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628 Commercial Aviation FLIGHT. JUNE IT, 1936. SCOTTISH OCCASION Viscount Swinton Opens Perth Municipal Aerodrome Gathering at Scone : Representative SCOTLAND'S LATEST : An aerial view of Perth municipal aerodrome, which was offici ally opened by Lord Swinton on Friday of last week. The buildings on the right house the Airwork Reserve school pupils and staff. Radio equipment is expected to be in action before the end of next month. FOR some time now the municipal aerodrome at Perth has been in use by the Reserve training school which is operated by Airwork, Ltd., and last Friday's event served rather to bring the completion of the airport and building plans before the eyes of the public. Lord Swinton, after officially declaring this important northern aerodrome open, flew south again to perform the same rite for Gatwick. the events at which airport are described on pages 616-619. He was met at Perth airport by Lord Provost Nimmo, and among the important guests was Lt. Col. Sir Francis Shelmerdine, the Director of Civil Aviation. In introducing Lord Swinton, Lord Provost Nimmo said they were very proud in Perth that they had got a municipal aerodrome, for, although the Government passed in 1920 the Air Navigation Act which gave power to municipalities to con struct aerodromes, very few municipalities had so far taken advantage of it. Perth had always been a transport centre and they were determined not to be behind when transport in the air was being developed. Lord Swinton congratulated Perth on an admirable achieve ment. It was fitting, he said, that the ancient capital of Scot land and a great modern junction should have one of the great Scottish aerodromes. He congratulated the aerodrome committee on the site, and on all they had built on it. He was glad to know that arrangements were being completed for the establishment of a direction-finding radio station and congratulated them on the national service they had performed. Councillor Primrose, in proposing a vote of thanks to Lord Swinton, wished him many happy landings, and expressed the hope that those landings might often be at Scone. As a memento of the occasion, he presented Lord Swinton with a salmon rod made in Perth. The Secretary of State for Air was the principal guest at a luncheon held thereafter in the Station Hotel, Perth. Perth's aerodrome, which lies some three miles to the north east of the city, was laid out in six months and finished in January of this year at a cost of some £60,000, including the purchase of the necessary land. The landing runs vary between 1,000 and 1,400 yards, and the area totals about 250 acres. It is expected that the radio station, mentioned by Lord Swinton, will be available before the end of next month. Mr. P. J. B. Perkins is the manager. D/F at Dublin ON May 30 the new Dublin direction-finding station was brought into action and will be in operation daily from 8.45 a.m. until 4.45 p.m. The call signs are EIJ and " Dub lin," and the wavelength 862 metres (348 kc/s). Eight More for Air France A IR France have recently placed an order with Dewoitines •C* for eight new 338s, similar to the three now being used for carrying mail and passengers between Toulouse and Dakar. The new machines are to be used on the Far Eastern line be tween Baghdad and Saigon, and will carry twenty-five passengers. They are equipped with three 375 h.p. Hispanos. Two Shetland Services ON June 2 Aberdeen Airways inaugurated their service from Dyce (Aberdeen) to Orkney and Shetland with a through flight from Aberdeen, using the D.H. Rapide. The party in cluded Viscount Arbuthnott and Mr. Gandar Dower, the man aging director of the company, and the pilot was Mr. E. A. Starling. The D/F station at Kirkwall, of cburse, has been in operation for some little time, and that in Shetland should be working by now. On the following day, Highland Airways, the pioneer operators in that part of the world, also carried out an in augural flight from Inverness to Sumburgh with a D.H. Rapide. This service has been contemplated for a very long time, and its start depended upon the provision of rad:o.
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