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1939 - 1707.PDF
JUNE I, 1939 SUMMER AT SCHIPHOL : This aerial view of Amsterdam's airport gives an idea of the tremendous number of people who are encouraged to come out during the weekend and on fine evenings in the summer. On the tarmac are half a dozen assorted Douglas while on the right are F.22's and F.36% which are now used for joy riding. The Schiphol runway extensions to the north are now complele. Fourteens for the Dublin Service AER LINGUS TEORANTA, or Irish Sea Airways, have recently been very silent about their plans, and the an nouncement that they have ordered two Lockheed Fourteens for the service between Dublin, Bristol, and London has come from America. The machines, which will be fitted with Pratt and Whitney Hornet engines of 850 h.p., should by now be on their way over by boat. On the Dublin-London run the Lockheeds will reduce the present schedule by about an hour. They will be equipped to carry nine passengers with a crew of four; including a stewardess. Tasman Investigations FOLLOWING the successful collation of weather data over the North Atlantic by a meteorologist who travelled back wards and forwards on the S.S. Manchester Port, a similar scheme is being applied to the necessary investigations over the Tasman crossing. In this case the S.S. Awatea has been equipped with a special research station which will be in charge of Mr. Alan Martin, who was recently engaged in making observations in Tasmania. During his trips across the Tasman Mr. Martin will obtain the usual upper-air observations by the use of meteorological balloons and will transmit special reports by radio to the aerodromes at Sydney and Auckland. A New Blind Approach System on Test T HE United States Civil Aeronautics Authority have ar ranged with the U.S. Army to conduct practical flight tests of the Metcalf-C.A.A. blind-approach system. These tests will be carried out at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. This blind-approach system, which was described in Flight of September 15, 1938, involves the use of cathode ray tubes on the flat surface of which three lighted dots indicate to the pilot whether he is on his correct approach line or not. These dots make up; so to speak, the plane of approach, and may be described as being the equivalent of three lights, one at the end of the landing runway and two, on either side of the start of the runway, suspended in mid-air. Hence, if the three dots are in line and equi-distant, the machine is on the correct approach line. The machine's normal artificial horizon and directional gyro control the movements of the outer dots, while the centre dot is controlled by radio. An important point is that a single instrument on the panel gives the pilot all the information he needs. The Sydney Base THE comparative inadequacy of the accommodation at tht Rose Bay base, Sydney—referred to in Flight a few weeks ago—is reviving the idea, put forward some time ago, that an artificial lake should be engineered near the Kingsford- Smith airport. This airport is laid out near a river, and is separated from it only by swamps. The suggestion is that part of these swamps should be reclaimed for airport exten sion, and that a further area should be dredged to make the proposed flying-boat base. Imperial's New Terminal O N and after next Monday, June 5, all passengers for the European services of Imperial Airways, S.A.B.E.N.A., D.D.L., D.L.H., A.L.I., and Swissair, as well as the internal R.A.S. services, will be leaving and arriving at, so far as London is concerned, the new Imperial Airways building in the Buckingham Palace Road. By then all the essential traffic staff will have been trans ferred fiom Airway Terminus, and the rest of the considerable staff of Imperial Airways will presumably be moving in very shortly. Apparently it has been found that even this large build ing is not quite sufficient, and extensions have had to be made. New Service in Indo China A NEW shuttle service between Saigon and Hanoi, serving the interior of French Indo China, is to be started on July 1. This branch line, which covers a section of the route followed by the weekly long-distance mail service from Europe to China, has been much talked about since the Dewoitine 338's were put into service last year and Hong Kong became Air France's Far Eastern terminus. It will be remembered that, prior to this, the line sph' at Bangkok, one connection running to Saigon, the French Colonial capital, and the other—that carrying the China mail- flying over the Siamese jungle, via Vientianne, to Hanoi, whence it was carried in a Chinese machine to Canton. The speed of the Dewoitines, however, made it possible for the same machine to call at both Saigon and Hanoi and proceed to Hong Kong without loss on the schedule time, and the two. towns became directly linked by air for the first time. The new service, which is likely to be a daily one, will serve the interior of Cochin China by landing at Laos and Vientiann' two important inland centres. It has come into existent' following an agreement with the Chinese Government.
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