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FLIGHT, JANUARY 3. 1930 On the left, a Travel Air "4,000 " about to leave for Quebec with passenger and luggage. Right, another Travel Air machine at St. Hubert Airport, with the Airship mooring mast in the background. St. Hubert Airport, on the opposite (south) side of the St. Lawrence River, is the company's headquarters. St. Hubert, like too many other airports, is a considerable distance from the city it serves, but it will be brought into much closer touch with Montreal when the new high-level bridge across the river is thrown open to traffic. In addition to containing the huge mooring mast, which more or less patiently awaits the coming of the R.I00 or R.I01, the St. Hubert 'drome is the Customs Airport for land machines entering or leaving Canada across the neighbouring Quebec-U.S. boundary, and— being owned and operated by the Dominion government, is slowly but steadily being prepared to take its place as one of the show aerodromes of the North American continent. Last spring it showed decidedly muddy characteristics. Next spring will show, it is hoped, the effect of the miles of tiling that have been laid in the central of the three sections into which its surface is divided. Not only is the airport itself of vast extent—770 acres—but it is surrounded for miles in almost every direction by as flat a terrain as could be desired, making it an ideal training ground for pupils. o •$> Thirty-eight hundred passengers have availed themselves of the opportunity offered by Continental Aero to see the city of Montreal from upstairs, the fare for this trip being the modest sum of $5. An effort was made in the past summer to popularise a moonlight flight across the river and over the city, glowing with its hundreds of flashing signs adver- tising everything from real estate to whisky (but mostly whisky), and identified from many miles away by the brightly- lit cross on the slopes of Mount Royal, and by the soft, but far-reaching Neon lights around the top of the Royal Bank Building downtown. Just a year after business was started, Continental Aero was re-registered as a public company with a capital of half a million dollars, whose shares will shortly be quoted on the Montreal Stock Exchange, and at the same time announce- ment was made of a new private company named Travel Air of Canada, Ltd., with a capital of $l'00,000, which is planning the erection of a Montreal factory in the neariuture. The directorates of the two companies will be closely inter- related. THE LATE CHIEF OF THE AIR STAFF Marshal of the Royal Air Force LORD TRENGHARD, G.C.B., D.S.O., 1st Baron Coi.. THE MASTER OF SEMPIIX, President of the Royai Aero-nautical Society, has sent the following letter to Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Hugh Trenchard : 23rd Dec, 1929. SIR,—It is my special privilege and pleasure as Presidentof the Royal Aeronautical Society to convey to you on behalf Of' the Council, and all the members of the Society, sincereregret at your relinquishing the post of Chief of the Air Staff on December 31st, 1929. The Royal Aeronautical Society has seen the Royal AirForce grow from strength to strength under your dis- tinguished leadership, and has earnestly striven to help inthe task, the vital importance of which none could gainsay, by furthering developments of a scientific and technicalnature. The appreciation of the Society's efforts that you havebeen good enough to express from time to time has given great encouragement, but this alone has not been the onlybenefit that the Society has reaped at the hands of the Royal Air Force. May I be allowed to express the hope that, although youare relinquishing the post of Chief of the Air Service at the Air Ministry, your interest in the Society's work will notbe lessened, but rather increased '' The Council desire me to tender to you, Sir, their mostsincere wishes for your health and good fortune in the year 1930, and all the years that follow. I have the honour to be, Sir, Yours faithfully, ; (Signed) W. SEMPILL (President). C2
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