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1936
1936 - 1489.PDF
6io FLIGHT. JUNE 4, 1936. Commercial Aviation A French Invasion SIXTEEN French private aeroplanes and two British Airways machines, each carrying thirteen passengers, brought mem bers of the Touring Club of France to Heston on Saturday, May 16. Arrangements for their reception in England were in the hands of the A.A., and after a night in London and a day's sightseeing they returned to France on Sunday evening. To Tibet SINCE 1934, when they extended their operations up the Yangtze River to Chengtu, south to Canton and north to Peiping, using Loening amphibians, China National Aviation Corporation have progressed mainly in the matter of equip ment. Douglas Dolphins and D.C.2S are in action over the routes and a number of Sikorsky S.43S are on order. A new extension has been in operation to Yunnan and last February a service between Canton and Hanoi was started. Plans, however, are being made to extend the Shanghai- Chcngtu service to Lhassa, and a survey flight will probably be made this summer by Capt. E. M. Allison, the chief pilot. Eastern Extensions IN order to secure a frothold in the markets of Siam Japan is to open an air service, before the end of the year, link ing Bangkok with Tokio. It has been officially notified that the Japanese Air Transport Company has made arrangements for the service to begin in October or November, but it is not yet finally decided which route will be chosen from Formosa, and whether permission to fly over and land on foreign territory has been obtained. Meanwhile, from Amsterdam comes news of an air mail link between that city and Japait. Leaving Amsterdam on Wednes day by the K.L.M. Eastern service the letters reach Penang on Saturday, and on the Monday they leave by Imperial Air ways for Hong-Kong, arriving en Tuesday. A train takes them to Canton, arid thence they are flown on Thursday by China National Aviation Corporation to Shanghai. The rest of the journey is made by boat, and the whole journey takes ten or eleven days, and shows considerable saving and increase of safety over the Trans-Siberian Railway. Unless the G.P O. has some objection, London correspondents could post to catch a 7.45 p.m. departure from London to Amsterdam on the Tuesday-evening. Rapides and Dragons DURING the past month or so the De Havilland Company have received orders for Dragon Rapides from the Uruguayan Ministry of Public Heath, from Cook Strait Air ways of New Zealand, and from the Iraq Petroleum Company. The first machine will be fitted up as an ambulance, while.the second and third are additions, respectively, to fleets of two and three. Three Dragons have been ordered by the Turkish Ministry of Defence for military and general reconnaissance purposes. A £500,000 Australian Merger FIVE steamship companies have entered the field of aircraft operation in Australia by forming (or re-forming) Australian National Airways, a company with ^500,000 capital. The companies concerned are the Holyman Steamship Co., the Adelaide Steamship Co., the Orient Line, Huddant Panker and the Union Steamship Co. Holyman's and the Adelaide Steamship Co. have each, of course, been operating their own airline in Australia for some time, while the Union Company have been operating a New Zealand service. The new company and the long-established and well-timed Qantas appear to be about to dominate the field of air trans port in Australia. The Melbourne-Sydney-Brisbane mail route, incidentally, will shortly be provided with nine new emergency landing grounds. Five of these are between Sydney and Brisbane, and four between Melbourne and Sydney. They will be provided with light beacons—radio beacons being hardly necessary because, of the almost complete absence of fog. On the Sydney-Brisbane section, sites have been selected at Evans Head, Cuff's Harbour and Kempsey (N.S.W.), and at Coolangatta (Queensland). The sites between Melbourne and Sydney are not yet finally selected. The terminal aerodromes at Melbourne, Sydney and Bris bane are to be equipped with complete night-lighting equip ment and two-way radio. Plans for all this work are well advanced and the work will be completed by about the end of the year at a cost of £40,000. Coinciding as it does with news of the steamship companies' merger, this announcement indicates very clearly Australia's intention to push ahead vigorously with the development of air transport. THE " 08TMARK " IN ACTION : By now the new D.L.H. catapult ship Ostmark, some plans for which were detailed in Flight of May 7, should be at Bathurst. During the week-end she made a trial trip in the Gulf of Lubeck. This picture shows a Dornier Do. 18 (two 500/560 Junkers Jumo 205 diesels) being hoisted aboard.
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