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1934
1934 - 0998.PDF
IOOO FLIGHT. SEPTEMBER 27, 1934. Private Flying Useful Encouragement With the object of developing interest in the flying move-ment, the Committee of the Aero Club of Otago, New Zealand, has recently inaugurated a scheme under which entrants tothe flying school will be required to pay £1 for twenty minutes' instruction. The students who show the greatest promise willthen be selected for free tuition up to " A " licence standard. Party Week-ending Groups of people who feel that a week-end in either Paris or Brussels might be a good idea will be interested to learn that Olley Air Service, Ltd., are prepared to take a minimum of five passengers to either city at a very reasonable figure. The return fare quoted is 6 guineas, and the machine will leave Croydon any time after 2 p.m. on Saturday and return at any time on Monday morning. ..•*._.. 1 In Quernsey After the visit of Messrs. Naish and Turner to Guernsey with a " Puss Moth " and an Avro " Cadet "—and after their somewhat hectic adventures while returning—we learn that there is a distinct possibility that Aircraft Exchange and Mart, Ltd., may operate a school in the island. At the invitation of the Guernsey Aero Club the pilots made a " test " of the landing ground at L'Eree, which appears to be quite suitable for light aeroplanes, and made a number of flights with local people. Slight alterations and improve- ments will be made to the ground, and the Club is applying to the appropriate court for a licence. Judging from the fact that Naish and Turner were prevented by the Customs people at the last minute from returning, just because the field was not a licensed aerodrome—how can a field be licensed until it is tried ?—Guernsey has its local obstructionists, and all is not yet " plane " sailing. :r IMPROVING INDIA'S AIR LINES Details of the Civil Aviation Works Programme Approved by the Indian Government WE have already briefly referred to the proposals forincreased expenditure on Civil Aviation in India.Below we give a summary of the Civil Aviation WorksProgramme which has been approved by the Indian Government. An expenditure of Rs.53,49,000 will be spent on (A) worksof first urgency, as follows: Aviation, Rs.43,95,000; meteorology, Rs.5,66,000; wireless, Rs.3,88,000. For worksof secondary urgency (B), Rs.39,08,000 is set aside, .thus: Aviation, Rs.32,75,000; and wireless, Rs.6,33,000. This is atotal of Rs.92,57,000. Aviation (A) includes Rs.4,70,000 for improvement of aerodromes, Rs.9,20,000 for hangars,Rs. 11,51,000 for new aerodromes and landing grounds, Rs.5,81,000 for buildings, and Rs.4,92,000 for lighting. Inaviation (B), Rs.5,60,000 is for improvement of aerodromes, Rs.3,60,000 for hangars, Rs.8,60,000 for new aerodromes andlanding grounds, and Rs. 10,50,000 for lighting. This covers the completion or partial completion of organisa-tion on the following air routes:— (1) KARACHI-CALCUTTA-VICTORIA POINT.—The existing' organisation on this route is already fairly extensive. Addi- tional organisation which will be provided comprises:— (a) Runways and surface treatment at those aerodromeswhich have proved unserviceable in the monsoon, including Delhi, Gaya, Akyab and Bassein. (b) General improvement of aerodromes. Akyab aerodromewill be enlarged and provided with buildings. Provision is made for improvements at Calcutta, Chittagong, and Rangoon,which in some cases may take the form of new aerodromes. (c) Hangars. To meet the demand created by the ever-growing size of commercial aircraft large hangars of 140ft. span will be provided at Karachi, Allahabad, Calcutta, andRangoon, and a smaller hangar at Akyab. (d) New landing grounds. A few new emergency landinggrounds will be provided along the route where the present distance between aerodromes and landing grounds is too greatfor regular and safe operation. Landing grounds will also be provided in the Irrawaddy Valley to provide an alternativeto the Burma coast route during the monsoon. (e) Buildings. General office buildings and quarters willbe provided as necessary. (f) Lighting. The main aerodromes, Karachi, Delhi,Cawnpore, Allahabad, Calcutta, Akyab and Rangoon will be completely equipped for night flying, including floodlights,boundary lights, obstruction lights and illuminated wind indicators. Certain intermediate landing grounds betweenKarachi and Calcutta will be equipped with boundary lights, obstruction lights, illuminated wind indicators, and locationbeacons. Later intermediate route beacons will be established between Karachi and Calcutta, so that this section of thetrans-India route will be completely equipped for regular night flying. (g) Meteorology. New observatories and quarters, including the establishment of the Karachi Meteorological Office in the proposed administrative building at the air port. (2) KARACHI-BOMBAY-MADRAS.—Very little special organisa- tion has been provided on this route. The new organisationwill comprise: (a) Runways and surface treatment at Bombay (Juhu). (b) General improvement. Completion of landingarea at Juhu. (c) Hangars. Bombay and Madras, (d) New aerodromes and landing grounds. About six new landinggrounds, including a civil aerodrome at Ahmadabad. (e) Lighting. Complete equipment of Bombay and Madras fornight flying, to the same standard as the trans-India aere- dromes. (f) Wireless. Construction of new wireless stationsand modification of existing stations to provide a complete aeronautical wireless service, including direction-finding. (3) BOMBAY-CALCUTTA.—Provision is made for the completeequipment of this route for night flying, including the estab- lishment of aerodromes, landing grounds, wireless stations,lighting of aerodromes, and route beacons. This organisation will take a place secondary to the two main air routes. (4) KARACHI-LAHORE.—Provision of new landing grounds,hangars, and wireless stations. (5) CALCUTTA-MADRAS.—Provision is made for the com-mencement of organisation on this route by the provision of landing grounds. Past and Future Developments Last year witnessed the successful inauguration of the IndianTranscontinental section from Karachi to Rangoon of the Imperial Airways England-Australia lines; its further exten-sion to Singapore; and the foundation of Indian National Airways with their daily feeder services between Calcutta andDacca, as well as their duplication of the section between Calcutta and Rangoon. But this by no means represents the whole of the year'sachievements. The consistent improvement of aerodromes; the lighting of the Karachi and Jodhpur aerodromes to enablethe service on this section of the Transcontinental route to be speeded up by night flying; the development of directionalwireless: the institution of a flat rate throughout India and Burma for air mails, which, together with the extension ofthe regular lines, have contributed enormously to the growth of the number of letters and packages carried. These are amongother notable achievements. The near future will witness the extension of Tata's Karachi-Madras service to Colombo; the inauguration of a new feeder line between Karachi and Lahore; and possibly two new mainlines, one between Bombay and Calcutta and the other between Calcutta and Madras. The efficiency of Tata's service is recorded as 100 per cent.,while Imperial Airways and the Transcontinental maintained their weekly service with punctuality, 75 per cent, of thearrivals' being on schedule time and only two per cent, more than twenty-four hours late. During the whole year not asingle letter was lost. During 1933, 15,240 hours were flown by Indian craft. Thenumber of accidents was twenty-nine, of which only four were major. These figures are all the more striking when it isrealised that altogether nearly 1,200,000 miles were flown by Indian commercial and club aircraft.
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