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APRIL 19, 1923 coining to be recognised as standard equipment for this class©f non-rigid airships. Two union motors of 120 h.p. each are used, mounted onWingfoot type outriggers, after a plan successfully carried out on tests on other ships last year. Radio equipment iscarried and a full supply ol modern type parachutes, one tor each member of the crew. The new " J " Type has an envelope of 173,000 cubic feet •-• ?-'...-.,. •- •••'•••'• .-•->-' mm capacity, 168 it. long and 45 ft. in diameter, with a speed of 45 to 60 m.p.h., giving a cruising radius of from 1,000 to 1,300 miles with full military load. A crew of seven persons is carried, consisting of the pilot, coxswain, radio operator, and observers. Reconnaissance work along the coast and between ships at sea and the spotting of sub- marines is expected to be the chief work of this new airship " J-i." LONDON TERMINAL AERODROME " ' ' Monday evening, April 16 PASSENGER traffic continues to grow, especially on the London- Paris route, and Handley Page Transport are making strenuous efforts to deal with the big influx. They are running their machines there and back each day, and have during the week carried a tremendous number of passengers in com- parison to the number of machines employed on the route. The Air Union continues to send large numbers of machines between London and Paris, and their fleet of motor-vans has had to be considerably augmented. Final* arrangements have now been made for the running of what might be termed the North European Trunk Airway, a satisfactory agreement having been arrived at between the Daimler Airway, the Royal Dutch Air Service, the Aero- Uoyd of Germany and the Danish Aviation Co. The full- time-table will be put into operation on April 30, and will mean three services a day between London and Amsterdam in each direction at 8.30 a.m., 9.30 a.m. and 12.25 p.m. respectively from London. The 8.30 a.m. will be one of the machines of the Royal Dutch Air Service which will stop at Amsterdam, while the 9.30 a.m. will be a Daimler with a through connection at Amsterdam with the German machines to Berlin. Every Monday the 9.30 a.m. Daimler machine will run right through to Berlin, returning to London the following day, while a German machine will leave Berlin each Monday morning and arrive in London the same evening, returning to Berlin every Tuesday. The 12.25 p.m. will also be a Daimler machine, and will get passengers into Amsterdam in time to catch the night train to Copenhagen, which will connect with a daily air service from Hamburg to Copen- hagen, leaving the former place at 9 a.m. and arriving in Copenhagen at 11 a.m. At present there is no through connection to Berlin, but the Manchester time-table has been so re-arranged that in the opposite direction, i.e., from Berlin to Manchester, there will be a definite through connection. Passengers can leave Berlin any morning at 8.30 a.m., arriving in London at 5.55 p.m.. and catch the 6.15 p.m. Manchester " air express," which is scheduled to alight at Manchester at 8.15 p.m. The through fare from London to Berlin has been fixed at £6 10s., and from Manchester to Berlin £8 15s. The only section of the route on which freight will be carried is the London-Amsterdam portion. On the rest of this airway a purely passenger traffic is being catered for. It •will also be possible for passengers wishing to travel through to Moscow to catch the night train at Berlin for Konisberg, and travel from thence by air to Moscow, arriving at the latter place the day following the departure from London. The Royal Tournament THE Royal Tournament will open at Olympia on May 24 and will close on June 9. As usual, a very attractive pro- gramme on new lines has ,been arranged, and it is hoped to secure a good surplus for the Service charities. The pageant this year will depict the rise and development of the Scottish clans, introducing the great chieftains of history and culmi- nating in the march of the present-day clans as represented by the Highland regiments headed by their pipers. A display that will be especially interesting is to be given by the Air Defence Brigade, and will show an airship in flight attacked by aeroplanes. We understand this will be a wonderfully clever piece of staging, and if one doubts the ability to place a small airship in Olympia it can be recalled that the Navy put a " Q" ship in the arena last year. The cavalry will be represented in the displays by the 12th Royal Lancers, and the artillery by the famous old- 3rd Battery. The Army will give a physical training display on fresh lines, and the R.A.S.C. demonstrate riding and driving. The Royal Navy will have gun teams in the arena. The jumping competitions will be for the King's Cup and the Prince of Wales's new Cup, while the skill -at-arms cham- Film Drama at the 'Drome THE aerodrome staff were intensely interested in the performance of some cinema people who came down during the week in order to film certain portions of a movie drama which had to do with the air. The Instone Air Line had placed one of its De Havilland machines at the disposal of the producer, and an interested audience witnessed the heroine's escape by air from the pursuit of the villain. The players had a busy time, and went through their parts no fewer than eight times, the producer shouting himself hoarse with instructions in the meantime, and many of the people on the aerodrome immediately relinquished all their ambitions of becoming film stars. Major E. L. Foot, who has since the commencement of civil aviation been associated with the Handley Page Trans- port, is leaving the firm to take jip a position as test pilot with the Bristol Aviation Co. Here he will have an oppor- tunity of flying one of the fastest machines yet produced in England, and the aerodrome will still, it is hoped, have many visits from him on the occasion of race meetings. Mr. Youell, who has for the past twelve months been acting as joy-ride pilot for the Surrey Flying Services, has now joined the Daimler Airway in place of Mr. Herne, who is leaving for America to join the little band of " sky-writers out there. A Honeymoon Air Special CONSIDERABLE interest was caused during the week by a "special," booked through the Daimler Airway, which was engaged to fly a honeymoon couple from Gidea Park to Hindhead. The machine was to have returned to Croydon after its flight, and the night-lights were burning well into the evening in anticipation of its return. It was not, in fact, until after much telephoning that it was finally learned \ that the pilot had decided to stay the night at Churt, where he had alighted at the end of his flight. The K.L.M. have spent a busy time during the winter improving their Fokker monoplanes. Instead of sending these back to the factory they have employed their personnel, which would otherwise have been considerably reduced during the winter, to make these alterations. The cabin has been appreciably enlarged, and, instead of the heavy upholstered chairs, wicker-chairs conforming more to general airway practice have been installed, and the machines can now accommodate six passengers with far greater comfort and more room per passenger than the previous five which they were arranged for. • m • m •• - --- •' • •'.-' pionships of the three Services will be fought out between the elected district champions. W for Wright UNDER the International Air Navigation Convention of „ 1919 American (U.S.) civil aircraft are allotted the nationality letter N. America has not yet ratified the I.A.C., and in the meantime Norway, which has neither signed nor ratified the Convention, has adopted the same letter. Our American contemporary Aviation suggests that inasmuch as the letter W is one of the radio call letters allotted to the United States (N is also another), it would be a gracious act of homage to the Wright brothers if the United States adopted this letter as its nationality mark for aircraft. . . . _„••-".-.-• - ~ Aero Golfing Society THE Spring Meeting of the Aero Golfing Society will be ,r held at the Hadleigh Wood Golf Club, near Barnet, on Thurs- day, April 26, 1923, when the competition for the Society's Spring Challenge Cup, presented by the proprietors of FLIGHT, will be held. Entries should be sent to Mr. Harold E. Perrin, Royal Aero Club, 3, Clifford Street, London, W. 1, by Monday, April 23. 210
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