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FLIGHT, MAY 10, 1934 PROGRESS AT HOME AND ABROAD AIR MAIL LEAFLET THE spring edition of the Air Mail Leaflet, giving, particulars of the air mail services available as from May 1, has now been issued. Copies will be sent to allpersons or firms who have applied to be placed on the distribution list, and copies can also be obtained free ofcharge at any Post Office. LONDON-STOCKHOLM SERVICE PROPOSED CAPT. C. FLORMAN, Managing Director of A.B. Aero- transport, of Stockholm, forecast, in a paper which he gave before the Society of Swedish Engineers in London, that a direct service between Stockholm and London would be started during 1935. At first the journey will take six hours, but will subsequently be shortened to five hours. Capt. Florman prophesied that soon the air mail fee will disappear and that all letters will go by air mail. At present all air services towards Sweden pass through Hol- land and are operated in conjunction with K.L.M. NEW HESTON-ISLE OF WIGHT AIR SERVICE ON May 1, Portsmouth, Southsea & Isle of Wight Aviation, Ltd., commenced to operate a twice-daily ser- vice between Heston and the Isle of Wight. This will be increased to four services a day on May 17, 18, 19, 22 and 23, and on August 1 to 4 and 7 to 9. The single fare is 19s. 6d., exactly the same as the lst-class railway fare, and it is believed that few who realise the existence of this economical air route will wish to make the long and fatiguing journey by land and sea. London bookings may be made at the Victoria Coach Station (where passengers are met and deposited) or through the British Air Navi- gation Company at Heston. At the present time the com- pany's three-engined eight-seater Westland " Wessex " is used on the service, but it will be replaced on May 16 by eight-seater de Havilland " Dragons," equipped with Marconi wireless NEW TESTS OF BLERIOT 5-190 Santos Dumont, the Bleriot 5-190 flying boat (four Hispano-Suiza 12 Nbr engines), which was built last year for the South Atlantic service, is reported to have made some satisfactory test flights at Berre, near Marseilles. It seems safe to assume that this aircraft will shortly make a flight to South America. A FAR EAST SERVICE ON May 1 the Eurasia Aviation Corporation opened a new air line between Peking and Canton, via Taiyuan, Loyang (Ho-Nau-fu), Hankow and Changsha. This ser- vice will run twice a week at present, the journey occupy- ing two days, but it is hoped to reduce this time later on. At present machines remain overnight at Loyang, where they connect up with the corporation's service between Shanghai and Chuguchak. China National Aviation Cor- poration, it will be remembered, also operate a service between Peking and Canton, via Shanghai. We published a review of commercial aviation in China in FLIGHT for November 2 last. NIGHT AIR MAILSTHE night air mail service between London, Cologne, Hanover and Berlin, with its connections, provides a rapidservice to most European countries. Correspondence sent by this service should be delivered, for example, inCologne, Hanover, Berlin, Munich, Brussels, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Bale the following morning, and in Vienna,Prague, Danzig, Tallinn, Helsingfors, Budapest, Venice, Kaunas and Belgrade the day after despatch. Air mailletters for this service may be posted in the ordinary street boxes in London in time for the 5.30 p.m. collections inthe head-district areas or the collections made about 4 p.m. in the sub-district areas ; they may also be posted up to8 p.m. in the special blue air mail box at the General Post Office, King Edward Building, E.C.I, and about anhour earlier in the special blue air mail boxes in the London head district areas. For the latest times of posting else-where inquiry should be made at the local head or branch office. INCREASING AIR TRAVEL IN EGYPT IT is gratifying to report the ever-increasing numberstravelling by air in Egypt. During March, Misr Airwork aircraft flew a total number of 36,117 miles on all servicesand charter, carrying 1,233 passengers. Among those travelling on the regular services during one week wereAllouba Bey, Director of the Misr Navigation Company, who was accompanied by Miss Allouba, Mr., Mrs. and MissLessenya, Mr. Carver, Mrs. and Miss Stroschminder, Count and Countess Shedid, Maj. Samson and El MallawaniEffendi on the Alexandria service, and the Right Reverend Bishop Gwynne on the Palestine service. SCANDINAVIAN AIR SERVICESWITH the inauguration of; summer time-tables, a con- siderable improvement will be made in Scandinavian airservices. The Oslo-Berlin route, via Copenhagen, will be covered in five hours, and the Copenhagen-Hamburg ser-vice will be run twice daily. Three trips daily will be made on the Copenhagen-Paris and the Copenhagen-Londonservices, and an express service will be started between Copenhagen and Goteborg. The new Northrop " Deltas "recently ordered by A.B. Aero Transport will be used on this route and will make the trip in one hour. The Amster-dam-Hull and Liverpool connection will be inaugurated on June 1. PAN-AMERICAN IN BRAZIL A TWICE-WEEKLY air service has been inaugurated byPan-American Airways between Belem (Para) and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The single fare for the 2,500-mile journey,which is accomplished in 2J days, is £45. BOLIVIAN AIR TRAFFIC LLOYD AEREO BOLIVIANO, of Cochabamba, gives thefollowing traffic statistics for February, 1934:—215 flights, 21,200 miles flown and 1,189 passengers and 530,000 lb. ofmail and express carried. DAY AND NIGHT : Two interior views of the Curtiss-Wright " Condor " airliner, showing the convertible sleeping berth arrangement, which forms a feature of the new fleet of machines to be put into operation by American Airways between Dallas and Los Angeles. ••—,::•: -:-r •::::-,.z-. ,-.: ':,.:^..x.v - .459 .. - , . .- -^ .:^:;r.,: .;:.;;:;:;• ^.-^ ~ f C 2
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