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NOVEMBER 20, 1924 AIR MINISTRY NOTICES Croydon Aerodrome : Aircraft Departure Signal THE signal whereby aircraft are given permission to " Take off "at the Croydon aerodrome is now as follows : When the aircraft is visible from the Control Tower, per mission to depart will be given from the Tower by an orange coloured light directed at the aircraft specified. When the aircraft is not visible from the Tower, a red flag will be waved from a position visible to the pilot of the aircraft. (No. 109 of 1924.) Publication of " The Air Pilot: Great Britain " 1. INFORMATION regarding the conditions affecting civil aviation in this country, and the facilities available, is con tained in an Air Ministry publication entitled The Air Pilot : Great Britain, which has been published today by H.M. Stationery Office, price £1 12s. 6d. net. 2. The Air Pilot has a loose-leaf system of binding to facilitate the insertion of amendments and additions. The scope of the book is indicated by the following brief synopsis of the contents : •- Chapter I.—Regulation and Administration of Civil Aviation. Historical and International—International Convention for Air Navigation—Air Navigation Act, 1920—Air Navigation Orders and Directions—Registration of Aircraft and Certifi cates of Airworthiness—Licensing of Personnel—Licensing of Aerodromes, etc. Chapter II.—General Information and Instructions. Insurance—Visas—Warnings issued by W/T—Notification of landing on Overseas flights—Swinging of aircraft com passes, etc. Chapter III.—Climate. Characteristics of the climate of Great Britain. Chapter IV.—Pilotage Directions. Air Routes—Customs—Prohibited Areas—General Safety Provisions—Danger Areas—Special warnings—Air Pilotage Marks—Visual signals—Lighthouses, etc. Chapter V.—Air Stations. List and classification of Air Stations—Conditions governing use of Government aerodromes and scale of charges—Indica tion of bad ground at Government aerodromes—Air Station schedules, comprising detailed descriptions and maps of all air stations open to civil aircraft in Great Britain. Appendix.—Wireless and Meteorological Services for Civil Aviation. Details of the Wireless and Meteorological organisations available in Great Britain and neighbouring countries over which British machines regularly fly. 3. The Air Pilot is complementary to the British General Sheet (provisional) of the International Aeronautical Map (G.S., G.S. (Air) 113). 4. The Air Pilot and the British Sheets of the International Aeronautical Maps will be corrected and kept up-to-date by a monthly publication entitled The Air Pilot Monthly Supplement and by Notices to Airmen. The Monthly Supple ments will contain, in addition to corrections to The Air Pilot and the maps, information with regard to facilities for civil aviation abroad and announcements in connection with the licensing of civil aviation personnel, etc. The Notices to Airmen will be confined strictly to urgent matters. 5. The Monthly Supplements will be supplied free of charge by H.M. Stationery Office to purchasers of The Air Pilot. No change will be made in the present method of distributing Notices to Airmen. 6. The Notices to Airmen issued up to date fall into three classes :— (a) Notices which have been incorporated in The Air Pilot and are hereby cancelled. (b) Notices which have already been notified as cancelled, or which need no longer be retained. (c) Notices, mainly relating to foreign countries, which will remain in force. A list of the cancelled Notices (a) and (b) and of the Notices <$> . <s> Memorial to First Air Record ON November 12 last, a granite column was unveiled in the Bois de Boulogne at Bagatelle, to mark the spot where, exactly 18 years ago, the Brazilian aviator, Santos Dumont, created the first official record for a flight with a heavier-than- air machine. The ceremony was performed by M. Laurent Eynac, French Under-Secretary for Air, and M. Santos Dumont was himself present. This flight, which was recorded at the time in our sister journal, The Automotor Journal, for November 17, 1906, and was illustrated in the following issue remaining in force (c) is given in an Index to Notices to Airmen issued simultaneously with this Notice. 7. Notices to Airmen (or portions thereof) the substance of which is incorporated in issues of the Monthly Supplement will be notified as cancelled in a monthly amendment to the Index to Notices referred to above. 8. The Air Pilot is obtainable at the following Sales Offices of H.M. Stationery Office :— London, Adastral House, Kingsway, W.C. 2 ; and 28, Abingdon Street, S.W. 1. Manchester, York Street. Cardiff, 1, St. Andrew's Crescent. Edinburgh, 120, George Street; or through any bookseller. The Britain General Sheet of the International Aero nautical Maps may be purchased (price 4s., paper ; 4s. 6d., linen-backed) at the Map Agents, and also at the Sales Offices of H.M. Stationerv Office, above mentioned. No. 114 of 1924. Manchester Aerodrome 1. MANCHESTER (Alexandra Park) aerodrome having been relinquished, the following amendments are made to the Air Pilot : Great Britain :— Page 42, List A, delete " Manchester (C)."» Pages 117-119, delete Schedule with map and plan of Man chester. 2. A site for an aerodrome at Woodford, near Manchester, has been acquired by A. V. Roe and Co., Ltd. The following particulars of this site are available :— Class.—Private aerodrome (at present unlicensed). Position.—Latitude 53° 20' N., Longitude 2° 09' W. Situated N. of River Dean, § mile S.E. of the village of Woodford, 3 miles E. by N. of Wilmslow and 10J miles S.S.E. of the centre of Manchester. Description.—The surface is at present mixed farm land, but is suitable for use by small aircraft, and will ultimately be suitable for all types of machines. Height above sea level.—300 ft. approx. Accommodation, etc.—Three large hangars are being trans ferred from the old aerodrome at Alexandra Park. No petrol, oil, repair facilities or personnel are available. Owners.—A. V. Roe and Co., Ltd., Newton Heath, Man chester. 3. A detailed schedule with map of the new aerodrome will be published in the Air Pilot Monthly Supplement when the organisation of the aerodrome is more complete. (No. 115 of 1924.) GROUND ENGINEERS. Inspectional Markings on Aircraft and/or Aero Engine Details and Components 1. ALL aircraft for which an Air Ministry Certificate of Airworthiness is desired are required to have all detail parts and components suitably marked in accordance with the provisions of paras. 20 and 21 of A.N.D.3. These markings take the form of legible impressions of a stamp on the part or component whereby the individual responsible for the inspection thereof may be readily identified. Similarly, when repairs, replacements, or overhauls are undertaken to aircraft in possession of an Air Ministry Certificate of Airworthiness, Ground Engineers licensed in categories B. and D. must ensure that all new detail parts and components used on the aircraft bear inspectional markings. 2. These inspectional markings signify :— (a) That there is definite evidence that all materials used and the processes of manufacture involved have been pre viously approved by an authorised inspector (see Notice to Ground Engineers No. 7 of the year 1922) ; (b) That the material is free from defects so far as can be determined by visual examination ; (c) That the workmanship is satisfactory as regards quality, truth and final assembly ; and (d) In the case of assembled components that the assembly is complete and bears the necessary inspectional markings. (No. 10 of 1924.) <S> <!> (November 24), was made in a " Canard " or tail-first box-kite arrangement driven by a 24 h.p. Levavasseur engine. The machine flew 220 m. (240 yds.) at a height of about 20 ft., and remained in the air for 21| sec. By this flight, Santos Dumont won the Archdeacon Cup. Basra War Cross AIR-COMMODORE DOWDING, on November 11, unveiled a War Cross erected by the Imperial War Graves Commission, as Basra Cemetery—the service being held at a parade of Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force units. 734
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