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MARCH 28, 1935- FLIGHT. 343 Commercial Aviation SHROUDED : The D.H. " Dragon Rapide " now used by Aero St. Gallen on services between St. Gallen, Zurich and Berne. During 1034 this company, which also owns a " Puss Moth" and a " Leopard Moth " and which has been doing school and charter work since 1931, carried 3,393 passengers. The "Rapide" was recently flown by Capt. Rieser from St. Moritz to Zurich with a hospital case. There are no hangars at St. Moritz—hence the funereal appearance of their latest acquisition in this picture Carrying the Syrian Mail For some time negotiations have been in progress concerning the carrying of mail from Syria to Egypt, and on March I the mail arrived at Almaza in a Misr Airwork machine. The normal Palestine service is used and the mail is carried from Haifa by car. Across Albania It is reported that Ala Littoria, the Italian merger com pany, has obtained a monopoly of air services in Albania for the coming ten years. This monopoly should be extremely valuable, as Italy already runs a service to Salonika. A few years ago Albanian services were largely in German hands. An Aerodrome Site Manufacturers and others may be interested to learn that there is land, bordering on the Thames near Erith, eminently suitable for development as an aerodrome. The Erith De velopment Committee will give every possible assistance to enquirers. Trans-Siberian Plans are under consideration for the development of an air line between Archangel and Khabarovsk, on the borders ot Mauchukuo. Various other lines will radiate from Tiksky Bay. As the last portion of the trans-Siberian railway itself runs along the Manchukuo frontier, this line might be useful in case of trouble. The Tasmanian Service The service via King and Flinders Islands, across the Bass Strait between Tasmania and Melbourne, was resumed again late in December after an interruption due to the unfortunate loss oi the Miss Hobart. Holyman's Airways, Pty., formerly known as Tasmanian Aerial Services, Pty., Ltd., are carrying on a tri-weekly service between Essenden aerodrome and Western Junction, using D.H.86s, Miss Launceston and Golden West. At the end of November 1,692 passengers had been carried by the company—including those carried on the trans-Tasmanian service from Brighton (Hobart) to Western Junction (Launceston). A Tata Year As previously reported in Flight, Tata Sons, Ltd., completed, on October 15, 1934, their second year of air mail operation, and had again achieved a regularity of 100 per cent. 140,000 nules were flown and 16.7 tons of mail were carried duritig the second year. It is interesting to note that, for the year 1933, the ton-mile figures for mail and freight were 9,686.6 and 109,56 respec tively, and the passenger miles were 5,495. For 1934 these figures were 15,627.9, 4551, and 8,245. Tatas have recently ordered two direct control Autogiros for their Karachi-Madras service. Before the machines are put in service, however, they will be engaged in demonstration nights. One was sent °ut last month on a tour of Northern India. At all the centres visited great interest was shown, and a number of important otacials, both civil and military, have taken an opportunity ot making nights in the machine. The "Qraf Zeppelin" Out Again Last Monday the Graf Zeppelin made this year's first prac tice flight over Lake Constance. The ship will leave again on its fortnightly South American trip on April 6. Norwich—Leicester Crilly Airways, of Doncaster, are to open a twice daily service between Norwich and Leicester. At Leicester, of course, connection can be made with Provincial Airways' Southampton-Hull service. At Hull the passengers may travel to Liverpool, Amsterdam or (after May 1) to Newcastle and Aberdeen. But one does not imagine that the time-tables can be made to fit so nicely. Passengers to Australia Next month—after April 12 to be exact—the whole route to Brisbane will be open to passengers. Up to the present, of course, they have been left at Singapore. The fare will be £195 to Brisbane from London—which appears reasonable enough when it is remembered that the de luxe ocean fare is about £140 to Sydney. Incidentally, the London-Singapore fare will be reduced after April 1 from ^180 to £156. • MacRobertson Pilot's New Post Sqd. Ldr. MacGregor, of MacRobertson Race fame, and Capt. G. E. Bolt have been appointed chief pilots of East Coast Airways and Cook Strait Airways respectively. They will shortly leave for England to take delivery of machines. Capt. Bolt has some 7,000 hours to his credit, having started his flying career with Walsh Bros., of Auckland, pioneers of aviation in New Zealand, and has been actively engaged in flying ever since. In 1930 he was in this country and selected a Saro " Windhover " flying boat for Dominion Air Lines. The projected line never materialised, and the machine was finally disposed of in Australia. Since that date he has been the chief ground engineer of the Wellington Aero Club. He is an exceptionally fine pilot as well as being one of New Zealand's best aeronautical engineers. The Week at Hatfield Jersey Airways have now taken delivery of their second and third D.H.86s, Grouville Bay and St. Catharine's Bay. These, it will be remembered, have swing-over controls and the whole fleet is, or is to be, equipped with sensitive altimeters and rate of climb indicators. The French Air Ministry "Comet," lately the property of Mr. Bernard Rubin, has been out on test a good deal recently. The French A.M. has ordained that a generator should be placed in the nose and, as the " windmill " is of large diameter, the '' Comet'' appears for all the world to have been fitted with an auxiliary power unit. M. Louis Mahieu, Director of the Banque Nationale de Belgique, has taken delivery of his " Rapide." M. Stampe, the D.H. Belgian representative, came over with him and the machine was flown back by M. Stampe, Junr. Auxiliary tanks have been fitted, giving the machine a maximum range of about 1,100 miles. During the week Mr. Eric Wyllie arrived to collect the "Leopard" which has been purchased by the Tanganyika Diamond and Gold Development Co. A " Leopard Moth " has been bought by Mr. de Kock, Director of the Royal Dutch Shell group
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