FlightGlobal.com
Home
Premium
Archive
Video
Images
Forum
Atlas
Blogs
Jobs
Shop
RSS
Email Newsletters
You are in:
Home
Aviation History
1934
1934 - 0748.PDF
/Ju FLIGHT. JULY 19, 1934. l.A.N.Co.'s Deauville Service Entertained HESTON , :c A Meal in Every Country" : Belgian Pilots Wrightson's New " Vellox " THE British Air Navigation Company's summer service toDeauville was inaugurated last Thursday. The serviceleaves Heston every day, including Sundays, at n a.m.,arriving at Deauville at 12.30 p.m., leaves on the return flight at 3, and arrives again at Heston at 4.30. The opening flight was made in B.A.N.Co.'s Ford " Trimotor," G-ABHO, with Mr. T. N Morton at the controls. The Le Touquet service was working harder than ever during the week-end of July 7, and more than seventeen round trips were made. The Dieppe-Pourville service was also operating, and promises well. During the week-end alone B.A.N. Co. flew ninety-five passengers between Heston and the Continent, and handled 174 passengers in all. The Portsmouth, Southsea and Isle of Wight Aviation has been operating to capacity, and, indeed, railed in their London agents, B.A.N.Co., to accommodate a considerable overflow in two "Dragons," a "Gull," and the Avro "Commodore" —which is that company's latest purchase. Heston's new telephone number, Hounslow 2345, was brought into action at 9 a.m. last Saturday. The repairs to Lord Londonderry's Avro "Cadet" are pro- gressing in the Airwork workshops, where they have wide experience in repairing metal machines. A.. V. Roe and Co., the makers, have expressed approval of the work already carried out on the fuselage, which has been straightened and welded. A pail of Airwork spats were fitted overnight to Prince Kinsky's new "Leopard Moth," and he was able to leave for the Continent early the next morning. Prince Kinsky, who is the President of the Austrian Aero Club, and well known in England, is very often seen at Heston. An interesting story of the return from the Bonn week-end is that of Mr. Gerard d'Erlanger's party, which left on Sun- day evening. At 4.30 p.m. they were sitting in a restaurant some way out of Bonn. Exactly four hours later they were in the restaurant at Heston. Between tea and dinner they had returned to Bonn, packed, driven to the Cologne airport, and covered the 350 miles to their home airport. "A meal in every country " may well become the slogan of really pro- gressive European tourists. About a dozen Belgian pilots were entertained to lunch at Heston by the Royal Aero Club Hospitality Committee on July 7. This follows close upon their entertainment of German visitors for the R.A.F. display. A valuable aid to such gatherings has been provided by Lord Wakefield, who has pre- sented a large supply of aviation maps to be loaned to foreign visitors entertained by the Committee. These maps are issued by the Committee, and are returned to the traffic staff at Heston when the visit is over. The popularity of the D.H. " Leopard Moth " has led to the purchase of a second by Wrightson Air Hire, whose compre- hensive stock is being increasingly used by pilots who are unable to afford the outlay and expense of buying and running an aeroplane of their own. Wrightson and Pearse, too. are expecting delivery of their new Vickers "Vellox" freight machine towards the end of the month. This will be the first air freighter to use Heston as its base Converted passenger machines have hitherto carried out all work of this nature. The "Vellox" is to be fitted with two-way radio, and will be used principally for the daily contract flight with newspapers to Paris, leaving Heston in the small hours of the morning. Several Heston pupils have recently taken the blind-flying certificate, which is issued by Airwork to pupils who have completed their instrument-flying course and passed the " blind " navigation test on a triangular fifty-mile circuit. Mr. Brian Davy is the instrument-fH'ing specialist on the Air- work school staff. hong Island to Wall Street On Monday a seaplane service between Long Island and East River, New York, was inaugurated, and will be run four times daily in each direction. Two rafts have been arranged, with waiting rooms and ticket offices, on the river. An Irish. Air Line Everson Flying Services, who have had quite a busy time recently with charter trips to various parts of Ireland, are negotiating with the Free State Government for permission to use either Ballincollig or Fermoy aerodromes for a regular service which is to be started shortly. This will be run twice weekly between Dublin and Cork. Manchester's Airport It appears that the Airport Committee has definitely recom- mended the construction of a new airport at Ringway, which lies on a line, and about half-way between Altrincham and Wilmslow, on the south-west side of Manchester. For the pre- sent, Barton will not be extended, but will be treated as a secondary aerodrome. The new landing area should provide runways of approxi- mately 1,200 yards in length—against the 600 yards at Barton —and is far enough outside the city area to be free from local fogs. Canadian Airways We learn that Canadian Airways, Ltd., owing to the urgent need for economy, has transferred its offices from Montreal to Winnipeg—the original headquarters of Western Canada Air- ways. C.A., Ltd., have been extremely unlucky recently. Two years ago they held the air mail contract and arranged their business to suit, so that when the night prairie air mail was cancelled they suffered considerable losses. Actually the company held a four-year contract and were cut off, so to speak, without warning after two years' successful operation. At present Canadian Airways are concentrating on the trans- portation of men and supplies to frontier posts. A Cunard Experiment A D.H.86 " Delphinus" was chartered from Imperial Air ways recently by the Cunard Steamship Company. She was usec to meet the Aquitama on her arrival at Cherbourg and to fly passengers through Europe to Paris, Zurich, Munich, Vienna, and Budapest—so reducing the time of their journey by at least 24 hours. Hillman's Belfast Service This week Hillman's Airways opened their new air line to Belfast, taking the place of that previously run by Midland and Scottish Air Ferries, Ltd. At present the service is operated once daily in each direc- tion, with a time-table as follows: King's Cross Coach Station, 8.45 a.m. ; Stapleford Abbots (Hillman's new airport), 10 a.m. ; Speke (Liverpool), 11.45 am- > Castletown (I.O.M.), 12.45p.m.; Aldergrove, 1.45 p.m. ; and the Grand Central Hotel, Belfast, 2.25 p.m. The return journey starts from Belfast at 2.20 p.m. and Aldergrove at 4 p.m., reaches Hillman's airport at 7.45 p.m., and London at 8.45 p.m. D.H. " Dragons " are used, though as soon as Hillman's Airways take delivery of their new D.H.8g's with two Gipsy Six engines, these will replace the "Dragons." A 180 m.p.h. Mexican Service From Varney Speed Lines we learn that Lineas Aereas Occi- dentales, S.A., use five Lockheed "Orions," powered with "Wasps," supercharged for the high altitudes near Mexico City, on their daily 1,800-mile run from Los Angeles. These machines carry a pilot, six passengers, T50 lb. of baggage, and. 100 lb. of mail, and operate at a cruising speed of 180 m.p.h., so that the route is covered in ten flying hours. The L.A.O. is owned by Mr. Walter Varney, who was the first private air operator in the U.S.A., and the pioneer of " every hour on the hour " high speed services. One of the machines used. West Wind, holds the transport record between San Francisco and Los Angeles at 263.07 m.p.h., and is Var- ney's entry for the MacRobertson. This particular " Orion" is now in Europe.
Sign up to
Flight Digital Magazine
Flight Print Magazine
Airline Business Magazine
E-newsletters
RSS
Events
