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1937
1937 - 1704.PDF
636 FLIGHT. JUNE 24, 1937. Commercial Aviation flights are of immense importance to future air-line estab lishment and that the commercial people must accept this as true, little though they may like it. It is easy to under stand the pioneer flight, to realise the motives behind most of them, and to collect the extremely minute data of any commercial value. It is not so easy, on the other hand, to comprehend the organisation needed to operate regularly over the same stretch of country. A quotation from The Times (about something quite different) seems apt in con nection with many of these pioneer flights: "There can be no doubt that they will get there in the end. It would be agreeable to hail this outcome as a triumph for some- More Navigation WITHIN a week or two earnest air navigators will have yet another book to assist them in their researches. The McGraw-Hill people are publishing a British Empire edition of Weems' Air Navigation, a most thorough work covering some 500 pages 'Ware Cardington FOR the benefit of those pilots who did not see, or who have forgotten, Notice to Airmen No. 32 of this year, it may be reiterated that balloons are being flown in the Cardington Here are some of them. (Bedford) area up to an altitude of 20,000ft. The cables are not marked in any way and machines should not approach within four miles of the station. It is unpleasant to have one's wings suddenly and unaccountably cut off. On the Threshold D URING the early part of next month either Cambria or Caledonia will leave the Shannon on its first Atlantic ex- j>eriment. She will be commanded by Capt. A. S. Wilcockson, and on the same day it is expected that a Pan-American Sikorsky S.42B. will be leaving to make the eastward crossing. Last Friday the Imperial Airways' shareholders formally approved a resolution that the capital should be increased to ^5,000,000 in order to be ready for what Sir George Beharrell, in the absence of Sir Eric Geddes, called the "new era." Making a Start T HE first section of Canada's long-awaited transcontinental airway is expected to be opened some time after July 15,. when three Lockheed Electras are to be delivered for the Winnipeg-Vancouver run. Four more machines, it is reported, will be delivered early next year. Full of hope, perhaps, that the transcontinental service is really on its way, private interests have formed a number of new companies. Skyways, Ltd., is due to operate a service from Toronto to Winnipeg, while another service is being started between Montreal and the Rouyn, northern Quebec mining camps ; and Northern Flights, the Ontario division of Skylines Air Transport Express, has started operations from Toronto to the northern mining camps. A new air mail ser vice from Edmonton to Whitehorse, Yukon, was expected to be put into operation on July 5 by United Air Services. Meanwhile, it appears that the rest of the transcontinental airway will not be in action until next year at the earliest. thing or other over something else, but the principles in volved are not very clearly defined and the whole matter is of no great importance to anybody." What is of im portance to everybody is to operate proper passenger and mail services with clockwork regularity. Capt. Fry, well known at Croydon as a " traffic" expert, recently joined North Eastern Airways and has his hands full at present with the North of England activities of the company. Incidentally, N.E.A. will make a number of connections with K.L.M. in the north when that company starts the Liverpool-Doncaster-Amsterdam run again on July 1. A. VIATOR. Sixteen Years of ABA. TTYURING last year, the sixteenth of the company's activities, *-* A.B. Aerotransport carried 23,649 passengers and 1,172,649 kg. of mail and freight 011 its twelve daylight and three night mail runs. Many of the former were of a seasonal nature, all-the-year-round services being those between Malmo and Amsterdam, and Malmo and Berlin. Several of the others will no doubt become winter and summer service in due course, and two of the night mail runs were made through last winter. The fleet was increased by the addition of five JU.52S (Wasp engines) and a Douglas DC .3 is.on order. Australia—New Guinea /^\NE of the tenders for an Australia-New Guinea service, ^-' which were called for early this year, has now been accepted. This, put in by W. R. Carpenter and Co., Ltd., the New Guinea operators, is one of those which were worked out on a D.H.86B basis, and three of these machines have been ordered by them. It may be remembered that the conditions called for a multi-engined machine with a cruising speed of 140 m.p.h. or more and a range of 500 miles against a 30 m.p.h. headwind. Furthermore, it had to be capable of maintaining level flight at 5,000ft. with one engine out, and carry a minimum load of 1,400 lb., including six passengers. The contract is for five years' operation of a weekly return service from Sydney, via Brisbane, Rockhampton, Townsville, Cairns, Cooktown, Thursday Island and Wau to either Salamaua or Rabaul. The 86Bs which are on ordei for the service will be ten- seaters, and the special equipment includes metal airscrews, bonding and screening,, Sperry horizon and gyro and full dual control. D.L.H.'s New Floating Base L ARGER than, and an advance in every way on, the older ships used by the German Lufthansa on the ocean routes, the new motor ship Friesenland, of which the company has recently taken delivery, is intended for the North Atlantic service, while the previous ship, the much smaller Ostland, is to serve the South Atlantic, and will be stationed in the mouth of the River Gambia. The new vessel has, like the Ostland, been built by the Howaldt works, in Kiel, and is a diesel-engined craft of 6,500 tons (metric) driven by two MAN engines of 2,500 b.h.p. each. The Friesenland has a length of 45ft. 3m., a beam of 54ft., and a draught of 19ft. 8in. The speed is approximately 16 knots. A very complete equipment is carried, including derrick and lifting gear, workshops, wireless, and, of course, tankage not only for the vessels own fuel, but for the aircraft which she is to serve. The catapult fitted is of Heinkel manufacture and is one of the most powerful hitherto built, being capable of launching aircraft up to a gross weight of 17,000 kg. (37,400 lb.). As in the previous ships the aircraft are catapulted off over the stern and an extension aft of the starting rails permits of carrying a second machine in'readiness, should this be de sired. Turntables and rails make it possible to handle even larger machines with ease on deck. As the intention is that the Friesenland should be stationed at the Azores, it is very necessary that she should be com pletely self-contained in the matter of repair facilities, no shore workshops being available within hundreds of niiles. Her workshop is, therefore, remarkably well equipped, and she will be able to carry out even large repairs to both machines and engines. In view of the fact that the crew will need to spend long periods on board, the Friesenland is provided with large re creation rooms, a gymnasium, a lounge with loud speakers for listening to wireless programmes, and a small, but carefully stocked library.
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