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1936
1936 - 0553.PDF
FEBRUARY 27, 1936. COMMERCIAL /\V/AT/ON ON THE MEDWAY SOON : A new composite picture showing how a flying boat of our new Short Empire class will appear. Notice how, with the reduction in span, the outboard engines are neating the wing tips. These engines are likely to be 820 h.p. Pegasus Xs and will drive D.H.-Hamilton airscrews. THE WEEK AT CROYDON Blind Landings—Croydon " the Only One in Step" ? : Night-and-Day Weather : Perambulatory Customs : Distinguished Arrivals : Solemn Thought on Car Parking CsT week things went much as usual in air transport, though ships were going aground everywhere and trams running down steep slopes into other trams, and so forth. Nobody notices when air transport proves itself infinitely superior to all the more old-fashioned ways of getting about, though the newspapers are quickly enough on our trail when services are interrupted ; only the other day there was reference to a " forced '' landing when a machine deliberately put in, on instructions from the owners, at an emergency airport. Last Friday Herr Steinbeck, with a Ju. 52, demonstrated the Lorenz system to a number of interested people [as reported on page 240.—ED.], including, among a Croydon contingent, several senior Imperial pilots and Capt. Morton, chief pilot of British Continental Airways, which company is already fitting machines with this system. The demonstration had to be made at Heston, because the Lon don Terminal Aerodrome, Croydon, is still in the stage when about the best aid to fog landings available is a white chalk line. Most national airports have the Lorenz system, or, if not that system, one for which the same instruments in the aeroplanes can be used. Holland will be about the only country on a different system. The Dutch will doubt less then change over to the Lorenz system and we, in civil aviation, shall set the world another example of international common sense calculated to make Geneva foam at the mouth with jealousy. One day they will hand world affairs to half a dozen air-line chiefs of various nationalities and everything will then doubtless jog along smoothly. Talking of the Lorenz system, it is an open secret (though why a secret at all I can't think) that two Imperial Airways pilots, Capts. E. Poole and F. C. Allen, who recently flew to Hamburg as passengers by D.L.H., have gone there to study the German blind-approach method under expert tuition, doubtless by means of one of the " flying lecture rooms" reported to be in use there for training purposes. These pilots, it is thought, will operate the first British London-Berlin night mail, which will be inaugurated this coming summer. This seems to be an excellent example of the co-operation between air traffic companies. By the way, I referred to the Vickers Viastra in this connection last week by a slip of the pen when I should have written Velox. Sorry, and all that. On February 15 the D.H. 86 Delphinus, first of her type to be built, still going strong, and now fitted with dual instead of single control, left Croydon for Karachi with Capt. E. R. B. White in command, accompanied by First Officer R. J. Johnstone and First Officer Davys—who is " recent recruit, by the way, from Commercial Air Hue Imperial Airways. The machine is destined foi Karachi-Singapore sector of the Empire air routes. Not so long ago I heard one of the oldest Imperial Air ways pilots remark that for variety of tboroug
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