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1937
1937 - 0624.PDF
236 Commercial Avfation FLIGHT. MARCH n, Tg37 Touch button "A" and you get a measure of Old Vatted Glenledlie, whilst button "B" directs a sparkling stream of soda water into the left ear. It is a fact that it pays to sacrifice load to make people really comfortable in the charter business. A Notice to Airmen says that weather messages from Croydon will be in "Q" code, interspersed with plain language as necessary. The example given is: QAM 1300 GMT GED. Occasional rain QBA 4KM QBB 400 M SOL 9/ 10 QAN NE 10KM QFE 1000MB. But is so much plain language necessary? Anyway, there should be a code- group for anything so normal as occasional rain and another, this winter, for a steady downpour. Recently K.L.M. had an urgent appeal for a special machine from Amsterdam to Aden. Everything had to be arranged in a great hurry, and quite a lot of the arrange ments had to be made in London. It is pleasant to know that every one concerned gave K.L.M. the utmost assist ance, and that red tape was swept aside as much as pos sible. The Air Ministry civil side, the R.A.F. and Sudanese Government officials vied with one another in helpfulness. A. VIATOR. New British Airways Appointment MR. \V. E CROOK, who, for four and a half years has been radio instructor at Air Service Training, Hanible, lias been appointed Wireless Technical Officer for British Airways. Another Long-distance Experiment ON March 4 Caledonia made another non-stop flight between Alexandria and Southampton. She left at 12.30 a.m., passed Sardinia at 10 a.m., Marseilles at 12.20 p.m., and reached Southampton at 3.45 p.m. Dessau—Bathurst Non-Stop AFTER being in the air for twenty-six hours a Junkers 8G landed at Bathurst on Thursday of last week having flown non-stop from Dessau. The original intention was to fly ihrough from Germany to South America, but some unspeci fied trouble caused the machine to turn back to Bathurst when some 375 miles over the South Atlantic. Soviet Long-distance NEW air lines to be opened in the U.S.S.R. this year include the Moscow-Leningrad, Moscow-Tashkent, Moscow- Vladivostok services, and a seaplane sendee from Odessa to Batum. Radio beacons will be installed all along the Moscow- Vladivostok line, to enable maintenance of a regular passenger service over the longest air route in the world. The flight from Moscow to Tashkent will be made in 24-26 hours. Navigational T HE following candidates have passed the last examination for Second-class Navigators' Licences, 1937:—Bristow, P. M.; Cliff, S. B.; Collins, H. M. B.; Govett, V. G.; Griffiths, W. N. C; Hall, J. S.; Harris, T. R.; Houlder, C. B.; Jones, I. ap. I.; Lloyd, C; Martin, H. H.; Moss, G. P.; Musson, G. B.; Needham, R. T.; Prowse, B. O.; Raubenheimer, D. B.; Ray, J. E.; Roberts, O. G. E.; Samuels, J. A.; Sanders, W. G. M.; Smith, S. R. R.; Stewart, T. A.; Tettenborn, P. A. de G.; and Turner, D. E. Seventy-one candidates sat; twenty-four passed. More Self-navigation T HE three D.H. 86 machines owned by Misr-Airwork are to be fitted with Marconi direction finders. This equip ment is, in fact, already installed in one D.H. 86B which was recently flown out to Egypt, and, the other two 86s are to be similarly equipped. Though ground radio stations are now either arranged or projected at Cairo, Alexandria, Suez, Luxor, Mersa Matruh and Dakhla, the new equipment is independent of such organised co-operation. Belfast and Dublin W ORK is to start immediately on the erection of a large hangar on Belfast's new airport at Sydenham. The high tension cables and pylons in the neighbourhood of the site, which hitherto prevented a " public use " licence being issued to the airport, are to be removed. A total area of nearly four hundred acres has been reclaimed, and of these one hundred are ready for immediate use. The site is within five minutes of the centre of the city, and a stretch of water capable of accommodating flying boats of any size is available within half a mile of the aerodrome. The Dublin Corporation and County Council have now arrived at a provisional agreement concerning the initial cost of the airport at Collinstown. The Countv Council is to be responsible for n| per cent., the Corporation 38J per cent., and the remaining 50 per cent, is to be provided annually by the Government The Air Registration Board THE Secretary of State for Air has appointed Sir Laurence J- Philipps, Bt., J.P., to serve on the Air Registration Board in the capacity of an " independent person," and Fit. Lt. R. H. Stocken, M.I.Ae.E., R.A.F.O., to serve as a "person who has had not less than five years' professional experience as a pilot of civil aircraft." New Services in India A RRANGEMENTS have now been completed for regular -Ci- air services to be operated between Bombav and Poona and Bombay, Ahmedabad and different parts of Kathiawar; the services will start as soon as the aerodromes at Rajkot and Bhavnagar are completed. The company concerned is Air Services of India, floated by Mr. P. M Kabali. The New Cannes Airport C ANNES aerodrome, which has been undergoing complete reconstruction and enlargement, is to be reopened next week. The daily Air France service to the Riviera, which, during the period of repair work, has used a car service for conveying passengers between Marseilles and Cannes, will, therefore, be returning to the use of this airport as their terminus. The general improvements to the site, which have been carried out so as to make it suitable as a training centre under the French Air Force expansion scheme, will enable Air France to land their larger machines there. Land planes for the Atlantic? T HERE is a distinct trend of technical opinion towards the idea that landplanes will, after all, be used for the North Atlantic service. Two reasons are given for this change of front. The prevalence of ice masses in the vicinity of New foundland, and' on the stretches of water suitable for flying- boat harbourage there, will prevent the region from being used by boats during several months of the year. Secondly, the length of the ice-free Bermuda-Azores route is dispropor tionately great. The machine which will be used for the land plane experi ments is, of course, the D.H.gi (Albatross) and the Air Minis try has ordered two for this purpose. In addition to the long- range version, the D.H. Company is building Albatross machines for long-distance passenger-carrying. It is expected that the first North Atlantic flight by an Albatross will be made in September, when Hattie's Camp aerodrome should be ready foi use. Kilconry aerodrome, adja cent to the Atlantic boat base at Rynanna, will not be ready by that time, and the machine may use the new aerodrome at Dublin. The possibility that Pan-American Airways also favour landplanes is suggested by the fact that when Mr. Juan Trippe and Col. Lindbergh visited Ireland they spent fifteen minutes at the boat base, but more than two hours at JCilconry. A study of the prevailing weather has shown that the much- discussed fogs of Newfoundland are not a serious threat, though here, again, the landplane has the advantage, because it would operate from an aerodrome which is located on a plateau well above sea level. Undoubtedly, however, flying boats are destined for large- scale use on over-water routes where ice is not prevalent, ana this summer's trial flying-boat journeys across the Nortn Atlantic will provide much data of operational and technics value for flying boat and landplane alike. The Botwood base should be ready within a month. • r Meanwhile Atlantic weather conditions are the suj'l60* intensive study. Apart from the work going on in Lonao ^ an Air Ministry met. expert is journeving back and iortn the North Atlantic in the s.s. Manchester Port, and the nw • headquarters in Newfoundland are at Nooris Arm, near JJ ^ wood. The work there is especially directed to the study ice-forming conditions.
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