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Aviation History
1938
1938 - 2092.PDF
-64 FLIGHT. JULY 21, 1938. COMMERCIAL AVIATION IN ECUADOR : A Junkers Ju. 34 (540 h.p. B.M.W. Hornet) and (nearest camera) Messerschmitt Taifun, of Sedata, Ecuador's airline. It is seen on Quito Aerodrome, which is surrounded by mountains, and difficult to approach in bad weather (the company was recently unlucky enough to lose its founder, Herr Fritz Hammer, when the clouds closed down on a machine which he was flying out of Quito). In spite of such difficulties, the line gives valuable service, notably by reducing the time from Quito to Guayaquil to ij hours as compared with a two-day train journey. THE WEEK AT CROYDON "A. Viator's" Causerie on Airline Affairs at London's Main-Terminal and Elsewhere LUTON Aerodrome, opened last Saturday by Sir Kings-ley Wood, is a fine place, and should make an ' excellent emergency airport for Croydon. I under stand it is fairly fog-free and there is plenty of landing space, and will be more later on, for there is ample room for enlargement. I saw a lot of commercial airline people there, and I believe that almost every firm was represented. Airline managers watched the Mayo composite come unstuck and were considerably impressed. It also interested them quite a bit to see the Albatross, which has remarkably fine lines and looks nice in the air. It would be much pleasanter to land at Luton and get a train to London than to hang around in the skies for fifty or sixty minutes in QBI, " your turn being number five '' and weather deteriorating. Wrightways is a firm which quietly goes about its busi ness and makes very little song-and-dance about it. The company has just flown a million miles in three years with five machines, now two D.H. 86s and three Rapides. A novel scheme on the Wrightways early morning business man's machine to Paris is the provision, on arrival, of a shave, bath and breakfast at a Paris hotel. These bless ings are included in the fare and just fill in time nicely, for the machine leaves Croydon at 5.30 a.m., reaches Paris at 7.30. Bathed, shaven and refuelled, the business man who uses this service emerges from his hotel at about 9 a.m. ready to drive astonishing bargains. H.H. the Maharaja of Jaipur has a "minority" ques tion in his State, and in order to be on the spot with all speed he left Croydon for India last Wednesday. He was home in three days. Capt. Fritz Wiedemann, personal A.D.C. to Herr Hitler, arrived at Croydon quite quietly on Saturday night from Berlin, and on the previous day Herr Albert Foerster, leader of the Nazi party in Danzig, left Croydon by D.L.H. for Berlin. A fifteen-foot snake also travelled by air to Croydon during the week. It is not known whether the snake was packed in a coil like rubber hose or stretched out flat in a fifteen-foot box. Anyway, the parcel was not opened for Customs examination. The K.L.M. Lockheed 14 now in regular use on the Liverpool-Manchester-Amsterdam line made a fast flight recently (without the usual fierce following wind) by cover ing the 335 miles in 1 hr. 35 min. Fresh river trout, caught at 6 a.m., one morning last week in the Jura Mountains, were served at luncheon at a London hotel the same day. The affair was organised by Air Express, Ltd., of Croydon, the idea being to show in a practical and pleasant manner the advantage of air transport for hitherto unprocurable foreign delicacies. The idea might be extended to a dinner of which each course (starting, for example, with Italian salami and Scandinavian smoked reindeer meat) would be the speciality of some European country within an easy day's flying of London. The dinner might end on a genial note with French coffee, and liqueurs from Holland. This idea is offered gratis, but an invitation to the dinner, when and if arranged, would be promptly answered in the affirmative. Premature T HE Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, Air-France Transatlan- tique's Latecoeie 521 flying boat, has flown to the trans atlantic base at Foynes from the Etang de Berre, Marseilles. This gave rise to rumours that the French, were planning a North Atlantic flight from Foynes with the ten-year-old boat. The trip, however, was merely a visit to enable important French officials to meet the authorities at Foynes and it served as a variant to trips between Biscarosse and Berre which the Lieutenant has been making to run-in the six new Hispanos recently fitted. Her series of projected Atlantic flights this year will be via Lisbon and the Azores, and the pilot in charge will be Guillaumet, who was not in the crew which flew to Ireland. These flights are due to start after August 10.
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