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1935
1935 - 0418.PDF
212 FLIGHT. FEBRUARY 21, ^ Commercial Aviation AIR FRANCE PLANS New Services to Tunis, Geneva, Central Europe and Spain : An Extension from Bangkok to Hanoi : Night Mail to Paris A NUMBER of interesting changes and improvements can be discovered from a close study of Air France's pro visional summer time-table, which has just been pub lished. In addition to the normal day service, which leaves London at 10.30 a.m. (instead of 10 a.m.) and reaches Cannes at 5.20 p.m., a new service will be opened on April 1, whereby passengers will be able to reach Tunis in the shortest possible time. This service will leave Croydon at 7 p.m. and arrive in Tunis at 6 p.m. on the following evening, the hotel charge in Paris being included in the fare. The same system is used for an extra service to Geneva, arriving at 10 a.m., in time for a full day there. The whole flight from Casablanca, via Tangiers and Marseilles, is now completed on the same day. The Central Europe service, too, leaves Croydon at 7 p.m., arrives at Vienna at 12.40 p.m. on the following day, and Stamboul on the second morning. The last section is flown unlv on Thursdays and the Paris hotel is again included the fare. Another new service leaves London at 1.30 p.m. and' with the help of the Spanish Air Co., arrives at Madrid at 6.50 p.m. Air France has now joined with Sabena in - Scandinavian service which completes the journey from London to Copenhagen daily in time for connections with Stockholm Gothenburg and Oslo. During the early part of the summer the Paris service is scheduled at i^ hours, but later, when the new Dewoitine machines are put into service, the time will be considerably reduced. Fares throughout have been reduced and the ba»- gage allowance has been increased from 331b. to 441b. Air France, incidentally, have extended their weekly Bangkok service to Hanoi, and it is probable that the line will reach Hong Kong before the end of the season. A new night freHit and mail service between London and Paris will be started this year. A Feeder Line for M.alaya? This vear it is probable that a passenger service between Singapore and Penang will be opened. Mansfield and Co., Ltd., agents for Imperial Airways, Ltd., are the firm behind this development. Calls would probably be made at Malacca, Kuala Lumpur and Sitiawan, with a possible extension to Alor Star. Customs at Southampton Atlantic Park (Eastleigh) has been approved as a Customs aerodrome. Notice should be sent on the previous day if the services of an officer are required. The regular daily attend ance of an officer at Penshurst, incidentally, has been dis continued. Customs can be cleared, in case ef emergency, by the officer from Croydon. Egyptian Air Lines During the week ended February 3, 111 passengers were carried on Misr Airwork's lines to Alexandria, Palestine, and Upper Egypt, and the services were run to schedule despite gales and extremely bad weather. For some time, incidentally, shipping was prevented from entering the harbours at Alexandria and Port Said. Ceylon's Aerodrome Work on the construction of the aerodrome at Ratmalana has been temporarily postponed owing to difficulties arising regarding the acquisition of the necessary land. The situation has been complicated by a rise in the value of the land which is to be acquired, and by the fact that a larger area than that originally contemplated has been recommended for acquisition. Swissair during 1934 Last year the Swissair Company machines flew 519,709 miles in regular service as against the 479,078 recorded for 1933. 17,764 passengers were carried—an increase of 4,761 on the previous figures. In other words, the passenger miles had increased by 29 per cent. An average of 42.5 per cent, of the available load capacity was filled on all machines. In addi tion, 3,526 passengers were carried on special and charter flights, as against 2,204 Ior I933- Jodhpur Aerodrome Improvements The scheme to develop the control and lighting installation on the Jodhpur aerodrome was considerably accelerated before the Melbourne race, and since that time the State officials have been engaged in perfecting the different units of the equipment. The landing area has been extended and runways laid down. A control tower block has been erected on a site which com mands all lines of approach and departure, and will, moreover, allow for additional hangar accommodation without affecting the landing area. In this building are situated a reception hall electrical sub-station, offices for the agents of the air lines, and facilities for meteorological observations. This control room is connected with the electrical installa tion by means of a desk control panel, the push-buttons on which operate contractor switches in the sub-station. The panel also includes a device, operated from the wind "T," which indicates the wind direction at any moment. In New Zealand While in 1929 there were only two licensed aerodromes in the Dominion of New Zealand there are now twenty-seven, and fifteen others have temporary licences. Some of the smaller grounds on the west coast oi South Island are to be used by Cook Strait Airways, Ltd., on the;; southward extensions. By this time the company should have obtained the air service licence for which it applied cr. February 5; their services will consist of a daily or between Nelson, Blenheim and Wellington, and another, t be operated three times a week, between Nelson and Hokitik The "cross-channel" service will connect with East Coar. Airways' line between Palmerston North and Dunedin, witi stops at Blenheim and Christchurch. Air Travel (New Zea land, Ltd.), may, too, operate a west coast service froffl Hokitika. East Coast Airways, Ltd., which, incidentally according to the magazine Wings, obtained a full subscriptiu for its capital issue of ^15,000, has as its primary object a service between Napier and Gisborne. To the various flying clubs of New Zealand must go the credit of pioneering commercial aviation in the Dominio;; They have prospected landing grounds and have done a very great deal of charter work during the past few years. A.B. Aerotransport ¥22 Since an illustration of the first Fokker F.22 Lapphnii which has been ordered by A.B. Aerotransport, was published in Flight of January 10, some further information has beea received. Lappland is fitted with duplicated instruments, in cluding a Kollsman sensitive altimeter and a Pioneer rate of climbing indicator, the gyroscopic instruments being operated by engine-driven vacuum pumps, and fire-extinguisher equip ment is provided for eath engine. A Phillips 900 m. two-way radio set, arranged for telephon' and telegraphy, is fitted, with both fixed and trailing aerials- telephony being available for the first officer. As in the cas? of the F.36, the pilot's seats are arranged in offset tandem, giving the first officer an unrestricted view in all directions. There are four passenger cabins, each providing comfortaM accommodation, with tables, for five or six persons. Fonva™ of the cabins there is a steward's compartment and jugg1? hold. Great care has been bestowed on the ventilation sys tem, both cold and warm air being supplied, and the who fuselage is sound-proofed. , The performance and loading figures of the F.22, ™^ which are also to be supplied to K.L.M. for their *** service, are when fitted with four Pratt and VVniow) " Wasps," as follows: — Empty weight (including equipment) i9z5u "' Crew of four C80 lh. Fuel (475 galls.) and oil 4.020 1^' Pay load 4-8o° ,b' hi Maximum speed (2,100 r.p.m.) . . . *6o m'P'.' Cruising speed (1,900 r.p.m '4° '"'JJy Landing speed (flaps down) 6-1 ^' Take-off and landing runs 920 :. Range (475 galls.) f5 "g Range (600 galls.) 8-70 m"0
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