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1933
1933 - 0535.PDF
FLIGHT, SEPTEMBER 14, 1933 THE TATA AIR ROUTE : We have prepared this map to show the routes followed in normal times and also during the monsoon months. in Bombay at 7,30 p.m. on the Saturday. The Post Ulfice delivers them by the first post on the Sunday morn ing, which is not quite ideal. Mr. Tata hopes, however, before the monsoon breaks next year to have wireless equipment fitted to his aeroplanes, and so to be able to fly across the Ghats from Bombay to Poona. This would obviate another change of headquarters to the eastern side of the Ghats. From Poona onwards to Bellary our map shows two alternative routes, one of which (through Sholapore) care fully avoids the hill ranges in that part of the country, while the other and more direct route crosses some of the smaller ranges. From Bellary on to Madras low-lying country is followed. Before very long it is expected that the service will be extended from Madras on to Ceylon. The route will follow the low-lying coast down to Dhanushkhodi, and will cross the strait to Manaar, along the line of islands and rocks known as Adam's Bridge. Tradition and mythology have both been busy with this bridge. It gets its name from a tradition that Ceylon was the Garden of Eden (it seems to deserve this reputation) and that when Adam and Eve had to leave, Adam threw rocks into the sea to form a bridge to India. Hindu mythology says that when the hero Rama invaded Ceylon, he was assisted by the King of the Monkeys, Hanuman, and it was the latter who threw the huge rocks into the strait to make the bridge for Rama's army. The sea crossing here is about 21 miles, the same distance as between Dover and Calais, and at low tide landings would be possible on some of the islands. Even at high tide the water is shallow, and in an emer gency a machine coifld land without being submerged. At Manaar the mails will be put on the night train and will be delivered in Colombo by the first post next morn ing, so that the absence of an aerodrome at Colombo causes no delay. It has been decided to make this crossing by landplane, as the present traffic would not justify the extra cost of seaplanes. This is a very brief account of a really great air line enterprise. Soon, perhaps, the route will be altered to include Hyderabad. Already, however, the Tata Air Mail is a credit to British India, and all British subjects may well feel proud of the enterprise of the great Parsi house of Tata. •HI BOMBAY The fine prospect of Bombay which is familiar to all travellers to India. courtesy of the High Commissioner for India.) (Photo by D.H/s for Indian National Airways IT is stated that Airwork, Ltd., have received an order from Indian National Airways, Ltd., for their initial equipment of two de Havilland " Dragons " and one de Havilland " Fox Moth." " Gipsy Major " engines will « standard in each case, and the two "Dragon", air craft will be fitted to take a Marconi A.D.6 wireless transmitter and receiver, together with Marconi-Robinson nommg equipment. A single outfit has been ordered, which will thus be transferable at a few minutes' notice irom one machine to the other. Both " Dragons " are ° be fitted as alternative joy-riding and long-distance machines. In the former case they will carry eight pas sengers, and in the latter the addition of a removable avatory and freight compartment will reduce the passen ger capacity to five. This order has been placed with irwork, Ltd., as the buying agents of Indian National myays, the most recently-formed of their associated com- 1T. m»?. m the East, of which the two alreadv in operation No ^ll|r"Alrwoi'k in Cairo and Iraq Airwork in Baghdad. definite statement may yet be made with regard to the services for which these aircraft are required, but it is believed that a weekly service from Calcutta to Ran goon and a daily service from Calcutta to Dacca are con templated, while other services are projected later in Northern India. Air Postage to India APROPOS our recent note on the postal charges on air mail letters to India, a correspondent complains to us that recently he sent a letter by air mail to an address in Bombay. He first put on the ordinary 6d. worth of stamps, and then, having consulted the paragraph in FLIGHT, he added 2d. for carriage by air from Karachi on to Bombay. Then, not being quite sure of the rules, he added one l|d. as ordinary postage, though this was not neces sary. He duly added a blue air mail label. Then he thought that he had taken all possible precautions to ensure the letter going by air all the way. In due course he heard from his Bombay correspondent that the letter had been sent by train from Karachi to Bombay, apparently because he had emitted to write on the envelope " By air in India." So the Postmaster-General pocketed 909
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