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Aviation History
1940
1940 - 1292.PDF
4T4 MAY 2, T940 COMMERCIAL AVIATION THE SEATS OF THE MIGHTY. The pilots' cockpit of the first Boeing 307, now known by Pan American Airways as theStratoclipper class. The design of windscreen is rather puzzling, as each panel appears to be divided into four. The dividing lines might possibly be reinforcement to strengthen the transparent panels against the internal pressure. The two extra struts in themiddle may be part of the instrument board structure. The three sun visors should be noted. THE HIGH AIRS "A. Viator" on the Right to Stop and Search Air Liners I HEAR that the various K.L.M. machines which werein Scandinavia when the bit of international bothera-tion started there have now returned to Holland, and that the Swedish Air Lines machine which made Amster- dam its terminus for the time being has now flown on home to Stockholm. There seems to be some prospect of services reopening between some Scandinavian countries and Holland fairly shortly, but what routes will be fol- lowed and whether a stop will be made in Copenhagen is not yet known. Things are not made much easier on the air routes by all this warfare, and neutral pilots have some quaint ex- periences, especially on the route towards Holland and Scandinavia. They may meet military planes of both belligerents in the course of a journey, and being bright orange-coloured neutrals they will bow politely to both parties and wish them, in passing, a very good morning. What the neutral commander tries to avoid is anything in the nature of a gregarious gathering in which both parties meet one another in his vicinity, and his theme song is apt to be, "How happy could I be with either, were t'other great blighter away." In fact he prefers, being a peaceful kind of a bloke, a small gin and bitters after landing to a large din and jitters on the way across. A certain amount of newspaper comment has been caused lately by the announcement of M. Monnet, French Blockade Minister, that neutral air lines to Lisbon afforded facilities to the enemy for breaking the blockade. One chirrupy columnist linked up the K.L.M. Amster- dam-Lisbon service with this matter, and it is therefore interesting to examine the probability, or rather the improbability, of the enemy making much use of this service. It is true that it is a direct flight from one neutral country to another, which remains outside French and British territorial waters all the way. Thus it is an abso- lutely neutral service, and in Amsterdam or Lisbon a Frenchman or a Briton may book a passage on this route, and so, of course, may a German. The question is whether a German would so so, however, because this flight is made along the English Channel and around the French coast, and consequently it is under Allied supervision the whoe way. . The columnist remarked that the right to stop ana search the air liner in the high airs existed in the sa'«e w?* as the right to stop and search a merchant vessel on tn high seas. Probably this is so, for in many respects a history and tradition is being made to-day.
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