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1929 - 0987.PDF
FLIGHT, MAY 9, 1929 American Oil Co. were endeavouring here to meet the pilots upon their own grounds and therefore had acquired their own machine, whereby they were able to visit the various aerodromes and so get into touch with the individuals, whu'li was so much appreciated and spelt personality. Mr. Handley Page referred to the dark days of aviation when it started 20 years ago, when no aerodrome existed in this country. It was amazing, he said, that now in that short time we had a company setting up a petrol station on an aerodrome upon a purely commercial basis, which meant that we had got to that stage when pilots must have petrol service and all other necessary things, as one could as a motorist. Before then it was a matter of adventure if one was able to get one's requirements filled. In conclusion he referred briefly to the new up-to-date in all respects four- engined Handley Page machines, now building for Imperial Airways, which he thought would be a help to that company and to aviation, and following the installation that day he hoped the Anglo-American Oil Co. would open similar petrol stations all over the world. Incidentally the visitors were presented with a little memento of the occasion, and a delightful illustrated booklet by E. Beresford Chancellor, dealing with " Fawkeshall," otherwise the ancient " Vauxhall and its memories, with a short account of the area around its famous Gardens com- prising the site of the Anglo-American Oil Company's new installation." As an historical resume of the one-time glorious Vauxhall Gardens it is quite a unique publication. a N optimistic peep into the future of air transport has J\ been opened up by Col. Lindbergh, when he very emphatically states that fog and smoke in the near future will have lost all its terrors to flyers. These " night mares " will be overcome, he claims, by the use of inter- secting radio beams and special altimeters, rendering air travelling as regular and accurate as land travel. Further he states as a fact that there are a thousand American men and women training to fly, and that there is more private flying there than in the rest of the world combined. Not far in the distant future he foresees a great air line of multi- motored ships being maintained between New York, Washington, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. May Lind- bergh be right in all his prophecies, as British efforts will certainly not be lagging far behind in that case. —as one can well believe, the victims, who are good " spouters," will have something to say during the process. A PPARENTLY Air passengers had, after all, only a -i^- short respite from small-pox restrictions when entering France, as later orders were issued to impose the same examination, &c, upon all landing at the Villacoublay Aerodrome. probably motor-owners,MOST of FLIGHT readers are drivers or " patrons " of motoring, and should therefore be interested in the latest production issuing from Fanum House, otherwise the home of the Automobile Association— to wit, a wonderful " Throughway " map of London, showing land-marks, upon a scale of 1£ in. to the mile, and of the 'A FIRST-CLASS PILOT SHOULD REMAIN COOL UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE*. WHAM I E thing to be regretted is that probably, by the use Home Counties upon 1 in. to the four miles. It is withoutw to which one of the Norwegian whale-hunting com- exception the clearest, the best, and most helpful map of,the panies has decided to put aeroplanes, viz., to locate sort I have seen, and is obtainable in "indestructible" schools " more readily, this leviathan of the oceans111 the more speedily become extinct. JJ^ HE pilots named for this Antarctic adventure are Captain Larsen and M. Luetzow Holms, who are to st 'eave in August for Bouvet Island, thence by the inter NorveSia to their destination. By way of added Proo U is intended to also take a film of the complete be an f Whale catchinS- That side of tne venture should Profitable one, especially if it is a whale " talkie " picture fabric by A.A. members at the modest price of 3s. 6d. worth while becoming a member to obtain it. It's ^COSMOPOLITAN is the word that fits the activities of \~y the A.A., which body has now extended its interests, by way of a start, to certain helpful work to push forward popular flying, so that their map has therefore a double appeal to FLIGHT readers, who will appreciate the good to the cultivation of flying-feeling which such a body as the A.A. can help to engender. Maj. Stenson Cooke seldom lets a chance slip by. AEOLUS. 391
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