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1923 - 0459.PDF
AtTGUST 2, 1923 AIR SERVICES IN QUEENSLAND IT is encouraging to learn of good air missionary workin various units of the British Empire. From Western Australia we received the note recently published, and anotherinteresting record also comes from Mr. C. J. Hazlett, dated from the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services,Longreach, Queensland. Moreover, it will be noted Mr. Hazlett has seen that his communication has reached us bythe Queensland Air-Mail Service. He writes :— " Reading a paragraph in one of your recent issues aboutair mail stamps and inviting correspondence, the following letter, sent by our air mail service, may, I hope, fill a corner. (100 Dyak), a B.E.2 E. Our hopes of something up to datehave been ' knocked rotten ' by the total failure of one of the modern machines to come up to performance. No doubt youhave heard all about her arrival here and refusal to climb much above the chimney tops, so I won't talk about her. Exceptthat she has flown back to Melbourne, and then back to her constructors, I expect. '' The Company was to have standardised on these machines,and we are all very disappointed at her failure, as she is a beautiful job. " The most successful machine in this hot dry climate has AIR SERVICES IN QUEENSLAND: On the left, the ancient D.H.4 " still going strong" with the Queensland Northern Territory Aerial Services, and, on the right, reconditioning the «l4" with new 3-ply. "The climate shakes up the old 'buses during the summer," writes Mr. Cecil J. Hazlett, who is seen in the foreground. " I am a ground engineer employed in the service of thiscompany since its start last October. " We carry the mails between Cloncurry and Charleville,a distance of 600 miles, and run a service each way once a week. I am at present on the run between here and Charle-ville and leave tomorrow morning. We split the through trip of 600 miles into two hops. The northern run of 315 milesfrom Cloncurry to here (Longreach) is maintained by a D.H.4 (R.-R. Eagle VIII), and the southern end from here toCharleville, 285 miles, by a Bristol fighter (converted), with a 300 h.p. Hispano. " We have got all types of 'planes here, ancient and semi-modern, including an A.W. F K.8 (160 Beardmore), an Avro been the D.H.4, of which I enclose a snap, with the workshopin the background. She has run between here and Cloncurry with clockwork regularity for over six months now. Infact, until we recently acquired the Bristol Hispano, she practically carried the service on her back. She is by nomeans new (built in 1918), and we have rebuilt practically every part, but the longerons, but she is going as good as new." The technical staff consists of four engine fitters, one woodworker and rigger, and three pilots. As we have main-tained this service since October last with three converted war machines, at 100 per cent, efficiency, I think it goes to showwhat a future lies in civil aviation when it is given a chance to expand." - ROYAL AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY NOTICES V Chairman 1923-24.—Mr. Alec Ogilvie, C.B.E.,F.R.Ae.S., has been elected Chairman of the Society for the year 1923-24, in succession toProfessor Leonard Bairstow, C.B.E., F.R.S., F.R.Ae.S., whose term of office expires onOctober 1. Associate Fellowship Examination.—Thesecond examination for election to the grade of Associate Fellow will be held in theSociety's Library, 7, Albemarle Street, London, W. 1, on Monday, September 24 (Part I), and onTuesday, September 25 (Part II). Intending candidates should forward entry forms (which may be obtained from theSecretary) on or before Monday, August 27, stating the subjects in which they desire to be examined. Lectures.—The following programme of lectures has beenarranged for the 59th Session, commencing in October :—• Date. •1923. Oct. 4 . Oct. 18 . Nov. 1 . Author. Lecture. . Chairman's Inaugural (Subject to be announcedLecture. later.) . Sqdn. Ldr. R. M. Hill " The Manuoevres of In-verted Flight." . Major Wimperis .. " Present Developments in Aircraft Instru-ments." Nov. Nov. Dec. 15 . 29 . 13 . 1924. Jan. Jan. Feb. Feb. Mar. Mar. April 10 . 24 . 7 . 21 . 6 . 20 . 3 . . Mr. H. R. Ricardo .. . Sqdn. Ldr. Maycock . Wing Cmdr. Edmonds . Dr. Aitchison and Mr. North. . Dr. Ramsbottom . A Representative of the University ofTokio. . Mr. H. Hamshaw Thomas. . Major Tucker . Capt. W. S. Farren .. . Colonel the Master of Sempill. .: " The Thermodynamicsof Aircraft Engines " " Airmanship at Sea." " Air Strategy." " Materials from the Aeronautical Point ofView." " Fabric and Dopes." (Subject to be announced later.) " Aerial Photography and Survey." " Sound Detection." " The Report of the Aeronautical ResearchCommittee's Panel on Scale Effect." " The British Aviation Mission to the Imperial 459 Japanese Navy." W. LOCKWOOD MARSH, Secretary.
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