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FLIGHT, NOVEMBER 16, 1933 QAA ^A^K^b&it. THE " CODOCK " : In our issue of September 14 we published a side elevation of the machine designed by Wing Com. Wackett for Sir Charles Kingsford-Smtth. This photograph of a scale model gives an even better idea of the " Codock." The engines are two Napier " Javelins " and the machine will have a wing span of 52 ft., a tare weight of 2,620 lb., and a gross weight of 4,500 lb. There will be seating accommodation for six passengers, and the range with full load is calculated to be about 500 miles. AIR MAIL TRAFFIC THE Postmaster-General announces that during the quarter ended September 30, V933, 55,1001b. of letter air mails were carried from this country as compared with 39,846 lb. during the corresponding quarter of 1932 ; the carryings to India alone were 14,052 lb. as compared with 9,768 lb. Making allowarfce for the incidence of one more despatch to India in the September quarter, 1933, than in the corre sponding quarter last year, the increase in the total letter mails amounted to about 35 per cent., and in the case of India alone to about 34 per cent. Details of the letter air mail traffic are: — India Air Service (including Egypt, Iraq, etc.) African Air Service Other Extra-European Services ... Continental Services September Quarter, 1932. lb. 14,052 4,046 6,410 15,338 September Quarter, 1933. lb. 19,446 6,085 7,619 21,950 39,846 55,100 I here was also an increase of about 16 per cent, in the weight of parcels sent by air mail, the figures being 40.300 ]b. in the September quarter, 1933, as compared with 34,760 lb. in the corresponding quarter of 1932. FIRST BERLIN-SOUTH AMERICA ALL-AIR MAIL THE first all-air mail flight from Berlin to South America was completed successfully recently. Some time a g°, it may be remembered, the Dornier " Wal " flying- boats used in the experiment arrived at Woolston, South ampton, en route for Cadiz, Spain. A Heinkel He.70, piloted by Untucht, flew the first air mails from Berlin to Cadiz at an average speed of 217 m.p.h. At Cadiz the mails were transferred to one of the Dornier " Wals," which took them to Bathurst, Gambia. The flight across the South Atlantic, with a landing and refuelling on board the Westfalen, the " apron ship," was made in a little ov er 15 hr. by the Monsoon, whose " skipper " was Herr von Clausbruch. As the distance is in the neighbourhood "i 2,000 miles, it would appear that the flying-boat had the benefit of favourable winds. NEW SERVICES TO MOSCOW . ^HE new air mail line from Stockholm to Leningrad with connection to Moscow—previously mentioned in T£IGHT—wil1 come into operation from May 1 next year, fhe manager of the Swedish Aerotransport, Ltd., Capt. Carl Florman, has recently returned to Stockholm after a week's visit in Soviet Russia, where he and the heads of the Dutch K.L.M., Mr. de Vries, and of the Finnish Aero Company, Mr. Staahle, were the guests of the Soviet air authorities. The aim of the negotiations was to connect the Russian and the Scandinavian lines, and it is understood that the Soviet Government have been very anxious to reach an agreement. In view of the present situation in Nazi Germany, it is not difficult to see why the Soviet authorities wish to establish an outlet to the international air centres without having to cross German territory. The representatives of Deruluft, the Soviet organisation for international air traffic, pointed out that the distance between Moscow and Stockholm can be covered by a modern transport aeroplane in 6 to 8 hours, with intermediate landings at Leningrad, Reval and Hel- singfors. As there already exist regular lines from Moscow to Reval and from Stockholm to Reval, it is only a matter of co-ordination and provision of bigger and faster machines. The Soviet representatives declared that there would be no difficulties, as the Russian civil air fleet " already comprises about one thousand machines of different types from small single-engined aeroplanes to big five-engined air cruisers with accommodation for up to 42 passengers. When this new line is established it will thus be possible to travel from London to Moscow in two days by another route than through Germany." RUSSIA BUYS ITALIAN FLYING BOATS THE Russian Government has bought five Savoia- Marchetti flying-boats (two Isotta-Fraschini " Asso " 750-h.p. engines). These machines will be used on the 2,800-mile Vladivostok-Petropavlosk route in the Kam chatka Peninsula, which is claimed to be the longest sea plane route in the world. A Russian pilot, Demchenko, flew the first of these boats 13,670 miles between Sesto- Calende and Kamchatka at an average speed of 146 m.p.h. The S.55's have accommodation for 12 passengers and a top speed of 167 m.p.h. is claimed. A WARSAW-MOSCOW ROUTE PLANNED NEGOTIATIONS are proceeding for a Soviet-Polish con vention for an air service between Moscow and Warsaw. Col. Filipowicz, the Polish Director of Civil Aviation, accompanied by Maj. Fakowski, is now on a visit to Moscow. A service between Warsaw and Moscow is planned for next year. Poland is also considering nego tiations with Germany for a Warsaw-Berlin connection, which, if it is put into operation, will probably displace the present long Berlin-Konigsberg-Moscow route. 1147 o 2
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