts from France by Wireless WEATHER forecasts issued by the French Meteorological Office are now being received by wireless and exhibited side by side with the forecasts issued by our Meteorological Office on the 'drome. A typewritten notice alongside these fore casts calls attention to the fact that no responsibility is accepted by the " meteor " people on this side of the Channel for any statement contained in the French forecasts. Some of the K.L.M. monoplanes are now to be fitted with wireless sets similar to those fitted to the British machines. In fact, I am told that they are to be fitted by the British Marconi Company and will be maintained in repair from Croydon. It is acknowledged that the wireless sets which are fitted to the British machines are far in advance of any others throughout the world. There is a persistent rumour at the air-station that the Instone Air Line are about to open a.service to Cologne as an extension of their London-Brussels service. It is also rumoured that they are at the same time to close their service to Paris. I— A WAY|THEY HAVE IN MEXICO : A test for sound judgment and nicety of control employed at the Valbuena Military Flying School. The pilot has to fly close to a man on the ground, who holds up a pole with a hat on the top, and knock the hat off with the wing tip ! 428
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