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1936
1936 - 0959.PDF
4°4' Commercial Aviation The spot of static electricity encountered by Capt. Scott with the Imperial machine Dione was a heaven-sent oppor tunity for some papers when taken in conjunction with the story of a Jersey Airways machine which was also said to have been struck by lightning. Headlines containing FLIGHT. APRIL I6, 1935, tenance. There is little or no danger with static electricity when in the air, but it certainly"' does very queer things to compasses, which seldom or never recover. When you have filled your aeroplane with directional gyros and all manner of radio devices, the compass is still the foundation the words " drama " and " thrill " appeared all over front of all navigation, so that " static" remains a problem if pages like a spring rash on a very young reporter's coun- not an actual danger A. VIATOR. Plymouth-Jersey ON Tuesday of last week Jersey Airways inaugurated their Plymouth-Jersey service, which will be operated twice weekly. One or two experimental services, it will be remem bered, were run last year. The Empire Boats PROVISIONAL duties have, it is learned, been assigned to the first three of the twenty-eight Short boats which are being made for Imperial Airways. When it. trials have been completed this summer, the first will be used on the Mediterranean route ; the second will make several long-range flights preparatory to experimental Atlantic crossings ; and the third will be shipped to America, where it will eventually share the New York-Bermuda service with the P.A.A machines. Advances at Aberdeen SINCE April of last year Aberdeen Airways have laid out three aerodromes at Thurso (Caithness), Stromness (Orkney), an 1 on the island of South Ronaldsay, which has not previously been on the air map. The company, of course, also has its own aerodrome at Kirkwall. On April 13 Aberdeen Airways were due to open a daily service between Aberdeen, Thurso, South Ronaldsay and Strom ness. Landing grounds have been secured at St. Andrews and North Berwick for a service across the Firth of Forth, which is to be operated this summer, while in June a twice-weekly service between Aberdeen and Hull will be opened. It will be remembered that the original plan was to fly daily between Aberdeen, Newcastle, Hull and London. The Aberdeen-Edinburgh service suffers from the fact that there is, as yet, no civil aerodromes within easy reach of the latter city, and the charges at Turnhouse are, naturally enough, fairly heavy. Going Abroad A NUMBER of interesting orders have been placed with the ^ De Havilland Aircraft Company during the past month or two, thus adding to the already handsome list of operators, both at home and abroad, who are using various types of D.H. aircraft. As already announced in Flight, an order for three machines has been placed by the Turkish State Airways. An arrange ment has been made with Air France whereby the Turkish Government are responsible for carrying the mail on the Indo china service from Istanbul to Aleppo, via Ankara and Adalia, and it is for this purpose that the 89s have been acquired. Seating accommodation is provided for seven passengers, while a separate luggage compartment has been arranged at the rear of the cabin with an external loading door. Full wire less equipment, consisting of the R.T.E. Radio AC45 receiv ing and transmitting and the RC.35 D/F apparatus, is to be fitted. The Imperial Iranian War Ministry have also ordered three Rapides and these machines will be used on internal lines radiat ing from Teheran. Accommodation is provided for five passen gers with a pilot and radio operator. Yet another Rapide purchaser is the Adelaide Steamship Company, which has ordered two for their subsidiary company, Adelaide Airways. These machines will be used on the routes between Adelaide and Melbourne, Broken Hill and Port Lin coln. The machines are. arranged to carry a pilot and eight passengers, with a small freight compartment. A single Rapide has also been ordered by the Aeroput, the Yugoslavian company, to augment their 'existing equipment. In this there will be accommodation for eight passengers and full Marconi radio equipment is to be provided. Altogether, no fewer than seventeen operators, at home and abroad, are now using D.H. Rapides, while another ten are using D.H.80s. These figure do not include the six oil com panies who use Dragon Rapides for the transportation of material and personnel, or for survey work. A New Aero Engine T ESTS have been carried out recently at Heston on a new Villiers Hay engine. Of the four-cylinder inverted type it is said to give an output of 120-130 b.h.p. About Aerodrome Lighting AN interesting and comprehensive catalogue of their well. known aerodrome lighting equipment has been issued bv Chance Bros, and Co., Ltd., Lighthouse Works, Smethwick, Birmingham. It is divided into the following sections: flood lights, illuminated wind indicators, obstruction and boundary lights, beacons, marker lights, and air-route lighting, and mis cellaneous equipment. Heston in March 'POTALS of 2,042 private and 1,169 commercial machines •*• passed through Heston during March, 1936^ These figures compare very favourably with the corresponding figures for last year, which were 1,841 and 953 respectively. Mr. R. l'E. Malone, of the Airwork sales department, has reached Geneva in his tour round Europe in the Percival Vega Gull. From Geneva Mr. Malone intended to fly to the Bate Shoe Company's airport at Zlin, Czechoslovakia. Three American Tragedies FOLLOWING so comparatively soon after American Air lines' crash in Arkansas, last week's accident to a Trans continental and Western Air Douglas may have a regrettably damping effect on air line bookings in the U.S. The machine was flying between Newark, N.J., and Columbus, Ohio, had been prevented by weather from making its customary call at Pittsburg, Penn., and was wrecked in the Alleghany Mountains with a loss of eleven lives. The stewardess was the only surviving member of the crew. The conditions at the time were conducive to ice-formation at certain altitudes. On Sunday of this week three passengers of a Pan-American Airways' Sikorsky S.38 were drowned when the machine stalled into the harbour at Port of Spain, Trinidad. Apparemlv the pilot swerved to avoid a surface craft in the semi-darkness while he was preparing to hold off—with, consequently, very little speed in hand. On the day previous to the T.W.A. accident an Army bomber had been wrecked in the mountains near Fredericks burg while making a short night flight. The crew of five perished. Six Giants for Air France THE future policy of Air France in the matter of then main trunk route—the London, Paris, Lyons and Mar seilles line—can now be stated. Air France will gradual!', replace the existing types now used between London an Marseilles with fast, large-capacitv machines capable of c0Pinjj with the heavy traffic, both in passengers and freight, which is increasingly converging on that route from all directions. The replacements will begin in a month's time, and w continue throughout the year until, before next spring, t substitution will be complete. , The machine chosen for this new departure is the 1'arma 224 (four Gnome-Rhone K.i4's) forty-seater, which will na a top speed of 200 m.p.h. Its weight is sixteen tons', length of the fuselage 70 feet, and the wing span 1 10 1 • This monoplane, which has a retractable undercarriage- derivative from the Transatlantic Farman Centaure, R:mc"r(.jf. responded successfully to the searching test of fifteen ings of the South Atlantic with the mail. . ^ M. Briand, director of Air France, who was in Lonuo• • week, has confirmed the details of this decision ana s that six Farman 224's had been ordered by the to 1* _n begun Work is nearing completion on the first and has the second. The first flight is expected to be made weeks' time. fe*
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