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1931
1931 - 0945.PDF
FLIGHT, SEPTEMBER 4, 1931 AIRPORT NEWS CROYDON CROYDON BY FLOODLIGHT: An excellent view of the airport lit up by the new floodlight produced by the General Electric Co.—which was one of the apparatus demonstrated at Croydon on September 2. |E have just concluded a week of really passableweather. It almost succeeded in reminding us that there is a summer in this country, althoughit is a hard job to convince our foreign visitors of the fact. We had two rather exciting occurrences to relieve themonotony of things this week, and they both happened on Thursday. The incoming early morning freight" Goliath," belonging to Air Union, arrived over the aerodrome in a heavy mist, and, after circling for sometime, proceeded to land, assisted by rockets. In so doing, the pilot overshot, and flattened out the fence on thenorth boundary, coming to a standstill with the whole bulk of the machine across Stafford Road. It caused acomplete traffic block, as the length of the machine stretched from one pavement to the other. Fortunately,no one was hurt, and only the fabric on the underside of the bottom planes of the " Goliath " was ripped. Itwas a lucky escape for the occupants of the houses, as it came to rest about three yards from the front of them,and only one yard from a tramway trolley standard. The visibility at the time of the accident was only 100 yards,and surely the time has now arrived when aircraft pilots should not risk landings with such a short range of visi-bility. The public and property owners should certainly be protected from accidents such as these, especially whenone remembers the fact that the visibility at Biggin Hill was six miles. The second accident happened about lunch time. Themachine was a Klemm, belonging to British Air Trans- port, Ltd. It was just taking off, with a cinema man, tosecure some films of the aerodrome, when the engine cut out. The machine crashed and went through the fenceon the east boundary, finishing up across Purley Way. Again luck intervened, and no traffic or pedestrians wereon the spot, which is unusual for Purley Way, as it is normally an exceptionally busy thoroughfare. Themachine in this case was badly damaged, but the occu- pants were only scratched. On Monday, Mr. Montague was a passenger on theImperial Airways 8 a.m. service from Paris, returning, no THE G.E.C. FLOODLIGHT: A close-up of the light source used in the upper picture. It consists of nine 1000-Watt lamps, each set in a parabolic reflector. 883
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