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1938
1938 - 0914.PDF
328 FLIGHT. MARCH 31, 1938. COMMERCIAL AVIATION WORLD NEWS Long Atlantic WITHOUT preamble ol pre-publicity a D.L.H. DomierDo. 18 Jumo-engined boat was catapulted from the depot ship Wesifalen in Start Bay, South Devon last Sunday. The machine was making a flight to Buenos Aires and the crew, consisting of H. W. von Engel, E. Gundermann, H. Rosel and H. J. Stein, hoped to cover the 6,000-mile distance in less than 50 hours. At the moment of going to press the machine was reported to have reached Caravellas, 450 miles north of Rio. By flying 4,750 miles they had beaten Stop- pani's long-distance seaplane record. Basra's AirportO N March 25 the King of Iraq officially opened the new Basra airport, a photograph of which appears on page 327. Sir John Ward, the manager of the airport, who has been mainly responsible for its development (it has been in use for more than a year), made the opening speech, and afterward; King Ghazi declared the terminal building open. Six airline companies—Imperial Airways, Air France, K.L.M.. D.L.H., Alisr Airlines and Iranian Airways—were represented, and Air Vice-Marshal Courtney, who is in com- mand of the British Forces in Iraq, led eight machines over from Dhibban for the ceremony. All by AirH OLLAND has now been added to the list of those countries to which all first-class mail is carried by air in the ordinary course of events. The principle, of course, applies only to that proportion of the mail which is posted late and may, con- sequently, be expedited by this means. Collective T~*HOSE Notices to Aircraft Owners and Ground Engineers •*• for the period between 1920 and 1937, which still remained in force on February 28 this year, have been reprinted in book- ; let form with subject index. This booklet is being supplied automatically to new licensees, but other interested persons may obtain it from H.M. Stationery Office. . . . New Equipment for D.LH. rPWO interesting new machines, about which there has been -*- a good deal of discussion, will, it has been announced, be put into service this season on the D.L.H. European routes. These machines are the Junkers Ju 90 and the Focke- Wulf 200, both of whict cruise at more than 200 m.p.h.; the former has the largest passenger capacity of any modern high- speed transport yet in service. In future passengers will be carried on the Berlin-Baghdad mail run, which has now been in operation for some time and is worked on a 24-hour schedule. Ocean Meteorology IN Flight of January 6 this year an article was publishedgiving many interesting facts concerning the meteorological organisation developed for the Atlantic survey flights. Last week Mr. F Entwistle, head of the Overseas Division of the Meteorological Office, delivered the Symons Memorial Lecture on the same subject. He stressed the tremendous importance of meteorology in such experimental flights, and said that the first investigation, which was started early in 1936, was designed to determine the maximum average headwind component along the Great Circle Route between Ireland and Newfoundland. Apparently this maximum average was 60 m.p.h., but for normal operation an allowance could safely be made for a 40 m.p.h. average wind with the necessity for cancellation of the flights on only one or two occasions in any year. Later investigations were concerned with conditions in Newfoundland, the variation of winds with altitude, and the frequency and minimum heights of low cloud. During the year following November, 1956, a meteorological officer completed eight round voyages in the s.s. Manchester Port, and during these trips regular balloon observations were made at different altitudes and weather charts were constructed from these observations and from others received by radio from other vessels and from Europe and North America. Mr. Entwistle explained how the meteorological organisa- tion had to cover a very wide area and how this work demanded closest co-operation between the stations in the different areas involved. Research now being pursued included an examina- tion 01 the vertical structure of a disturbance through which Caledonia passed on hei August 20-21 crossing. The lecturer concluded by saying that these essential investigations might be expected to benefit meteorological science generally so that this could be brought to the state when really long-distancf>, flying could be cairied out on a basis of complete regularity. The French Disaster ON Wednesday of last week an Air France Dewoitine 338,used on the mail service between West Africa and Tou- louse (a section of the South American mail run), hit the Cinq- Croix Peak at 8,000ft, in the Pyrenees. All the occupants, among whom was a British mining engineer, Mr. J. B. White, lost their lives. Atlantic Conference "CpOLLOWING the international conference in Dublin on -*- Atlantic air services, a statement in somewhat general terms was issued. In this statement the success of the 1937 experimental flights was noted and it was explained that the Conference, after a frank exchange of information, had reached unanimous decisions concerning the setting up of an elaborate organisation covering radio and meteorological services, and the different parts to be performed by the operating companies and governments in their respective areas. Future operations would, it was stated, be greatly facilitated by the additional- facilities which would be provided. A.B.A. This YearT HE Swedish company, A.B. Aerotransport, will extend their Continental network this year by opening, in co- operation with Air France, a direct service between Stockholm, Copenhagen and Paris. During last year A.B.A. extended their operations between Stockholm and Amsterdam to London and to Paris, the former in co-operation with K.L.M.; they also opened a service from Stockholm to Berlin and another, in co-operation with Aeroflot, to Moscow. During the year the mileage was increased by 112 per cent, and the fleet was in the air for 11,551 hours. 41,473 passengers were carried on the different services. Although Junkers Ju. 52s form the main part of the A.B.A. fleet, three Douglas D.C.3S were put into service last year. These machines, in order that the spares and maintenance situation could be simplified, were specially fitted with twin- row Pratt and Whitney Wasps giving 1,000 h.p. for the take- off. The 52s are, it may be remembered, fitted with single- row Wasps, and a modified version of this well-known machine has been developed at the instigation of A.B.A. This has geared S3H1-G engines, Hamilton constant-speed airscrews, parallel engine nacelles (the standard model has its outboard engine nacelles inclined inwards towards the tail), full N.A.C.A. cowlings and special soundproofing. This year a Pratt and Whitney-engined Ju. 86 is to be purchased. Every machine in the A.B.A. fleet, incidentally, is fitted with Goodrich de-icing and Lorenz approach equipment, with a Tele- funken D / F and homing unit, arid Lorenz two-way medium- wave radio equipment. In the D.C.3S the trailing aerial has been done away with, since the new Lorenz transmitter gives sufficient range with fixed aerials. £ immune. The outfit has, I am told, already been fittedto at least one Empire flying-boat. I h ldid Nti Ai THE WEEK AT CROYDON (Concluded from page 327) the refreshment room to come hurtling past their ears are recommended to give an accurate E.T.A. I wish that id f blti t hdld tiu.!. iw^.^ «.»~ i^.i^^.iv. .,^,.,6-i,uai. recommended TO give an accurate r^. x .t\. J- »"=" ••*""-I have a splendid Notice to Airmen before me as I avoidance of blasting at scheduled times could be write. Pilots are warned thereby that a grandstand is arranged at Croydon, but so long as the place is as it is, being blasted at Newtownards and that arrangements some sort of bad language when landing on what is tanta- exist to avoid blasting during the arrival and departure mount to a series of valleys infested with hummocks of scheduled aircraft. Unscheduled arrivals who don't must really be permitted to air-line pilots.of scheduled aircraft. Unscheduled arrivals who dontwant the first three rows of the stalls and the remains of . A. VIATOR-
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