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1936
1936 - 1316.PDF
MAY 21, 1936. FLIGHT. 539 By Air to West Africa O N and after June 1 passengers will be carried on the Air France West African service. This is run weekly and a machine leaves Paris early on Sunday morning, the service calling at Toulouse, Alicante, Tangier, Casablanca, Agadir and Villa Cisneros on the way to Dakar. Dewoitine 333's—the development of the ill-fated Emeraude—will be used for the passenger service. Another N.Z. Airport ONE of the principal features of the air pageant held at New Plymouth, N.Z., in March, was a formation flight of twenty-seven machines. Air Force as well as club and commercial machines from Wellington and Auckland, took part. The pageant, which was held in poor weather, marked the opening of the New Plymouth airport and the unveiling of a memorial tablet to the late Air-Commodore Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Fit. Lt. C. T. P. Ulm. After the un veiling of the tablet by Lord Galway Air Force machines flew past, dipping in salute, and a firing party from the Taranaki Regiment fired three volleys. Among the machines present was the Tut midget, piloted by Mr. Colin Lewis and illustrated in Flight, of January 16. A Pou-du-Ciel arrived from Waipukurau and was assembled on the ground. In Southern Rhodesia AVIATION is making remarkable strides in Southern Rhodesia, and in his report for 1935, the D.C.A. refers to new mail and passenger services connecting Nyasaland and Portuguese territory with the Colony where, by the year's end, there were sixty aerodromes and landing grounds. The scheme, initiated under the aegis of the Beit Trustees, of constructing emergency landing grounds on the main routes is nearing completion and it is hoped to construct a further 175 landing grounds at the more important centres during the current year A flying school is engaged in training a number of pilots for the Southern Rhodesian Defence Air Unit. During the year fifty-seven pilots' and ground engineers' licences were granted or renewed and ten aircraft registration certificates . and sixteen "airworthiness certificates issued to operators "— With the Rank and Pay of a Sapper—" SENIOR airline pilots of Imperial Airways were doubtless amused to read a recent remark that it was a matter for surprise that they were better paid than transatlantic boat skippers-whb spent the whole of their days and nights shoulder ing far greater responsibilities. Surprise in matters of this sort is the natural outcome of supposing, that it is as easy to fly a big machine through all weathers as to theorise about the business (remarks " A. Viator "). It is, as a matter of fact, open to doubt if Imperial skippers are .paid more than those of their transatlantic seafaring brethren who are up to the same standard in experience, and, above all, in ability to make the correct decision in the flash of a split second. Airline flying is the only three-dimensional form of transport, and, after all, some extra pay is perhaps due to experts in this comparatively new but ' important braiich.' The ocean skipper, incidentally, is paid for all his sleeping hours and for his hours ashore, whereas, but for a small retaining fee, Imperial skippers work for most of their money-and only get it when they are flying. Perhaps the most important fact of all is the most fre quently forgotten. There is a dividing line in Imperial Air ways, as there is also in Air France and K.L.M., between the handful of men who have been with the company, or in the commercial air business, since the days when it was a risky job arid those other pilots, excellent though they undoubtedly are, who came later into the field. In the pioneer days the pilots -were highly paid, and it was agreed on all hands that it should be so. There is such a thing as gratitude for the magnificent work these men have done, and the directors of the national British company have shown'theirs by deciding that the handful of original pilots shall continue to be paid at the same rates as formerly. But for these pioneers it has become almost universally the fact that the air pilot is paid considerably less to-day than he was