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1939
1939 - 0150.PDF
68 FLIGHT. JANUARY ig, 1939 Comm ertial Aviation D.C.A. for Burma T HE Governor of Burma has sanctioned the creation of the new appointment of Director of Civil Aviation, and the post will be taken by Capt. A. T. Eadon, who is a very well- known in Indian aviation circles. He was Governor and Principal of the Aeronautical Training Centre at Delhi, which was founded by him in 1935. Previously he had helped to found the De Havilland Technical School in this country. Between 1930 and 1933 he was closely concerned with the Civil Aviation Directorate in India, and, particularly, in the development of air mail services. Mr. R. N. Kathju will succeed Capt. Eadon at the Training Centre. International Weather F OR a long time it has been obvious that the increasing range of commercial aeroplanes would demand the com plete internationalisation of meteorological reports and facili ties. Already Europe may virtually be considered as a .single country where such facilities are concerned, and two years ago, in connection with the North Atlantic flights, the four countries concerned in making the experiments took steps to arrange for specially adequate weather information. The matter nowa days is not one merely of providing for meteorological reports from various parts, but of co-ordinating these reports and organising a weather forecasting system which will cover really large areas with accuracy and regularity. By now, Capt. F. Entwistle, head of the overseas section of the British Meteorological Office, should be on his way to Montevideo, where a conference of all the South American countries is shortly to be held. This conference is of particu lar importance now that British Airways are preparing for a West African and South American mail service. Until now the two companies concerned in South Atlantic mail flying— Air France and D.L.H.—have provided their own meteoro logical facilities, but it is obvious that a scientific reorganisa tion of the whole matter will be much better for all concerned. Needless to say, this country's experiments and information will be put at the disposal of the South American nations, so that these will not need to go through a period of trial and error when starting their weather services. The whole subject is one of world-wide importance and accurate forecasting at any point can only be carried out when complete information is obtainable from all the areas within a 3,000-mile range. From the Ground Up SOME further details are now available regarding the com mercial pilots' school opened by the Straight Corporation, Ltd. The subjects covered include "A" and "B" licence instruction and instructors' endorsement. Navigational courses and lectures are held in London, and flying and ground train ing are given at Ramsgate, Ipswich, Exeter, Plymouth, and Weston. Sqn. Ldr. W. N. Cumming, D.F.C., F.R.Met.S., A.F.R.A.E.S., has been appointed director of training. It will be remembered that he was largely responsible for the details of the inauguration of the New York-Bermuda service, and carried out the first long-range tests of Caledonia from South ampton to Alexandria. He holds a Master Pilot's certificate. Sqn. Ldr. Cummings, it is stated, is assisted by a staff of twenty-nine instructors, and has at his disposal a fleet of forty aircraft. . J HOW IT'S DONE: Writing last week of the Newfoundland Airport, a contributer to Flight said : " It remains to be seen whether the snow problem can be solved by rolling or clearing." These photographs show how snow is dealt with at Bromma, Sweden, in order that A.B. Aero- transport may keep their winter services going. It is cleared from the tar mac and carted away in the train of truck sledges. The outsize in rollers is used to consolidate the runways, which are then marked out by juniper branches.
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