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MAY 9, 1935. FLIGHT. 5I7 Commercial Aviation K.L.M.'s Eastern Speed'Up When, on June 12, the Royal Dutch Air Lines duplicate their service to Batavia, twelve Douglas machines will be put into service. The whole trip should be covered in five and a half days, Rangoon in four, and Karachi in three days. An Aerodrome for Indore Adequate provision has been made in the current year's budget of Indore State (Central India) for the construction of an aerodrome, with facilities for night landing. A site has been found about two miles from the capital city. Emergency landing grounds will also be laid out. New Director for Hillmans Mr. Gerard D'Erlanger, who is a well-known amateur pilot and son of Baron D'Erlanger, the banker, has joined the board of Hillman's Airways, Ltd. Incidentally, the company is ex pecting to take delivery of its first D.H. 86 later this month and of two more in June. K.N.I.L.M. Changes Since May i the Royal Netherlands Indies Airways (K.N.I.L.M.) has flown the Batavia-Bandoeng service three times a day in each direction, and on the same day a reduc tion in rates was made. Last Monday another 630 miles was added to the K.N.I.L.M. network with a weekly trial service from Soerabaja to Macassar (Celebes) via Den Pasar. Crilly Airways' Plans Bookings between Leicester and Bristol have been heavy recently, and Crilly Airways have been using a " Fox Moth " for the Norwich section. During May the company will be opening new services between Doncaster and Nottingham and between Leicester and Northampton. In June, services be tween Leicester and Skegness and Nottingham and Skegness— previously run by Mr. M. D. L. Scott—will probably be opened. Unsubsidised Flying in Japan According to The Aerial Age, Tokyo, regular Japanese air liners carried 12,783 passengers over 1,201,115 miles during 1934. 603,511 lb. of mails and freight were carried, and six forced landings were made. Japanese air lines now run between Tokyo, Osaka and Dairen; Osaka, Takamatsu and Matsuyama; Tokyo and Niigata; and Tokyo and Shimizu. Since July, 1922, Japan Air Transport has operated a service between Osaka and Matsuyama. On January 1 this company opened a new line between Osaka and Shirabama, and this is the first unsubsidised service in Japan. During the first month of operation the regularity was 90 per cent., and 429 passengers were carried on this and on joy-riding services. One of the two machines used is a D.H. "Fox Moth." The London Chamber of Commerce At a special meeting of the Civil Aviation Section of the Londou Chamber of Commerce, held on April 29, Viscount Ratendone was elected Chairman for the current year in place of Mr. Ivor McClure, who recently resigned on his appointment as Operational Adviser to the Director-General of Civil Avia tion. Night Flying in India Several firms have been asked to offer tenders for the supply of the entire equipment for night landing, including beacons, over the trans-Indian air routes. The installation of the beacons and their power supply presents some difficulty where no railway, municipality, or private company has a power station. In at least three or four places on the air mail route it will be necessary to install a small generating plant. Another Transcontinental Record With the aid of half a gale blowing from the West a T.W.A. Douglas flew last week from Los Angeles to New York, a distance of 2,400 miles, non-stop in n hr. 5 min., beating the previous transport record by about half an hour. The gyro pilot was in charge of the machine during the major part ol the flight, which was made partly to test new radio beam developments. Most of the flying was done at an altitude of more than 12,000 ft. " Electra " Developments A Lockheed "Electra" is now produced with P. and VV. "Wasp" 450 h.p. engines in order to supply the needs of operators who have surplus engines of this type in stock. So far all the 10.c. series, as this type is designated, have been delivered to Pan American Airways and to their subsidiary companies. Pacific Alaska Airways have just taken delivery of their second. The "Wasp Electra," incidentally, cruises at 190 m.p.h. at 12,000 ft., with ten passengers. An Arctic Airline An Arctic airline, 1,900 miles long, from Cape Schmidt, through Wankarem to Wellen on Providence Bay, along the coast of the Behring Sea, to Anadyr and then through Kameus- kaya and Gizhiga to Nagayeva, is to be established by the central administration of the Northern Sea Route. In addi tion, an air service will be maintained between Cape Schmidt and Wrangel Island, carrying mail and freight twice a month. For the first time Wrangel Island will maintain connections with the mainland throughout the year. Lines are planned to Kolyma and possibly to Indigirka to connect with those extending from Tixie Bay to Indigirka on the Western side. A regular air service, which will connect Capt Schmidt and Anadyr, making a short cut over the Anadyr mountain range, is also planned. ! I BLACKPOOL'S GREAT DAY: Sir Philip Sassoon, with his four escort pilots and the Mayor of Blackpool (Aid. G. Whittaker, J.P.), photographed with other notabilities when Sir Philip visited Blackpool for the inauguration of United Airways' service, described on page 515.
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