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1935 - 0527.PDF
MARCH 7> T935- FLIGHT. 259 0MMERCIAL ^VMT/ON AIRLINES AIRPORTS GOLD RUSH : This particular Short " Scion," fitted with floats, is to be used for gold survey in Papua. Flight photograph.) CROYDON Time-table Chatiges : The Need for Roofed Platforms : Surrey Flying Services' Year : Where are the Alternative Airports? : The New Control Scheme—with Examples ON March i several changes of time-table were made. On K.L.M. routes an extra service each way was put on, and the 7.0 a.m. departure now runs to Berlin and Scandinavia. The return machine arrives at 8.30 p.m. Air France shows an additional service each way also, leaving both London and Paris at 3.30 p.m. Spartan Air Lines has an extra service each way on the Isle of Wight route. Other companies show no change other than alterations in the times of existing services. Wednesday, last week, was a day of gales, snow, sleet, and ice formation, and the month certainly " went out like a lion." On that day, too, I noticed that Air France and h.L.M. loaded passengers and baggage inside their hangars— which was as well, considering that one could hardly stand against a gale which carried snow and sleet. The time will come when a large portion of the departure platform will be rooted like a railway station so that passengers can keep dry when embarking and disembarking. If pilots need to run up their engines before departure thev could obviously taxi away 'rom the roofed platform before so doing. Scylla has been away at Rochester for a couple of weeks and now returned with an alteration to the servo rudder, which K now incorporated in the rudder itself instead of protruding wchwards. Mr. Lankester Parker, Short's test pilot, brought h] macn"ie to Croydon one day last week. A new D.H.8G, Thi u "ame' was delivered last week to Imperial Airways, ."ismachine is fitted with dual control, unlike the other imperial machines of the same class. crease f''-' F1yin8 Services' statistics for 1934 show an in- figurewa4 T over the Previous year's total. The 1934 The imT 2'2\5 urs oi commercial and instructional flving. « joy riding has steadily increased, but photo has by D.L.H., accompanied by Lady Simon, who was at Croydon last week. The Air Ministry's "Notice to Airmen" (No. 3 of 1935) concerning radio organisation on the London-Continent Air way area serves to show how complicated traffic control has become. For example, " ZZN " means "you are not to laud here," but there is no signal at present for "you may land at one of the alternative airports with adequate facilities " —which airports were promised by the Authorities when the controlled zone was agreed to by the operating companies. Presumably the signal will be invented when and if such very necessary alternative airports have the necessary equipment. At present, I believe, neither Gatwick nor Gravesend have really suitable equipment, although late flying aircraft may need either of these aerodromes on any night of the week. Incidentally, this "Notice to Airmen," in which is given some amusing examples of how the control zone scheme works, tells one aeroplane to hover in the vicinity of Penshurst until further notice. This example may have seemed simple when dictated in a cosy Whitehall office, but the pilot has to do it in really bad weather with a machine full of worried pas sengers. Anyway, why hover near Penshurst? It is useless as an aerodrome, for Customs' facilities are such that the local officer will only attend in due course, provkled that he is not hunting for illicit stills at the other end of the county. Another mythical aeroplane gets lost, cannot find Croydon, and is sent back a number of moves in disgrace. The document con cludes with a verba] vision of this aeroplane slinking in to Croydon. " At n. 18 aircraft A-BCDE lands at Croydon. . . . By direction of the Secretary- of State." A. VIATOR. graphic thir.: /that this is boon rs were rather lower. It is interesting to note is put down to the greater use of wireless and tele- *hole dro 'Sml:SD0n f°r Prcss Phot°s. Nevertheless, I still see Uke so marT I • reSS motor cvcIist-s leaving the airport gates received f ' r*zonta' rockets every time special pictures are ""ce"ce pu,,™1 a atL Surrey's have had twenty-one "A" fences—in 1* 'r '^ of wnom f°ur are continuing for "B" :is so pressed •+£ thr£'C women- I understand that this firm small waitino list maintenancc work that there is actually a WaysandIrJt'm0l\ftl'W to Paris last Thursday bv Imperial Air- ned 0n Friday. He will flv to Berlin next week The Assam Service Work in connection with the projected Assam-Calcutta ser vice is going ahead rapidly. Indian National Airways propose to operate from Dacca, which is now connected by air with Calcutta, to Dhubri, Tezpur, Dibrugarh, Silchar, and back to Dacca. Sonaville, nine miles from Tezpur, has been selected as Assam's airport, and a site, as recorded in Fligln, has been set apart. Indian National Airways took delivery of the ex-Viceregal Avro Ten last year, but this is used on their Bengal-Burma service.
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