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1935
1935 - 1014.PDF
482 FLIGHT. . MAY 2, 1935. Commercial Aviation Leicester and Norwich ; and, lastly, United Airways, who are running a high-speed holiday service from Heston to Blackpool, and from there a high-frequency service to the Isle of Man. In addition, a trade charter company, Com mercial Air Hire, Ltd., have started a badly needed inter- airport service between two of London's primary airports. This enterprise, known as Inner Circle Airlines, is already carrying three-quarter loads, and will eventually extend its operations through Hatfield, Gravesend and Essex Airport. Such a regular hourly service will be of inestimable value to air travel, making new connections possible and allowing the grouping of particular services at particular airports. Blackpool and West Coast Air Services are now flying daily from the Isle of Man to Belfast and Carlisle as well as Blackpool and Liverpool. The company also operates an hourly shuttle service between Liverpool and Blackpool. Kailway Air Services run from Manchester to Blackpool and the Isle of Man, and will shortly call in at Liverpool on this route. Their Birmingham-CardifE-Torquay-Ply- mouth and Birmingham-Bristol-Southampton-Cowes routes should be re-opened shortly, and there are possibilities of extensions between Birmingham and Nottingham and be tween Southampton and Brighton. Spartan Air Lines now run from Heston, and the Portsmouth, Southsea and Isle of Wight Aviation Co. have modified their ferry and other services now that Airspeed machines are used. Jersey Airways do not now call at Portsmouth, but run separate services from Heston and Southampton to Jersey. This is probably the most successful of our internal air lines, and during the summer machines will be stopping at their new Alderney aerodrome. Aberdeen Airways will soon be running between Aberdeen, Newcastle, Hull and London, and northwards to Thurso, the Orkneys and, per haps, to the Shetlands, while the mail-carrying Highland Airways, that pioneer company of Scotland, should be ex tending also to the Shetlands. Lastly, there is still a chance that a service may be seen this year between Dublin and London. There appears to be a reasonable demand, but the route will require multi-engined machines and experi enced pilots, passing as it does over the Irish Sea and the worst of Wales. With regular weather reports and radio facilities there is no reason why such a service should not be run with regularity in both winter and summer. Considering that the air route map of this country was virtually a blank four years ago, there is very little reason to feel despondent. H. A. T. Bernt Balchen in Europe Bernt Balchen, who flew Admiral Byrd on his South Pole expedition, among other exploits, arrived in Europe on the U.S. liner President Roosevelt last week. Interviewed at Queenstown, on board the liner, he said he was to confer with the Fokker Company and make a survey for the opening of a new air route. Balchen said he hoped that at an early date it would be possible to operate air services across the Atlantic from Le Bourget to New York. After his continental trip he will visit Ireland to survey the possibilities of operating the Trans-atlantic route irom that country. IN THE F.22 : The disposition of the pilots' seats in the Fokker F.22 is interesting in that the commander is provided with a perfect view on each side, while the first officer has a view which is little worse than that provided for each pilot in the conventional layout. A West African Project Another Empire airway, which will connect West Africa with the Imperial network, is to be inaugurated in the near future. Arrangements have been concluded between Elder Dempster Lines and Imperial Airways to form a joint company to be known as Elders Colonial Airways, for the purpose of operating air services in West Africa.^ Arrangements are also in hand for the inauguration this year by Imperial Airways of an air service from Khartoum to Nigeria which will provide a through connection from London to Lagos via Khartoum, El Fasher, Fort Lamy, Maidugari, Kano, Kaduna, and Illorin. Elders Colonial Airways will operate an extension from this service to Accra, and later to Kumasi and Takoradi as soon as suitable ground organisation is provided at these places. Later on it is hoped to provide a service to Freetown. Other local services, special charter work, etc., will be developed as the need arises. It is hoped that it will be possible to arrange for Elders Colonial Airways' services to be run in connection with the arrivals and departures of Elder Dempster ships, as well as with Imperial Airways' air services, so making it possible for passengers and mails to be distributed quickly in the Gold Coast and Nigeria after the arrival of the mail ship at Takoradi. Demonstration Even those who had previously seen the Fokker F.3G in the flesh and had flown therein would find it extremely difficult to distinguish it from the F.22, which is the later and smaller version of the same design. Both the K.L.M. F.36 (Arend) and the A.B. Aerotransport F.22 (Lappland) were side-by-side on the tarmac at Croydon on Monday, and even then the differences, apart from special fittings and colour schemes, were hardly noticeable. The flying qualities of the smaller machine, from the passen ger's point of view, were similar in every respect, with comfort as the keynote. There was a certain amount of noise and vibration on full throttle, but at cruising revolutions it was possible to converse in comfort and only the slightest drum ming was noticeable. With controllable pitch airscrews and flaps, the take-off, with a full load of passengers, was quite astoundingly short even in a virtual flat calm—something like twelve seconds elapsed from the moment of opening up at a fast walking pace to the last gentle bounce. The approacli, too, with flaps fully down, is comfortably steep. A.B. Aerotransport's F.22—which was flown by Lt. Lindow, the firm's chief pilot and by Lt. Lindner—has landing search lights in each leading edge and a larger one in the nose. The cruising speed with four Gnome-Rhome aKfr. engines, is i&5 m.p.h. at 8,200 ft. The K.L.M. F.36 was flown by Mr. a Sillevis. Among the many notabilities on the tarmac were Capt. Cai Florman, the managing director of A.B.A., and Mr. Bern Balchen.
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