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1933
1933 - 0580.PDF
FLIGHT, SEPTEMBER 21, 1933 A MODERN GIANT : The four-engined Junkers G.38 type recently put into service by Luft Hansa. (FLIGHT Photo.) birge/Hirschberg-Cottbus-Berlin. (162) Breslau-Prague- Munich. Apart from these aeroplane services by the Luft Hansa A.G., there are also a considerable number of flights made each year to South America with the airship Graf Zeppelin. These flights start from Friedrichshafen, and Luft Hansa run connecting services from Berlin. The companies run ning this service are, besides the Luft Hansa; the Luft- schifibau Zeppelin G.m.b.H., Syndicato Condor Ltda., and Lloyd Aereo Boliviano. The route is Friedrichshafen- Pernambuco-Rio de Janeiro-Montevideo-Buenos Aires- Bolivia-Chile. An " Aerobus " is run three times daily between Cologne and Frankfurt which, with the existing three services, makes six machines each way daily between these towns. Certain services are also run for mails and goods only ; these are:—PF 1.* Berlin-Hannover-Cologne-London - PF 3. Frankfurt/M.-Cologne. PF 4. Amsterdam-Han- nover-Copenhagen-Malmo (together with Det Danske Luft- fart Selskab A/S. and A. B. Aerotransport). PF 6. Berlin- Vienna-Budapest-Belgrade-Sofia-Salonika-Athens. All these Luft Hansa services are subject to a time table. Some run every day of the week while others only run on weekdays, others again are only run during the summer months. It is impossible to go into full detail in this article, which is only designed to show the extent to which German aerial transport has developed. Another company which did not combine with the Luft Hansa organisation is the Deutsche Luftverkehrsflug A.-G. Their services are:—201/207.* Dresden-Chemnitz-Plauen- Hof-Bayreuth-Nurnberg/Furth. 210. Plauen-Zwickau-Chem- nitz-Dresden-Leipzig/Mockau. 211. Plauen-Gera-Leipzig / Mockau-Dessau-Berlin. 212. Cottbus-Guben-Frankf urt / O. Stettin . 250. Mannheim / Ludwigshaf en / Heidelberg-Frank furt/M.- Mainz / Wiesbaden-Cologne - Diisseldorf - Essen / Miil- heim-Krefeld. 255. Stuttgart-Carlsruhe-Baden / Baden. 282. Dortmund-Borkum. 290. Krefeld-Cologne. 292. * These are rou'.e numbers. Krefeld-Essen/Mulheim. 293. Diisseldorf-Cologne. The head office of this company is at the Furth Airport of Nilrnberg. An interesting variety of aeroplanes are used by the German companies. Luft Hansa have:—Junkers G.38, G.31, G.24, Ju.52, F.13, W.33, F.24 KO., W.34, and also some F.13, W.33 and W.34 seaplanes; Rohrbach " Roland " ; Dornier " Merkur," " Super Wal " and " Wal " ; Fokker F.ll and F.lll ; Messerschmitt M.20 and two Heinkel seaplanes which are used for launching by catapult, with mails from the Bremen and Europa when these ships are some distance (up to as far as 700 miles on occasions) from Southampton and New York. By means of these aeroplanes the delivery of mails is greatly expedited. Deruluft use Dornier " Merkur " ; Junkers F.13 ; Rohr bach " Roland " and Russian machines, the ANT 9. The Deutsche Verkehrsflug A.-G. use:—Messerschmitt M.lSb, M.18d and M.24 ; and Focke Wulf A.32 and A.20. GREAT BRITAIN HTHERE is only one British company which is a member A of the I.A.T.A., namely, Imperial Airways, Ltd. The geographical position and climatic conditions of Great Britain make it probable that she will always be more interested in external than in internal air services. Her chief pre-occupation will almost certainly be air services to and from other parts of the British Empire. This has been recognised by the Government, who have encouraged the formation of Imperial Airways with the object of run ning air lines to the British Dominions and Colonies. Two main Empire trunk lines are already in existence, one from Croydon to Capetown, and the other from Croydon to Cal cutta. The latter will shortly be extended to Australia. The services are weekly in each direction. These services are not by air all the way. From Paris to Brindisi the mails and passengers travel by train through the night. The types of aircraft used on these services are: —From Croydon to Paris the Handley Page 42 with four Bristol BERLIN'S AIRPORT The Tetnpelhof Aerodrome. 932
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