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1936
1936 - 0239.PDF
JANUARY 30, I93&- FLIGHT. 107 QMMERCIAL — AIRLINES ———= VIATION — AIRPORTS— '...'. . :,,;: ,...•.•.•. SOUTH AFRICA'S NEWEST : Rand Airport, Johannesburg, as it appears in diorama form at the Empire exhibition, which closes to-morrow night. This new terminal airport was described and illustrated in Flight of September 5 last year. Flight photograph.) THE WEEK AT CROYDON Croydon in Mourning : Notabilities by Air : New Douglas Machines for K.L.M. THE grief which overshadowed the Empire made itself felt at Croydon, arid it was interesting to see how many foreign air travellers were to be seen with some badge of mourning. The first aeroplane with its flag at half mast which caught my eye, too, was a D.L.H. Junkers Ju. 52. One day last week, incidentally, the D.L.H. night freight service was duplicated, and on another occasion it was tri plicated to carry special importations in connection with the period of mourning. Last week Lord Lloyd, who is a Privy Councillor, arrived from Paris by Imperial Airways at 3.5 p.m. with exactly I 55 nuns, to reach London, change into the appropriate dress and to attend a Privy Council meeting. The circum stances were wirelessed from the machine to the Control lower, and the various officials concerned swiftly com pleted the necessary customs and passport business. Before the engines of the aeroplane had ceased to run on the tarmac Lord Lloyd was on his way to London by special car- Quick work. Capt. Chattaway Leaves Everybody at Croydon will be very sorry to lose Capt. attaway, who is leaving to take up an important position blngapore. He is to be Aviation Officer, Public Depart- c Uri W°rks' Strai<-s Settlement. " Chatters," as he is jf. ed at Croydon, is one of the pioneer air line pilots of ls country, having been with Instone Air Lines when that mpanv was founded in the very earliest days of civil ation. He used to fly the old Vickers Vimy which, 'denta%> ended its days as a summer house in the loin? °f another Croydon old-timer. In 1922 Chattaway Uj th(' Air Ministry and has been at the Airport of ft 6Ver Since- sivel > ^°ne muck *n an unobtrusive way—so unobtru- y indeed, that his good work has not always been fully recognised—to build up the whole complicated organisation of the airport and of the traffic control system at Croydon, which is acknowledged to be the best organised control in Europe. By his tactful handling of difficult situations, by his understanding of the needs of the commercial commu nity, and by his sympathetic attitude towards harassed individuals he has done more to deserve the gratitude of his superiors than many of them are ever likely to under stand. Unobtrusively " Chatters " did his job, and unob trusively he has melted away from Croydon, but those who have worked with him daily for something like a decade and a half will always keep a warm corner in' their hearts for him. The good wishes of the Croydon heads of departments, British and foreign, go with him to his new job. Inci dentally, there was a very informal ceremony in the Aero drome Hotel before he left, when two of the oldest hands at the airport, the managers of Air France and K.L.M., cornered the reluctant " Chatters " and told him what they thought of him and of the magnificent co-operation they had invariably received from him. On Saturday afternoon Prince Seid el Hussein of Iraq arrived for the Royal funeral by K.L.M. from Berlin. Though the B.B.C. enumerated the various notabilities who had arrived by sea, escorted by destroyers—presumably be cause ships are so unreliable—and by special train—be cause you never know with ordinary trains—there was no mention of this Prince who came by air. On Sunday night, however, it certainly was announced that Field- Marshal Baron Gustav. Mannerheim, Liberator of Finland, had arrived by air. This was a matter which could hardly be ignored, for there were no fewer than six shining top hats on the tarmac to meet Finland's representative at the Royal funeral. Incidentally, by the same blue and silver Fokker F.22 came the Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse, travelling S3
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