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1935
1935 - 0897.PDF
APRIL 18, 1935. FLIGHT. • 433 Commercial Aviation A FRODUCT OF POOLED RESOURCES : The new Breguet-Wibault 670 (two 900 h.p. "Mistral Majors ") which has a top speed of 219 m.p.h. and, on 62J per cent, of its power, carries eighteen passengers at 186 m.p.h. It will shortly be presented for its official test. Cardiff -Swansea—London A Monospar was used recently in an experimental flight between London, Cardiff and Swansea. Capt. W. R. Bailey is chairman of a new company, Bristol Channel Airways, Ltd., which may operate such a service in the near future. Another Algiers Service On and after May 1 the Air France service to the Balearic Islands and Algiers will be run on Fridays as well as Wednes days and Sundays. In the reverse direction it will be possible to fly straight through to London on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.. Air France and Africa It is reported that Air France, who already operate a ser vice to Prague, will be responsible for an extension therefrom to Moscow. This extension will pass through Uzhorod (Car pathian Ruthenia), Cernauti (Rumania) and Kiefi. ( ommandant Dagneux, who is in charge of the Congo exten sion developments, announced last week that he proposes next month to inaugurate a service between Casablanca and Tunis, thus eventually linking Portugal with her African colonics, Angola and Mozambique. Winch' suggests that Air France, with their Congo-Algiers service in action, are thinking seriously of a west coast route to the Cape. When the Congo line carries ?pBssengers it is probable that Brazzaville will be linked with Broken Hill and with the Madagascar service. - -*j ,/• Incidentally, the mail is now Ijeing flown by South African Airways from Kimberley to Windhoek. No definite informa tion is yet available concerning either the Windhoek to Cape Town service or of internal development in South West Africa. At Hcston The new block of-offices is now complete and occupied. Air Commerce, Ltd., North-Eastern Airways, Ltd., Air Hire, Ltd., Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd., a new com pany, British American Air Services, Ltd., and Warden Avia tion, Ltd., all have their offices in this block. In the course of the coming week Jersey Airways, Ltd., and Spartan Air lines, Ltd., will be moving into two offices in the central build ing, with a counter in the Traffic Hall. Brian Lewis and Co., Ltd., Henlys Ltd., Malcolm and Farquharson, Ltd., will be retaining their present quarters in the central building. It is not necessary for tourists to worry over international time-tables. The Airwork Traffic Office can arrange at short notice tours by air, calling at specified points, and booking of all necessary transport, both ground and air. On April 7 Herr Kronfeld. the gliding expert, flew with two passengers to Ostend and back in a " Leopard Moth '' from Air Hire, Ltd. Mr. John Grierson, of Arctic Transatlantic fame, also left Heston on the 9th with his wife and another passenger for an eight-day continental tour in a Leopard Moth " hired from the same firm Jersey Airways, Ltd., will be running twice daily each way •Jetween Heston and Jersey on the Thursda and Fndav before EasterT'lmf once daily as usual on otheTUays. The Thursday services will leave Hes.ton at 9 a.m. and 1.45 pm., and the Friday services a 930 a.m. and 2.15 p.m. Five Years of K.N.LL.M. On March 4 it was five years since the Royal Netherlands Indies' Airways opened their weekly air service between Singa pore, Palembang and Batavia. This fact is the more notice able because on the same day Singapore could commemorate the date on which it was used for regular civil air traffic. The pilot of the first service machine was Mr. Moll. In their five years of operation the K.N.I.L.M. have made 261 flights to and from Singapore, all punctually to schedule. 2,948 passengers, 78,000 lb. of freight and 12,000 lb. of mail were carried during the period. A New CK&tter Company Another operating company, with offices at Heston, has been formed under the name of British American Air Services. The directors are Mr. D. S. Gibbs, Mr. M. Peto, Mr. D. C. Jewson, and Mr. A. J. Edmunds, of Warden Aviation and Aeronautical Advertising, Ltd. The company has placed an order with Brian Lewis and Co., Ltd., for a D.H. " Rapide " and a second-hand D.H. "Dragon," both fitted as six-seaters, and also for a D.H. "Leopard Moth." ft is intended to do private charter business and to operate special air services to a number of events connected with the Jubilggpcelebrations. Linking London's Airports Commercial Air Hire, Ltd., with their new enterprise, Inner Circle Air Lines, which opened with a Croydon- Heston service on Sunday, have supplied something which is badly needed and which is .almost certain to develop into a = big thing in time. The numerous air lines which either exist or will exist, with Heston as their London terminal, will be linked up with the air routes centred on Croydon and linking London with an ever-increasing number of Continental towns. Another aspect of the inter-airport link'is that it will afford reasonable transport for the numerous representatives of firms engaged in the /manufacture and supply of aviation acces sories. Tests made the othei day showed that by bus, train, bus again and taxi, it took four and a half hours to reach Heston from Croydon, and cost Ss. iod., as against a return fare by air of 10s. 6d. and a return journey of half an hour. By taxi all the way, paying UtUdJjwgSU t» the 30-m.p.h. limit, the journey took sixty minutes and eost 27s. 6d. single. There will doubtless be quite a number of season ticket holders, and a number of travellers from the Continent will surely make use of this link. Later, it is hoped that there will be an Outer Circle also, via Hatfield, Brooklands, Rochester, Gravesend and Stapleford Abbots, and this will link up with the Inner Circle at two points—Stapleford Abbots and Heston. Freight will be carried at id. per lb. (minimum is.) *^> to 100 lb., after which it will be Jd. per lb This will be a ftreat boon to aircraft component and accessory manufacturers witU rush orders from the Continent. Machines at present leave Croydon at 9, 10.30, 2.30 and 6.30, and leave Heston at 9-3«, n-ij. 3-45 and 6.50. With the new zone control system the pilots will have a busy time in thick weather reporting themselves out of one zone and into another! The ' Dragon '' which is being used has, fortu nately, a fixed aerial.
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