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1040 FLIGHT. OCTOBER 4, 1934. Commercial Aviation • HESTON When Croydon is Q.B.I. : Flying the News : A Record School MonthH ESTON'S position outside the fog control zone makes it the ideal port of call in bad weather for machines (roy don-bound from the north when these are not fitted with radio. The custom of dropping in to Heston to get the Croydon weather has now teen regularised. When Croydon is Q.B.I. Heston advises all machines that this is so by displaying two large yellow discs on the Control Tower, while a white panel (30ft. X2oft.) by the wind indicator displays the letter "C" and two black bars—the former being permanent, the two bars being added when Q.B.I, is in force at Croydon. London, Scottish and Provincial Airways announce their new times of arrival and departure as from October 1. The service is, as before, seven days a week, but the first morning departure from Leeds (Sherburn) will be 11.20 a.m. instead of 10 a.m., reaching Heston at 1255 p.m., with correspond- ing alterations of times at Nottingham and Paris and from the respective hotels. The part that flying plays in the news organisation of this country is not always recognised by the millions of readers who glance over their morning paper or snatch their evening papeT as they rush for their train at night. If something big has happened anywhere half a dozen Fleet Street motor cycle runners can usually be found round the tarmac waiting for photographs or films. The Wrexham disaster kept us busy. Birketts alone had five machines up there on Press work, finally completing the job by relaying the films they had already brought from the north down to Southampton in time to catch the Olympic, sailing for the U.S.A., after they had been developed and printed in London. Of the machines sent up for the launching of the giant Cunarder only two were able to get through the weather, one of them being Capt. Birkett himself, flying a " Puss Moth." The Flying School are rejoicing in another record month. With three days to go they are 50 hours up on September, 1933- Repeated and well-founded rumours that an Autogiro is joining the School fleet are being given substance by stories that Capt. Baker and Davy have been seen taking each other for flins at cratk of dawn in one of the latest direct-control models. HARDLY PRETTY, BUT—: Thenew tliree-engined Breguet 393 T. which carries six passengers at137 m.p.h. on the Toulouse- Casablanca service. Heston's Weather Reports Owing to interference from a foreign radio station, all weather reports, forecasts and navigational warnings issued from Heston will, until further notice, be broadcast on a frequency of 253 kc/s (1,186 metres). Previously the fre- quency was 249.5 kc/s (1,203 rnetres). New Australian Service The Commonwealth Minister for Defence, Sir George Pearce, announces that tenders, closing on November 2, will be called for the operation of a subsidised weekly air service between Adelaide (South Australia) and Bourke (N.S.W.), a distance of 590 niilus. Aircraft must accommodate at least four pas- sengers, in addilion to luggage and mails, and have a minimum cruising speed of no m.p.h. The new service will link the South Australian capital with the Qantas Empire Airways route from Singapore. It will obviate the necessity for railing European air mails between Cootamundra (N.S.W.) and Melbourne, and will also serve the dried-fruit industry of Renmark and the mining district of Broken Hill. - The Qantas D.H.86 Mr. L. F. Brain is now on his way to Australia with the first of the special D.H.SG's for Qantas Empire Airways. This machine differs in certain details from the Standard model. The nose has been redesigned to accommodate two pilots, with dual control and sitting side by side, and in front of them is a luggage compartment to carry ioolb., an arrangement which improves the weight distribution. Its maximum speed is 173 m.p.h., and its economical cruising speed is 144.5 m.p.h., the fuel consumption at the latter speed being 35 gallons an hour. Height can be main- tained on any three engines at 14,000ft., or at 3,500ft. with only two engines in action. When the machine left Croydon it was loaded to within loolb. of its maximum, with a spare engine and various parts and with 191 gallons of fuel. K.L.M. Regularity Now that the K.L.M. summer service to the Netherlands Indies has been terminated, it is interesting to realise that the regularity has been 100 per cent, during the season. Not a single machine has been late, though one, piloted by Te Roller, was delayed at Rangoon, and was flown from Djask to Amster- dam (4,000 miles) in two days. Improvements at Speke Last week the Liverpool Corporation decided that Speke air-port should be further developed at a cost of approximately /IOO.OOO, and the latest plans are being based, to some extent, .on those of Hamburg's aerodrome. There will be new control buildings, a hangar to house ninelarge aeroplanes—with space for another of the same size—car parks, and internal roads The designs have been put for-ward by Mr. A. D. Jenkins, and these are intended to provide " a maximum of ground space for aircraft with a minimum of 'frontage for the administrative buildings. Nowadavs, incidentally, Speke has a maximum run of wellover a mile in one direction. The Dublin-London Service The Irish Free State, Government has decided to establish a semi-official air service between Dublin and London. A company known as Air Fleet of Ireland, Ltd., is to bt floated with a capital of /Oo.ooo, and it is believed that the company will be financed by the Industrial Credit Corporation, Dublin, a Government organisation. It is stated that Colonel Charles F. Russell, former chief of the Free State Army Air Corps, will be the chairman of the company and some of the directors will be nominated by the Minister for Industry and Commerce. Through the directorate it is also hoped to link the organisation with the railways operating in the Free State with a view to establishing eventu- ally a subsidiary somewhat similar to Railway Air Services in Great Britain. Fokkers are expected to be used on the route, which will probably reach London via Liverpool, but no definite decision has yet been made. (Other Commercial Aviation News appears on page 1025.) "•••;'•••"-
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