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1939
1939 - 1706.PDF
JUNE I, 1939 ffif0SR 561 Commercial Aviation ATLANTIC ADDITION : The new Latecoere 521, VilU de Saint Pierre, which has recently been undergoing pre-Atlantic trials at Biscarosse, where the machine is seen here. It follows the lines of its predecessor, the well-known Lieutenant, and will be used with the latter for Air France Transatlantique's experimental crossings, preparatory to the appearance of still larger boats which are in course of construction. Another Warsaw—London Connection FOLLOWING the Start of British Airways' London-Berlin-Warsaw service, Polish L.O.T., as reported in recent Croydon notes, started a new service between Warsaw and Copenhagen on May 15. This service connects comfortably with the regular K.L.M./A.B.A./D.D.L. services between Copenhagen and London. The L.O.T. section is via Gdynia, and a D.C.3 was used on the inaugural run. Inci dentally, the first service between Poland and Denmark was opened by the same company in the middle twenties, when experimental runs were made with a single-engined Junkers on floats. Ready for the next winter season, new radio equipment is being installed at Copenhagen's airport at Kastrup. This will consist of an Adcock D/F receiver. At' present an ordinary loop aerial is used, with, of course, ultra-high- frequency blind approach equipment. S.A.A. Ju. 90s IT is expected that the first of the two Junkers Ju. 90s which have been ordered by South African Airways will be de livered in August. As soon as the two machines are in service the company will start a new non-stop run between Johannes burg and Cape Town. Since these particular Ju. 90s are intended for long-distance services, they will have a rather more ample tankage than standard, and will accommodate only thirty passengers against the forty for which the machines were originally designed. The four engines will be Pratt and Whitney twin Wasps, which should give the machine a cruising speed of about 220 m.p.h. In many ways the S.A.A. Nineties will be similar to the Douglas D.C.3 Clubplanes (comfort before capacity) which are used by one or two of the American operators for special non-stop services. Another Atlantic Week AFTER Flight had gone to Press last week the Pan-American Airways' Boeing 314 completed the last stage of its journey by flying from Marseilles to Hythe, Southampton, in five minutes less than five hours. Capt. La Porte put down in Southampton Water at 12.45 p-m. This was on Tuesday, May 23. No mail, following the present agreement, was brought from Marseilles, and none was taken on the return journey, which started on May 24. After a gap of a day, the Yankee Clipper flew from Mar seilles to Lisbon in just over seven hours. Another boat, Atlantic Clipper, in command of Capt. Gray, was due to leave Port Washington at the time when Yankee Clipper reached Southampton, but on Friday of last week no further informa tion was available. After an initial decision by the G.P.O. not to accept mail for transport by the American flying boat across the Atlantic, the Postmaster General announced last week that letters for the U.S., Canada, Newfoundland and the Azores could be accepted for transmission from Marseilles by the Pan-American service. The postage rate is is. 3d. per half-ounce for America, a-nd 6d. per half-ounce for the Azores. Meanwhile the old Lieutenant arrived at Bordeaux on May 25 after completing the last stage of the first of the season's experimental trips to New York and return. A similar, but modernised, Latecoere boat of the same type is being got ready for the work by Air France Transatlantique. The Tasman Service THE first of the strengthened " C" class Short boats foi the Tasman Sea service, Aetearoa, is due. to leave England for Auckland, N.Z., towards the end of this month. The machine will be flown out by easy stages and will be used during the next few months for training purposes. The actual service is not likely to come into operation until September. Australian Merger TT appears that the Australian Government may shortly -*- reach an agreement with the commercial airline companies on its plans for avoiding uneconomic competition on the main routes. The agreement will be in the nature of a " stop-gap " until the Government has had time to consider plans for a long- term agreement. Eventually, it is believed, a series of agree ments for five years will be reached with the operating com panies. A committee is investigating the matter, and its report is understood to recommend the payment of subsidies amounting to nearly ^400,000 for the maintenance of domestic air services. Before such a scheme can, however, be intro duced at least three months must, according to the Minister for Civil Aviation, Mr. Fairbairn, elapse. Radio Training ORIGINALLY intended only for the training of operators and engineers employed by Marconis, and for the per sonnel of Imperial Airways, the Marconi Training School has now been expanded so that all operators and prospective operators may take courses there. Instruction is arranged to suit each student's individual requirements and there are no fixed sessions. The courses include, of course, those for R/T. and W/T. certificates, for the signalling, D/F and blind-approach section of the Second-Class Navigators' examination, for R.A.F. operators requalifying, and for special revision. An an ex ample of the fees charges, a nine months' course tor the full W/T. certificate is offered at thirty-five guineas—or five guineas a month if the student has had previous experience and knows that he can complete the course in less than the normally stipulated period. The school is under the control of the Marconi experimental establishment at Hackbridge, and the training is carried out at "Rathmore," 6, Stanley Park Road, Wallington, Surrey. The chief instructor is himself a man with long experience both of radio operation and of equipment installation, and he has at his disposal, of course, anv personnel whom he may require from the other Marconi establishments. Since this company's equipment is used more largely than any other in British air craft, the school should be well fitted to offer up-to-date training.
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