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1935
1935 - 0732.PDF
350 FLIGHT. APRIL 4, 1935 ^- u-^ **»*****"*' ^-^^^MP**'*^ ^&3£2I <* 100^^*> J / "W'10' ^m*1 -TMB..^. fc--rfr£^ *J^ Heston, originally planned to attract the private pilot, has become one of the most important airports in the country. This month full wireless facilities will be provided. large aerodrome which has had its useful size relentlessly curtailed. Pilots of fast machines find it none too easy in conditions of poor visibility, and there is little chance that regular blind landings will ever be made there. East- leigh aerodrome, Southampton, incidentally, has both a main line railway and a good road on one boundary. That an airport can be almost within normal walking distance of a big city is proved by the existence of Tempelhof—a military parade ground "caught while young" by the authorities—within three miles of the centre of Berlin. It is true that there are tall buildings in the vicinity, but approach areas on all but one side have been left almost clear as sports grounds and cultivated areas. If really good ground or underground transport facilities are provided, the distance from the centre does not, how ever, mean a very great deal. Gatwick aerodrome, which is to be fully developed this summer, cannot by any stretch of the imagination be considered to be near the city it will serve, but the Southern Railway's electric trains should bring it as near to London in actual travelling time as Croydon is at present. Surface transport is, at the best of times, slow when considered as an adjunct to air travel, and road transport, restricted and yet dis orderly, should in the future be ruled right out where distances of five miles or more have to be covered. As far as short-distance internal lines are concerned, surface facilities become the crux of the situation unless the air-line provides an unusually great saving of time in itself. A fast commercial machine, for instance, may fly from London to Manchester in rather less than an hour and a half, yet the ground transport at both ends may total something like eighty minutes. These, then, are the wider aspects that govern site selection. Some points of interest in the matter of site preparation, and aerodrome construction generally, will be found in the article on pages 3.54-360. ••"•••- I MwmHi \\\\i\W\\ mm*"** m • a mfr*w The buildings at Portsmouth airport indicate what can be done at a comparatively small cost. There is a restaurant passengers and public in the main building, from which they can view the landing ground.
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