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1936 - 0208.PDF
94 FLIGHT. JANUARY 23, 1936. Commercial Aviation Imperial Training R OLLASON AIRCRAFT SERVICES have recently been at work on an interesting conversion job. One of the West- land Wessex machines owned by Imperial Airways has been suffering certain nasal changes in order to accommodate dual control, which has been ingeniously arranged by forking the original column and by adding another spectacle control. The machine is to be used for wireless training purposes by Imperials—presumably in connection, too, with the blind approach system, which Croydon may or may not have dur ing the next year qr so. Whilst Probationary First Officer Blank is receiving approach instruction in the second pilot's seat, other officers will be able to disturb the imaginary ether from the security and comfort of the cabin behind. (What, by the way, are the four mobile D/F stations doing in the Rollasoii hangars ?) Rollason's are also helping in the work of rebuilding the Atalanta which was wrecked at Kisumu last year, and the shops are. chock-a-block with aeroplanes, light and heavy, in various stages of repair. One hears, too, that the Hanworth shops are also very busy. It is nice to think that the private owners' little misfortunes bring good to somebody. Short-Wave Approaches WITHIN a week the Lorenz blind-landing system, which is being installed at Heston, should be in experimental working order. Mr. Jeffs, the chief control officer, has obtained the temporary services of an experienced German pilot, who is to bring a Ju.52 over for a demonstration. Meanwhile, only one machine in this country, the D.H. Dragon which is being fitted out as a flying laboratory for Smith's Aircraft Instruments, is likely to be useful. However, several of the British Continental Airways machines are to be so fitted, and one or two pilots will soon be going over to Tempelhof for their training. Mr. Farey Jones and Mr. Morton, the company's chief pilot, were very much impressed with the demonstrations given to them (in genuine Q.B.I, conditions !) while they were in Germany, and, in any case, most of the airports and intermediate airports which will be on the Scandinavian route are Lorenz-equipped. FOR SOUTHERN SERVICE : The Monsun, first of the Dornier Do. 18 boats for the German South Atlantic mail service. A range of 2,765 miles is claimed at a cruising speed x>f 124 m.p.h. Two 500/560 h.p. Junkers Jumo diesels are fitted, the rear one driving its propeller through shafting. This machine was first illustrated in Flight of November 14. The Chamber of Air Commerce AT a meeting last week of the Civil Aviation Section of the London Chamber of Commerce, Mr. H. N. St. V. Norman was elected chairman for the year 1936 in succession to Viscount Ratendone, whilst Air Vice-Marshal A. E. Borton, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., A.F.C., was elected as deputy- chairman. Manchester's Airport THE Manchester Corporation has, it appears, been rather taken aback by the refusal o£ the Air Ministry to remove the meterological and radio station from Barton to the new airport at Ringway. Presumably, the Ringway airport will now have to be equipped with a short-wave beacon, so that machines after being brought into the area by D/F from Bar ton will still be able to reach Ringway in thick weather. Work at Ringway, incidentally, has been held up recently by the deep snow. An American Profit-earner AT the time when..the first details of the three-motor Stinson "Airliner" were published in Flight of March 29, 1934, this machine caused some interest, inasmuch as it appeared to be one with which unsubsidised operation might be possible even in this country. Some time ago Brian Allen Aviation, Ltd., of Croydon Air port, were appointed sole concessionaires for this machine, which in its latest form, and with fixed-pitch airscrews, cruises at 152 m.p.h. at 9.000 ft. with ten passengers and baggage. Its take-off run is 070 ft., its rate of climb is 800 ft./min., and its service ceiling is 15,000 ft.—or, with one outboard engine out of action, 5,000 ft. Three Lycoming R-680-2 240 h.p, engines are fitted, and the normal maximum range is 050 miles. This Stinson is actually available in two forms—with or without dual control—and the actual payloads for each are 2,110 lb. and 2,320 lb. respectively, with an all-up weight 01 9,950 II). The standard equipment includes complete radio shielding and bonding and Grimes navigation lights. Controllable-pitch airscrews may be fitted without a reduction in the useful load. The price in this country will be in the region of £11,000. More Anglo-Dutch Enterprise THE first direct air service from the North of England to the Continent to be operated regularly by a British firm is announced for next summer by British Continental Airways, behind whom there are understood to be very big financial interests indeed. Pursuing the policy of close co-operation with K.L.M.—a co-operation which already exists on the London-Amsterdam route—this northern route will be operated daily by the two companies, who will run alternate services. The rcute will not be exactly the same as that flown for the last two summers by K.L.M. Next summer the line from Liverpool will be via Doncaster, which is not only more direct but also takes advantage of the fact that Doncaster may be described as the railway nerve-centre of the Yorkshire manu facturing districts, and thus gives the maximum facilities tor passengers and freight. The Doncaster Corporation has been sufficiently enterprising to push energetically forward with plans for enlarging its airport and for providing every modern facility to attract air traffic. It is pleasant to see that this enterprise has won its natural reward, for it is not always easy to convince muni cipal authorities that a city gets, or will get in the future, the air traffic its airport deserves. This Anglo-Dutch enterprise will not only provide a long- felt waLt in this cou.itry, i.e., a British line operating along side the foreign one which has held the. field alone for too long, but it will also give the North of England an even better connection with Amsterdam and the large number oi cities to which ail lines radiate from Holland. By the time the northern service comes into operation B.C.A. will, it is expected, have a service from London to Scandiravia, m which case it will be possible to "fly British all the way to Copenhagen or Malmo, either from Croydon or from Liverpool and Doncaster. It is understood that Capt. H. Spry Leverton, who was recently appointed a director of B.C.A., has just returned from a satisfactory visit to Doncaster, where arrangements have been completed on behalf of B.C.A. and K.L.M.
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