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1934
1934 - 0984.PDF
986 Commercial Aviation FLIGHT. CROYDON SEPTEMBER 20, 1934. Extremes Fly : A Picturesque Air Route : Aerodrome Mushrooms MARY CLA1SEN, aged 3f months,travelled by '' Heracles '' withher parents to Croydon fromSalisbury, South Rhodesia, last week. During the air journey she slepta great deal and did not cry at all, but in the Customs at Croydon she weptbitterly. It may be that a contraband safety pin pricked her conscience. Inthree months time she will Feturn by Imperial African Service. At the otherend of the scale was Mrs. Goodall, a passenger of Surrey Flying Service, Ltd.,who will be go this month ; she flew over her house at Tatsneld with her grand-son, aged 13, and described the flight as the most interesting experience of along and active life; and yet we fairly frequently hear of great bull-neckedbusiness men of 40 too timorous to step aboard an aeroplane ! Having just flown from Plymouth toLondon by Provincial Airways, Ltd., I am more than ever convinced that theirsis one of the most beautiful—as well as one of the best organised routes in Eng-land. There is typical English agri- cultural country, forest, glimpses of seacoast, wild Dartmoor, the red cliffs of Devon: it is a route foreigners '' insearch of England," should try. At Plymouth to-day you meet withextreme civility and a warm reception, and the pilots are the acme of politenessand consideration. The wireless mast at Ruysselede, Bel-gium, has been fitted as a radio beacon for morse and is said to be of use on A ROYAL PASSENGER: Prince George leaving Hengist at Croydon after his flight from Paris last week. 900 metres wavelength through ordinary pilots earphones. Itseems that all experiments were made on the ground and pilots report that little or nothing can be heard when in the air.It has an alleged range of 10 miles, but rumour credits a pilot with having flown right over it, listening intently, withouthearing much. Sabena'' announces amazingly good value in winter ailtravel. Passengers, after September 14, paying normal return fare may spend a week-end in Ostend where the Grand Hoteldu Palace des Thermes (where therms go in winter time perhaps) offers free meals and accommodation, from dinner onarrival to breakfast before departure, from Friday to Monday. Accommodation is regal; it includes room with private bathwith hot, cold, salt and fresh water, and moreover the first nine passengers by air any day obtain a free ticket for theCasino. All this costs a mere £5 4s.—an attractive offer! Mr. E. E. Maclennan, the photographer, has returned toCroydon where he has set up permanently as an air and press photographer. Mr. Maclennan will be remembered for his"Times" photographs of the India route and other "infra red" work over London and the England countryside.Capt. G. P. Olley made a fast non-stop flight in a "Dragon" from Lausanne to Croydon recently in 4 hr. 10 min. It wasa business charter in which time meant money to the hirer. Several changes in programme announce the coming ofwinter. Imperial Airways, Ltd., have discontinued the 18.30 departure from Paris, though the 18.30 out from this end stillruns. The French and Belgium lines, K.L.M. and Provincial Airways, all announce some time-table changes, but theK.L.M. 19.00 departure and the two late arrivals at 20.00 and 20.50 are still in operation. The mushroom season is in full swing here and 401b. aresaid to have been gathered in one day. Pickets have to be thrown out at dusk to prevent enterprising strangers scalingour fences and gathering mushrooms to the danger of night landing aircraft. What with hares, partridges, and mush-rooms, the aerodrome, if properly organised by whatever Air Ministry Department deals with cookery, might provide a pieto rival that of the Cheshire Cheese; which could be eaten at the Airport Hotel. "A. VIATOR." AIR SURVEY IN MINERAL PROSPECTING H . HEMMING AND PARTNERS, LTD., announce thatthey have completed negotiations with Mr. KarlSundberg, the distinguished Swedish Geophysicist,through his companies, the Swedish Prospecting Com- pany and the Swedish Diamond Drilling Company, wherebythey will jointly undertake all the initial field work associated with mineral prospecting from the preliminary air surveyand geo-electrical investigation to the final diamond drilling. Mr. Sundberg's methods of geonhvsical investigation arewell known in mining circles. The Boliden ore field in Sweden was discovered by geophysical methods. An affiliated com-pany in the United States located zinc, and later large lead zinc deposits at Buchan River in Newfoundland were alsofound. Successful surveys for oil were also made in Texas. Expeditions have worked in the Dutch East Indies, Japan,Morocco and Tunis. The Swedish Company is also at present operating in East Africa and Western Australia for Britishinterests. ...••,- ..:,:;:: ; Geo-electrical investigation to be successful requires theassistance of good geological maps. Having carried out a great deal of work of recognised value, Mr. Sundberg realisedthat to achieve the maximum success for his methods a co- ordinated plan to include each stage in mineral prospectingwas necessary, and as the first and most important step was to learn something of the general geology and topography ofthe country, it became essential for him to ally himself with an air survey organisation. H. Hemming and Partners will be responsible for the airsurvey and the geological interpretation of the air photo- graphs from which they will make geological reconnaissancemaps and mosaics as required. The information gained from the survey will enable the most promising areas to be selectedfor detailed geophysical investigation by the Swedish Pros- pecting Company, and those areas which justify diamond drill-ing operations will be dealt with by the Swedish Diamond Drilling Company.
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