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SEPTEMBER 20, 1934. FLIGHT. 987 Commercial Aviation HESTON Some Statistics : Increasing Figures for Airwork School and Customs ClearancesT HE Publicity Department of Airwork has been indulg-ing in an orgy- of statistics. At intervals an insatiable thirst sends it out in quest of numbers and figures.When these "mystical ma thema ticks" have been collected pages of them are set out in various delightful waysand forms, and some of these are therefore given below. In the months May to August inclusive the Heston Schoolof Flying has had 96 days on which it has been fine enough for instruction work, and its total of hours flown is 1,766.This gives at first sight the pleasing if fallacious average of 18 hours per day, which when compared with the average of9 hours a day shown by a previous four months' records demonstrates that the School is progressing (if the rate ofincrease continues) to a 27-hour day; although this is divided among several instructors, they will obviously in the futurehave to wrestle with the space-time question. The number of persons clearing Customs over the last fouryears during the same period, May to August, are given below. These figures show a steady increase in continental traffic up to 1933, with a rather striking rise to a 500 per c<nt. increase this summer on the figures for last year. 19 31 1932 1933 1934Persons in 396 581 743 3,617 Persons out 426 655 814 4,009 Total 822 1,236 1,557 7,626 During August alone the total landings and take-offs atHeston were 3,284, of which two thousand were those of private aircraft, and 33T, 294 and 3^1 those of the regularservices of Jersey Airways, British Air Navigation Co., and Portsmouth, Southsea and Isle of Wight Aviation respectively. Mr. S. G. White, a New Zealander, started out from Hestonearly this week en route for Australia in the D.H. "Gipsy Moth " which the Hon. Mrs. Montague, and her pilot, Mr.Rupert Belville, flew through Russia and the Middle East a little while back. Mr. White will fly via Naples, Brindisi,Athens, Cyprus, and Baghdad, and thence along the usual route through India. The Leeds-Paris Service Since the inauguration of their Leeds-Nottingham-Heston- Paris service in the second week of August, the number of paying passengers carried by London, Scottish and Provincial Airways, Ltd., has been increasing in a more than satisfactory manner. Only nine were carried during the opening week, but a month later the figure had risen to forty. Twenty-one were carried, incidentally, on one particular day. Largely because arrangements at Le Bourget are so poor for the small operator, the figures on the Paris section are not very satisfactory, and it can only be suggested that L.S. and P.A., Jersey Airways, and Hillmans get together. Despite some bad weather, regularity has been extremely good, for during the first twenty-eight days the figure was 98 p?r cent, on all journeys. New Buildings at Qermiston The air station at Germiston is to contain separate Customs, Immigration, Health, Traffic and Post Office sections, and there will be, in addition, three separate waiting-rooms for passengers, a large restaurant, administration offices, board room and control tower. This building, which is expected to be completed next January, will cost, approximately, ^22,000. The roof will be flat, and will provide seating accommoda- tion for as many as 5,000 people. The arrangements will in- AUSTRALIAN INTEREST : Major Norman Brearley, D.S.O., M.C., A.F.C (centre), Managing Director of West Australian Airways, Ltd., with Mr. F. E. N. St. Barbe of the de Havilland Aircraft Co. Ltd., and Major Hereward de Havilland, D.S.O., at Hatfield recently, where Major Brearley inspected some of the -.•-- latest "D.H." types. (Flight Photo.) elude a public address system which will enable all officers tohear the announcements made by the Control Officer regard- ing aircraft movements. The control tower will be connecteddirectly with the wireless station at the airport, which will obviate the present necessity for all messages to come throughthe Germiston Exchange. Wireless masts will be situated well away from the control tower and landing area. An airman's clock, probably the largest in the world, will beinstalled in the front of the building. A loudspeaker tele- phone is to be constructed on the arrival and departure plat-form to enable pilots to speak direct to the Control Officer. It is understood that the Government have also decided toerect a new meteorological station next to the administrative buildings, similar in shape and form to the present RandFlying Club buildings. This will also be connected to the loudspeaker telephone. Another Master Air Pilot Four Imperial Airways pilots—Capts. Walters, Travers,Spafiord, and Alcock—have now gained certificates as Master Pilots, the last being obtained by Capt. E. S. Alcock. Capt. Alcock is a younger brother of the late Sir JohnAlcock, who made the first Atlantic flight in 1919. After a period of service in the Royal Air Force, Capt. Alcock joinedImperial Airways in 1929, and has now flown a distance of more than 750,000 miles. Wireless on the Internal Routes All Railway Air Services' machines are being fitted withMarconi wireless transmitting and receiving equipment, and several of them wi!l carry the "homing" device as an aidto navigation. Those already equipped include the " Dragons " operating respectively on the Liverpool-Plymouth, the Bir-mingham-Cowes, and the Belfast-Manchester services, as well as the two D.H.86's on the London-Glasgow service. The I>.H.86's carry the new type A.D.41/42 transmittingand receiving equipment which has been adopted by Imperial Airways, Ltd., together with the "homing" direction-finder.For the service between Croydon and Cowes which R.A.S. are operating in co-operation with Spartan Air Lines, Ltd.,the Spartan "Cruisers" are being fitted with Marconi type A.D. 6M apparatus. An Aberdeen-Qlasgow Service Aberdeen Airways, Ltd., recently inaugurated a twice-daily service between Aberdeen and Glasgow, using a Short "Scion" (two Pobjoy "Niagaras"). The machine leaves Aberdeen at 9 a.m. and 1.45 p.m., returning from Glasgow at 10.15 a.m. and 5.10 p.m., and the " termini " are Dyce Aerodrome, Aberdeen and Moorpark Aerodrome, Renfrew. The scheduled plying time is 1 hr. 15 min. in each direction, and the fares art £5 3s. single and £5 5s. return, including transport by road from the Caledonian Hotel in Aberdeen and the Kenilworth Hotel in Glasgow to the respective aerodromes. Meantime the service does not permit of connections being made with the Aberdeen-Kirkwall air service or with the R.A.S. service from Renfrew to Belfast, Manchester, Bir- mingham and Londop
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