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1934
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FLIGHT, APRIL 5, 1934 AIRPORT NEWS CROYDON IK traffic records were easily broken at Easter On Thursday and Good Friday alone, Imperial Airways, Ltd., carried 450 people abroad in 26 aeroplanes, and Air-France ran full up with addi- tional machines supplementing regular services. Nearly wavsPaftedgerf °? tf^Se tW° dayS flew hy ImPerial Airy2 H T A T°U1Uet' where< within an hour of oppressed London, one may play roulette. The same Government which forbids ufto take an Irish Sweep ticket lest we should become uncontrollably dissolute as a nation does all in its power to facilitate British gambling at Le Touquet by providing " no passport " facilities when you fly there. y •v/r01^ Alr Services' Ltd-. have been busy this Easter Mr. Olley himself is away on a seven-day tour of Scotland with a client. His headquarters will be St. Andrews and between bouts of golf the less serious recreation of looking for the monster in Loch Ness from the air will be indulged in. If there is anything to be seen, the air is the place to see it from. Mr. "Bill" Ledlie, the well-known and popular " charter " pilot, has joined Olley Air Services, Ltd., and has been busy at the Paris end during Easter with a " Puss Moth " on an extensive air tour. Amongst recent notable passengers was Mrs. Margaret Torrey, who flew to Africa and back by Imperial Airways, Ltd. Actually Mrs. Torrey, who is 81, had the most comfortable and easiest travel imaginable, which was probably why she chose to do the journey by air. Some of the news- papers are incurably old-fashioned, and on reading their account of the matter, one would suppose she had travelled in one of Col. Cody's early machines. One journal, which probably regards itself as up to date, pro- duced the following: " Surely in -the long record of women's achievements in the air there is nothing to com- pare with the exploits of this fearless woman." Nothing— except the " exploits " of hundreds and hundreds of elderly lady passengers who find long journeys by air much less trying than by any of the more old-fashioned ways of getting about. By "the way, have you noticed how many ships have been in difficulties recently owing to fog '. Practically no interruption, scarcely even five minutes' delay, has been experienced in air services. On Wednesday, March 28, the Mayor of Plymouth arrived at Croydon by Provincial Air Lines, Ltd. He was met by Ford Motor Co. representatives and taken to Dagenham. Maj. Chevalier Willy Coppens, D.S.O., M.C., Belgian Air Attache, Paris, arrived at Croydon in a Belgian mili- tary " Puss Moth " during the week and flew back again the following day. The first consignment of strawberries came in by K.L.M. from Holland for Covent Garden, literally worth a guinea a box almost. Another K.L.M. cargo of an unusual nature was a consignment of cockroaches for some sort of research work. I am told that all the services to Holland Karachi airport news A NEW 10-k.w. floodlight fitted with a shadow bar has been under erection at the airport during February. Preliminary tests have been made this month prior to putting the light into permanent operation. The light, which also acts as a beacon, revolves once every five seconds, and when slightly elevated above the horizontal plane should be visible to approaching aircraft on clear nights at a distance of about 80 miles. The Aero Club has been very active during February, and there has been a considerable amount of night flying. This was done on seven nights in February, during which 108 landings and departures were made. "Fourteen other night flights were made by aircraft belonging to operating companies. The total number of arrivals and departures of regular British, foreign and Indian air mail services was sixty-two. Vicomte de Sibour, in the D.H. " Dragon," G-ACKD, arrived on February 1 on a flight from Singapore to England. He departed five days later. Mile. Hilz arrived on February 11 from Paris in a Breguet 27 milliary type were fully booked over the holiday period, but no extra machines were required. The K.L.M. traffic is mainly business people and not holiday-makers. The Mayor of Southampton, the Earl of Warwick, Miss Laura La Plante, the Harbour Master of Stockholm, and Lord Halsbury are a few names taken at random from recent passenger lists. A. VIATOR. HESTON 'ARCONTS Wireless Telegraph Company have com- pleted arrangements for the installation of a Marconi Service Depot at Heston. Private owners and commercial services will now be able to have tests made on their equipment by a resident Marconi engineer, and repairs carried out in a fully- equipped workshop on the spot. On Wednesday, March 28, the Secretary of State for Air took delivery of an Avro " Club Cadet " from Henlys, Ltd., at Heston, where he learned to fly last year with other members of his family. The engine has a Siddeley hand-electric starter operated by a button in the cockpit. The machine is finished in silver, with Lord London- derry's colours—lilac and yellow—painted on the rudder and wing tips. The latest " A " licence in the Heston School of Fly- ing has been acquired by Lord Lloyd. Four aeroplanes of Birkett Air Service were engaged in passenger and Press taxi work for the Grand National. Birkett's were, in fact, instrumental in securing for an important national evening paper a speed service from camera to reader which is believed to constitute a record. Pictures of the race were transmitted to London by tele- photo from the newspaper's special unit on the course at Aintree. An edition was rushed into print, and at 5.26 a Birkett aeroplane left Hatfield, to the north of London, carrying the newspapers to Liverpool, where they were on sale in the streets shortly after 7 p.m. Two Birkett aero- planes were away on taxi work on Sunday, March 25, and three on March 27. The British Air Navigation Company's Easter services to Le Touquet were booked to capacity, and on Thursday and Friday a relief service was run. A new D.H. " Leopard Moth " has been purchased by Wrightson & Pearse for their " fly yourself " hire fleet, which now comprises four machines ; the " Leopard," a " Puss Moth," a " Gipsy I Moth " and a " Cirrus II Moth." The daily rate for the " Leopard " is £3, ex- cluding fuel and insurance. The latter is now effected at £1 a da ^, covering any number of flying hours, instead of by the previous hourly method. A. V. Roe, Ltd., have acquired a licence to manufac- ture Autogiros, and are now laying down fifty of the C.30p. type. On Sunday, March 25, 110 teas were served at Heston, and for the first time this year visitors had tea out of doors. s m w sesquiplane, and left for Tokyo on the same day. On February 22, M. Chartoire arrived from Paris. He left for Saigon four days later. A. D.H. " Puss Moth," the City of Ahmedabad, flown by Mr. Dhargalkar, arrived from Rajkot on February 26. This machine carried as passenger Mr. Tyeb Ali, who has large business interests in India and Africa. The machine left for Ahmedabad via Jodhpur on February 23. Wing Com. Crosbie, of the de Havilland Aircraft Co., left Karachi on February 3 in a " Leopard Moth " for a tour of India. British power boat exhibition BRITISH power boats of all kinds will be on exhibi- tion at the British Power Boat Works at Hythe, near Southampton, from April 17 to 28. That amazing racing boat, Miss Britain III, which it will be remembered was raced in America with such credit by Mr. Hubert Scott Paine, will also be on view. Another of Mr. Scott Paine's productions in which our readers will be interested are the many forms of R.A.F. tenders. 33/ :: ,-; •.; ••-;..,•.. ^•-'•: y .' :-^':':ri
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