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1927
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FEBRUARY 17, 1927 The Air Minister's Return SIR SAMUEL HOARE and Lady Maud Hoare, who reached Paris from Cairo on February 15, were to have arrived at Croydon aerodrome by air on February 16, but owing to fog the trip had to be cancelled. It is hoped that weathor con- ditions today will have been more favourable for the successful conclusion of their historic journey to India and back. Another Canadian Air Survey AN aerial survey of a prospective national park area containing 850 square miles and situated about 60 miles north of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, is to be made in the spring, according to the information received by Hon. T. C. Davis, Minister of Municipal Affairs at Regina. The survey will be undertaken by the Dominion authorities. The proposed national park is heavily timbered and well stocked with big game. A number of lakes are included in the area. These connect with one another, and it will be possible for the tourist to travel by canoe almost anywhere in northern Saskatchewan, as well as to cross into Alberta or Manitoba without leaving the waterways. The Government has also decided to spend £180,000 on an air survey of the Hudson Straits by Service machines, assisting the Canadian Navy in investigating the ice conditions and the strength and direction of ocean currents. America and the Schneider Cup IT is reported that the U.S. Naval Air Service has decided not to enter for this year's Schneider Cup race. The U.S. Army Air Service, however, has made no decision as yet, on the matter. Commander Byrd to Fly Atlantic COMMANDER R. BYRD, who made an aeroplane flight to the North Pole last April, is to attempt a non-stop flight from New York to Paris (for the Raymond Orteig Prize) in a 3-engined Fokker monoplane. A " Stack and Leete Air Mail " CAPT. T. N. STACK and Mr. B. S. Leete, who flew from England to Karachi in two D.H. " Moths " are flying from Karachi to Lahore and Delhi this week, and each will carry an official mail, for which the Karachi postal authorities have issued a special " cachet." A New Australian Air Mail Route THE Australian Government is shortly to ask for tenders for the establishment of an air mail service between Adelaide and Perth. It is willing to make landing grounds, provide aerodromes and otherwise assist the proposed service, but it does not expect to have to grant a subsidy. The air mail would reduce the delivery between these two towns by four days. Negotiations are also still in progress between the Federal and the Tasmanian Governments regarding a service between Tasmania and the mainland. Disarmament and Civil Aviation A COMMITTEE of experts in civil aviation, convened by the League of Nations to discuss the economic consequences which would follow a limitation of aerial armaments and affect the civil aviation industry, met in Brussels on February 7. The countries represented were Great Britain, the United States, Germany, France, Italy, Holland, Poland and Sweden. The British delegates were Col. Edwards and Group-Capt. McNeece. The President, M. de Brouckere (Belgium), welcomed the delegates in the name of the Minister for Foreign Affairs. A statement on the position of aviation in the United States was made by Mr. Guggenheim, and it will be discussed at the next meeting. The Committee passed a resolution that it was essential to avoid hampering civil aviation when limitations were made to aerial armaments.Khartoum-Kisumu Service WE reported last week the departure from Khartoum of the Fairey seaplane on the first flight of the new East African Air Mail. It arrived at Kisumu on February 12 and left for Khartoum on February 14. South African Air Lines FURTHER to our comments in a recent issue on the report of a service between Johannesburg and Durban in the hands of Major Miller, it seems that this freight and passenger service will be financed by the Sir Alan Cobham Aviation Co., with the guaranteed capital of ^30,000. De Havilland machines capable of a load of six passengers and 200 lbs. of freight are to be used. The company hopes to Obtain the Union Government's consent within the next month, and to begin the line about August or September. Oslo-England Seaplane Service THE Norwegian Aero Club has arranged a series of trial flights for the Polar aeroplane, Dornier N.25, between Oslo and Harwich or Felixstowe. Two alternative routes will be tried, the first via Christiansand, Jutland, Cuxhaven and Amsterdam ; and the second along the Swedish coast and then to Kiel and Amsterdam. The first flight will commence about the end of this week. Thames-Seine Air Service THE recent spell of foggy weather over London has delayed the start from Hammersmith Bridge of the amphibian flying-boat waiting to commence the experimental flights to and from Paris, particulars of which were given in our last issue. Aircraft in Portuguese Revolution DURING the Portuguese Revolution, aircraft have played a decisive part. Lisbon, when in the hands of the insurgents, who had prevented all communication to and from the city, was attacked by aeroplanes which dropped three aerial tor- pedoes into the arsenal with devastating effect. "Jupiter " Completes 150-Hours' Test ONE of the Romeo-Jupiter engines built in Italy under licence by the Alpha-Romeo Company recently completed its 150 hours' test run on the bench. The average speed of the engine during the test was 1610-1,640 r.p.m., and the average power developed was 390 h.p. The average fuel consumption was 230 gr./hp./h. (0-506 lb./hp./h.) No involuntary stop was made throughout the test. That Southampton-Cherbourg Service REFERENCE was made recently in FLIGHT to the negotia- tions between Imperial Airways and the Cherbourg Chamber of Commerce for the establishment of a flying-boat service from Southampton to Cherbourg. It is now likely to develop as a combined organisation with a French concern, who will connect Cherbourg with Nantes and Bordeaux along the coast with large French flying-boats. Our machines will be Supermarine 12-seaters with Napier " Lion " engines. Passengers intending travelling by air to Southampton would have to charter special taxi-planes from Croydon. A Beyrouth-Buenos Ayres Flight THE Libanese pilot, Joseph Akar, has returned to Paris from Buenos Ayres ; he has been flying in the Argentine and raising funds from the public for the purpose of attempting a flight from Beyrouth to Buenos Ayres. He learned to fly at Villacoublay in 1924. Aerial Shopping Trips ONE-DAY shopping excursions to Paris by air are to be introduced by Imperial Airways in the spring. Leaving Croydon at 7.15 a.m., passengers will have about seven hours in Paris before returning from Le Bourget at 6.30 p.m. It is suggested that French shoppers might come to London on a service under the same conditions from France. Another Amsterdam-Batavia Flight THE Dutch airman, Lieut. Koppen, is proposing to start on April 2 on a flight from Amsterdam to Batavia and back in 20 days. Bolivian Air Services THE Government of Bolivia, South America, is shortly to develop extensive air lines. It seems that four services will operate between La Paz-Trinidad-Riberalta Cobija, and La Paz and Suerf. They will be weekly services and carry passengers and goods. Five monoplanes have run a service for a year between Cochabamba and Santa Cruz, and have been so successful in conquering territory where railways have never penetrated that the Government have been prompted to extend the system. Similar areas will now be served by these new lines, which had hitherto been retarded owing to lack of transport facilities.
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