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1932
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FLIGHT, SEPTEMBER 9, 1932 Qir transport Air Subsidies in Australia IN a recent report on the cost of subsidised air ser vices in Australia, the Commonwealth Auditor General remarked : "On one route in Queensland the average cost of transporting a pound of aerial mail is nearly £7." Commenting on this, the Qanias Gazette writes: — " The ' outback ' air services of Australia are subsidised by the Federal Government for the purpose of assisting outlying communities by the provision of fast transport over big distances and where poor communications exist. A facilitation of passenger travel, urgent goods transport, and mail communication. Other reasons for the subsidy are the encouragement of commercial aviation and defence. " Is there not some parallel between the subsidised ' outback ' air services and those tens of thousands of miles of railway line which are kept open at a heavy expense to the taxpayer simply because some measure of service must be extended to outlying settlers who are bearing the brunt of colonising the interior? Quicker Mail Service to Canada IT is reported from Ottawa that a postal agreement has been arrived at between Great Britain, Canada and the Irish Free State by which it is believed that 12 hr. may be cut from the present record of 3 days 22 hr. for mails between London and Montreal. The plan fore shadows an arrangement to fly the mails between London and Cork as soon as it becomes possible to resume regular calls at Cork for both inward- and outward-bound liners. Swedish Mail Plane Crashes A SWEDISH plane, which left Amsterdam with mails on Aug. 30, crashed at Tubingen, near the German frontier, the pilot, Lilgeberg, being killed and his mechanic seriously injured. International Association of Air Traffic GEN. BALBO, Italian Air Minister, opened the twenty- eighth session of the International Association of Air Traffic—which represents all the principal civil air lines— at Venice on August 31. In concluding his opening address Gen. Balbo said that he trusted the Governments of the world would in a not distant future avail them selves of the benefits offered by these meetings, and " realise what to-day is only a pious hope—the freedom of the skies, without which navigation will always be fettered by impediments of frontiers." An African Airway Adventure THE Imperial Airways Short flying boat City of Stone haven was forced down through engine trouble 105 miles south of Malakal on August 29 while on its way from Juba to Khartoum. The 17 passengers were forced to spend a day or two in the desolate region of the Zeraf River before they were taken to Malakal by the relief aeroplane. They passed a not uninteresting, if somewhat unpleasant, time, and towards the end food supplies were running short ; at night the mosquitoes were very troublesome. However, a four-year-old Italian boy kept them in high spirits with his merry ways, and the passengers arrived at Malakal looking well and happy. Air Transport in the West Indies THE important question of air transport in the West Indies, which has been " under consideration " for some years now, is raised in the following letter from Mr. Alan Chorlton to The Times of September 3: — The announcement that a commission is to proceed to the West Indies to consider the question of the federation of those colonies will be welcomed by those who have the interests of the group at heart. It is, however, a matter for regret that the Secretary of State for the Colonies has not yet seen his way to appoint an adviser on air transport matters to the Commis sioners. No doubt, the Commission will be alive to the many advantages which should accrue in the way of increased efficiency of Government, economy, improved postal services, etc., and in technical education and research in connection with the products most suited to the natural condi tions of the islands, SDII, climate, etc. This closer working connection is dependent on transport, and to-day between islands this can only mean the air. Air transport has now passed outside the area of debate existing at the time a committee inquired into B.W.I, conditions, for the great experience made by the various air transport companies, together with that directly applicable from those American companies already operating in part the West Indian areas, is available. The interconnecting company to-day to operate between the British islands of the Caribbean Sea must be British, and have all the islands concerned and British Guiana interested in its management. The report made some time ago is still valuable, but badly needs bringing up to date, for since then, apart from experience in operation, more efficient twin-engined machines are available of relatively small size, upon which the commercial success of the service so much depends. The time is ripe, indeed it is necessary, to review the whole situation from an air-transport point of view, and we must all hope the Colonial Office will take the opportunity now offered to do this. Air Mails to Karachi in Three Days KARACHI is now reached in three days from Amster dam, Calcutta in four days and Rangoon in five days, after the introduction recently of a faster air mail service between Amsterdam and Netherlands India by the Royal Dutch Air Line. This line had already held the record for the fastest air service between the Continent and the Far East, as its aeroplanes had been accomplishing the journey between Karachi and the Continent in four days, compared with 5| days taken by the Imperial Airways aeroplanes. Still faster service was possible by the addition of five aeroplanes of a new type—Fokker F.XVIII—to the K.L.M. fleet ; the first machine of this type left Amsterdam on August 13 on her flight to Batavia across India and the second on August 15. THREE BIG THINGS IN AVIATION : This photo—for which we have to thank our friends Shell-Mex Sc B.P.,Ltd.— taken recently over the Ausseralster, the larger of the two lakes in the centre of Hamburg, shows the Junkers G.38, the world's largest landplane, in flight ; the Dornier Do. X, the world's largest flying-boat, moored on the left ; and the new extensive Shell Haus on the lakeside on the right. 854
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