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1937
1937 - 0501.PDF
FEBRI'ARV 25, 1937- FLIGHT. 195 0MMERCIAL /\v/AT/ON — AIRLINES —=—_ AIRPORTS- LONG-RANGE EXPERIMENT : Following Caledonia's non-stop flight from Southampton to Alexandria, the second long-range Short boat, Cambria, made a circuit of Britain last Sunday. This photograph shows Cambria being moored off Hythe at the end of the flight, with the liner Westernland in the background. THE WEEK AT CROYDON British Airways' Home-from-Home : Exhibits and Ideals : D.C.2 as Tender mire the pretty flowers in the garden outside the secluded bar about half a mile from the tarmac apron when time on the ground is limited to a short fifteen minutes. Last Saturday morning a K.L.M. Douglas D.C.2 flew direct from Amsterdam to Eastleigh Aerodrome, South ampton, to transfer passengers for America to the Eitropa. Among them was Mr. A. Plesman, Royal Dutch Air Lines' managing director. On the way back to Croydon the machine circled over the Europa in salute. Next morning the visit was returned, when at about 8 a.m. the flying boat Cambria flew over Croydon and then proceeded on her 1,300-mile cruise around England with Capt. G. J. Powell in command. Swiftly from Erin Irish Sea Airways, Ltd., ably assisted by a strong tail wind, made a remarkably quick trip one day last week from Dublin to London, 309 miles, in 87 minutes with seven pleased passengers. The pilot was Capt. Stoney, who, incidentally, is an Irishman. Another typical son of Erin on the same route is Capt. Armstrong, who has just returned to duty after three weeks' leave. It is interest ing that Irish Sea Airways' services are running with loads which are not at all bad for winter time^-and, what is more, for the first winter of operation. K.L.M. reports that already several Indian Maharajahs have booked air passages to Europe for the Coronation ceremonies, filling with their suites whole machines at a time. Amongst them are the Maharajahs of Jodpur and Kashmir and, I believe, the Maharani of Cooch Behar. Interesting is the innovation of "no passport'' week end tickets by air to Holland. This system has been in force on the Paris and other lines for some time, but not to and from Holland until recently, when K.L.M. secured this privilege. Talking of passports, Mr. Cripps, that emigration officer so weil known at Croydon and Gatwick, who so happily blends geniality with sternness when per forming his duties, is being transferred to Harwich. Surrey Flying Services, Ltd., had a Press special to the railway accident near Cranwell, when both air and ground photographs were taken. Mr. Alexander, the pilot, con- BRITISH AIRWAYS, still exiled by the Gatwick mois ture, are settling down here nicely and operating their services with regularity. Three of the oldest members of the original Hillman Company, that gallant pioneer effort, are here with the B.A. contingent, Capt. Pelly, Mr. van Oppen, and Mr. Flowerday. The last-named has the job of instructing on the new British Airways Junkers, and the other day some of his pupils presented him with a dissolute-looking mortar-board. Those who visualise him wearing it in conjunction with a pair of "specs" on the tip of his nose will see the likeness at once. T.R.H. the Duke and Duchess of Kent flew to Paris by Imperial Airways last Saturday, and thence inwards also on the same route came Mr. Winston Churchill, who asked a number of shrewd questions of his pilot, Capt. Horsey. Unlike the average politician, Mr. Churchill has a grasp of what is essential, and spotted the danger of private owners without wireless careering round the place in QBI. It might be a good idea to mention to him the absurd situa tion into which we are drifting regarding Gravesend, whereby that vitally important emergency landing ground may shortly become a bristling mass of roof tops and com mercial aeroplanes with an hour or so to wait just outside the control zone, will either have to return to their port 01 departure on the Continent or else roost on wayside trees like disconsolate crows. As expected, the opening of the R.I.B.A. Airports Exhi- mtion last Friday was a joUy gathering, mainlv of those lin i Fonnected with the more abstruse aeronautical side fcncV S6em to allow of infinite leisure to attend such it an .1 T° the very few reallY practical people present was nri^ *at nobody was °.uite sure exactly what reallv for a , in the way of a place of arrival and departure ticularT?neS-f Ju diCL D0t notice' for ^stance, any par- ferent n rf that a terminal airPort has dif- besin ,11 J° a transit airport. At the one, journeys just the needif b-Ut at the °ther design should clearly follow two, wit] 11 qvf1Ck- d.eParture again f°r a further destina-in R witl1 + * ** implies- F°r example, speedy refuell- bot'h man Jandering from the platform, is essential for 1 and ai reraft, and there is no opportunity to ad-
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