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1935
1935 - 1508.PDF
678 FLIGHT. JUNE 20, 1933. Commercial Aviation Internal Mails in Australia Plans for the use of certain air routes for all first-class air mail matter at an ordinary rate of 2d. per ounce are being considered by the Federal Ministry. Daily services between Brisbane and Sydney, Sydney and Melbourne, Melbourne and Adelaide, find Melbourne and Hobart are suggested, with a twice-weekly service between Adelaide and Perth. The services will be let by tender to private operators. A Useful Map Although the map of India and Burma which has just been added to Bartholomew's General World Series is not primarily a flying map, the positions of all the major aerodromes are shown. The railways are sufficiently strongly marked to be of value. In any case the series is of particular interest to all those who follow air line development abroad. The Lieutenant Damaged In taking off from Le Havre to fly to her base at Biscarosse, near Bordeaux, the giant Latecoere flying-boat Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris was caught by a gust which caused her to strike some fishing smacks, damaging a wing, the hull and a float. The boat is being dismantled preparatory to being transported to Toulouse for repairs. A Traffic Problem On Friday of last week Cobham Air Routes were faced with an interesting problem. They were due to transport the Dagenham girl pipers—seventeen passengers in all—from Croy don to Guernsey. The '' Envoy '' used to Bournemouth carries a maximum of eight normal passengers, and each " Wessex" carries six. Yet the ordinary services were run save for the fact that two " Wessex " were used on the afternoon service between Bourne mouth and L'Eree. Needless to say, odd pipers may be left here and there when solving the problem, and no prize is awarded. Midway Capt. Edwin Musick was again the chief pilot in the second Pacific survey flight made by Pan American Airways with the special Sikorsky S.42. This time the boat reached Midway Island, almost half way across the Pacific. Eighteen hours after leaving Alameda the 5.42 reached Pearl Harbour, Honolulu, and then pushed on to Midway, making this trip in 9 hr. 13 min. The return journey was made by instruments and radio alone, blinds being drawn over the pilot's windows. During the day spent at Midway the boat was taken some two hundred miles westward from the island in order to test the radio transmission from the equipment recently installed there. To the Scillies Knowing that it takes anything up to five hours to make the sea crossing between Penzance and the Scillies, that the service is not a daily one, and that something like 14,000 people—apart, of course, from flowers—make the journey every year, one has often wondered why no operator has considered that an air service is worth while. Provincial Airways, it is believed, have considered the project but have not been too satisfied with the one and only natural landing ground. A fortnight ago it was learnt unofficially that Cobham Air Routes had been examining the possibilities, and that Sir Alan had discovered a landing ground which would be suitable for use with smaller commercial types. June 22. Tollerton Aero Club Garden Party. June 29. Royal Air Force Display, Mention. July 1. S.B.A.C. Display, Hendon. July 6. Royal Air Force Fly-past before H.M. the King at Duxford. July 7. Douze Heures D'Angers, Aero Club de France. July 13. Opening of Leicester Municipal Airport. July 20 Opening of Brighton, Hove and Worthing Municipal Airport, Shorcham. July 20-21. Coupe Armand Esders, Aero Club de France. July 27. London-Newcastle Race, Newcastle Aero Club. July 28. Private Owners' Garden Party, Ratcliffe, Leicester. A Brazilian- Airship Station Work is now proceeding on an airship station at Santa Crvtz for the use of the Graf Zeppelin and, presumably, of the L.Z.129 in due course. The Brazilian Government has madt a loan to the Zeppelin Company for this purpose. "Electras" in Alaska Two Lockheed "Electras" are now in service on Pacific Alaska Airways' service between Juneau and Nome. '' Electras'' are also exclusively used by Northwest Airlines of St. Paul on the Chicago-Seattle service. An Experimental Beacon Every night between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. an experimental luminous beacon of the track-indicating type will be operated ij miles E.S.E. of Crowborough railway station. The beacon exhibits a white group-flashing light every five seconds, and the track indicated is that between Croydon and Le Bourget. An u Express " for Egypt On June 10 the D.H.86 for Misr Airwork left Heston for Cairo, where it arrived 011 June 12. It is equipped with dual control, radio, and the usual blind flying instruments. Mr. J. J. Parkes flew the machine on its delivery flight and carried Mr. R. P. G. Denman, a director of Airwork, as radio opera tor. Mr. Norman Alexander, who has joined Misr Airwork as assistant pilot, was one of the passengers. British Continentals' " Rapides " Reading a paragraph published last week the impression might, very naturally, have been conveyed that two of British Continental Airways' "Rapides" were second-hand machines. All three are, in fact, new, but two of them were, apparently, originally registered in the name of Hillman's Airways. Rollason Aircraft Services, incidentally, supplied the three "Rapides" and two have already been delivered. Air-mapping the Canadian Northland Those who invade the Canadian northland—and they in clude all types from missionaries and doctors to miners and trappers—can rely to-day on accurate maps to see them to their several destinations. Formerly, maps made by land surveyors were the only ones available, but to-day the Topographical Survey of Canada has on hand maps of much of the northland which are accurate to the smallest detail. These maps were made from aerial photographs. For every note on those maps there are photo graphs at Ottawa to prove that such a lake, headland, or water way is there. Even Canada's unknown reaches are becoming known through the aerial map-makers. Already a slice of territory which extends from the Arctic coast near Alaska and runs clean through to Montreal has been mapped by Government photographers. Mapping from the air is not only faster than the old land method, but is far more accurate. It was learned from the first few photographs taken from the air that there were in numerable lakes in the unsettled, parts of Canada. Further more, it would take years to do a territory by land which takes a few days to do by air, and, in addition, the aerial map eliminates human error. There was, for instance, a region which was shown on the old maps with lakes running east and west. When the pilot flew over the region and the photo grapher began to take pictures it was seen that those lakes ran north and south and to be of an altogether different shape. Aug. 17. Round the Isle of Wight Air Race and Portsmouth Air Trophy. Aug. 24-25. Third International Flying Meeting, Lympne. Aug. 24-25. Cinque Ports Club. International Flying Meeting and Wakefield Cup Race. Aug. 24-30. Raduno del Littorio, Rome. Reale Aero Club d'Italia. Sept. 4-18. Jungfraujoch Concours, Aero Club de Suisse. Sept. 6-7. King's Cup Air Race. Sept. 14. Cinque Ports Club. Folkestone Aero Trophy Race- Sept. 15. Gordon Bennett Balloon Race, Warsaw. Oct. 12-28 International Aircraft Exhibition, Milan. Forthcoming Events Club Secretaries and others are invited to send particulars of important fixtures for inclusion in this list.
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