ten years ago, and certainly the rank and file are not more highly paid than transatlantic sea captains, though their job is by" no means the same sort of old-established, rule-of-thumb affair. Commercial Aviation Improvements in the East 'TPHE work of providing improved ground facilities—includ- -*- ing night-flying equipment—is now well in hand at aero dromes in India and Burma. The improvements which are being provided include larger sheds and meteorological build ings, macadam runways, new D/F stations and amplified aero drome lighting. At Karachi many improvements are being carried out, while at Delhi improved sheds and buildings have already been pro vided. A big new hangar is in construction at Allahabad and there are to be improved meteorological facilities. Rangoon is to be developed, and at Akyab there are to be new buildings and'improved runways. At Lahore work is to begin on the construction of a big hangar, offices, and other accommodation. Special drainage work is in progress at Bombay, and new run ways are being constructed, while at Madras plans have beeu prepared for improved accommodation, and a suitable site is now being selected. Ail the Operators T3ELOW is a list of the airline companies whose lines appear •*-* in the maps on pages 533 to 535, including the charier operators in this country. The centres of operation are given in each case. Great Britain Aberdeen Airways, Aberdeen; Atlantic Coast Air Services, Barn staple; Blackpool and West Coast Air Services, Liverpool; British Airways, London; Crilly Airways, London; Highland Airways, In verness; Jersey Airways, London; Norman Edgar (Western Air ways), Bristol; Northern and Scottish Airways, Glasgow; Olley Air Service, Croydon; Portsmouth, Southsea and I.O.W. Aviation, Portsmouth; Railway Air Services, London; Southend Flying Ser vices, Southend. Charter Operators in Great Britain Air Commerce, Heston; Air Dispatch, Croydon; Air Taxis, Croy don; Air Travel, Penshurst; Birkett Air Service, Heston; British- American Air Services, Heston; Olley Air Service, Croydon; Per sonal Airways, Croydon; Philip Bailey, Croydon; Sandown and Shanklin Flying Services, ~Sandown; Surrey Flying Services; West of Scotland Air Services, Renfrew; Wrightways, Croydon; York shire Aviation Services, Northallerton; Yorkshire Airways, Leeds. (In addition, all clubs will do charter work and there is usually a suitable machine and pilot available at "any, aerodrome in the country. The companies given make a speciality of the work.) Europe ,, . . Imperial Airways, London; Air Dispatch, Croydon; British Air ways, Gatwick; British'Continental Airways, Croydon; British Scan dinavian Airways, London; • Olley Air Service, Croydon. Africa Imperial Airways, Cairo; Misr.AirworU, Heliopolis; Rhodesian and Nyasaland Airways, Salisbury; South African Airways, Cape Town; Wilson Airways, Nairobi. ; Australia Qantas Empire Airways, Brisbane; Adastra Airways, Mascot; Adelaide Airways, Adelaide; Aircrafts Pty., Brisbane; Airlines (W.A.), Perth; Airlines of Australia/ Sydney; Butler Air Transport, Cootamundra; Commercial Aviation Co., Parafield; Holyman's Air ways, Launceslon; T. H. McDonald, Cairns; MacRobertson-Miller Aviation, Perth; New England Airways/ Brisbane; Rockhampton Aerial Services, Rockhampton; W.A.S.P. Airlines, Mascot; West Australian Airways, Perth. New Zealand Air Travel (N.Z.), Hokitika; Cook Strait Airways, Nelson; East Coast Airways, Gisborne; Great Pacific Airways, Wellington; Union Airways, Palmcrston North; New Zealand Airways, Timaru. New Guinea Carpenter's Aerial Service; Guinea Airways; Holden's Air Trans port; Pacific Aerial Transport (all centred at Lae). India - • Imperial Airways, Karachi; Himalaya Air Transport and Survey, Hardwar; Indian National Airways, Delhi; Indian Trans-Continental Airways, Karachi; Irrawaddy Flotilla and Airways, Rangoon; Tata Sons, Bombay.. Canada Canadian Airways, Winnipeg; Brook's Airways, Prince Albert; Canadian Colonial Airways, Montreal; General Airways, Siscoe; National Air Transport, Leamington; Northern Airways, Atlin; Quebec Airways, Quebec; Wells Air Transport, Vancouver; Wings, Winnipeg.
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