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1936
1936 - 1488.PDF
JUNE 4, 193b. FLIGHT. 609 Commercial Aviation Junkers Ju. 52 flying under another flag. People cannot get used to the Belgian registration marks on that which Sabena (as already reported) has been operating for a week or more, I understand that the Belgian company has acquired three of them. There are many pilots of various nationalities who maintain that few better aeroplanes, from a pilot's viewpoint, were ever built. Herr von Ribben- trop and his wife arrived at Croydon in a special Ju. 52, by the way, last Friday, went to the opera with Lord and Lady Londonderry, and, on the following day, flew on to Belfast, where they were staying a few days with Lord Londonderry, the visit being, it is said, entirely non-poli tical. Lord Londonderry rightly flew to Belfast by Rail way Air Services and not in his guests' aeroplane. The police Autogiro, without which Derby-day traffic would become immovably wedged for a month, was at Croydon early last week having a wireless wash and brush up with Marconi's. It is an incredible creature when seen from directly behind and at some distance—but this is of small account when the machine does its job. Olley Air Service, of which Blackpool and West Coast Air Services is a subsidiary, has been working at fever heat lately over Irish Sea Airways, the new joint Irish-English concern which, as reported in Flight of last week, has already commenced operations. Full loads were carried on the inaugural services in both directions. At the moment the British air terminus is Bristol, not Crovdon, and this has the advantage that passengers can fill in time (dreary though train travel may be after flying) by having lunch between Bristol and London. I believe it is possible to obtain quite a fast air connection from London, via Dublin and Isle of Man, to Carlisle, and the journey should be a very interesting one. Incidentally, the first machine to be registered under Irish lettering is EI-ABI, a D.H. Dragon. lately known at Croydon as G-ACPX. This machine is flying on the Dublin Bristol route. I owe the authorities at Ostend airport an apology for stating some time ago that there were no adequate night lighting arrangements there on an occasion when Capt. Hattersley, of B.C.A., landed there on a special charter job. I wrote according to information received, and apparently verified at the time, but there seems to have been some misunderstanding. Capt. Hattersley informs me that the Ostend lighting equipment is entirely adequate and alto gether admirable. There is a story, which I hope is true, of one of these paunchy, overfed city men, abominably nervous about fly ing, questioning one of the gruffer senior pilots about the danger of the proceeding, and finally ending up with tlu words, " And 1 know I shall be awfully air sick." " Impos sible," said the pilot. "Oh, why?" queried the other. "Bloke with no guts can't be sick—that's why," replied the pilot. The tale has a pleasantly Rabelaisian touch, to my way of thinking. A. VIATOR. Large-scale Air Survey THE Ordnance Survey of Great Britain has placed a further contract with Aerofilms, Ltd., for vertical air photographs of many districts in the Midlands. The air survey is required to revise some 300 Ordnance plans to the scale of 1 / 2500 (25.344 inches to the mile). Housing and road development have so completely altered the countryside that the majority of these large-scale Ordnance plans are out of date. Developing Hedon ''pWO proposals for the development of the present airport -*- at Hedon, Hull, have been placed before the aerodrome committee. One company would take over the airport itself and develop it according to modern needs and the other would run the club, operate a taxi service and provide a sales organi sation. It will be remembered that a new and better airport has been planned lor the city. Since the members of the committee spoke of "the gentle man," rather than of the " firm," we do not find it difficult to guess the name of the originator of the proposals. The com mittee's attitude suggested that they might wait for the find ings of the Maybury Committee. The Lightning Danger ACCORDING to information given in Notice to Airmen, No. 62, in which the necessary precautions have been re iterated, the determining circumstances in nearly all the recorded cases of trouble from lightning have involved flying into or close below clouds with the trailing aerial out. Whether or not the met. reports indicate the possibility of thundery conditions, pilots are advised to avoid all large cloud masses from which showers of rain, hail or snow are falling; hail is always to be regarded as dangerous. When radio is being used in the aircraft, an increase in the number and strength of atmospherics will generally indicate that a danger area is being approached. If it is not possible to avoid dangerous areas, the trailing aerial should be earthed and wound in. Should the aircraft already be in a dangerous area, e.g., in a hailstorm, winding in the aerial may be dangerous to the radio operator. In such a case, the aerial should merely be earthed and the aircraft flown out of the storm as quickly as possible; if neces sary, it should be flown back on its course to give the operator an opportunity to wind in the trailing aerial before proceeding through the storm. It is also recommended that the connection of the aerial to earth should be made to the aircraft structure outside the fuselage. During thundery-conditions the aircraft, even with the trail ing aerial wound in, should be flown well below the lowest layer of any cloud masses encountered. To the Gold Coast A CCORD1NG to Sir Arnold Hodson, the Governor of the ** Gold Coast, there is a reasonable chance that an aero drome at Accra should be ready before the end of the present year. Work at Takoradi will proceed as soon as the estimates have been passed. CUBAN PERSONALITIES : Second from the left is Lt. Antonio Menendes, of the Cuban Naval Air Arm, who recently flew the South Atlantic in a Lockheed Sirius (425-525 h.p. Wasp). Wearing a sun helmet is Lt. Gustavo Novo, who assisted in the preparations. On the left and right are Edwin and Garth Lyder, friends of the pilot and enthusiastic readers of Flight.
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