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Aviation History
1934
1934 - 0874.PDF
876 Commercial Aviation Varied Charters FLIGHT. . -,. HESTON After Forty Years : In Egypt • - • - --'-Towards Newtownards AUGUST 23, 1934. An Instructor Instructed work was carried out last week by Wrightsonand Pearse, who took a D.H. "Dragon" up to Scot- land and delivered 600 lb. of grouse, on the eveningof the first day's shooting, to the gourmets of the West End, and by Maj. Digby, of Birkett Air Service, whohad an exciting chase on the 10th from Lowestoft and Nor- wich to Yarmouth in pursuit of Stockwell, .the "wantedman" in the cinema murder case. Major Digby was, as usual, able to bring back pictures for the Press in good time.As long ago as 1893 Mr. Douglas Fawcett astonished and perplexed the cTitics by writing an air novel. Though hemodestly disclaims all suggestions of second sight, Mr. Fawcett did, in fact, anticipate the most modern fighting aircraft evendown to the turret on its nose, and described an aerial attack on London by all the means resorted to during the Great War.Even the fin de siecle Victorians, who. professed to be sur- prised at nothing, had to tell him that Hartmann theAnarchist was fanciful. But Mr. .Eawcett was undeterred. He has always seen a future for flying; and so at the age of68 he came to Heston from his home in Switzerland to learn to fly. His first solo took place with great success an Tuesday ;and now Mr. Fawcett is making plans for flights as a pilot- photographer over the High Alps. He has already flown,with a friend as pilot, 16,300 ft. over Mt. Blanc, and on that occasion fell 650 ft. in a pocket caused by the hot foehnwind, which at unexpected moments sweeps northwards over the Alps and is a peril to airmen. On other flights he hasbeen able to take excellent mountain photographs of peaks, with which, as a mountaineer, he has long been familiar. Misr Airwork, S.A.E. (Airwork's associated company inEgypt) is giving flights for summer residents at Ras el Bar, and it is proposed to continue this activity the whole of thesummer season. Another news item of interest is that H.E. Sir Miles Lampson, High Commissioner for Egypt and theSudan, has taken up flying, and is now receiving dual instruc- tion from Misr Airwork. Mr. Filson Young, who has for the past few weeks growneloquent to B.B.C. listeners on the adventure of learning to fly, last week "had his own back" on his flying instructor!He confronted Capt. Baker with a microphone and stood over him, backed by all the authority of the B.B.C. No fear ofstalling, however, with a Heston pilot! Capt. Baker gave an illuminating talk on flying from the instructor's viewpoint,and commented on Mr. Filson Young's difficulties and good points with sympathy and understanding, showing that heknew all along what his pupil was thinking and feeling. The preliminary scouting expedition to Ireland having beencarried out with great success, the first division set out to Newtownards last week. Its vanguard left on Wednesdaylast week in the persons of Mr. Bryant, manager and chief instructor of the new aerodrome, flying the Avro "Cadet"which he will use at the flying school, and of Miss M. de Bunsen, Press secretary at Heston, motoring herself and Mrs.Bryant. They were followed later by Mr. Roderick Denman, a director of Airwork, in his Stinson. Mr. Denman will super-vise all the preparations for the opening ceremony, to be per- formed by the Governor of Northern Ireland, which takes placeon August 31 at 2.30 p.m. ? The Last Link Since arrangements have been made with the Italian Govern-ment, allowing Imperial Airways to fly between Marseilles, Naples, and Brindisi, only the section between Le Bourget andMarseilles remains to complete the air link with Africa and the East. Apparently difficulties still remain, and Lt.-Col. F. C. Shel-merdine returned to London after discussions last week in order to make a report. After the Government had, on prin-ciple, turned down a proposal to prohibit the carriage of French passengers on Imperials and of British passengers by Air France, it was suggested, on the French side, that pas-senger receipt pools, in proportions of 60 per cent, and 40 per cent., between London and Paris, and between Paris andMarseilles, should be established between the two compank's. It was pointed out by the French representatives that therewas a similar arrangement for the Netherlands company over the East India route, and they suggested that, in returnand agreeing that 80 per cent, of the Paris-Marseilles traffic is British, unrestricted passage might be allowed across Indo-China for an Imperial extension to Hong Kong. In the meantime the unfortunate passengers spend twonights and a day on the train between Paris and Briodisi. CRUISING AT 145 M.P.H.: One of the D.H.86's which are being used on Railway AirServices' Glasgow run, photographed near Hatfleld. The " Diana " class Is probably the fastest four-engined commercial machine in the world.
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