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1936
1936 - 2046.PDF
JULY 23, i936- FLIGHT. "3 Commercial Aviation laritv. capt. E. S. J. Alcock is back on leave from ,b £ast, and says that he has left his uniform with an cle and, though seen on the aerodrome at times, he has the air of one about to dive into any convenient stokehold or cellar if any question of shortage of pilots should sud denly arise. Full-l"ad tests were made on the new Empire flying boat last week, and, though the take-off time is at present a secret, those in the know are both pleased and astonished. They say the boat has exceeded all expectations. Per formance, for once, doth outstrip desire, or very nearly, which must be extremely gratifying for Imperial Airways, who are always being assailed with "the jawbone of an " in Parliament and elsewhere. as? Lord Swinton recently announced in the House of Lords —and earlier in no less important a place than Gatwick Airport—that civil and military aviation should not be separated, for one experiment had just been completed to meet the requirements of both the military and civil side. He did not mention the number of experiments utterly use less to civil aviation which are being made all the time. Apart from inventing streamlined uniform cap peaks to be used by both military and civil pilots, or methods of saluting with a glowing fag-end concealed behind the thumb, which will benefit both parties, no doubt some such remarkable synchronisation will continue to happen about once a year, and when it does high officials will be suitably thrilled. A. VIATOR. North Eastern to Re-open SOME time next month, depending upon the date when the radio station at Newcastle is in working order, North Eastern Airways will re-open their service to the north ot England and, eventually, to Scotland. This, it will be re membered, was closed owing to the difficulty of operating regu larly without the help of radio at the northern terminus. In its new form the service will leave Croydon for Leeds and Newcastle, and, again when radio is available, for Aber deen, with a possible call at Perth. The time-table will be arranged so that connections can be made with the Con tinental services at Croydon and with the Orkney and Shet land services at Dyce. Scottish Enterprise FOR the first time to our knowledge an air-line operating company has published a complete and well illustrated guide-book covering its routes. Produced for Northern and Scottish Airwavs, Go By Air gives details of the various spots touched by their services in the most interesting manner. The book ccvers the features of Cambeltown in the Mull of Kintyre. Skvc, Islay. fist and, of course, the Isle of Man. There is a delightful foreword by the Marquess of Donegall and articles by both Seton Gordon and Sir John Foster Frazer, When an air-line operating company does this sort of thing one can be forgiven for repeating that air travel has arrived. Wrightway Development TN Flight of July 2 a few brief details were given of the -*• increase of capital in and additions to the board of Wrightways, Ltd., of Croydon. For the moment, the future plans of the company cannot be divulged, but it is good to know that this sound little concern is now firmly on its way to bigger things. The two additions to the board are Col. the Rt. Hon. Lord Rochdale (hither of the Hon. John Kemp, who is chairman) and Major Peter de Havilland, a cousin of the famous air craft designer and constructor.. The capital has been raised from £6,ooo to ^20,000. Wrightways already own a D.H. Dragon Rapide, two Dragons and a Leopard, and a very fully equipped D.H.86 will shortly be delivered. Besides such instruments as a Kollsman sensitive altimeter, this machine will have R.T.E. two-way radio and short-wave approach equipment. Messrs. J. W. Duggan and Garnons-Williams are the pilots, and the termer, w'th Mr. G. P. McGivenev, are the operational directors. " * Speeding-up in Australia ^I STRALIAN National Airways, the new £500,000 merger ot existing airlines and steamship companies, announces wat it will purchase a second Douglas DC-2 to run a dailv nice on the Sydney-Melbourne-Adelaide route. The prob able: schedule will be: Leave Sydney at 8 a.m., arrive Mel- mrne at 10.30 a.m. and Adelaide at 12.30 p.m., returning arriJ, y* y,5-30 pm- on the same daY- The machine will arrive, m Australia in November. the s;uit faide"Perth .service is als0 t0 be speeded up about the tw, i S' , Jt wil1 then l)e a one-day service between now m,)lTJ,' tW'Ce Per week each way- This route is ger co, £y Adelaide Airways, one of the A.N.A. mer- Plkhtht 1 7mg becn rccentlv bought, as announced in Airwavs AH+i •that Pioneer company, West Australian separat (iv I various merger companies are operating A.N A on At PrTnt but como under the unified control of quencv of Vh, »,i1' Adelaide Airways also increased the fre- July 20 ™e,M('lbourne-Adclaide service to a dailv one on Mildura' ^1 IS *tartm£ a thrice-weekly between Melbourne, ' liroken Hill and Adelaide. A Year of R.A.S. D URING his speech as chairman of Railway Air Services at this company's second annual general meeting, Sir Harold Hartley gave some interesting figures. In the year ending December 31, 1935. 655,972 machine-miles were flown on regular service as compared with the 210,857 machine- miles of the previous year. Some 11,000 more miles are being flown this year every week over services covering five major routes. Heston Traffic I N the first six months of 1936 Heston traffic has shown a 24 per cent, increase over the same period last year. 19,900 take-offs or landings, apart from those by school machines, were registered during controlled hours. Customs traffic also shows a very big rise. In the first six months of 1935, 2,956 passengers cleared customs at Heston. In 1936, the com parable figure was 7,072. Jersey Airways carried 3,317 passengers on the London route—a 4 per cent, increase; 1,422 departures or arrivals of air taxis or ncn-regular air services were registered—an increase of approximately 9 per cent, on last year's taxi traffic. In the same six months, the Airwork service department has put in hand sixty-nine overhauls for C. of A., as compared with fifty-two in the first half of last year. African Schemes I N an interview with a correspondent of The Morning Post last Sunday, Mr. Pirow, the. South African Minister of Defence, outlined a general scheme of an ambitious nature for Africa's air transport connections. There would eventually be, he is reported to have said, a daily service between Cairo and Nairobi; a twice-weekly ser vice between Khartoum and Nigeria; a thrice-weekly service been Windhoek and Nigeria (with a junction at Bathurst for South American service); a twice-weekh? service between the Rand and Windhoek (via Bechuanaland); a daily service between Nairobi and Johannesburg; and a bi-weekly service between Salisbury and Beira, linking up with the Imperial Airwavs east coast flying service. Simultaneously South Africa's internal air services would be greatly extended. Mr. Pirow said the Union was prepared to co-operate in any services south of the Sahara. Several of these lines are now being seriously considered by the British Air Ministry, while all will be discussed at the pan-African transportation conference at Johannesburg in September. Preparing for the Atlantic ACCORDING to our Irish correspondent, officials of Imperial Airways visited Foynes, Co. Limerick, recently to make arrangements for the reception of the first Transatlantic flying boat, which is expected soon to make the crossing. This machine will be a Martin Clipper, of Pan-American Airways, who, of course, are co-operating with Imperial Airways. Preliminary arrangements between the two companies and their respective Governments provide for the inauguration within three years of a bi-weekly service between America and Europe. The estimated flying times will be sixteen hours on the eastward trip and twenty-two hours on the flight to America. This year's flight will be experimental; mails will be carried next year; and in 1938 passengers and mails may be transported. Meanwhile the Secretary of State for Air has announced the details of a five-year agreement concerning the establish ment of a service between Bermuda and New York. This service is to be started in the autumn and will be run weekly. The Government of Bermuda will contribute £3,320 of the maximum of £18,100 a year in subsidy.
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