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466- FLIGHT. APRIL 30, 1936. Commercial Aviation STREAMLINE SKIS : The first D.H. Rapide to be fitted with skis in Canada. These are, it is believed, the first streamline skis to be fitted to a transport machine and have positive pitching movements about the axle. Another Dawn Service IN addition to their present " Dawn Express," Air Dispatch will run a second service to Paris on and after May 15. This service, which will be known as the " Blue 'Plane," will leave Croydon at 10 a.m. and leave Le Bourget on the return trip at 1 p.m. An interesting innovation on this service is the fact that a stewardess will be carried. , The machines used will be Airspeed Envoys. The Air Dispatch service to Le Touquet, which was very busy during the Easter holidays, will be run again at Whitsur., after which it will operate regularly during the summer. All the Way ARRANGEMENTS have now been completed which will enable a twice-weekly air mail service to be flown through in each direction between London and Brisbane. A twice- weekly service between London and Singapore has been operated since September, 1935, and the first of the duplicated services over the Singapore-Brisbane sections will leave Singa pore for Brisbane on May 14, connecting with the arrival at Singapore of the service leaving London on May "6. In the reverse direction the first service by Qantas Empire Airways will leave Brisbane on May 16. Brightoving Airport THE official opening of the Brighton, Hove and Worthing Airport at Shoreham is being celebrated with a two-day international flying meeting. This meeting will open with an arrival competition (11.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.) for which then- will be a £50 prize. There will be a display on Saturday afternoon which will be supported by the R.A.F., and another display on Sunday at which a limited number of foreign visitors will be able to par ticipate. On the same day there will also be a handicap race for which there will be cups and £85 in prizes. During the two days foreign visitors will be guests of the three towns. A New Hire Service SINCE Capt. E. D. Ayre joined Phillips and Powis Aircraft a new department has been opened by this company for the purpose of hiring Hawk Major and Falcon Major machines at daily or hourly rates. Capt. Ayre is in charge of this department and will arrange the necessary formalities for any one wishing to tour abroad. The rates are £4 a day for the Hawk and £5 5s. a day for the Falcon, with reductions to £$ and £4 10s. for three or more days. These figures include insurance. Machines may also be hired at £2 16s. and £3 an hour respectively, inclusive of insur ance, petrol and oil. This service is particularly interesting in that the normal club pilot rarely has an opportunity of flying these types. Competition in Scandinavia A COMPETITION for the Scandinavian Cup will be arranged to coincide with the opening of Stockholm's new airport at Bromma next month. This competition includes landing tests and navigation tests, and on May 21 entrants from Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland will set out, with sub sequent tests during the following two days. A number of secret time-controls will be arranged in addition to the official checks. It is stated that about fifty Scandi navian competitors have been entered, and that the Danish Air Force alone are sending ten army and three naval machines to participate. The Austrian Whitsun Tour I NVITATIONS are now being sent out for the " Whitsun- flight 1936," organised by the Austrian and Swiss Aero Clubs and the Magyar Aero Szorvetseg. This international tour, which will be under the direct leadership of the Austrian Vice-Chancellor, Prince Starhemberg, and the Minister of Trade, Herr Stockinger, will start at Klagenfurt, and proceed via Graz to Budapest, and thence to Vienna, Linz, Salzburg, Inns bruck, Altenrhein, Lausanne and Basle. As already announced in Flight, ground marks will be placed en route, and at the end of the four a prize will be awarded to the pilot who makes the most correct map entries regarding these marks. Applica tions should be made before May 15 to The Austrian Aero Club, Wien I, Naglergasse, 2. The period of the tour is May 28 to June 3. A Question of Liability THE need for the absolute necessity of reading an agreement verv thoroughly before hiring an aeroplane must have been obvious'to anyone who followed a recent case at the Croydon County Court. In the ordinary way these agreements are ab fair as they can possibly be to both parties, and the hirer Has only himself to blame if he fails to understand, for instance, the ". excess " clause in-the matter of insurance cover Mr. Edward W. H. H. Cavendish, of Park Hill, Clapnan Park, claimed £51 13s. from Mr. W. G. M. Broomhall ana Miss E. M. Paton, The Hawthorns, Great Bookharn, tor « hire of an aeroplane belonging to the plaintiff. The deienaanu counter-claimed for £8 8s. damages. , ,. The plaintiff's case was that the aeroplane was• br™f down by Mr. Broomhall in a most unsuitable place at Morue^ a former golf course now being turned injo a building es . on Sunday, February 9. Mr. Broomhall said that there a haze and he thought it was better to come down. ^ machine was removed by lorry by Rollason Aircraft be > of Croydon Aerodrome, but they refused to return it ui account was paid. It was returned on Thursday ana P^ Holmes, who assisted Mr. Cavendish in his business, toi -^ Broomhall that they had lost a lot of money thr0"f ofi He offered to call the whole thing but this was noi chine were having the machine if Mr. Broomhall " sent along a tenner done until much later. The defendants claimed that the lights on the mac defective and Mr. Broomhall could not fly on to Cr.m'ut\, Mr. The judge held that the contract was entered into ^ Broomhall on behalf of Miss Paton and that he wa^turn to to be dismissed from the action with costs. 1 , a,Kl he Croydon was not that contemplated in the agreement, ^ ^ was not satisfied that there was any defect or breacp ranty in respect of the machine. , , /,0 s-> It was agreed that the claim should be reduce^wt^-,ot and judgment was given for Mr. Cavendish for this a jessed Mr. Broomhall with costs, and the counter-claim was with costs. flair con- An amusing sidelight on the whole unfoitnnatc ^ cerned the fact that, after the mishap, Mr. Jj'™hillf »IW prevented by the police from returning to the ^ coUld telephoning, since he was wearing carpet snpPL - not possibly be the pilot! J
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