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1935 - 0531.PDF
MARCH 7, I935- rnrnmercial Aviation FLIGHT. 261 FASTER TO SWITZERLAND Imperial Airways and Swissair to Operate Two Services Daily to be Used by the Swiss Company Douglas D.C.2S A S a result of an arrangement between the Swiss Air Traffic Co Ltd., and Imperial Airways, Ltd., passengers to Basle and Zurich will be enabled, after April 1, to choose one of two services each way on every week-day. From Croydon an LA. machine will leave at 7.15 a.m. and a Swissair 12.55 p.m. The second departure will be an hour mar er until April 13, owing to differences in the French and polish summer-time changes. A Swissair machine will leave Zurich at 8.15 a.m. and an LA. machine will leave at 2.5 p.m. Xhr Swissair service, incidentally, will call at Lille and not at Last year Imperial Airways operated a daily service to Switzerland and return with the Short " Scylla" type, and this will probably be used during the coming season. The time-table gives an elapsed time of six and a half hours between the extreme termini. Swissair, on the other hand, have recently taken delivery of four Douglas D.C.2S from the Fokker works, and one of these will be used on their service, with single-'engined Clark G.A.43S in reserve. Their time-table, with the help of a shortened route, gives a total time of less than four hours with the added advantage of a higher speed to reduce the comparative effects of strong adverse winds. So passengers will be able to choose between great comfort with moderate speed and moderate comfort with great speed. The tickets, of course, will be interchangeable. An examination of the time-tables brings forth the interest ing fact that a person will, after April 13, be able to travel from Glasgow (by R.A.S.) to Switzerland in some nine hours. All the Swissair Douglases are fitted with Telefunken instru ments for making blind landings by the Lorenz (Telefunken) system described in Flight of February 14. At present this equipment will only be useful, as far as the London service is concerned, for blind landings at Zurich, where suitable New Equipment at Abridge Essex airport, Stapleford Abbotts, is being equipped with a new type of boundary light developed from the '' Pillar of Fire" traffic guides. Not only is the pillar itself illuminated, but the beacon throws an unmistakable circle of light around the wide base, which is painted white. The beacons give »ay and disconnect easily if touched by the taxying machine. Western Airways Lord Apsley, who is M.P. for Bristol Central and an enthusi astic private owner, has joined the board of Norman Edgar (Western Airways), Ltd., as chairman. The board has been strengthened, also, by the election of Lady Apslev to the directorate. " The Portuguese "Comet" After a stormy trip to Lisbon, Macedo and Bleck are now waiting for the March moon before taking their "Comet," Mazar, across the South Atlantic. On the way from Hatfield ruiiiiiC0Vered a devio.us T'2°° miIes in a "ttle over six hours. res ^ lnt° an ent'rely unexpected low-pressure area with the nH th/Ck cloud and stormy weather. Blind flving was tosavTh \tlK day' but the PiIots telePhc>ned f«"n Lisbon -ami i-w^-, fuel consumption had been lower than expected and that the "Comet" behaved admirably. Meteorology in the States hVelXfrf1 chan«es have recentlv been made in the U.S. of the : • rcau',the most important being : (1) The adoption »Kshni+aa? " system of analysis and forecast, and (2) the E flights to a network °f stations where daily instrument 'J/.oooft recora temperature, humidity, and pressure up to [have certT "f? " system is based on the fact that all regions |<*med am, te properties, and that the bodies of air con- name accor I1* equai,y definite properties, each being given a f (e.g po] rm£ to the source. These names are abbreviated (movements ^anadlan = Pc), and the " fronts " provided by air imaps witrm an, ave tneir characteristics typified on weather i*ere the nrf,gthy explanations. The Navy and T.W.A. ne teorolomoni x aPPly the "air-mass" system in their lu ycaf statements. One of Swissair's new Douglas machines at Zurich. ground equipment is installed, but these machines will also be used on services to Amsterdam and Berlin, and at both these aerodromes the Lorenz system is in use. The instruments and details, as fitted in the machine, are light and compact, and Swissair expect that Le Bourget will be arranged for this blind landing system in due course. Connections can be made at Basle with air services to Eerne and Lausanne and with train services to Lucerne, Lugano and Milan. Incidentally, Swissair operate a series of sightseeing flights over the most famous parts of the Alps, using Zurich as a base, and from Geneva a trip to Mt. Blanc can be made. Air Survey in Papua A Short " Scion " (two " Pobjoys ") seaplane is to be used for surveying a gold concession in Papua. The contract for this survey has been placed by the Oroville Dredging Co., Ltd., with H. Hemming and Partners. The concession is over an area of some 350 miles by 100 miles, situated north of the Gulf of Papua and along the Musgrave and Albert Victor mountain ranges. The " Scion " will be operated from bases along the Fly River, the first being at Everill Junction. Owing to the state of the gold market, quick prospecting is a vital necessity. Provincial's Neiv Service At 10.35 a.m. on Monday the first machine arrived at Southampton from Hull on Provincial Airways' new service between Hull and Plymouth The D.H. " Dragon," flown by Mr. Scott, and carrying the Lord Mayor of Hull, Air Commo dore P. F. M. Fellowes, D.S.O., a director of the companv, Mr. L. \Y. Bateman, chairman of the Hull Airport Committee, and Capt. Norman Macmillan, left again at 10.50. Very shortly afterwards the London-Plymouth machine left Southampton with the Mayor of that city, Alderman Mrs. Foster Welch, Alderman Woolley, Mr. L. F. Payne, the airport manager, and Mr. A. Thomas, the managing director. Both machines arrived at Plvmouth on time, and a luncheon party was held at the George Hotel, Roborough. Fortunately- enough, there was no bad weather to shake the confidence and* the interior arrangements of the many distinguished passengers. According to present K.L.M. arrangements, the Provincial service will not be enabled to make a connection with the machine incoming from Amsterdam, but there must be a number of people in Hull, Nottingham and Leicester who, week by week, wish to reach Southampton and the West easily and quickly. Once the service is known there should be a reasonable amount of traffic, quite apart from the holiday travellers who will undoubtedly use the service during the summer. At present Desford is being used for Leicester, but: the new aerodrome at Braunstone, with night landing equip ment, will shortly be ready. Incidentally, the companv has recently secured a twelve months' option on a sixty-six acre site at Great Hill, Ogwell, two miles from Newton Abbot.
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