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1936
1936 - 0606.PDF
MARCH 5, 1936. FLIGHT. 265 Commercial Aviation HERE IT IS : Various people have, since reading about blind-landing systems, asked us what a marker beacon looks like. Here is one of Heston's, showing the aerial and wire-protected hutches enclosing the transmitting equipment. It will be a wily bird which manages to enter the netting at nesting time. The Northern Route IT appears that Pan American Airways, apart from their normal Transatlantic plans, are busy with others for a ser vice from Copenhagen via Iceland and Greenland. D.D.L. (Danish Airways) are interested and may eventually co-operate with P.A.A. The Irish Service THE D/F station at Baldonnel aerodrome will be com- •*• pleted early in March, when tests will be carried out. Olley Air Service, who have been given the contract to carry the mails between Dublin and Liverpool, will run experi mental services on March 6 and 7. Things to Come COME striking and original designs for airport terminal *J buildings, with hotel, swimming-bath and hangars, are con tained in a reprint, in brochure form, from the Architect's Journal. The architecture is the work of Raymond McGrath and Walter Goodesmith. The principal structural material suggested for the buildings is reinforced concrete, and a generous use would be made of glass. A unique feature of the design is the inclusion, where- ever possible (e.g., diving stage, balcony railings, etc.), of electrically welded steel tubing. A striking scale model of the layout has been made, and it is stated that it will be closely followed in an hotel airport to be erected on a site on the South Coast in the near future. The brochure, entitled "Design for To-morrow," may be obtained from Tube Products, Ltd., Oldbury, Birmingham, who are specialists in electrically welded steel tubes. The Real Thing "THREE days after the demonstration of Heston's Lorenz . equipment a D.L.H. machine made good use of it in visi bility of 400 yards when Herr Steinbeck brought the Ju.52 over again for a private demonstration to Air Ministry officials. Conditions were so bad that the demonstration was delayed lor nearly two hours while two commercial machines were laboriously brought in by normal methods. One circled Heston lor thirty-two minutes. By this time such daylight as could filter through the fog was fading fast, but the demonstration Junkers took the air M 4'rHr?'m" canying as passengers Maj. R. H. S. Mealing, Mr. C. B. Collins and Col. Miles, representing various depart ments of the Air Ministry, Mr. Samuelson, of Smith's Aircraft instruments, and Mr. Roderick Denman, who has acted in an aavisory capacity in the installation of radio approach guidance h- ™ fitOD' GrouP Capt. Primrose witnessed the demonstration n om the control tower. The ground was invisible to pilot and passengers before the aeroplane had climbed to 100 feet, but "tir bteinbeck circled and flew straight over the aerodrome on a'ri^" 1 • aPProach track, demonstrating the various aural se-L\iSUa!, lnc?lcations of position, and on the completion of a uiim wide circuit made a faultless approach and landing. To Stranraer ? REPRESENTATIVES of Northern and Scottish Airways have been negotiating with the aviation committee of the Stranraer town council with a view to securing land to be utilised for an aerodrome in the district. It is also reported that Stranraer's aviation committee is outlining the advantages of Lochryan, at the head of which Stranraer is situated, as a terminus of a Transatlantic air service. They, however, are not alone in their hopes. G.E.'s Licences EXAMINATION boards for ground engineers' licences will be held in London on each Tuesday in April, May and June; at Croydon on the second Friday in April, May and June; in Manchester on the first Friday in June; in Bristol on the first Friday in April; and in Glasgow on the first Thurs day in May. Applications for examination at the last three places will only be accepted if these, with the fees, are received twenty-eight days before the specified dates of the various examinations. Saharan Return THE Vacuum Oil Company's B.A. Eagle has returned to its permanent quarters at Heston after a 6,000-mile flight from England to Niamey, in West Africa, and back in the hands of Mr. H. J. White. This was a general survey under taken for the chief purpose of arranging fuel dumps between Aguelock (north of Gao) and Zinder for the new S.A.B.E.N.A. service to the Belgian Congo. No mechanical trouble was experienced, although Saharan surfaces accounted for several burst tyres. Mr. White spent Christmas in mid-Sahara, where he dined upon a muscled fowl purporting to be a chicken. At Niamey he was aroused from sleep by shots in the hotel, where a wild-cat was being put to death in the dining room. This seems to have been the single alarming incident of the flight. New Zealand's Mail THE operation of the air mail service from England to New Zealand is proving far from satisfactory. The whole trouble, of course, is that the mail does not go all the way by air and, though it is scheduled to reach Sydney in twelve days from London and seldom arrives more than twenty- four hours behind time, even this delay means that it is tour or five days late in New Zealand. The Qantas machines reach Sydney on Friday mornings and the regular mail boats leave en Friday afternoons. If the connection is missed there is a long wait for another ship. The mail should reach New Zealand in sixteen or seven teen days, but it often takes twenty-three or more days. Sometimes two mails, despatched a week apart, arrive together. The reorganisation of the Imperial Airways' service in ioj~. as well as the projected extension of the air service to fi*s Dominion is strongly favoured by all business men in Nt * Zealand.
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