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1933
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FLIGHT, AUGUST 24, 1933 ttir transport Australia's Oldest Air Line WEST AUSTRALIAN AIRWAYS have just acquired new headquarters, known as Airways House, in St. George's Terrace, Perth, the heart of the commercial life of the city. It is over 11 years since West Australian Airways commenced operations with a hangar on the Perth Esplanade. The northward service to Derby was begun with six Bristol " Tourers " with " Puma " engines. In time these gave place to the D.H.50, and later to the D.H.61 (" Giant Moth "). The latest change is to intro duce D.H. " Dragons " on the northward service. The first " Dragon " was due to arrive at Perth on July 21. The Airways Bulletin for July recalls that from the one single hangar on the river foreshore the ground organisa tion has expanded to include two big hangars at Maylands aerodrome, fitted with a complete range of machinery for all classes of aircraft work, hangars at Geraldton, Carnarvon, Port Headland, and Broome on the northward service, and at Forrest and Adelaide on the eastward service. The company operated the first Perth flying school from 1927 until the school became a branch of the Australian Aero Club. Aerial photography, survey, and rescue and relief work have all teen carried out. With its two lines, one Perth-Wyndham and one Perth- Adelaide, the company have operated over 3,500 miles of airways. The machines have flown in all 2,650,515 miles, carried 52,513 passengers, 162,961 lb. of mails, and 799,237 lb. of freight. Considering that the northward service runs over thinly populated grazing tracts, this is a very fine record. Recently the company announced a reduction of return fare rates to the winter level on the Perth-Adelaide service, so that it became cheaper to travel between Perth and Adelaide by air than by any other first-class passenger service. The company announce that this con cession has resulted in a; gam of 40 per cent, in passenger traffic and an increase of more than 20 per cent, in revenue. Dewoitines for " Air France" ONE of the outcomes of the " Air France " amalgama tion will be to put the new Dewoitine (three 650 h.p. super charged Hispano engines) on to the London-Paris air line. 1 he machine is said to have a cruising speed of 186.4 m.p.h. (300 km./p.h.). It will later be used on the Paris-Karachi route and, probably by flying direct from Paris to Athens, it is hoped to do the journey in 3| days. When on this route, the Dewoitine will only have accommodation for eight passengers instead of the 24 it carries in Europe. The route to Karachi will continue to go through Beirut and Baghdad and then via Karachi ultimately to Saigon. An extension is being projected either from Rangoon or Saigon to Hong Kong. A Commission has left for South America to confer on the question of flying the South Atlantic instead of carrying the mails by boat as is at present done. A Prague-Bucharest Service A NEW air service is shortly to be inaugurated in Czechoslovakia in accordance with an agreement signed some months ago with Rumania. The flights will be between Prague and Bucharest via Uzhorod in Carpathian Ruthenia, at present the terminus of the Czechoslovak State Lines cross-country service. Test flights will be made this month, and it is hoped that a regular service of three flights weekly in both directions will be in augurated in September. Calcutta Air Mail THOSE sending letters to India by air mail should remember that there is a new air mail link between Karachi and Calcutta, and that all letters for Calcutta should have an extra 2d. stamp. New Aerodrome at Lake Bourget WORK was begun, on August 15, on a large new aero drome on the shores of Lake Bourget, opposite Aix-les- Bains. A Parliamentary credit of 11,500,000 francs (about £135,300) has been voted for the project. This new aero drome will shorten the air route to Cannes and Nice, which at the present time goes round by Marseilles. It is quite possible that in the near future Aix-les-Bains will be made into a large port for seaplanes. Dublin-Liverpool Service MIDLAND & SCOTTISH AIR FERRIES, LTD., opened a new route between Hooton Aerodrome, Liverpool, and Bal- donnel, Dublin, last week, using an Avro " Ten " for the HH UNDER TEST : The Fokker F.XX has an undercarriage which retracts into the engine nacelles. 847
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