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1936
1936 - 2267.PDF
200 Commercial Aviation FLIGHT. AUGUST 20, i936. pany from London last month, and Imperial Airways report a season of unparalleled activity. Air France and Swissair are continually duplicating services. On Monday afternoon a large pile of deck chairs on the Airport Hotel Terrace were set afire by a smouldering cigarette-end dropped from the flat roof above. Whether some rcof-top spectator found air traffic dull or no is not known, but there was not a dull moment after the fire was discovered, which (it being siesta time) was not until it had blazed for five minutes or so and flames had climbed in through the open "pilots' room" window. Then a waiter, tails flying, approached at a gallop, but finding, apparently to his surprise, that the conflagration was hot he retired sucking a blistered thumb., Meanwhile, the air port fire brigade, ever ready to oblige, came roaring across the tarmac. With the whole aerodrome to play around in the fire tender nevertheless smote a peaceful Air France machine on the tarmac hip and thigh, thus precipitating one perfectly good fireman off his perch, to give a life. like imitation of a shot rabbit. In the meantime, the hotel doorkeeper extinguished the fire with what was either a small fire extinguisher or a syphon of soda. Mon. day is not usually so jolly a day at our airport. A. VIATOR. Air Navigators THE following candidates have passed the Second Class Civil Air Navigators' examination which was held in Lon don during the week commencing June 29: Abraham, R. B.; Anderson, D.; Bernard Smith, G. C. B.; Buchanan. W. G.; Hudson, H. P.; King, D. S.; McGillivray, J. A.; Madge, C. E.; Messitei, D. A.; Mountain, R.; Nelson, A. L.; Pearse, K. C. I.; Rennv-Tailvour, Miss S. I. L.; Staples, A. P.; Stone, R. F.; Thomas, O. F. Y.; Valetta. J. A.; Wells, J. H. A. Forty-five candidates sat. The next examination will be held during the week commencing October 26. New Zealand Changes AVIATION DEVELOPMENT, LTD., the promoter com pany for Great Pacific Airways, which received a licence some twelve months ago for an air service between Auck land and Dunedin, using six-passenger Avros, has decided not to proceed with its plans. The service was dependent on a Government subsidy, which has not been forthcoming. Consequent on the decision Union Airways of New Zea land, Ltd., have made application to the Minister of Trans port, the Hon. R. Semple, for a licence for a service between Wellington and Auckland, with stops at Palmerston North and New Plymouth. Under the present plans the through trip, covering some 350 miles, will occupy three hours. Machines will leave Wellington and Auckland at noon, so that southbound passengers will have about five hours in Wellington before catching the steamer to Lyttelton, the port for Christchurch. which leaves at 7.45 every evening. By arrangement of the time-tables it will be possible to travel by air from Auckland to Dunedin or vice versa in about seven hours. With present rail and steamer connections it takes two days to make this trip so the business community alone should welcome the service. Plans are in hand for an extension of East Coast Airways' Gisborne-Napier service to Palmerston North. This will form an important link between the east coast of the North Island and the rapidly growing town of Palmerston North, which is the centre for the Manawatu district. This extension will also enable passengers to connect with Union Airways flying to Dunedin via Blenheim, Christchurch and Timaru. If the extension proposed by Union Airways is carried out (Palmerston North to Auckland), passengers from Gisborne will be able to connect with the Palmerston North- Auckland service, via New Plymouth. The aerodrome licence for Gisborne was recentlv withdrawn BRITISH ABROAD : One of the Japan Air Transport Company's Airspeed Envoys on the tarmac at Haneda airport, Tokyo. Routes covering some 652,500 miles in the year are now operated regularly by this company—including a service to Manchukuo. by the Director of Air Services owing to the surface of the ground being too rough and the runways too short for full- load take-offs. After a conference between the interested parties, the Public Works Department took the matter in hand and improvements are expected to be sufficiently far advanced by October 1 to enable East Coast Airways to resume their service on that date. A New Route Map "DAILWAY AIR SERVICES have just published a special XV map for passengers' use. The map carries annotations descriptive of the main features of each journey and covers all the routes operated by this company. All the aerodromes, both near and far from the routes, the railways and the mere important towns are marked. Stalemate HTHE Portsmouth Corporation's request that the Air Ministry -L should pay 75 per cent, of the capital cost of the new Empire air base has been refused. The Air Ministry has offered ^400,000 and will not go beyond this sum. It is, we must admit, a little difficult to see why the people of Portsmouth should be expected to pay for a scheme which will probably bring glory rather than financial gain. Their attitude is the somewhat natural one—" if Imperial Airways require a special base, then Imperial Airways should build one." This point has alreadv been stressed editorially in Flight. Imperial Airways Traffic FIGURES going back over the past few years show that during this period the loads carried by Imperial Airways have been increasing so rapidly that they have more than doubled ; while during a recent period of twelve months the company's cross-Channel aircraft carried more passengers than ad foreign machines together. How traffic has been increasing is shown by statistics comparing the loads carried by Imperial Airways in 1924-25 (their first year) and 1934-35. ln 1024"25 the mail-loads comprised about 200,000 letters. By 193435 they had increased to over 17,000.000 letters. Passengers for the year 1924-25 amounted to just over 11,000. By 1934-35 they had increased to over 62,000. Developing Bristol ON the very sound principle of letting the supply meet the demand Bristol s airport has developed well during the six year? of its existence, and there are likely to be more rapid improvements during the coming year when Whitchurch will automatically become the control centre of the projected Western area. At present, of course, Capt. Winters, the airport manager, acts also as control officer, and is in land-line communication with the radio operator who is installed at the far end of the aerodrome with the Bellini-Tosi D/F station. An Adcock station has now been erected and tested, and this should be in use quite soon—with a corresponding increase in night time cr dusk D/F accuracy. There is a distance of i,5°° vards between the boundary at the administrative end of the aero drome and the new stations-only Dundry Hill upsetting the S.S.W.-N.N.E. bad weather approach line to any extent, in due course the administrative building will be rebuilt in the northern corner of the aerodrome. , Meanwhile, the Irish service, operated over the Dubli - Bristol section by Aer Lingus Teoranta has been ru"n'"° with 100 per cent, regularity despite the Welsh hills and t diverse weather found over the route; there can be little vv o with either the control or the radio operation at Bristol. is probable that the service will be extended to Croydon in very near future.
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