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FLIGHT, SEPTEMBER 16, 1932 5. INSURANCE.—That insurance companies issuing comprehensive policies covering aircraft be subsidised in order to make aviation an attractive investment for the private owner and the investor, by giving them the benefits of comprehensive insurance at reasonable rates. 6. AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURE.-—That all subsidies, bonuses, etc., payable to the aircraft industry, be increased by 20 per cent, to users of Australian- made aircraft (engines, instruments and wheels excepted), and 5 per cent, to users of aircraft imported in unassembled parts, such as ribs, longerons, etc., and assembled in Australia. That tenders be called for the local manu facture of all aircraft requirements of the K.A.A.F. 7. AIRCRAFT OWNERS.—That a bonus of 10 per cent, of the purchase price of new British aircraft be paid to aircraft owners who agree to place their aircraft at the disposal of the Defence Department in time of emergency. 8. DISTRIBUTION OF CIVIL AVIATION VOTE.—That the total Civil Aviation Vote be distributed to the aircraft industry on the following basis :—lj per cent, of total vote Subsidies to Aeronautical Sections of Universities ; 1£ per cent, of total vote Bonuses to gliding pilots—" A," " B," and " C "; 10 per cent, of total vote Bonuses to aeroplane pilots " A " and " B " ; 40 per cent, of total vote Internal air mail services ; 15 per cent, of total vote Aircraft owners not otherwise subsidised ; 10 per cent, of total vote Insurance (Com prehensive Policies) ; 22£ per cent, of total vote Departmental Administra tion, including 10 per cent, to be spent on selection and inspection, air routes and aerodromes. Inter-Dominion air mail services (only if additional grant to present £140,000 vote provided). y. COMMITTEE TO CO-OPERATE WITH GOVERNMENT.—That a permanent committee be elected by a convention before the end of January in each year, comprising one representative of each of the following sections of the industry, to confer and co-operate with Government departments and other bodies concerned to develop Australian aviation to the best advantage :— Aero clubs ; commercial flying schools ; commercial aircraft owners ; manu facturers of aircraft and parts ; commercial pilots ; gliding clubs ; subsidised air mail contractors ; private aircraft owners ; importers of aircraft and parts ; private pilots ; aircraftsmen, with an independent chairman to be elected by the committee. Also that this committee arranges another convention to be held before December 31, 1932, to report the results of its negotiations with the Government. 10. DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE.—That the Minister for Defence be urged to alter the instructions to the Departmental Committee, and to arrange for them to sit in public instead of in camera. 11. CONTRACTS BETWEEN AERO CLUBS AND THE COMMONWEALTH.—Tnat all contracts between aero clubs and the Commonwealth embody a clause which debars any person with direct or indirect financial interest in the aircraft industry from holding office on aero club committees or executives. 12. SELECT COMMITTEE TO INQUIRE INTO CIVIL AVIATION EXPENDITURE, AS SUGGESTED BY THE AUDITOR-GENERAL.—That the Government be urged to appoint immediately a select committee to inquire into and report exhaustively on aviation expenditure in accordance with the suggestion made by the Auditor-General in his last two reports, and to withhold approval for any further commitments until the report and recommendations of the select committee have been considered. 13. INQUIRIES INTO ACCIDENTS TO BE HELD IN PVBLIC—That inquiries into accidents be held in public by an independent board, all findings to be published promptly, in order that the public will know the true cause of such accidents. AIR MAILS TO SOUTH AMERICA A German Development IT would seem that interesting developments are in hand regarding the air service between Europe and South America, and that the time is not far distant vwhen this route will become quite a busy one, with both aeroplanes and airships. As already reported in FLIGHT, the French Aeropostale Co., which operates the combined air-steamship service between Paris-Dakar-Port Natal and Pernambuco, is having a large Bleriot flying- boat constructed to take the place of the fast steamers operating over the ocean section of the route. In this connection it may be added that as the Argentine Government's financial support for this service will be withdrawn at the end of the year unless the service becomes an all-air one, construction on the Bleriot flying- boat is being hurried forward in order to put it on the route this year. Meanwhile the German Luft Hansa Co. are making active preparations for their Berlin-Buenos Aires air service. This consists of the somewhat ambitious scheme of employing an aeroplane " mother ship " which will be stationed in the middle