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1935
1935 - 0156.PDF
8a FLIGHT. JANUARY 17, 1935. COMMERCIAL /AVIATION — AIRLINES —— AIRPORTS TRANSATLANTIC A wind-tunnel model of the machine designed by Capt. Sundstedt for a non-stop transatlantic service. Details are given on page 83. CROYDON Sharing the Wireless Burden : Some Interesting Personalities : " It's Safer Up Above " A Brock's Benefit Narrowly Averted CONSIDERABLE improvement in wireless facilities should be shown next summer, when Pulham and Lympne are both fitted with 862-metre telephony sets. Much delay, now unavoidable owing to the overworking of Croydon, should be obviated, though there are rumours of an almost alarming increase of services for next season. This traffic control business is not so simple as casual visitors to the Croydon control tower, writing naively in the Sunday newspapers, would have us believe. What seems to impress them most is the little coloured flags on a large map which are moved from time to time, and which, they suppose, " show the exact position of the machines." Actually they only give the officer a rough idea of the position of the machines, and represent the least, not the most important, part of traffic control. They are bright, colourful little flags, how ever, and always catch the amateur eye at once. Capt. Percy, of Imperial Airways, well known for the entirely all-British bulldog which usually accompanies him, sniffing scornfully at foreign air traffic, took his ticket lasl week as a commander on "Heracles" types. Previously he was an " Argosy " captain. He joined Imperial Airways some years ago when he went through the shops before becoming first officer on the air routes. I hear Capt. Jimmy Youell is jogging along comfortably The Rennes Services On January 8 the first service between Jersey and Rennes was run by Jersey Airways, Ltd Two " Dragons," each with a full load, were used and Mr L. T. H. Greig, a director of the company, was the only passenger not o£ the true "fare- paying " order. A Cardiff'Paris Service During this summer season Norman Edgar (Western Air ways), Ltd., will run a week-end service between Cardiff, Bristol (Whitchurch), Le Touquet and Paris (Le Bourget). The seasonal Bournemouth service will, of course, be reopened in due course. Meanwhile, the Severn ferry service continues to run on demand. towards Australia with the D.H.86 for delivery to Qantas. His first officer is Mr. Allen, and Mr. Cash is wireless operator. Mr. " Tug " Wilson, one of the oldest and best known engineers at Croydon, is also aboard as flight engineer. The first of the duplicated African services arrived at the Airport on Sunday, an unusual day for an Empire service to arrive, but a good one, for there are always large numbers of spectators on this day. Capt. O. P. ("Kettle") Jones was hurrying to the airport in his car last Sunday when a collision occurred. He got a lift, and took off exactly on time, at 12.30 p.m., and had a look at his damaged car as he flew over it towards Paris. It is safer in the air. . . A little later a Miss Graham was unlucky enough to hit the roof of the pyrotechnic store when taking off in a small machine. Luckily the fireworks did not go off. Lady Chetwode, wife of the C. in C, India, arrived at Croydon from Calcutta by K.L.M. on Wednesday of last week. The new Fokker F22—a smaller edition of the F36 and with a distinct family likeness—which was illustrated in last week's Flight, will come to Croydon shortly, I hear, for demonstration purposes. It has passed its tests and now flies the Swedish A.B.A. flag. A. VIATOR. Japanese Line in Pacific Preparations for the opening of a fortnightly mail service between Japan and her Pacific possessions, it is learnt, are almost complete. A Norwegian Operating Company Early this year an Oslo shipping firm undertook the forma tion of an airline company, and it has now been announced that the Bergenske Steamship Company has joined the original firm, Fred. Olsen and Co., in a company to be known as Det Norske Luftfartsselskap Fred. Olsen og Bergenske A/S. The new company will probably receive sole concession rights trom the Government.
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