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1939
1939 - 0770.PDF
272 Commercial Aviation FLIGHT. MARCH 16, 1939 More Charter A NEW company, Aviation Charter, is to start operations shortly. The directors are Lord Douglas-Hamilton (man aging), Fit. Lt. Preston (chairman), Miss Ivy B. M. Forsyth and Mr. Edward Forsyth. Mr. N. Samuels, the pilot, well known to all and sundry at Croydon, is to be manager in charge of the company's Croydon office. Everybody concerned is a pilot, and charter and army co-op. will be the main objects of the company. To start with a Miles Falcon Six, with blind flying and two-way radio equip ment, will be employed. Other and larger machines will be purchased later. World Time "THE Willis world clock, which indicates not only Greenwich -*- time but, as the dial revolves past each meridian, the exact local time everywhere in the world, has now been pro duced on a smaller and lighter scale for use in aircraft. In its new form the clock has been designed to" fit more or less flush with the instrument panel, and should be a useful item of equipment now that transport machines are being flown through to long-distance destinations. How the face is arranged on the world clock. The twenty- four-hour dial rotates and the time is read off against the appropriate arrows. The operation of this clock is extremely simple, with a twenty-four-hour moving disc in the centre and a separate minute hand below. The main face of the clock is laid out in sectors, with the names of all the more important countries and cities in the world indicated by arrows, and the time for each particular place is merely read cif against the appropriate arrow. The timing disc itself is clearly marked in a.m. and p.m. sections, so that, even when the twenty-four method of reading is not being used, there is no possibility of error. Those countries and cities where "summer time" arrange ments are in force are printed separately in red type. For example. Great Britain and France have two positions, one at Greenwich time and one, for the summer season, on the mid- European time arrow. Needless to say, such a clock will be useful in working out E.T.A.s which are likely to be at or near nightfall, and also for timing the reception of both weather broadcasts and others required for D/F bearings. The world clock is obtainable from J. H. Willis and Company, Ipswich Road, Norwich, and the aircraft or small marine type, for instrument-board mount ing, is priced at 137s. Od. Adcock at Heston TO-MORROW a new Adcock D/F station, which has been erected on Hounslow Heath, will take over the general D/F service of the Heston area on a frequency of 348 Kc/s. In the ordinary way all bearings will be given from this new station, but if it is found necessary to give a bearing from the Heston D/F station on the same frequency, each will be pre fixed by the letter " A." Normal local bearings for approach assistance will continue to be given on the QBI channel of 327-328 Kc/s. By Night from. Montreal ACCORDING to plan, the first flight of trans-Canadian night mail was sent off on March 1 from St. Hubert airport, Montreal. The Trans-Canada Airways Lockheed Electra took off shortly after 9 p.m. carrying about 500 lb. of mail, and the usual scheduled stops were made on the way to Vancouver. At Regina, Prairie Airways connected with the service to take over the mail for Saskatoon and Prince Albert. The next important step in the development of the trans- Canadian service will be the start of a passenger service between Montreal and Vancouver, which should be made early next month. Trans Tasman THE first of the modified "C" class boats for Trans-Tasman service should by now have been launched at Rochester. This boat will be named Aotearoa and will, in due course, be commanded by Capt. J. W. Burgess, who was in charge of Centaurus when that machine left England at the end of 1937 for the first through survey flight to Australia and New Zealand. The second of the Tasman boats will be called Australia and will be looked after by Capt. G. C. Butler, while the third of the boats will be known as Awarua. It is not expected that the Tasman service will be in operation much before September this year, since the bases, radio facilities, and meteorological services have not yet been put in order. Another point is that the Australian and New Zealand authorities prefer that the services shall be started at the beginning of the- anti podean summer. It is expected in Australia that this month will see the official formation of. Tasman Empire Airways, the company which will, of course, operate the Sydney-Auckland service. The shareholders will be Union Airways of New Zealand, Imperial Airways, and Qantas Empire Airways. Southern Airways EARLY in October last year a new company, Southern Airways, which is a subsidiary of the Straight Corporation, applied for A.T.L.A. licences to operate services between Ipswich and Clacton and between Ilford and Ramsgate. At a private enquiry held by the Authority in January it was found that the company was considering the combination of the two services, and the consequent operation of one between Ipswich and Ilford, with intermediate landings at Clacton and Rams gate. Another application was received last month for a licence covering this service with, additionally, an optional landing at Southend. Though the company is a comparatively new one and the routes untried, the experience of the parent and other sub sidiary companies was taken into account, and the Authority granted a licence for a year with an on-demand schedule until June 17 and a compulsory daily schedule (with a thrice-daily schedule between Ilford and Ramsgate) between June 17 and September 18. Southern Airways actually operated a service once daily in each direction between Ipswich and Clacton, as an experiment, between June 1 and September 18 last year. In this period they carried 626 passengers. Later, the company started a service between Fairlop Aerodrome, Ilford, and Ramsgate, and during a period of a little less than two months 108 passengers were carried. THE WEEK AT CROYDON (Concluded from p. 271.) why I have worked indefatigably to deny the latest rumour. It is to the effect that work on the new hangar is held up because the secret plans were stolen from the shopping basket on the handlebars of the W. and B. was of the opinion that it was not a Co-op. at all, but the H.Q. of International Documents Transfer, Ltd. (tele grams: Espion, Albion) with a false facade. Colour is lent to this theory by the fact that the bacon tandem, when that full-feathering controllable pitch bought there by W. and B. would not fry and turned out machine was recently left outside the Co-op. Scotland Yard to be red flannel cunningly striped with white paint.
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