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1936
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250 Commercial Aviation FLIGHT. bEPTEMBER 3, 1035 A Start in Ireland , "tTTORK has now commenced on the new transatlantic air * V base-at Rynanna. County Clare. About forty men have been employed as a start, and this number will be increased as the work goes on. During the week an official of the Land Commission visited the district for the purpose of examining the receiving orders of all those whose lands will be affected as a result of the expected development An aerial survey of the district was carried out recently. Avoiding the Junk THE exceptionally busy nature of Singapore Harbour is likely to raise some problems in the handling of the new Empire boats. A special seaplane channel is being provided which will enable the boats to alight in the harbour and taxi across the water to the slipway and hangars. Tenders have been invited lor the reinforced concrete piling which will be necessary for anchorage and approach channel. This channel will be about a mile long, being clearly marked and protected by booms, and being kept quite clear of junks or other small native craft. ' Rapid progress has been made in the construction of the seaplane slipways and hangars them selves. Celeste Octet FIGURES which have just become available show that eight Imperial Airways pilots have, between them, now flown a These eight, with their respective ... n,«8 11,189 11,105 10,181 (over) 10.000 0,919 9,7»8 total of 83,506 nours. hourage figures, are: O. P. Jones ... VV. Rogers H. H. Horsev A. B. H. Youell H. H. Perry ... F. Dismore ... A. S. Wileockson L. A. Walters 'These figures, if converted into approximate figures for dis tance flown, indicate that the eight veterans have flown a total of nearly 10,000,000 miles. Heston Happenings THE Airwork design staff have produced some special fit tings for Dragonflies. For Mr. Loel Guinness the control wheel has been extended downward so that the pilot can keep one or both hands on it while resting his forearms on his knees. Mr. Guy Robson has had a neat blind-flying hood running on rails fitted to the pilot's compartment of his machine. Mr. E. K. Megaw, of Birkett Air Service, has returned from three weeks in and out of Madrid, ferrying pictures and news to Paris. Like Mr. Spratt, of Air Commerce, he has suffered from nothing worse than food poisoning. The Deputy Director of Civil Aviation in Egypt, Roushdy Bev, and the managing director of Misr-Airwork S.A.E., Kemal Eloui Bey (just returned from the I.AT.A. conference in Stockholm), are on a visit to England. They will inspect the Airwork Reserve Training School at Perth and the Air Service Training organisation at Hamble with a view to the possi bility of similar reserve training operations being undertaken by Misr-Airwork in Egypt. Kemal Eloui Bey and Mr R. E. Grant-Goven, Managing- Director of Indian National Airways, were present at a demonstration of the Miles Whitney Straight at Heston on September 2. Its use is envisaged in Egypt as a training aero plane, and in India for the training of airline pilots and t[le carriage of mails. Incidentally, the Airwork Sales Department expects to take delivery of its Miles Whitney Straight demon strator early in October. An order has been placed for a third D.H. Rapide to join the two already operated by Airwork, Ltd., on behalf of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in Iran. The new firm of Croydon Airways, Ltd., has bought three D.H. Moths from the Airwork Sales Department for its in structional work. Airwork is adapting a Philco car radio for a private Hornet Moth, and they have seen fit to retain the loud speaker. The significance of this can hardly be under-rated. A few years ago nobody had a loud speaker in his motor car because of the noise made by the car. That a sensible aeroplane owner should include the extra weight of a loud speaker in his receiv ing set seems to the compilers of Heston Flying News an occa sion for solemn jubilee in the houses of Rumbold and De Havilland, and for a poem entitled " Ring out, wild decibels! " by one of the leading " sonotorieties " of the B.B.C. The New Karachi Airport TENDERS will be called for very shortly and complete plans and estimates are now ready for the new adminis trative buildings at Karachi airport. In these will be incor porated every amenity for air passengers its well as for actual control. The full scheme of development will cost in the neighbourhood of half a million rupees, and work is expected to start in October. The building will, in some measure, resemble the Willingdon air station at New Delhi. On the airport work is in progress on the night-lighting scheme system and the equipment for the boundary lights is in position. New roads and improved drainage are being provided, and the latter will run round the landing area and will be capable of dealing with any excess rainfall. When the present schemes are completed the new airport will extend over an area of approximately four square miles. Edinburgh's New Site Tj^DINBURGH Corporation's search for a municipal airport -Lv site has been transferred to East Lothian, and what is said to be a really good situation near Aberlady, fourteen miles from the city, and near the Firth of Forth, has been discovered. It is understood that, while no negotiations have taken place, the Corporation will be strongly advised to buy the site, which is part of the policies of a large estate. A few months ago, it may be remembered, the Corporation bought a municipal airport site near Gilmerton, Midlothian, at a cost of about /o.ooo. The ground, which extends to 77 acres, is situated in the heart of the Lothian coalfields, where subsidences repeatedly occur. Since being acquired by the Corporation the ground has been used only for growing crops, and no effort has been made to develop it. Lord Provost Gumley and Mr. David Robertson, town clerk, recently discussed the aerodrome proposition with the Air Ministry. Commercial operators in pa r t i c u 1 ar should ap preciate the value of the Cambridge mixture in dicator, des cribed in the accompany ing para graph. Exhaust Gas Analysis in Flight AN extremely practical and interesting instrument, evolved by the Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd., continuously analyses the exhaust gas from the engine or engines, aud, by giving dashboard readings, enables carburetter adjustments to be made to give the most efficient settings during flight. The Cambridge mixture indicator, as it is known, works on the well-tried thermal conductivity system. A connection to the exhaust manifold continuously collects samples of the exhaust gases and passes them through an analysing unit, from which electrical connections are made to balancing and control boxes in the pilot's compartment. The latter units are in turn wired to the dashboard indicator, which, in tne case of a twin-engined machine, is of the type shown in.tne accompanying illustration. The analyser unit contains a niter cartridge which is easily removable for cleaning. , The complete instrument (all units) weighs 7lb. Iioz. an operates from the twelve-volt aircraft electricity supply- r u details are obtainable from the makers, the Cambridge Instr - ment Co., Ltd., 45. Grosvenor Place, London, S.W.i.
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