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1934
1934 - 1011.PDF
SEPTEMBER 27, 1934. FLIGHT. HESTON 1C13 Commercial Aviation Btrkett's Again : Leeds-London-Leeds : Aircraft for Spot Cash : The " Envoy " AppearsA IRCRAFT movements at Heston are still above the fiftyan hour mark, and the Traffic Office telephone never L ceases to ring with enquiries for times, machines, weather reports and even maps. Birkett's did a fast piece of work last week for a City manwho rang up for a machine at 7 p.m. When he arrived at Heston the Birkett machine was waiting for him, while theTraffic Office had arranged for flares at Liverpool, and had handed the pilot his weather reports. He was in Liverpoolat 9.15 p.m. The arrival of Princess Marina, too, in Scotland has kept them busy on Press work. The 140 m.p.h. Leeds, Heston and Paris service whichLondon, Scottish and Provincial are running is kept busy. It is being used more and more by business men, who leaveLeeds at 10 a.m., are in the city by noon, and leave Heston again to be back home at C.20 in good time for dinner.The case of the South African miner who was found wandering about Brian Lewis's hangar, and who bought anaeroplane with five hundred £1 notes straight out of his trouser pocket was paralleled recently by a casual visitor whobought a " Puss Moth " for cash after doing two spot landings of incredible neatness. It was eight years sincehe had handled a machine, but the name at the bottom of his cheque was not unknown once at Gosport. The arrival of an Airspeed " Envoy " created a great dealof interest, and confounded the experts on the tarmac who were watching its take-off, stop-watch in hand. Mr. Roderick Denmau, technical director of Airwork, Ltd.,leaves for America again on September 22 for a further tour ol inspection and study of aeronautical radio. Rochester's Aerodrome A municipal aerodrome, which lies two miles south ofRochester itself, is now open to public use. Two radio masts, 100 feet high and 350 yards from the N.W. corner of theaerodrome, constitute the only serious boundary obstruc- tions, and these are illuminated for a period of three hours aftersunset. The Post Office Moves It appears that there may be some startling alterations to the inland air mail arrangements next year. Negotiations are, it is understood, proceeding between the Post Office and R.A.S. with the idea of speeding up delivery and of linking up the services more satisfactorily. It may be taken, in fact, that the P.M.G. proposes to mould the air services to suit his own purposes. Plans are in hand for alterations to the roof of the G.P.O. at Mount Pleasant in order to provide an area of 15,000 sq. feet—presumably so that the Autogiro idea may be devel- oped, though it is possible that, instead, a tunnel may be con- structed between Croydon and Mount Pleasant. Certainly up- draughts, down-draughts, and the use of a single engine make even an Autogiro a dangerous weapon for housetop operations. " The mails must go through "—but not at the ri.sk of a traffic hold-up or even of a massacre of foot passengers in the streets near Mount Pleasant. The Isle of Man Ferry .1 udging from the traffic obtained since Blackpool andthe West Coast Air Services, Ltd., started operations, the public in Lancashire is now really using the air. Admittedlythe Isle of Man line is, for the most part, a "holiday" service, but people do not travel by air only for the sake ofthe experience, and, once urged into the new medium, they very rarely forsake it. Between May, 1933, and the end of the summer season1,900 passengers were carried on the regular service and 200 passengers in specially chartered machines. This year thefigures are still better. More than 3,200 passengers have been carried in all, apart from joy-flying and the transportof newspapers. Only on four occasions, due to fog, have the services been abandoned. The summer programme ended on September 17 and onthe following day the winter operation began—once a day each way. When aviation ceases to be seasonal it can be considered tohave its feet on "solid ground." REPLACEMENT: Hoisting one of the "Jumo 4" Diesel engines into the Junkers G.38 Von Hindenberg. This is, incidentally, one of the two types being manufactured under licence by D. Napier and Son, Ltd., and it will be known here as the " Culverin."
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