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1937
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188 FLIGHT. AUGUST 19, 1937. Commercial Aviation In Palestine— New Imperial H.Q. PALESTINE AIRWAYS, LTD., have now inaugurated a service between Lydda and Haifa, a distance of some sixty miles. Other routes are being planned. —and Venezuela THE Compania Aeropostal Venezolana, of Caracas, recently announced the inauguration of a new weekly service between Maracay and Porlamar, Venezuela, using American aircraft for the work. The Aeropostal concern has also issued a notice that as soon as the construction of other new airports is completed iegular air services will be operated from Maracay to Barcelona, Cumana, Carupano, Maturin and other places in Venezuela. A Norwegian Loss MR. ARILD WIDEROE, a well-known Norwegian com mercial pilot was recently killed, with four passengers, when his machine crashed into Oslo Fiord. Apparently struc tural failure of a wing fitting was experienced. Mr. Wideroe was the technical manager of Wideroe's Flyveselskap A/S. In the accident the D.N.L. also lost it works manager, Chris Braathen. A C38 in Finland ONE of D.L.H.'s big diesel-engined Junkers G38S was taken out of the Copenhagen-Berlin run recently and trans ferred to the Finnish route. Seating 34 passengers in addition to a crew of 7, the G38 will run with full loads in the Hel- singfors-Berlin service, which lately has been marked by ex tremely brisk passenger frequency. Air Mail to Colombo AS already recorded the extension of the Tata mail service to Colombo via Trivandrum may materialise before the end of the year. Colombo is only 30 miles from Trivandrum, and there is already an air mail service between Trivandrum and Bombay. This, owing to severe monsoon conditions on the west coast, is suspended for six months in the year. In order to overcome these difficulties an inland route from Bom bay to Trivandrum is being investigated. According to present plans machines will fly during this period via Tuticorin and Tutaimanar, using those places as intermediary landing grounds. Wellington-Auckland Service Opened AT the end of June the long-talked of New Zealand air ser vice between Wellington and Auckland was opened. Owing to the difficulty in obtaining delivery of a suitable type of British machine. Union Airways were forced to purchase Lockheed Electras. Inaugural ceremonies were held at Wellington, Palmerston North and Auckland. At Wellington, the Mayor, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, •performed the christening ceremony, and Kotarc, as the machine was called, left on its first northern flight at 11.30 a.m. carrying, among other notabilities, the Hon. P. Fraser (Acting Prime Minister), directors of Union Airways and the Director ot Civil Aviation. At Auckland, the Mayor, Sir Ernest Davis christened another Electra and this machine left Mangere aerodrome at 10.24 a.m. with a full complement of passengers, one of whom was the Minister for Defence. At Palmerston North, Mr. C. G. White (Acting-Chairman of Union Airways), presided over the ceremony. Atlantic Routine THIS business of flying the Atlantic has become so much of a routine that to record the crossings is almost equivalent to making statements to the effect that Imperials Paris service has reached Paris in such and such a time. However, Caledonia's passage on August 15 was interesting in that it was carried out in daylight. Capt. Wilcockson left Foynes at 4.40 a.m. and reached Botwood at 9.11 p.m. The main idea, apparently, of this special crossing was to test the short-wave D/F in daylight conditions. Meanwhile, the P.A.A. Sikorsky should by now have com pleted a New York-Bermuda-Azores-Lisbon experimental crossing, and the Blohm and Voss diesel-engined floatplane, Nordmeer, has made a trip in the reverse way over the same route. Permission for eight experimental flights has been granted. Cambria made a "record" west-to-east crossing on August 8 and 9. She was commanded by Capt. G. J. Powell and she flew from Botwood to Foynes in n hours 57 mins. WORK has, after a delay of more than a year while negoti ations were proceeded with, been started on the new terminus for Imperial Airways at Victoria. Expansion in South Africa ON August 9 Mr. Pirow, the South African Minister for Railways and Defence, left Pretoria on a tour of the ex panded air route which it is expected, will shortly be covered by South African Airways. The route in question is a circular one embracing South and Central Africa with Johannesburg as a base. Stops will be made at Ghanzi, Windhoek, Groot- fontein, Mossamedes, Benguella, Loanda, Boma, Leopoldville, Stanleyville, Kisumu, Nairobi, Mbeya, Broken Hill, Living stone and Buluwayo. Re-equipping D.D.L LED by H.R.H. Prince Axel, Mr. Gunnar Larsen and Mr. Kampmann, the latter from world-famous Danish con tracting firms, a deputation was recently received by Mr. Lud- vig Christensen, Deputy Minister for Public Works in Den mark. Emphasising the difficult conditions under which the D.D.L. is working, the deputation offered to put up the money required for the purchase of new material if the Government would promise to grant import permits for the purpose. With fast machines of modern type, the D.D.L. would not be handi capped as at present in international competition. Meanwhile, Mr. Gunnar Larsen is reported to be the spon sor of a new production of Danish sports machines designed by- Messrs. Zeuthen and Kramme. They are building a two-seater with a 90 h.p. engine, calculated to do 125 m.p.h. and to sell at approximately /714. Still More Navigation "Air Navigation: British Empire Edition/' by P. V. H. Weems; 30s., McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Ltd., Ald- wych House, London, W.C.2. STARTING with the natural assumption that it is almost impossible to cover such a very wide subject as air navigation in a matter of 480 pages, Lt.-Cdr. Weems' book is nevertheless the most complete volume on the subject which we have yet had an opportunity of reading. Unless the work was to be carried into a second volume it was inevitable that certain aspects should have been skated over in order to keep down the length. The aspects chosen for the axe have been those of an elementary nature, such as are well covered in less comprehensive textbooks, while matters pertaining to dead reckoning, radio and particularly celestial navigation are handled very thoroughly indeed. Meteorology, too, for detailed information on which it is usually necessary to turn to specialised textbooks, is given nearly a hundred pages, and the material provided is compre hensive to the extent of providing the reader with a good working knowledge of world-wide weather developments. It is not possible to over-estimate the importance of copious illustration in this type of book and Air Navigation is not only well stocked with essential diagrams, but the photographs are of really up-to-date equipment—even to the inclusion, for instance, of the new R.A.F. blind-flying panel and the Marconi short-wave D/F equipment. While blind-approach systems are now far from new they are not usually covered in books dealing with general navigation. In this case what is usually known as the Lorenz system, which is likely to be the stan dard one for some years to come, is described with reasonable thoroughness. The average transport pilot in this country takes far too little interest in such advanced methods of navi gation and in the problems which accompany their use. " Up- to-date-ness " is the most striking and comforting feature of Cdr. Weems' book ; authors of such works are much too prone to describe and illustrate equipment which is virtually obsolescent. The more important tables are given in the appendix, these including traverse tables, great circle and rhumb line con version angles, meridional parts and formute for radius-of- action problems. In the pocket at the back of the book is a star chart and an Antarctic chart following the Ellsworth expedition. In spite of the fact that Air Navigation is truly highbrow it is, nevertheless, written in such a way that anyone with a fair basic understanding of air navigation problems should be able to follow with comparative ease all but certain sec tions in the chapters dealing with celestial navigation.
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