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Aviation History
1936
1936 - 2043.PDF
112 FLIGHT. JULY 23, i936 COMMERCIAL /\V/AT/ON — AIRLINES AIRPORTS- UNDULY PESSIMISTIC : Despite the apparent faintheartedness of its registration this new Italian Cant. 606 commercial seapUna has teaten eight international records for speed with load. Twelve passengers ar: normally accommodated and the maximum speed is something lik; 200 m.p.h. THE WEEK AT CROYDON Flotsam and Jetsam : Visitors—Official and Unofficial : Airship Travel : Experimental F.12 left for Gatwlck, where the party was to emplane on the next day. Another interesting visit was paid by Mr. and Mrs. James Haizlip, both pilats of considerable repute in America. They came from Paris in a Beechcraft, for which machine Mr. Haizlip is European agent, and the journey took 1 h. 14 min., despite an unfavourable wind and a detour to make the short sea crossing. When Mr. Haizlip wanted to bring his machine to Europe he found that it was nearly twice as expensive to ship it as deck cargo on a boat as to bring it in the hold of the Zeppelin, so he flew to Lakehurst, sat in the machine with its wings off, and was hauled into the hold, retracting his undercart as he rose. At the other end he went through the same motions in reverse in the hangar at Frankfurt. After that he flew round Europe, and his machine is now at Croydon in charge of Surrey Flying Services, the agents in this country for the Beechcraft. One amusing point he men tioned about airship travel is that while going east they serve three meals a day, but when going west they have to serve four, the days being longer and passengers, conse quently, hungrier. A certain number of movements of personnel are re ported amongst Imperial Airways people. Acting Capt. Finnigan left for Karachi on Saturday last and Acting Capt. Oliver left for the same destination on the previous day. Some of the old hands who have been sitting for their first-class navigator's examination have "come out of school" and are back on the air routes, one of them being Capt. Wilkins. The general tendency now is to send people out East for spells of flying boat experience. Capt. O. P. Jones has recently returned from a period of pionee work on the Khartoum-Kano line, of which one hears very little, probably because it has been run with admiral Seeing the World O NE day last week Capt. Rogers, in command of Im perial Airways Scylla on tne Paris route, observed what appeared to be a raft formed cf three barrels and some sort of black flag on a mast, adrift in the Channel. According to what has become the tradition of the commercial air sendees, he changed course and descended to 600ft. to obtain a closer view, and then sent out wireless messages, first on normal wavelength and then on 6oo metres for shipping. Nobody took any notice, and a ship in the neighbourhood (which may not have had radio) carried on as before. There seems to be a case here of possible slack watch- keeping both afloat and ashore. Why did his message not receive attention? It seems unlikely, with an expert operator aboard, that something was wrong with his radio. The fact that the raft was actually some Admiralty survey buoy or other drifting menace to shipping has little to do with the matter—though if the Admiralty cannot keep its buoys tethered, you would think they would warn commercial aircraft to look out for them, and JIO such warnings ever appear to have been issued. One of these days the nautical mind will realise that the aeroplane is of inestimable value in spotting such things. A registration not often seen here was that of the Danish Air Traffic Company's Fokker F.12, painted bright red, which conveyed Mr. Knud Lybye, managing director of D.D.L., and a party of Danish officials to Croydon on Friday last from Copenhagen. Amongst the passengers on board Oy-Dag, The Princess Ingrid, was the Danish Minister of Transport. The party was met by Sir Percy Mackinnon the chairman of British Continental Airways, Mr. Farey Jones and Mr. Bryans, of the same firm, and Capt. Lever- ton, of K.L.M. They were then shown the beauties of Croydon by Capt. Morkam, of the Air Ministry, whilst the
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