of the South Atlantic on the route flown by the Luft Hansa machines—Dornier flying-boats. For this purpose Luft Hansa have acquired the North German Lloyd 5,000 ton cargo boat Westfalen, which is now being re-equipped for the job. She will be fitted forward with a powerful catapult for launching the Dornier flying-boats (not the Do-X type, but an improved Wal " !) ; a crane for lifting the flying-boats out of the water ; fuel and spares, stores, and wireless equipment, etc. It is further reported that the Luft Hansa Co. are nego tiating with the French Aeropostale Co. with a view to collaborating in the operation of the Europe-South America air services. Thus, with the Zeppelin airship service in addition, the South Atlantic will soon look lively—but where are the British activities in this direction? " Graf Zeppelin " THE German airship Graf Zeppelin, which left Pernam buco on September 3 on her fifth return flight from Brazil, landed at Friedrichshafen on September 7. After a short delay the airship started on its sixth journey to Brazil on September 12. So far the regular service of the Graf Zeppelin to South America has terminated at Pernambuco. On this trip the airship will for the first time extend her trip to Rio de Janeiro, and by doing so will inaugurate a new extension in the express route to South America. This inauguration will enable passengers to reach Rio de Janeiro in 3 to 4 days, without changing, which means a consider able saving of time compared with the service in the past. From Rio good connections are given by aeroplane and steamer to Montevideo, Buenos Aires and all places inland, so that the most important South American cities can now be reached from Europe in 6 days. The Hamburg- American Line further inform us that in addition to the present fortnightlv service a further departure will take place from Friedrichshafen on October 24. Imperial Airways Traffic THAT the inward air mail from Africa is now heavier, each week, than the outgoing mail from England, is re vealed by statistics which have just become available. Approximately 14,000 letters a week are now reaching London by the inward mails, while the outgoing mail amounts, on an average, to about 12,000 letters a week. Not long ago, in the earlier stages of this service, figures showed that the heavier mail loads were on the services outward from this country. Passengers carried by Im perial Airways between London and Paris reached the record figure of 4,728 for August, compared with 2,480 in August last year. New Desert Air Service Starts THE new desert air service connecting Palestine and Iraq and providing a through air-rail-sea connection from London to Baghdad was inaugurated by Imperial Airways on September 5. Avro 10 (Armstrong-Siddeley " Lynx ") monoplanes are used to fly across the Iraq Desert from Ramleh, near Jerusalem, to Baghdad in 1\ hr., eliminat ing the present two-day journey by motor-car. A Fast Mediterranean Flight THE Short flying-boat Sylvanus, of Imperial Airways, piloted by Capt. Drew, broke the record last week for the flight from Athens to Alexandria by completing this stage in 4 hr. 42 min. Turkish Air Restrictions THE Editor of the Turkish journal Akcham, Nedj- meddin Sadik Bey—Deputy for Sivas and permanent mem ber of the Turkish Delegation to the League of Nations— has written an article urging his Government to make liberal alterations to the regulations now governing air travel over Turkish territory. He points out that owing to existing restrictions the regular air lines to and from Asia have been diverted to other countries like Greece, avoiding Constantinople, which, by its geographical position, should be a great international air centre. New Japanese Air Services WE understand that the Japan Air Transport Company will shortly extend its present Dairen passenger and air mail route as far north as Changchun, with a view ulti mately to connecting with Soviet Russia's trans-Siberian airways to Europe. The company is stated to have two routes in mind. One plan is to extend the present Dairen route to Changchun, via Anshan, Mukden, Tishling, Kaiyuan, and Supinkai, and the other is to connect the present Keijo (Seoul) to Dairen route with Changchun along the Mukden-Antung railway line, via Tishling. Air Mails to South Africa THE Postmaster-General announces that, on and after September 17, the latest times of posting air mail corre spondence for despatch by the England-India air mail service will be 11 a.m. on Saturdays and for the England- South Africa direct air mail service 11 a.m. on Wednesdays in the air mail letter-box outside the General Post Office, London, and correspondingly earlier elsewhere. A New Barcelona Airport CLAIMING that Barcelona is considered to be the natural air junction between Africa and America, £125,000 is to be spent on a new aerodrome there which is expected to be used by many new air lines. 881
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