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1937
1937 - 0574.PDF
220 Commercial Aviation FLIGHT. MARCH 4, T937- New Rules SEVERAL changes are to be made, on and after April i, in the Air Navigation Directions, and these are given in the Air Navigation (Amendmentj Order, 1937. The chief amendment concerns the rules of lights and signals, but the order also refers to banner-towing and the like, dan gerous flying, and the provision of effective electrical output for all flights. An Australian Tragedy AFTER a silence of nine days, the Stinson transport machine which left Brisbane for Sydney on February 19 was found on the Macpherson Range some sixty miles from the point of departure. Five of the seven occupants were found dead ; the remaining two were not seriously hurt. One of the victims had been killed by a fall while searching for assistance. Asking the Public ONCE again North-Eastern Airways are asking their prospec tive clients for their ideas on the most useful arrange ments before publishing their spring time-table. Only so is it possible for a pioneer air line company to gauge public sup port. On April 5 the company's Croydon-Doncaster-Perth service will be duplicated and extended to Aberdeen. Mr. Boitel-Gill is the chief pilot of the company ; he was previously flying on Wrightwavs' dawn service to Paris, so he should know all about it. A Barrage at Portsmouth S might have been hoped, the Portsmouth City Council iias accepted the Committee's proposal that the Empire air base should be of the barrage type. The cost will be £1,221,452 (strangely detailed figure!), towards which the Government will contribute 50 per cent, up to a maximum of £600,000. It will also guarantee an annual income of / jo.ooo for the first fifteen years. The acceptance, however, resulted in one of the largest protest meetings ever seen at Portsmouth. About 2,000 rate payers assembled in the Guildhall to complain about the neces- sarv increase in the rates—so we may not have heard the end of the matter after all. It will be remembered that in its issue of April r6, roj6, FKght described and illustrated tht Langstone Harbour area, when the scheme was rather less a project than a vague possibility. juetetsrtDSiTEws EMPIRE BASE. Where? T^WEXTY Bellancas of unstated type have been orderei the Hanover Import and Export Co., of New York foreign air-mail service. for A Jamaican Service A NEW service has recently been started by Pan-America Airways to bring Miami within five hours of Kingston" Jamaica. The first service was inaugurated with an^ S carrying nineteen passengers. '^ We Are Ready UNDER the mysterious-to-the-uninitiated title of " QRV " a new firm has been started at Croydon by Mr. H. \V Hamblin, until recently chief radio expert of British Continental Airways. Since the firm is one of aircraft radio consultants none but. the uninitiated need to have the title problem solved for them; in fact, it is the "Q" code abbreviation for "Are you ready? " or "I am ready," and explains the whole busi ness of the firm in three letters. Apart from the excellent Marconi organisation, there has always been room for sound aircraft wireless consultants, and *' QRV " is designed to fill the gap. In addition, the firm acts as a superior employment agency for operators with known and considerable marine or air experience. Mr. Hamblin himself, is, incidentally, shortly flying out to South Africa in one of the three Ju.86s which are shortly to be delivered. Both he and his assistant, Mr. L. N. Vaughan, have had a very wide experience, the former with a Service foundation, and the latter with a Marine foundation. Their hours run on well into the thousands. Air France Summer COMING into force on April 4, various changes have been made in the Air France time-table. An arrangement has been made with Railway Air Services by which passengers from Glasgow, Liverpool and the Mid lands will be able to reach or return from points sucli as Mar seilles and Zurich in a single day's travelling. A new direct service from London to Geneva will be started, leaving at 4 p.m. and arriving at 7.45 p.m. To cope with Coronation traffic there will be five London-Paris services daily in each direction. Further, a new service is to be opened from Paris, via Bordeaux, to Toulouse, to take the place of the night railway link previously used. Thus, air travellers to the Gold Coast and Nigeria (by the new weekly service, via Dakar, which started on March 1) will do the whole journey by air. Two days have been saved by the introduction of Potez machines on to the Damascus-Hanoi section of the Far Eastern line. At Hanoi connection will be made with the C.N.A.C. service. An Irish Company A GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED air transport company is to be established in the Irish Free State. A supplemen tary estimate of £2,500 as preliminary expenses for the estab lishment of the company was moved in the Dail recently by Mr. Sean Lemass, Minister for Industry and Commerce. He stated that the policy of the Government with regard to civil aviation envisaged the establishment of a national aviation company to operate all internal air transport ser vices, to represent the Free State in international air services with other countries, and to act as the Free State's nominee on the joint-operating company responsible for the lrans") atlantic air service. Air connections at Free State Por1L* serve Transatlantic shipping would also be provided * Minister of Finance would acquire shares in the national coi - to the total value of the share capital, and wowu stock BARRAGED : A sketch plan of Langstone Harbour with arrows to show the positions to be taken by the barrages, which will make the projected base tide-proof. pany guarantee any debentures issued by that company. The national company would hold 24! per cent, of the sti of the joint-operating company, the capital of which woul approximately £1,000,000, and would also be responsiMe.jy the payment of 5 per cent, of the annual subsidy to trie vice, subject to a maximum of £12,000 a year. Irish Sea services would be operated by a subsifll;m. bljll pany, and, in addition to the regular service between ' v and" London, via Bristol, at present carried by a tcn1' b)ia company, new services would' be established connecting with the Isle of Man and Liverpool, between L>ubin , ^ fast and Scotland, and between Cork and Wales and tni of England.
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