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1935 - 0707.PDF
MARCH 28, 1935- FLIGHT. 34i QMMERCIAL /\viAT/ON AIRLINES AIRPORTS DEMONSTRATION : One of the two Swissair Douglas machines, which were demonstrated recently at Croydon, being remelled beside the Imperial Heracles. Actually, the " Scylla " class will probably be used, as last year, for our own part of the Zurich service. The Government has offered a prize of £25,000 to encourage the production of medium-sized commercial machines. Political Charters CROYDON The Swissair Douglas : A Trial Run to Budapest Travellers Return The Time DURING last week Mr. Anthony Eden and Sir John Simon both chartered special D.H. 86 aeroplanes from Im perial Airways. Mr. Eden, piloted by Capt. Horsey, went to Paris and then flew on to Amsterdam on Sunday morning to meet Sir John Simon. Sir John himself left Croy don on Sunday morning, piloted by Capt. Perry, and it was either by remarkably good staff work or by an impressive tit of luck that the two D.H. 86 machines met over Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, and flew in formation before landing. Capt. Perry then flew the two British statesmen on to Berlin. It is an amusing reflection that Sir John Simon left Croydon with no more military pomp than was afforded by a handful of men in bowler hats armed with umbrellas and arrived in Berlin to be welcomed with drawn swords by Herr Hitler's bodyguard. In conversation with one of the old hands amongst traffic managers the other day, apropos the fact that statesmen now travelled quite automatically by air, he remarked that not very long ago it was impossible to get the various Government departments to send so much as a King's Messenger abroad by air. On Tuesday, March 19, the two "Swissair" Douglas machines were demonstrated at Croydon. One of them flew direct from Basle, a distance of 485 miles, with fourteen pas sengers, in 2 hr. 29 min. These are machines which show their paces better on long, steady flights at 12,000ft. than when demonstrated in a series of short flights. Mr. J. VV. Lewington, known as the "flying referee," has just made his sixth flight to the Continent during this season, "e finds that flying is restful, and sleeps most of the time; he also stresses the fact that he arrives without that grimy, travel-stained feeling. One of the new dual-control D.H. 86 machines left Croy don on Monday, piloted by Capt. Percy, for a trial run along the route to Budapest to be opened on April 1 by Imperial Air ways. Mr. Woolley-Dod and Mr. Waugh went with the Machine. A service will be run every week-day, leaving Croy don at 8 a.m. from April 1 to 13, at 9 a.m. until May 1, and ffierenftef at 11 a.m. The differences during April are due to the introduction of earlier summer time in Belgium. The route is via Cologne, Leipzig, Prague and Vienna. On Monday the Imperial mid-day machine from Paris Dr °uS!ht in Mr. F. G. L. Bertram, C.B.E., Deputy D.C.A., with Mr. Noel Guinness, M.P., Parliamentary Secretary to the Under-Secretary of State for Air. Eight weeks ago they set out to fly to Sydney on air mail matters. They spent twenty- six days in the air and thirty days on the ground. At marry of the places called at they were able to complete their business on the day of arrival and continue the following morning in the same machine. Mr. Bertram is sixty years of age, though nobody would suspect it, and the main thing he found was that flying is not fatiguing when travelling on business. He brought back a large selection of tropical birds, and Mr. Noel Guinness pro duced to the Customs an Oriental straw hat of phenomenal circumference. A. VIATOR. The Seadrome Beacons Further information is now available concerning smaller test seadromes for radio and meteorological services, the possi bilities of which for use on the Pacific route were mentioned in Flight of March 14. These smaller seadromes would resemble the anchorage buoy, illustrations of which have been published, and each would cost something in the neighbourhood of ^40,000. The stations would be provided with a crew of five, lifeboats and a motor patrol boat with which to send fuel and supplies to machines which may be forced down. Each would be equipped as a long-range lighthouse and radio station. Preparing for the Pacific During the week-end the special Sikorsky S.42 covered non stop the 2,500-mile round trip between Miami, the Virgin Islands and Miami. On returning to its base the S.42 still carried petrol for another 500 miles, yet it had already ex ceeded the distance between San Francisco and Honolulu on the trans-Pacific route. Pan-American Airways are appar ently pleased with the action of their special radio compass which proved its ability to pick up signals at a range of 1,800 miles. This flight effectively disposes of the doubt felt in many quarters that the S.42 was capable of flying 3,000 miles non stop, but it remains to be seen whether a payload could be carried in these circumstances.
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