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1933 - 1313.PDF
FLIGHT, DECEMBER 28, 1933 A Fokker F.XII (three Bristol " Jupiters "> used by D.D.L. (Danish Air Traffic Co.). Koge Bay by going inland, a beacon being provided at Karlstrup, between the towns of Roskilde and Koge. The beacons are of the flashing type, giving a flash every four seconds. With one exception, the beacons show white flashes. The only exception is that at Rodbyhavn, which shows white from 353 deg. through north to 83 deg. and red from 83 deg. through south to 353 deg. A REPEAT ORDER FOR JUNKERS THE last of the batch of 12 Junkers Ju.52 3/m. com mercial monoplanes ordered by D.L.H. has been delivered, and an order for 12 similar machines has been placed. The new series will be completed during next year. SWISS TRAFFIC RETURNS INTERNAL and international Swiss air services have carried, during the summer season of 1933, 32,548 passen gers, 561,684 lb. of air mail and 978,864 lb. of freight. The corresponding figures for last year are given for com parison. Passengers 28,441, air mail 454,133 lb. and freight 930,571 lb. A GERMAN AIRLINE IN BRAZIL THE " Varig " Company, of Porto Alegre, Brazil, which is being operated by Germans with German machines, is fast developing its air services. During the first six months of this year the company carried about half as many passengers as the " Panair " Company, which also operates Brazilian services. " Varig " has surveyed nearly a thousand miles of airways throughout the country, of which 375 miles are receiving complete ground organi sation. Nine aerodromes have already been established. AIR-FRANCE AND NEW FARMAN THE four-engined Farman " 220," fitted with a 600-h.p. Hispano engine, which was built for long-distance bombing, is continuing its tests at the Service Technique of Villacoublay-Paris. Messrs. Nogues a,nd Balazuc, tech nical directors of Air-France, recently had flights in this machine. PACIFIC AIRSHIP LINE A REPORT from America states that a trans-Pacific airship line is to be inaugurated as soon as the necessary legislation has been passed by the Congress. California, Honolulu and the Philiopines will be linked. THE DELAY OF THE " POSTJAGER " THE 596 lb. of mail which was being carried in the Pander " Postjager " when she was delayed in Italy with engine trouble has been taken from Brindisi to Cairo by an Imperial Airways machine. The mail was transferred to the regular K.L.M. Dutch Indian mail machine bound for Batavia. Thus the mail will reach its destination in time for Christmas. " A WONDERFUL BIRD IS THE PELICAN " THE Dutch were disappointed when the Pander Postjager," which for weeks they had idolised, failed to break the record for the Amsterdam-Batavia trip owing to engine trouble in Italy. They were mortified, we suspect, when the Fokker F.XX, their " second string," also gave trouble with her engines on December 18 before starting on a journey over the same route. The " next best thing " was a Fokker F.XVin, a type which is regu larly used on the Holland-Indies route. The particular FXVIII in question was the Pelican. We remember her visit soon after she was built ; she has been in service now for about two years. The mail in the F.XX was transferred to the Pelican, which left Schipol Aerodrome at 4.30 a.m. on Monday, December 18. On the first day only 1,000 miles were covered, but by noon on Tuesday the machine had landed at Cairo. About 2,350 miles were flown on the second day of the trip. On Wednesday at 5.45 p.m. (G.M.T.) the Pelican landed at Jodhpur after flying 2,000 miles. She stayed at Jodhpur for about If hours, reaching Calcutta at 5.20 a.m. (G.M.T.). At dawn on Thursday a landing was made at Rangoon, and by 4.20 p.m. (local time) the last thousand miles to Batavia had been covered. Thus the trip was completed in less than half the time taken by the machines operating the regular service. We congratulate Smirnoff and Soer on their powers of endurance. Scanty publicity has been given to their achievement ; it is not until one remembers that the F.XVIII, which has a speed of 152 m.p.h., took little more than half a day longer than the time in which the pilots of the " Postjager " (which has a top speed of about 223 m.p.h.) intended to make the flight, that the merit of the performance is fully realised. The American engines in the " Postjager " and F.XX gave trouble, but the well-tried " Wasps " in the Pelican behaved magnifi cently. The latest news to hand is that Smirnoff and Soer are flying the Pelican back to Amsterdam. They left Batavia on Boxing Day and hope to reach Holland before the New Year. SWISSAIR EQUIPMENT WE announced some time back that a representative of Swissair was in America to purchase new machines. We now gather that the purchase of a Douglas " Air liner " and a Lockheed " Electra " is being considered. These aircraft will complete the flying equipment of Swiss air for 1934. THE LATEST WIBAULT DEVELOPMENTS Two fast three-engined monoplanes are to be con structed by Wibault-Penhoet. The first will be an im proved version of the well-known type 282 T 12 machine as used by Air-France. It is to be known as the 283 T 12. and should have a cruising speed of about 170 m.p.h. The second design is a large commercial type, carrying 32 passengers and a crew of four. A top speed of 235 m.p.h. is expected when fitted with three " Gnome- Rhone K-14 " geared and supercharged engines of 845 h.p. each. THE LEO 24-1 FLYING BOAT THE four-engined Liore et Olivier flying boat (" Gnome-Rhone K-7's ") recently made its first test flight when it flew from Marseilles to Algiers and back. 99.44 PER CENT. REGULARITY IT is announced by the United Air Lines of America that in the six months of operation during the summer season its machines maintained a regularity of 99.44 per cent, on its commercial services. Over the Chicago-Cali fornia route 785,000 miles were covered, and 1,293 pas sengers, 190,500 lbs. of freight and 2,205 lbs. of air mail were carried. THE " WESTFALEN " EXPERIMENTS THE catapult ship Westfalen is to return to Germany after concluding her tests to receive improvements. A second vessel of similar type is being fitted with catapult equipment. The Deutsche Lufthansa stressed the fact that a postal service across the South Atlantic, on which cata pult ships are used, cannot be a final solution to the problem. 1307
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