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1936
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86 FLIGHT. JULY 16, 1936. Commercial Aviation Italo-Gertnan Agreement A TEN-YEAR agreement, it is reported, has been signed in Berlin to regulate the operation of air services between and over the territories of Germany and Italy. Parisian Addition ANOTHER return Paris service has been added to the normal Air France schedule, machines leaving Croydon on Sunday at 10 a.m. and Le Bourget at 6 p.m. This service allows a Sunday connection until the end of August with those arriving from North Africa, Spain, the Balearic Islands and Central Europe. Survey in Labrador A MINERAL survey of some 25,000 square miles of Labrador is to be undertaken this year by a Canadian concern which has incorporated the Labrador Mining and Exploration Co. for this purpose. Air transportation will figure largely in the operations and two large seaplanes will be used. These machines will carry out aerial photography and survey work in addition to transportation duties. Navigation THE next day-course at the Imperial School of Air Naviga tion starts on August 4 in preparation for the October examination. Classes are held from Monday to Friday between 9.30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Incidentally, out of thirty-two entrants for the March examination, Mr. Martin's school suffered only one complete failure. He is receiving an increasing number of enquiries from Service pilots for the correspondence course; this, presumably, is the result of " higher encouragement." Feeder Types for Air France AIR FRANCE have decided to include a number of light machines in the equipment of their various services. The first order, just placed, is for six-seaters, which are to be used for feeder-line work and for supplementing the larger machines on the main routes in times of abnormal traffic. That selected for this purpose is the twin-engined Potez 56, a low-winged monoplane weighing 5,535 lb. and having a pay- load of 1,in lb. Its two Potez 9 Ab engines (of 185-225 h.p.) give it a maximum speed of 175 m.p.h. The South African Envoys OF two convertible Envoys (which were described and illustrated in Flight of July 2) leaving Portsmouth on Saturday, July 4, on a delivery flight to Johannesburg, the one which is in civil form has arrived at Johannesburg in forty-three hours flying time, which, the South African authorities say, is a record for the trip. The military machine is staying at Cairo for the moment. The flight, of course, was not an attempt at record break ing, but a ground speed of 181 m.p.h. was maintained be tween Portsmouth and Athens. Mr. Pirow, the South African Minister for Defence, joined the machine at Nairobi. More Stockholm Extensions SINCE July 1 A.B. Aerotransport has extended both the Amsterdam-Malmo and the Berlin-Malmo services to Stockholm (Bromma). Duplication in Australia ON June 4, the MacRobertson-Miller Aviation Company duplicated their Perth-Daly Waters services connecting with those of Qantas Empire Airways. With the single weekly schedule the company carried an average of 96 passengers a month in the first quarter of 193G, as compared with 33 a month during the same period of 1935. If the duplicated service receives the same proportion of sup port there will be nothing to grumble about. Freight and mail figures for the same periods rose from 8,140 lb. to 12,164, the freight loads, of course, providing the major part of the increase. Studying Airport Design MR. ROY MAKEPEACE, the manager of the Rand Airport, Johannesburg, has been selected by the Carnegie Cor poration to proceed to the United States to study and report upon the design, construction and management of air ports and to study air traffic control problems. The report will take the form of a review of the aerodrome position in South Africa and the position in the United States. It will include a suggested policy for airport development in South Africa. Mr. Makepeace intends, afterwards, to visit Europe and will return to South Africa by air in order to inspect the aerodromes en route. Rhod esia on the Map CO satisfactory are the results of the aerial survey of 3,000 »- square miles, now more than half finished, of the Belingwe mining district of Southern Rhodesia, that the municipality of Bulawayo has ordered a complete aerial survey of that town. It will be carried out in two parts, consisting of the central area, covering thirty-five square miles, and the com monage and suburban areas of 100 square miles. A series of oblique aerial photographs have already been taken for display at the Empire Exhibition at Johannesburg. The work is being done by the Aircraft Operating Company, who have carried out similar purveys in Newfoundland, Venezuela, British Guiana, Egypt and Iraq. The company has recently completed a survey covering 63,000 square miles in Northern Rhodesia. FOR BLIND APPROACHES Frankfurt Now ON July 8, the Rhine-Main Aerodrome and Zeppelin Port was officially opened at Frankfurt in the presence of the Secretary of State for Air, General Milch. In the evening both the Craf Zeppelin and the Hindenburg cruised over the rity. From now on, presumably, Frankfurt will be the official German terminus for all airship services in addition to the South American service operated by D.L.H.; and will take the place of the aerodrome which has previously been used by other services. Amongst the various interesting features of the Radio Transmission Equipment stand at the recent S.B.A.C. Display were the model of their short wave approach aerial system and the full-size examples of the receiving set, and of the approach and glide path indicator panel. These can be seen above the model aerial. The masts on the right, of course, are of the normal type.
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