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544 FLIGHT. MAY 16, 1935. Commercial Aviation Mails to Australasia and Africa Since May 12 the latest time for posting air mail for Australia and New Zealand has been 4.0 a.m. on Sunday at the head office. To-day the posting time for the mid-week service to South Africa will be altered to 4.0 a.m. on Thursday. Douglas Machines for K.N.I.L.M. Three Douglas D.C.2S have been of are shortly to be ordered by the Royal Netherlands Indies Airways, which, incidentally, has shown a marked all-round increase in traffic during the past year. The present fleet consists of Fokker F.7b and F.12 machines. The Aerotransport F.22 A sentence in a paragraph in Flight of May 2, dealing with A.B. Aerotransport's F.22 Lappland, may lead the casual reader to suppose that this machine is itself fitted with Gnome Rhone engines. Actually these are Pratt and Whitney " Wasps." The Jubilee at Heston The Jubilee week-end was almost monopolised at Heston by the air-taxi firms. Their standing equipment of aircraft was booked up weeks ahead, and they hired supplementary machines from sales firms and manufacturers. Most of this work was for the Press, but a number of passengers were taken for night flights over London to see the floodlighting. The ban on flying over central London was little hindrance, for a good view could be obtained from outside the boun daries of the prohibited area, and immediately after midnight on Monday aeroplanes made the best of their restored free dom. Over twenty flights were made from Heston on that night alone. Birkett Air Service, as already recorded, had eight machines working and made eighteen flights on Monday, mainly on the distribution of Press pictures. Air Commerce, Ltd., is purchasing a second Monospar, fitted with "Gipsy Major" engines, wireless, Sperry blind- flying instruments, and a sliding window for photographers in the forward part of the cabin. Among the many companies making Jubilee flights, this one had five aeroplanes out on the Monday. AT TEMPELHOF : This self-contained mobile floodlight in use at Berlin's airport has several interesting features and illuminates an area of 1,000 sq. metres through an angle of 80 degrees. English " Radio Compass" for France The first Standard R.C.5 Automatic Direction Finder, or "radio compass," has been acquired by the French Air Ministry. Airwork Service at Hanworth Airwork, Ltd., has taken over the management of the work shops at Hanworth Aerodrome, with effect from the beginning of May. Complete overhaul, repair and inspection facilities are available. To South America Last week the converted four-engined Farman 221, earned Centaure, took off from Le Bourget for Dakar with the South American mails at an all-up weight of fifteen tons. This machine, with the "Comet," is being used in a series ol experimental flights designed to shorten the time of the regular mail service. A Tata Extension According to the Daily Telegraph a coast air mail line from Bombay to Trivandrum is shortly to be opened. Trivandrum. of course, is the capital of the State of Travancore, which has no direct communication with Bombay. Presumably this service will be operated by Tatas, who expect to start a Madras-Colombo service just as soon as the Ratmalana aerodrome is ready. The company, incidentally, has two Miles "Merlins" on order, and these machines should hasten the present Karachi-Bombay-Madras mail service in no small measure. In the Ditch After a wonderful record with his Paris newspaper service, Mr. Pugh found it necessary to sit down in the Channel with his Spartan "Cruiser" while returning empty last Saturday morning. He and his wireless operator were rescued by a French trawler within three minutes, but the machine sank later. The petrol feed trouble, which caused all three engines to fade out one after another, remains, and is likely to remain, a mystery. Such a failure could be the result of a number of unlikeiy occurrences, and is the sort of thing which might never happen again. There are actually two tanks in the Spartan, with a collector in the circuit. In Ireland Aviation has come before the Parliament of the Irish Free State several times recently. During a discussion on the Post Office Vote the Minister fur Posts and Telegraphs (Mr. Gerald Boland) stated that correspondence for conveyance by air services in other countries was increasing steadily. Last year the number of such items posted in the Free State was 68,900, or 11,500 more than in the previous year. Speaking of the adverse criticism regarding air mail charges, the Minister cx- plained that his Department only charged what it had to pay away to other administrations, and made no profit on air mail items. Mr. O. Grattan Esmonde, T.D., the only member of the Dail who owns an aeroplane, has tabled the following motion for discussion in the near future: " That the Dail is of opinion that the Government should take immediate steps to establish a national air transport service." The FrancO'Italian Pact Although primarily, one supposes, a preliminary to the negotiations for a bilateral aerial pact, the Franco-liali • convention, which was signed on Monday, deals almost entir-ly with air lini' arrange meats. No details were given in the official statement, which suggests that the convention is concerned with the service which is shortly to be opened between Rome and Paris, with the projected service between Tunis and Tripoli, and with the arrangement of Southern European and Eastern lines. The Rome-Paris service will bring London within five hours of Italy; the present Imperial service operates only twice weekly. There is likely, also, to be: considerable technical co-operation. . So much tor the fruits of the visit of General Denain, tne French Air Minister, to Italy, and of his conversations with Signor Mussolini. Among the many people present in the Palazzo Venezia was M. Mermoz, the South Atlantic pilot. who had a long conversation with the Duce.
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