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1935
1935 - 0159.PDF
JANUARY 17, 1935- FLIGHT. 83 Commercial Aviation A FRENCH INTERNAL AIRWAY SYSTEM New Company to Operate a Postal Service between Paris and Other Important Centres L\ST week the organisation of a new airline company was announced in Paris. Under the name of Air Bleu, it j will run a rapid postal service between Paris and other important French cities. The company proposes to start operations with Caudron " Simoun " low-wing 3-4-seater cabin monoplanes. These machines have, it is said, a maximum speed of 195 m.p.h., a cruising speed of 168 m.p.h., and a land ing speed of 46-49 m.p.h. They carry a payload of 640 lb., with a range of 845 miles. The engine used in the " Simoun " is the Renault "Bengali," which develops 180 b.h.p. M. B. de Messimi, an associate of M. Pierre Latecoere, will be president of the new company, and M. Metral, a one-time member of the staff of General Denain, will be the technical director. A preliminary step towards acquiring the franchise was taken on January 8, when, on the recommendation of M. Georges Mandel, the Minister of Posts, the French Cabinet approved the project, which has now been submitted to the Chamber of Deputies and to the Senate for the necessary Parlia mentary approval. The company hopes to start operating its system at the beginning of May. According to latest reports, lines will be run for a start be tween Paris and Bordeaux, Toulouse, Lille, Strasbourg, Nantes, and Havre, with intervening stops. It is expected that the system will be extended and interconnected. No subsidies will be granted by the Government, but the Post Office Department will extend its aid to the new company to effect the rapid distribution of postal matter at the various terminii. Regular postal rates, it is said, will be charged, together with a surtax of 3 fr., of which sum 2 fr. is to go to the operating company and one to the Post Office. The name of the company is taken from the " petits bleus," used to send messages through the pneumatic tube system throughout Paris. R. C. W. Atlantic Mail Disaster Both pilot and wireless operator were killed when a Heinkel, earning the South American mails over the last section to Germany, crashed on Lake Constance on Monday. The mail was saved. By Air to Majorca On January 20 a daily seaplane service from Barcelona to Palma, Majorca, will be opened, and this will link up with the present daily service between Madrid and Barcelona. Another Majorcan extension will be made from Valencia, which is already connected by air with Madrid. Mails to the Isle of Man Blackpool and West Coast Air Services, Ltd., have obtained the mail contract to the Isle of Man, and the first daily run will be made on February 1. Another D.H. "Dragon " will be used apart from that operating on the regular passenger service, which maintained a regularity of 97-3 Per cent, during the eight months preceding the new year. Olley Air Service, incidentally, will be taking delivery of their second charter D.H. 89 " Rapide " very shortly. Sixty Passengers, 200 m.p.h.! Under the distinctly melodramatic title "Overnight to Europe," an American contemporary, Air World, describes Capt. Hugo Sundstedt's latest design for a long-distance high speed machine which can only be described as a twin-float flying boat. In brief, the machine is a high-wing cantilever monoplane with a two-storey hull having accommodation for sixty pas sengers. Two groups of engines, which are located in the wing and which can be reached in flight, operate two eighteen-foot three-bladed airscrews. Diesel engines of 4,500 h.p. are sug gested as being the more economical over a long range. The long floats are integral with the fuselage. The estimated performance figures are: Cruising speed at 10,000ft., 225 m.p.h.; maximum speed at 10,000ft., 245 m.p.h.; service ceiling, 21,800ft.; rate of climb at sea level, 930ft. per min. ; range, with a payload of 14,6001b., 3,000 miles. The landing speed is estimated as less than 60 m.p.h.—a figure which appears to be slightly optimistic. Wind tunnel tests have shown a high aerodynamic efficiency, a maximum lift over drag figure of 15.7 being obtained. The new mail lines which are to be operated by Air Bleu, using Caudron "Simoun" single-engined monoplanes with a cruising speed of 168 m.p.h. Air Mails A new air mail leaflet, giving particulars of all the services available from this country, has been issued by the Post Office. A K.L.M. Service in the West Indies The Fokker F 18 Snipe of the K.L.M. will this month start her normal business of carrying passengers and freight in the Netherlands West Indies. The extra fuel tanks, which had been fitted for the Atlantic mail trip, have been taken out. From January 14 to 17 the machine will make a trip to all the airports of Venezuela, and on January 19 the Snipe will open the first regular K.L.M service in the West Indies, viz.. from Curacao to Aruba. The service will be operated on Tues days and Saturdays, twice in each direction. Indian National Airways' First Year Surveying the work of Indian National Airways during the first year of operation, Mr. R. E. Grant Govan praised the reliability of the Rangoon and Dacca services, and stated that the revenue from traffic totalled 52 per cent, of the totai operating cost. Increased frequency of service should bring better support from the commercial community. Mr. Govan complained, as we do here, of the injustice of the petrol tax which was designed to pay for the roads. It was reasonable, he said, that air transport companies performing, as they were, an efficient public service, should receive some financial support. Singapore's Aerodrome The new civil aerodrome for Singapore will be ready within a year, and Sir Shenton Thomas, the Governor, made his first tour of the aerodrome last week, accompanied by Sir John Salmond, of Imperial Airways, Ltd. Built on land reclaimed from the sea, the airport is only ten minutes by car from the centre of the town, and should be the finest aerodrome on the Imperial air route. Major Nunn, the Deputy Director of Civil Works in British Malaya, is spoken of as the first director of civil aviation in British Malaya, as it is understood that a department of civil aviation will shortly be set up, in accordance with the Govern ment's policy of giving every possible support to aviation. Malaya will be the first country in the Colonial Empire to institute a special department for civil aviation matters.
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