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1936
1936 - 2399.PDF
248 FLIGHT. , SEPTEMBER 3, 10,36 COMMERCIAL /AWIATION "4-. AIRLINES —=—^=^= AIRPORTS- FOUR YEARS DISTANT : San Francisco's great new municipal airport, to be opened in 1940 at Yerba Buena Shoals, in San Francisco Bay, is shown in this drawing of the project. The 430-acre site of the Golden Gate International Exposition, now under reclamation by the United States Army Engineers Corps, will be the location of this impressive layout. The view is from Bay Bridge, looking north-east. THE WEEK AT CROYDON Good Wishes to u Wilkie" ; Fanning the Fevered Brow : A Diviner on Top of his Job : Ail Handsome Pilots are Slightly Sunburnt : Why Does a Door Stop? LAST Saturday Capt. .Cumming, of Imperials, left by air for the Mediterranean, where he will replace Capt. -^ Wilcockson, hurt in the Scipw accident. On the same machine was Mrs. Wilcockson, who carried to her husband messages both of sympathy and of congratula tion from many staunch friends at Croydon. "Wilkie," one of the senior pilots of Imperials, is a popular figure at Croydon among his brother-pilots of all companies and nationalities. I wish him a speedy recovery and a quick return to Croydon. There are few finer pilots than "Wilkie" on the air routes, and many of us remember him as one of the pioneers of blind flying and of getting up above the clouds in days when the average airline pilot still flew by Bradshaw. Incidentally, it is men of this sort who are being failed on some trick question in the Navigation Examinations set by wizard theorists whom it would be interesting in deed to see piloting Heracles from Croydon to the coast in a spot of dirty weather. By the way, there is a story that one question in an exam, of this sort some time back was. " What special meteorological conditions would be encountered at Pretoria? " or words to that effect. A pilot, most of whose early flying had been done in those parts, racked his brains for something equivalent to the weird wind currents around Gibraltar. What do you think the answer was? Whv, "thunderstorms"! I am told that Canopus, the eagerly awaited Empire boat, is almost ready for service, being, indeed, in the hands of Mr. Rumboid. the well-known aeroplane interior decorator and chair specialist, who is putting the finishing touches on what is probably the most luxurious aero plane interior in existence to-day, America notwithstanding. Mr. J. K. Morton, chief technical officer of British Con tinental Airways, has been elected to the Technical Com mission of I.A.T.A. Whether he is the first and only bearded member cf that august fraternity I do not know, but the fashion may spread. After all, it's mostly talking, and there is an ancient adage, " It's merry in hall when beards wag all." An engineering journal has discovered that air traffic companies use the punkah louvre system of ventilation, which has actuallv been in use for some time on all the best airlines. It sounds like some system for pukka Poonah sahibs, and it is described as giving the passenger a direct blow of cool air during squeamishness. Nothing is said about the squirmishness of the passenger immediately behind, for that, in fact, is the snag about the supply of a personal miniature gale to each passenger. He or she cannot keep it to him or herself. British, Dutch, French and American machines all use the system, for want of a better, perhaps. Magicians seem the vogue just now. Professor Emenck Herzog arrived by air from Vienna one day last week. He is a super dowser, and uses a silver forked rod, whereas the ordinary diviner uses a rod of hazel. The professor either hit a large bump or else the rod twitched when about twenty miles from Croydon, which told him, he says, "that he was right over unlimited supplies of oil- Maybe there is a petrol store in those parts, but, if not, the new oil wells will come in handy when we all use(heavy oil engines. The professor went on to say that ' ^oni time previously, whilst flying over Wales, the rod reacte
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