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1938
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APRIL 21, 1938. FLIGHT. 3«7 COMMERCI Al AVIATION (CONTINUED) A.B.A.'s First Ju.86 ON April 1, Swedish A.B. Aerotransport took over their newJunkers Ju.8G which has been specially fitted up for night mail work. With the customary standardisation of power units A.B.A. have had the machine fitted with Pratt and Whitney Hornets of 715 h.p. each, and with these engines the machine has a maximum speed of 217 m.p.h. The Ju.86 will fly on six nights a week on the Stockholm-Malmo-Copenhagen- Hanover run, carrying a maximum load Of about 3,300 lb. Isle of Wight Ferry ON and after May 23 the P.S.I.O.W.A. Portsmouth-Rydeservice will be run on a half-hourly basis, with six daily services between Bournemouth and Ryde in conjunction withRailway Air Services, and seven trips between Southampton and Ryde. Loud speakers have been installed at Ryde and, during thebusy periods, passengers mil-tear off a "place number" on arrival, and this number will be called out over the speakerswhen the machine is ready to start. This will prevent the necessity for queueing. Glasgow Direct IN a paragraph in last week's issue it was explained thatbetween May 2 and May 21 Railway Air Services would operate a direct service from London to Glasgow. We omitted to add that thereafter it will still be possible to make the through trip, passengers changing fiom the Belfast machine at Liverpool on the morning service. The inclusive time for the run between Croydon and Renfrew will be 3 hr. 20 min. Incidentally, the two Belfast services, to be operated daily after May 22, will call at Birmingham and Manchester, Stoke, as before, being an "on demand" stop. Selling Aviation THE people in aviation appear to be developing the excellenthabit of telling the world in general all about it in the most attractive way. Not long ago we received a booklet from Highland Airways—shortly to become a part of Scottish Air- ways—and now the owners of the Rand Airport, Germiston, South Africa, have sent us a copy of their official Year Book. This is not only an attractive pamphlet setting forth the par- ticular features of the airport and of the services which use it, but is also a useful guide for any pilots and others who are visiting Johannesburg. There is a large plan of the landing area and buildings, with all the necessary information about the facilities obtainable and the surrounding landmarks. Nowa- days, with the Imperial Airways' boats flying to Durban, where the mail and passengers are taken over by South African Airways, the Rand Airport sees the old Atalantas no more, and it is pleasant to find that a page has been devoted to the good work done by Imperials since January, 1932, when the first D.H. Hercules came through on the regular Imperial service. The manager of the Airport is, incidentally, Capt. Roy Makepeace, M.M., who was appointed to the post in Febru- ary, 1932. Trans-Canadian Plans ALTHOUGH a start has since been made with the opera-tion of the Winnipeg-Vancouver section of the trans- Canada air service, the report of the first year's working of Trans-Canada Air Lines, which has just been issued, provides some interesting facts and figures. The Vancouver-Seattle section of the service, for instance, was taken over from the original operators, Canadian Air- ways, as long ago as September 1 last year. At the time when the report was issued the staff numbered seventy-one. The five Lockheed Electras, which were ordered, have already been delivered, and the first of the ten Lockheed 14s should soon be in action. Canadian National Railways, who hold all the issued shares of the concern, are attending to the commercial side of the operations, a fact which, as in the case of our own Railway Air Services, should certainly make for economy and for a re- duction of overhead expenses. Mr. S. J. Hungerford, the president, hopes that the com- plete service will be in operation this year. It will be remem- bered that the planned route is Moncton-Montreal-Ottawa- Toronto-North Bay-Kapuskasing-Wagaming-Wiiinipeg-Regina- Lethbridge-Vancouver, with branches from Lethbndge through Calgary to Edmonton, and from Vancouver to Seattle. I.AF. to Brussels INTERNATIONAL AIR FREIGHT expect to start their-1- service to Brussels on May 3, machines leaving Croydon at 6.45 a.m. and leaving Haren airport at 5.15 p.m. The Am-sterdam service is now run twice daily, the Curtiss Condors leaving Croydon at 6.30 a.m. and 2 p.m. I.A.F. have reduced the business of arranging for freighttransport by air—which is their sole work—to the simplest possible form. Incidentally, the company has made arrange-ments for the travel agencies to carry heavy luggage which the passengers on normal air services are not usually able totake with them,-- • A.S.T. Additions BY the end of next month the addition of a further thirty-seven acres to the landing area at Hamble should have been completed, and work on the construction of the, newgymnasium is already well under way. This building will be only a few yards from the swimming-pool. During last month three long-course pupils at A.S.T. com-pleted their training and obtained posts with a well-known operating company, and the nine students and six staff fitterswho recently took their G.E.'s examination have all passed. During the month Fit.-Lt. H. F. Jenkins, A.F.C., the chiefinstructor, was promoted to the rank of Squadron Leader in theR.A.F. . Bat avia—M anila AN agreement has been reached between K.N.I.L.M. and theAmerican Government in the matter of the projected Batavia-Manila service, which is to be run in pool with Pan- American Airways, for whom, of course, Manila is to be con- sidered as a terminal on their trans-Pacific service from San Francisco to Hong Kong. The new service will, therefore, link the Netherlands Indies and Australia with these points; pre- viously it has been possible to reach Hong Kong by the Imperial Airways service from Penang. Incidentally,, the new aerodrome at Bali, which has been approved by the N.I, Government for all types, has been officially opened. ' . • A Flying Test Model A FLYING scale model of the CAMS Potez 161—the slx-engined flying boat ordered by Air France for the North Atlantic—has been built at Sartrouville by the Northern group of the French National Aircraft Constructors. The engines of the flying model are 60 h.p. Trains, taking the place of the six Hispaeo 12 Ys to be used in the full-sized prototype. Meanwhile, work has actually started on the construction of the forty-tonner. The military authorities in France are at present taking a great interest in heavy transport machines, and are studying the possibilities for these purposes of the Atlantic flying boats of Air France Transatlantique—the CAMS Potez 161, the Latecoere 631 Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris) and the Sud-Est 200. THE AIRLINE OUTLOOK Special Issue of "Flight" next Thursday NUMEROUS important aspects of airline operationwill be reviewed in FLIGHT next week. The issueis a special one, the COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT and AIRLINES NUMBER. Sections will be devoted to British airliners and other operating equipment available, while the activities of British airline companies will be reviewed. A large loose-inset map, in photogravure, specially pre- pared by FLIGHT artists, will portray the present layout of the world's air routes, including a larger-scale map of the European routes. In addition, authoritative articles will deal with such subjects as the Economics of Air Transport, Trends in Airliner Design, and Legal Aspects. NEXT THURSDAY APRIL 28
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