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MAY 10, 1928 New Canadian Air Services ON May 5 the Canadian Pacific Express Co. inaugurated an air service between Rimouski—where all the Atlantic steamers for Canada stop to take on board the pilot—and Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto, for the transport of ordinary packages of merchandise under 200 lbs. weight, money, and securities. This is the first express company to inaugurate a regular air express service in Canada. An air service for mails across Canada to the Pacific Coast is now being considered by the Canadian Government. It will probably not mature until next summer,-however, in order to gather experience from present services. Vancouver Air Developments WESTERN CANADA AIRWAYS, LTD., of Winnipeg, the largest commercial aviation firm in Canada, has purchased the Vancouver company, Pacific Airways, Ltd. In June an air service for passengers and parcels will start, while other air activities "will be patrols of fisheries and forest. American Millionaire's Air Tours MR. VAN LEAR BLACK, the American millionaire, is leaving England by air for Cape Town on about May 15. His pilots will be M. Geysendorffer and M. Scholte. His valet, " Leo," will also be a passenger, but his daughter will not accompany, as stated elsewhere. On the return from Cape Town, he will then set off in the same monoplane for China and Japan. The machine is a Fokker F.VII chartered from the K.L.M. fitted with three Gnome-Rhone Bristol " Titan " engines which are mainly constructed of " Jupiter " parts. Five " Jupiter " cylinders are used and the French version of the engine is rated at 240 h.p. Six passengers can be carried and the Fokker will climb on any two engines. Twenty Years Ago ! Extract from " The Auto " (Precursor of " Flight "), Mav 9, 1908. M. Delagrange has a Narrow Escape.—. . . On Saturday afternoon, May 3, both aviators [MM. Farman and Delagrange.—ED.] were diligently at work trying to secure the Armengaud Prize for remaining in the air during 15 minutes. . . . Time after time both experimenters re-started their interrupted flights, and at last, as the time limit (sunset) was drawing to a close, M. Delagrange rose in the air on his machine and made off across the Issy parade ground on what had every appearance of being the commence- ment of a most successful soar. When the time came for him to turn round, however, the machine got out of control, and, to the horror of all, he was seen to travel through the air towards the large crowd which had collected on the outskirts of the field ... it must surely have been a terrible catastrophe had M. Delagrange and his aeroplane actually fallen amongst the spectators, and those in the immediate vicinity had considerable cause to feel thankful for the providential manner in which they escaped injury through the aeroplane sustaining its flight sufficiently long to pass over their heads. Immediately behind them it crashed to the ground, and damaged to a certain extent a taxicab in doing so. M. Delagrange was thrown clear, and, luckily for him, landed on soft sand, thereby receiving no injuries whatever." " FLIGHT " Photograph The Gnome-Rhone Bristol "Titan," as used on the Fokker F.VII chartered by Mr. Van Lear Black for a flight to the Cape and back, is built up very largely from "Jupiter" parts. Five "Jupiter" cylinders are used, and the French version of the engine is rated at 240 h.p. The Bristol "Titan " has not yet gone into production, as the Bristol company desires to be quite sure what type of engine is likely to be wanted before commencing building in quantities. The Gnome-Rhone company, on the other hand, has gone into production with the " Titan." J " FLIGHT " Photograph AN AIR YACHT DE LUXE : The three-engined Fokker monoplane which Mr. Van Lear Black has chartered from the K.L.M. for his tour to the Cape and back. The pilots will be Geysendorffer and Scholte, and Mr. Black will be accompanied by his valet "Leo." The tour is scheduled to start around May 15. The engines are the new Gnome-Rhone Bristol "Titans." 331
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