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1933
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FLIGHT, JULY 20, 1933 Licences and Certificates At the end of the year 2,397 "A" licences for pilots and 369 " B " licences were current. There were also 86 licences for navigators, 1,221 for ground engineers, 397 for aerodromes, 981 certificates of registration for aeroplanes and 1,015 certificates of airworthiness. Accidents Sixty-eight accidents to U.K. aircraft requiring notifica tion occurred in this country during the year, of which 12 caused loss of life and six caused severe injuries, one being a third-party injury. None of these accidents occurred on subsidised air transport. The Inspector of Accidents found that 41 out of the total of 68 were due to errors in air manship. There were two cases of structural failure in the air. both fatal, and three accidents (one fatal) were due to extremely bad weather. Air Mail Traffic Details of the letter air mail traffic are Indian service African service Other Imperial services ... Foreign extra-European services Continental services lb. 60,000 15,900 14,300 10,100 42,700 143,000 British Empire The following figures show the miles of routes in regul operation : — United Kingdom Canada Australia South Africa India Kenya Light Aeroplane Clubs Canada ... Australia New Zealand South Africa Irish Free State India Kenya Federated Malay States Hong Kong Straits Settlements United Kingdom 11,263 4,926 7,099 2,814 2,010 670 28,782 26 25 25 4 1 9 1 1 1 1 50 144 Southern Railway's Enterprise BY its collaboration with Imperial Airways, the Southern Railway has already Shown its keen appreciation of the future of air transport. Further evidence Of this appreciation is provided by tire news that they are enter ing into an agreement with Airwork, Ltd., whereby the latter firm will, within the next six months, undertake a. survey of that part of England covered by the company's services. This survey is to be carried out in order that a report may be rendered to the company from which they will be able to judge whether it is in their interests to establish aerodromes, adjacent to their lines or on land owned by them, whether there are any ports served by them which should be developed as seaplane bases, whether there are points between which air services might profitably be run; in fact the report will enable them to look at their whole property from an air transport point of view. Ceylon Air Mail IN connection with the proposed air mail service con necting Madras with Colombo, the Ceylon Government, it is understood, have asked the Tata Company what value of mail they desire to be guaranteed. On receipt of their reply, the proposal to give the contract to Tata's for the conveyance of air mails from Colombo to Karachi will be placed before the Executive Committee of the Ministry of Communication for final settlement. Tata's originally pro posed that their service should be a monopoly and a cheaper service, whereby it should not be necessary to send air mail by rail to Karachi. The Ceylon Government, however, will not agree to the condition. Apart from the question of guarantee, it is understood that little else re quires settlement. By Air to the I.O.M. SINCE the end of March, that is in very little over three months, 177 aeroplanes have landed on the Castle town aerodrome in the Isle of Man. Figures like this show that there is very definitely an opening for aerial traffic on routes which take a considerable number of hours by the normal means of surface transport or which lead over short stretches of water. Already Blackpool & West Coast Air Services, Ltd., are running a " Dragon " (two " Gipsy Majors ") across to the island twice daily, and Midland & Scottish Air Ferries may probably be doing likewise in the near future. New Machines for K.L.M. THE Royal Dutch Air Lines (K.L.M.) have ordered come new machines—two Fokker F, XXII, four-engmed monoplanes, fitted with 500-h.p. " Wasp " engines, and three Koolhoven FK43 three-seaters. The former, which have their engines mounted directly in the wing, will have seats for 21 passengers when used on European services, and couches for 10 passengers when used on Indian routes. They possess a top speed of 162.5 m.p.h., the average cruising speed being 136.7 m.p.h. ; the first of these will be used on the Amsterdam-Copenhagen-Malmoe line, it is hoped, early in 1934, and a second on the Amsterdam- Batavia connection. The three-seater machines will be used for the training of pilots. Speeding Up in America SEVERAL American airlines are speeding up their ser vices between various towns. East Air Transport have announced a new high-speed schedule between New York and Washington. Using new twin-engined Curtiss " Condor " 15-passenger machines, they will fly ten trips daily, the time being 1 hr. 35 min. compared with the earlier time of 2 hr. 10 min. Three return trips daily will also be flown between Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Transcontinental and Western Air, in their service between New York and Los Angeles, are eliminating the former over night stop in Kansas City. United Airlines have increased the frequency of their services between New York and Chicago to eleven return trips daily. They are using twin-engined Boeing 10-passenger machines, the total time with stops for the 736 miles being 5 hr. 30 min. for the westbound trip and 4 hr. 25 min. for the eastbound. Thirtv-eight " Wasp "-powered Boeing 247 machines have been delivered to United Air Lines to date. French Unsubsidised Service THE Compagnie Aerienne Francaise (" CAF "), an uusubsidised French concern who have had activities in Canada, are operating from July 10 a daily (Sundays ex cepted) service between Vichy. Lyons and Geneva, the route being covered in 1 hr. 30 min. The Ste Aerotrafic had before considered a Geneva-Vichy connection, but 1 French Air Ministry refused them permission to land at Vichy, as the airport was restricted to aeroplanes weigh"1" under 2,646.4 lb. So apparently the French Air Ministry have changed their minds. Deutsche Luft Hansa Co. THE Deutsche Luft Hansa Co. will be hencefi rth called the " Deutsche Lufthansa Aktiengesellschaft " (nnw isn't that neat—after all, Deutsche Luft Hansa was a bit oi a mouthful!). Messrs. Karl August von Gablenz and Walter Luz, who were managers, have been appointed member- the Board of Directors. Portsmouth and Isle of Wight Services THE following numbers of passengers were carrie during the week ending July 13 on the services operated !» the Portsmouth, Southsea, and Isle of Wight Aviation; Ltd.:—Spithead Air Ferry, Ryde and Portsmouth (20ij > Shoreham Air Ferry, Shoreham and Isle of Wight <5 . Shanklin Air Ferry, Portsmouth and Shanklin n.' Shanklin Air Ferry, Ryde and Shanklin (9). The First Air Mail from Calcutta WE have received a letter, from Mr. G. E.# Woods Humphery, carried by the first regular air mail rr° Calcutta, which reached Croydon, per Imperial Airways ai- liner Heracles, on July 17. This letter was one of sorn 50,000, over half a ton, carried by the air-liner. 722
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