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1934
1934 - 0840.PDF
842 Commercial Aviation FLIGHT. AUGUST 16, 1934. Hillman's "Sixes" The second D.H. "Dragon Six" is now running on Hill-man's Airways' Paris service and reducing the time for the journey between Essex Airport and Le Bourget to 1 hours.Mr. Hfllman's "Dragons," incidentally, have flown some 1,200 hours each since they were put into service and are stillhard at work. £675,000 for Indian Developments Last week the Government of India decided on an expendi- ture of £675,000, spread over three years, for the development of civil aviation. Night flying equipment will be provided for the trans-Indian route; both Bombay and Madras aerodromes will be lit for the Karachi-Colombo route; and full equipment for these routes and for three new routes—Bombay to Calcutta, Calcutta to Madras, and Karachi to Lahore—will be provided. African Time-table Alterations For the benefit of passengers a modified time-table was put into operation at Cairo on August i. The north and west- bound Imperial Airways machines will leave the Nile on Tues- days and Saturdays at. 4.15 L.S.T.—a- quarter of an hour earlier than before. This alteration will allow a greater margin of time between the arrival of the flying boat at Brindisi and the departure of the train. The south and eastbound services will leave Heliopolis on Saturdays and Tuesdays at 5.00 L.S.T. and 530 respectively, instead of 3.00 as before. Across the Sahara While a monthly French experimental flight to Brazzaville, in the Congo, is being run, we learn that S.A.B.E.N.A. are to start a fortnightly service from Brussels to join that com- pany's present services in the Congo. For a start, only mail will be carried, and single machines, carrying a crew of four, will make the entire journey in long stages through Marseilles, Oran, Gao, Dua, and Leopoldville. The R.A.S. Qlasgow Service Provisional departure times for the Railway Air ServicesBelfast and Glasgow line, which is to start next Monday, are as follows: — Read Up.London 1.30 (arr.) p.m. Birmingham 12.40 a.m. Manchester H-55 .. Isle of Man 11-05 .» Belfast 10.20 ,,Glasgow 9.15 Read Down. 3.10 p.m. 4.10 ,, 4-55 ,. 5-45 .. 6.40 7.30 (arr.) p.m.D.H.86's will be used, but, owing to the fact that Castle- town aerodrome is not considered suitable for such a machine, a supplementary connecting service, between Manchester, the Isle of Man, and Belfast, will be run, with D.H. "Dragons." Walsall Aerodrome The Town Council of Walsall have decided to postpone the official opening of their aerodrome until next year in order to give the surface time to consolidate. Flying, of course, goes on as usual. Hooton's Future The Cheshire County Council has been recommended to co-operate with Birkenhead Corporation and the Bebington and Ellesmere Port Councils in acquiring the lease of the Hootonaerodrome. An offer has been made by Messrs. Lever Bros, to subscribe £100 a year for three years, if the councils con-cerned will do the same, in order to preserve the site as an aerodrome. In Malaya The long-delayed aerodrome for Ipoh will, when it is com- pleted, be only one among twenty such stations that the authorities hope to establish in Malaya during the course of the next two years. It is believed that when the Assam Kum- bang aerodrome, Taiping, has been further developed it will rank among the finest in the Far East. The programme during the next two years will give Perak four aerodromes— Ipoh, Taiping, Teluk Anson and Sitiawan. This aerodrome chain is to be provided by the R.A.F. at Singapore in co- operation with the civil and government authorities, and the more important aerodromes will be those at Singapore, Malacca, Port Swettenham, and/or Kuala Lumpur, Sitiawan, Taiping, Penang, and Alor Star. Intermediate "spots" have been earmarked. The Leeds'Paris Service The time-table for the twice-daily service between Leeds (Sherbum - in - Elmet), Nottingham (Tollerton), London (Heston) and Paris (Le Bourget), operated by London, Scottish and Provincial Airways, Ltd., has now been issued. Passengers will be landed and picked up at Berck Aerodrome for Le Touquet by special arrangement, and the following departure times will apply, subject to alteration, for the months of August and September:— READ DOWN. READ UK10.00a.m. .S.OOp.m LEEDS 1.20 p.m. (arr.) 0.20p.m. (art.) 10.40a.m. 3.4Op.m NOTTINGHAM 12.50p.m. 5.50p.m.11.55a.m. 4.55 p.m LONDON 11.45a.m. 4.45 p.m. 1.50p.m. (arr.) 6.50p.m. [arr.) PARIS 9.30a.m. 2.30p.m.The single fares range between £i is. (Leeds-Nottingham) to £5 5s- (Nottingham-Paris), and a small charge is made for luggage in excess of 22 lb. Booking agents at Leeds and Nottingham are R. Barr (Leeds), Ltd. (Leeds 21704), and Richardson's Car Park (Nottingham 3393) respectively, with M. Maurice Finat (135 Le Bourget) in Paris. At Heston, of course, there are connections to both Jersey and the Isle of Wight. Airspeed " Couriers " will be used until the " Envoys " are put into service. HANWORTH SAVED: The British Pacific Trust, who purchased Hanworth aerodrome last week, state that it is to remain an aerodrome. This rather unusual view, taken from a C.30 Autogiro, shows the N.F.S. club- house, and some of the " industrial " area ; the British Klemm buildings and the N.F.S. workshops are in the very near—and out of sight—foreground.
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