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Aviation History
1936
1936 - 0157.PDF
JANUARY 16, 1936. FLIGHT. 73 Commercial Aviation Ground Training T T TOHK at the Imperial- School of Navigation is now in VV full swing, and Mr. C. W. Martin has some two dozen pupils in attendance at his classes. In addition to a very re presentative set of maps and charts, there is also, in the large lecture room, a miniature compass swinging base. The tele phone number of the I.S.N, is Park 4509. An Envoy in Japan AN overseas air line between Hukuoka and Daihoku (For mosa) was inaugurated on October 8, 1935, by the Japan Air Transport Company. At present the service is operated weekly, carrying mail and freight only, and using a Fokker F VHb. During this month, however, a thrice-weekly pas senger service, using a Douglas D.C.2, which has been assembled by the Nakajima factory, is due to be opened. An Airspeed Envoy has been in. operation since October 1 on the Urusan-Daircn section of the Tokyo-Dairen route. A Beiter-paying Rapide DE HAVILLANDS have decided that, in the light of ex perience gained with the coastal reconnaissance machine built some months ago for the Air Ministry, the gross weight of which was about 5,5001b., they will henceforth market the commercial Rapide with a C. of A. permitting operation at that weight and allowing a joolb. increase in payloaT*. The machine has received appropriate strengthening. Maximum and landing speeds are a shade lower and higher respectively as compared with the 5,2001b. model, but the take-off, although somewhat more extended than before, is still well below I.C.A.N reouirements. SLEEPER TRANSPORT : The new Douglas D.S.T., which w 'il carry sixteen passengers as a "sleeper transport " and twenty-four in the ordinary way, on test at Santa Monica, California. With two 930 h.p. engines—presumably the latest Wright Cyclones—the D.S.T. has a maximum speed of approximately 215 m.p.h. A Feeder by Beech SOME time ago a specification was issued by the U.S. Depart ment of Commerce for a feeder line machine, and it is fairly safe to assume that the monoplane now taking shape in the works of the Beech Aircraft Company, at Wichita, Kansas, has been designed in accordance with this. The machine should be flying in a few months. Basically, the 18K, as it is known, will be a twin-engined low-wing cantilever monoplane with a cabin for six or eight passengers, the luggage compartment and lavatory being at the rear. Two pilots will be carried. The engines are to be two Jacobs L-5 of 270 h.p., and should enable a cruising speed of 17G m.p.h to be maintained at an all-up weight of 1,420 lb. Trailing edge flaps will be incorporated. Flying on one engine the ceiling should be 8,500 ft., and, with both engines working, about 20,000 ft. Versions for private owner ship and "executive" use will be produced. "Homing" Round Europe SOME interesting experiences with the R.T.E. homing equipment (dealt with in Flight of June 6 and September 26) are related in a letter received by the makers irom Mr. K. G. Seth-Smith, pilot to General Aircraft, Ltd.: — " I am sure you will be interested to hear that in my recent tour of Central Europe I found your homing device extremely useful. " On a number of occasions I tuneu in on to the main braid- casting stations such as Vienna, Budapest, and Brussels, and navi gated solely by the homing device. On one occasion, when flying lrom Zhnn, in Czechoslovakia, to Vienna, 1 had no map and tuned in on to the Vienna broadcasting station. The weather was very thick and 1 saw very little of the ground, but your homing device took me straight over the aerials oi the broadcasting station. . " Although we had a certain amount oi teething trouble when the set was first supplied, it gave no trouble at all during the whole tour, and I am now quite convinced that it is invaluable as a navigation instrument for aircraft, especially when flying in iiurope, as there are a very large number of broadcasting stations in that part of the world—in fact, neatly every town with an aerodrome has a large broadcasting station." The R.T.E. equipment is sold by Radio Transmission Equipment, Ltd., Vicarage Lane, Ilford. Norwegian Development AT a general meeting of the Wideroe's Flyveselskap A/S. of Oslo, it was decided to increase the capital of the company and to form an affiliated company in Bergen. During 1935 Wideroe's Aviation Company has been very successful, and has doubled the activity of its various branches. Last Spring two new hangars were built at Ingier- strand, a famous watering-place in the Oslo Fiord, the summer base of the company. A clubhouse has also been con structed, where employees of the company and pupils of the flying school are housed. One of the rooms has been placed at the disposal of the members of the Norwegian Aero Club for assembly purposes and week-end gatherings during the summer season. The Norwegian Government has given a subsidy for the training of pilots, and at the company's school training is given for the private pilot's licence as well as for the trans port pilot's licence. Gipsy II Moths and Waco "F" two- seater models are being used for instruction, while 4-seater Waco cabin machines are being used for taxi flying. The company has established a special department lor aerial photography. During the last summer a great num ber of photographs were taken in the southern and western parts of Norway, and this department has also taken up mapping from the air, and, during the summer, has mapped the whole county of Hjelme. Next summer this work will be continued on a larger scale. Charter flying has been developed to a great extent during the past year, and a growing interest is shown bv the public. In order to start a regular tourist service to the mountain regions, Wideroe has applied for a concession covering a daily line from Oslo to lotunheimen, the most beautiful mountain region in Norway. Provided that the concession is granted, the line will be operated with a seven-passenger Bellancas. The company has also applied for permission to run a daily service from Oslo to Stockholm, and a night mail service from Oslo to Gothenburg. The former will be operated with a ten-passenger Lockheed Electra. Further plans have been worked out for a line to be run during the summer along th2 coast from Oslo to Arendal. with landings at the popular watering-places along this route. The technical manager of the company, Fit. Lt. Arilrt Wideroe, has recently been to the U.S.A. to examine and eventually to buy the necessary additional flying material.
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