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1930
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FLIGHT, JANUARY 3, 1930 AIR TRANSPORT Karachi-Delhi Air Mail Extension THE Postmaster-General announces that, beginning with the flight from Croydon on Saturday, December 28, letters can be sent to Jodhpur and Delhi by air connecting with the London-Karachi Air Service. The fee is fixed for the present at Id. per \ oz. in addition to ordinary postage, and letters for transmission beyond Karachi should be clearly superscribed under the Air Mail label " By Delhi Air Service." The Postmaster-General understands that the use of the Delhi Air Service will ensure the arrival of letters at Delhi on Sunday evenings as compared with Monday mornings by the ordinary route from Karachi ; and that an accelera- tion of 24 hours will be gained by letters for Bombay, Southern India, and Ceylon. Quicker Mails from Australia FIVE days can now be saved in the time it takes to-send a letter from Australia to England, by a reorganisation of the connection with the Indian Air Mail service. This change enables a letter to be. sent to England and a reply received in 54 days. This speeding up of the Australian mails has been brought about by altering the day of departure of the air mails from Karachi from Sunday to Tuesday, so that they can bring to England mails landed at Colombo from Australia. The letters will be delivered in London on the day before the closing of the weekly mail for Australia. , Heston Air Park a Customs Aerodrome HESTON aerodrome has been approved by the Secretary of State for Air as a Customs aerodrome. Imperial Airways Record WITH the arrival of an Imperial Airways liner at Croydon from Paris, on December 28, the Imperial Airways com- pleted 5,000,000 miles of cross-Channel flying. Sir Alan Gobham's Flight SIR ALAN COBHAM arrived at Entebbe (Uganda) on Christmas Eve, reached Nairobi on Christmas Day, and left for Moshi, Tanganyika, on Boxing Day. Zeppelin News DR. ECKENER proposes to begin building LZ 128, a sistership to the Graf Zeppelin, early in the New Year. It will resemble the Graf Zeppelin in being petrol driven, but willbe larger, over 740 ft. long. Herr Eckener declares that the Graf Zeppelin will definitelynot undertake the voyage it had contracted with the Interna- tional Society Aeroarctic, founded for the exploration of theArctic, regions. This statement has called forth a sharp protest from thesociety in question. It maintains that the Graf Zeppelin was bound by contract to undertake the voyage unless thecrew refused to accompany the ship, or it should prove impossible to insure the vessel. The society maintains that the voyage was not put beforethe crew in a proper light, and that, in spite of Dr. Eckener's statement, it would be possible to insure the airship. Dr.Eckener proposes to undertake a voyage to South America instead of to the North Pole. Chilean Air Mail Routes Enlarged A NEW air mail line has recently been opened between Santiago and Buenos Aires. The company operating this service is a Chilean one, and they also have other routes connecting the great cities of South America. Only a year ago, Chile was separated from New York by 18 days' travel; from Paris by 20 days, and from London and Berlin by 22 and 23 days, respectively. Today, aerial naviga- tion has placed Santiago 10 days from New York, 9 days from Paris, and 10 from London and Berlin. The aerial postal service of Chile was inaugurated in February of this year, when a squadron of 20 Moth 'planes were procured for the purpose. A Mediterranean Disaster AN Italian seaplane on the Brindisi-Constantinople line which was forced to descend in the iEgcari on Christmas Eve is still missing. An official communique states that the fallen aeroplane is the I.A.Z.D.B., piloted by Signor Rossi. She had a. crew of four, but carried no passengers. The Hinkler Air Beacon THE proposal to have an air beacon erected on top of the new State shopping block in Market Street, Sydney, to make night flying safe, has now materialised. The beacon has been officially designated the Hinkler Air Beacon, in commemoration of the great solo flight from England to Australia by Mr. Bert Hinkler. Mr. Van Lear Black Off Again MR. VAN LEAR BLACK, former proprietor of the BaltimoreSun, arrived at Southampton on December 27 from New- York. He now intends to fly from Croydon to Tokyo. S.A. Developments OWING to Durban refusing to build an aerodrome larger than 600 yards square, it looks as if Maritzburg may become the Air-Centre of Natal, leaving Durban to be dealt with by a branch line with small aircraft. Aviation in Kenya A CORRESPONDENT in Kenya writes :— " It is usually a feast or a famine in Kenya, and the same may be said of its flying activities. For months, our airport was practically deserted, except for the game, and one parti- cular old gnu, who seemed to spend his time guarding the hangars. Then, late one evening, Capt. Swoffer arrived from England on—KAC, and in a day or two he was undertaking passenger flights and exploring the surrounding country. Three ' Moths ' of N.F.S. were the next arrivals, followed by Mr. "John Carberry in his new metal ' Moth ' —AARL. Not content with all this, Mr Campbell Black must needs put in an appearance from England, on the Avro V —KAE, with passengers. " On one Sunday there must have been a couple of hundred cars on the ground and 550 people, and it is now becoming quite the thing to roll up and meet friends. A number of people have flown for the first time, one young lady not content with a loop, asked to be taken through a falling leaf, and now regrets that funds do not permit of her learning to fly at present. The N.F.S. 'planes have been making trips to the surrounding territories, and work on landing grounds, in Tanganyika especially, is being pushed ahead. Capt. Swoffer took the Avro V down to Rhodesia with a party recently, and made a quick trip back. Mr. Black, on —KAC, flew to Mombasa from Nairobi and back in a day. He has now gone home by a slower method to bring another machine for Wilson Airlines, Ltd., a Westland IV —KAD. One of the Continental Rothschilds is visiting Kenya in a three- engined 'plane, and Sir Alan Cobham is expected to stay a few hours in Nairobi, on his way south, some time this month. The Prince of Wales' ' Moth,' —AALG, may be stationed here for a week or two early in the new year. The Aero Club's ' Moth,' from Sir Charles Wakefield, is on the water, and there are rumours of other machines being flown out during your winter. It is likely that our list of two private owners will shortly be increased." American Control of S.A. Aviation IT IS announced that an agreement has been entered into between the Union Airways, Ltd., and General Motors South African, Ltd., whereby Mr. N. C. Tuxbury, a vice- president of the parent corporation and managing director of the South African factory, will join the board of Union Airways, Ltd., immediately, and whereby the closest and fullest co-operation of General Motors in the development of the air mail and passenger services in the Union is assured. It will be remembered that General Motors have acquired a large interest in the Fokker Aircraft Co. A " Moth " Missing in the Antarctic A MESSAGE from the Kosmos whaling expedition in the Antarctic says that an aeroplane attached to the expedition and piloted by the Norwegian airman Leif Lier had been away 17 hours at noon on Friday, December 27. With Lier was Ingvald Schreiner, the doctor of the expedition. The machine was a Moth purchased in England last summer and specially equipped for service in the Antarctic. She carried no wireless. Sixteen whaleboats sent on to search had all returned by to-day without finding any trace of the missing machine.
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