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1936
1936 - 0412.PDF
FEBRUARY 13, 1936. FLIGHT. 181 Commercial Aviation Airwork Overseas MR. ALAN MLNTZ, managing director of Airwork, is leav ing or. February 27 on his annual tour of inspection of the activities of Airwork and its associated companies in the Neai and Middle East. Mr. L. A. Lafone, Misr-Airwork's late superintendent of aircraft operation, has left Egypt on his return journey to England, where he is to take up the post of manager of the Technical Services Department at Heston on March 1. Flying Officer D. L. Dustin left England on Febru ary 6 to take up a three months' appointment on the air line piloting staff of Misr-Airwork. Records /COMMERCIAL AIR HIRE has purchased the first of the U fleet of reconditioned Dragons and Dragon Rapides now on the books of the Airwork sales department. Owing to the lengthening daylight hours, freight for Paris by contract with the Gramophone Company is already being taken from Heston to Croydon by air when weather permits. It is delivered at Heston in the evening and leaves Croydon for Paris next morning. Commercial Air Hire has now obtained a similar contract from the British Jaeger Instrument Company and goods will be handled via Heston in the same way. A to Z THE February edition of Hutchinson's A to Z time-table, which has been thoroughly revised, is an extraordinarily complete and easdy understood publication. It is actually divided into six parts. The first of these comprises a full time-table, under the names of the towns, giving the rail, coach and air services from London, with fares and a reference map. The second and third parts give local, connections in the provinces and in London. Foreign travel by air, train and boat is covered in the fourth part, and steamship sailings in the fifth part. The last section contains thirty-two pages of maps. Southampton's Year DURING 1935 the Southampton airport has been equipped so as to be suitable for the operation of twenty-four-hour services by the installation of full night-lighting equipment, completed in November. This equipment consists of three 4-kilowatt floodlights in laminoid housings, obstruction lights, an illuminated wind indicator, and a neon beacon (flashing the letters " SN " in morse), which were supplied by Chance Bros., of Birmingham, and boundary lights, which were sup plied by the General Electric Company. This equipment is all connected up m such a manner tiiat one man, situated in the control tcwer, can operate any part of the system. Customs and immigration facilities are now available, and it is expected that with the next few weeks the facilities will be completed, as explained in last week's issue, by the installation of D/F equipment. Considering the difficult time-table arrangements necessitated by the beach-landings, Jersey Airways have operated a very successful service to Jersey. In March they transferred the *hole of their maintenance work to Southampton. Railway Air Services again used the airport during their summer *asun as a connection between their Liverpool-Brighton ser-v ice and the Isle of Wight ferry, the latter service being perated in conjunction with Spartan Air Lines. Quite a namber of the passengers carried between Southampton and Liverpool were such people as stewards from the ships, whose Homes were in Liverpool and whose ships were using South ampton. To this class of people, with perhaps three days' leave between sailings, the Liverpool service was a great attraction. P.S. and LO.W. Aviation, Ltd., had quite a suc cessful season in the operation of their Ryde and Shanklin erry service and, for a time during the summer, ran a daily Service to Paris ma Portsmouth. Junng 1935, twenty-three regular daily scheduled air ser- !ces Wt're operated as well as charter services to various a1 eS—mos*ty m connection with the shipping traffic. Com- fcial traffic reached its peak intensity in August, when ^rivals and departures of passengers totalled 5,514, arriving dlrcratt totalling 776, whilst departures numbered 778. the final commercial traffic figures for the twelve months lno December, 1935, were as follows: Passengers arriving departing, 20,331; commercial aircraft arriving, 3,655; ^mmercia' rhese. aircraft departing, 3,653. figures are the first recorded for a complete year ,' yllr Southampton Municipal Airport was opened in >. there being no regular commercial air transport at the ta P«t until 193Y Tatas and the I.AT.A. F Flight of January 16 it was stated that British Continental Airways was the only unsubsidised company to be admitted to membership of the International Air Traffic Association. Actually, this is not quite true. Tata Sons, Ltd., of Bombay, became members of the association in 1933. No Subsidy for Indian National T HE Finance Committee of the Legislative Assembly has rejected a proposal that Indian National Airways, who are associated with Airwork, might receive a Government subsidv of ^8,300. This would have enabled the company to continue the existing twice-weekly Lahore-Karachi mail service and to maintain head office organisation capable of developing fur ther services which will be required when the new Empire mail scheme comes into operation at the beginning of 1937. Cloud Flying T HE ROYAL AIR FORCE is carrying out special cloud fly ing operations between 3 p.m. on February 18 and 3 p.m. on February 21, and civil pilots are asked by the Air Ministry to avoid flying in cloud within the danger area. This area is roughly bounded by lines joining Clacton-on-Sea, Southend, Sheerness, Beachy Head, Guildford, Slough, Hatfield, and Clacton. The lines between Clacton and Southend and between Sheerness and Beachy Head follow the coast line. Before Dawn WHILE Mr. S, L. Turner is in America on a business holi day—he intends to purchase something really fast while he is out there—Mr. Boitel-Gill is assisting Mr. Duggan on Wrightways' early morning Paris service with one of the Dragons. The other Dragon, which is fitted with a P.B. automatic pilot, is at present undergoing its C. of A. over haul. This automatic pilot was, a few months ago, the central figure in what the newspapers might have called a " drama of the air"—a drama which was funny enough in retrospect. Mr. Turner was proceeding to Paris on his lawful occasions, but without his radio operator, when he remembered that he had left something at the rear of the cabin. Leaving the P.B. in charge, he marched firmly down the gangway—but too firmly and too quickly for "George " The Dragon stood on its tail and Turner stood on his sandwiches—the onlv fact which appeared to have caused him any real embarrass ment. Incidentally, that one-time dawn service expert, Fit. Lt Pugh, has been seen again at Crovdon recently. Apparently he has been "lent" by Spartans (alias British Airways) to Crilly Airwavs—presumably- because his Avro 642 experi ence is valuable where the Fokker F.12S, used on the Crillv Lisbon service, are concerned. It is an open rumour at Croydon that British Airways have more than a passing interest in Crillv Airways. With Staple- ford still "under the weather," British Airways continue to use Heston and the exceptionally large number of uniformed pilots to be seen there forms a source of irritation to at least one small brown dachshund whose habitation is Hanworth. ACCLAMATION : Crilly Airways' Fokker F.12, Lisboa, sur rounded by an interested crowd at Lisbon after the inaugural flight. A daily service will be started as soon as the aero dromes are really fit for use after the heavy rains.
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