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1933 - 0957.PDF
FLIGHT, NOVEMBER 9, 1933 9 800 kg. (approximately 9| tonsj, which, with a useful load of 6 400 kg. (about 6 tons), will give the fully-loaded machine a weight of nearly 16 tons. The four Wright " Cyclone " engines, each developing 700 h.p., will pro duce a cruising speed of 140, and a maximum speed of 155 m.p.h. The machine has been designed for use both on the short European services and for the East Indies route. In the former case it will provide accommodation for 32 passen gers in four compartments of eight each, and when fully- loaded will have a range of about 450 miles. On the Indies route the aeroplane will carry 16 passengers, who will be accommodated at night in folding beds, four in each compartment, and it will then have a range of 900 miles. The accommodation for passengers and for crew will be quite distinct from one another, and will have separate entrances. The first pilot will sit right forward in the nose of the machine, with the radio-telegraphist in front to the left and facing him to facilitate communication. The second pilot will sit to the right behind the first, and the commander in a small cabin immediately behind. There will be roomy sleeping accommodation for two officers off duty. The passenger accommodation will be exceptionally lofty and roomy, with a spacious corridor and large windows. It is intended that the machine shall fly from early in the morning until about 3 o'clock in the afternoon on each stage of the journey to Batavia. This will give the passengers the opportunity of going into the town and having dinner, and returning to the aeroplane to sleep. NORTHERN TRAVEL DURING November a machine of Highland Airways, Ltd., will be stationed experimentally at Kirkwall to main tain the ferry service between the Orkney Islands and Wick, on the Scottish mainland. The service will be so arranged that passengers will be able to reach Glasgow or Edinburgh on the same day. The Inverness-Kirkwall ser vice will not be# maintained during the winter. Capt. E. E. Fresson, managing director of Highland Airways, Ltd., has recently surveyed a possible route between Ork ney and Shetland, a distance of 100 miles. According to Capt. Fresson, in order to operate a regular service, direc tional wireless would have to be employed and a navigator would have to be carried on each machine. It would be essential for a ground engineer to be stationed at Shet land, and, all things considered, the operation of the route without substantial monetarv guarantee would be im practicable. HUMBER AIR FERRY As previously announced in FLIGHT, the experimental period of the service ended on September 30, but, owing to encouraging support, it was continued for a further month. Saturday, November 4, was therefore the date for the last services this season. Arrangements for charter will, however, remain as usual throughout the winter for any distance, either at home or abroad,, including, of course, Hull/ Grimsby. Well over 1,000 passengers have been carried between the centres in 35 min., and it is pro visionally decided to reopen the service on Monday, April 2, 1934, with a faster fleet of aeroplanes, speed and frequency being the aim. CANADIAN AIR ROUTES TO THE ARCTIC THE inaugural flights of an air mail service to Camsell River will be made on or about November 29. Camsell River is on the air mail route between Fort Resolution N.W.T. and Cameron Bay, on the eastern shore of Great Bear Lake. Another service carrying letters even farther north will be started about January 15, 1934. This will be from Cameron Bay to Coppermine on Coronation Gulf, in the Arctic Circle. ODESSA-BATUM SEAPLANE SERVICE A SEAPLANE service for passengers is shortly to be estab lished between Odessa and Batum. At present, investi gations are going on into the route, and plans are being made for the building of sea aerodromes. High-powered Soviet seaplanes will be used on this line. The distance of over 1,000 kilometres, which now takes three and a- half days to cover in a steamer, will be covered in five to six hours. NEW AIR MAIL LEAFLET THE Postmaster-General announces that the winter edition of the Air Mail Leaflet, giving particulars of the air mail services which will be available on and after November 1 has now been issued. Copies of the new leaflet are being sent to all persons or firms who have applied to be placed on the distribution list. Copies can also be obtained free of charge at any Post Office. Regu lar users of the air mail services are advised to consult the new leaflet regarding the services in which they are interested, as a number of changes have been made in consequence of alterations in the timing of the air ser vices, etc. Particular attention is drawn to the fact that, as from November 1 and 2 respectively, the latest times of posting air mail correspondence for despatch by the direct air services to South Africa and India in the air mail letter-box outside the General Post Office, London, will be as follows:—England-South Africa air mail, 10.45 a.m. Wednesdays ; England-India air mail, 10.45 a.m. Saturdays. The latest times of posting elsewhere will be correspondingly earlier. The Postmaster-General also announces that the air letter rate to South Africa is now reduced to lOd. per | oz. The South African Post Office have also reduced the air letter rate from South Africa to this country to lOd. per | oz. NEW ZEALAND AND ENGLAND-AUSTRALIA AIR MAIL NEW ZEALAND'S contribution towards the England- Australia air mail service will be £5,000. There is little expectation of an early extension of the service to New Zealand by air, but the service from Australia will be a valuable saving of time if suitable steamer connections are arranged. A NORTHERN FERRY : The Avro 18, which has already been described in FLIGHT for September 21, is now nearing completion at Manchester. Our view shows the nose of the machine and gives a good idea of the large amount of space in the cabin. It is being built for Midland 8C Scottish Air Ferries, Ltd. (FLIGHT Photo.) 1121 D
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