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Aviation History
1941
1941 - 2304.PDF
216 FLIGHT OCTOBER 2ND, 1941. THE IDEAL TRAINER Monoplane trainers are coming into increasing use all over the world and many Royal Air Fofce pilots receive all their early training on the Miles Magister. There are, however, the Arpin, and the American Stear- man-Hammond Y. Of similar layout are also the French ultra-light S.C.A.L., the American Weick and the very interesting Dutch Scheldemusch. Worthy of comment is the fact that all these rather unusual aircraft were built with a view to really good visibility and so-called " fool- proof " flying. Except for a limited number of high- powered military prototypes there are no machines, to the author's knowledge, which can be directly compared with the third design outlined above. Figures quoted for the proposed trainers compare with an average of figures for all the above-named types. C.P.R. IN THE AIR OPERATIONS and organisation of thn western airlinesacquired by the Canadian Pacific Railways are beingmerged with those of the parent company. 111 a recent issue of the Canadian Pacific Staff Bulletin the fol- lowing particulars are given of the company's interest in airlines: . ^ An important unit in the new air services controlled by the C.P.R. is United Air Service Limited, of Edmonton. Last June, the schedules of Mackenzie Air Service, Limited, were co-ordinated with, certain operations of Canadian Air- ways, Ltd., in the Mackenzie River area between Edmon- ton and the Arctic Ocean and on the Edmonton to Prince Albert run and placed under the operation of United Air Service, Limited. The co-ordinated services are operated under the general direction ot an advisory board composed of representatives of the Canadian Airways, Mackenzie Air Service and the C.P.R, With 13 craft in operation or on hand, United Air Service operated for 603 flying hours during June, covering 90,000 miles Starratt Airways and Transportation, Ltd., of Hudson, Ontario, also now part of the C.P.R,'s general transporta- tion system, handled 29.739 lb. of freight during the week from July 12 to July 18, and in the same time carriedlog passengers to and from the mining regions of north- western Ontario and northern Manitoba. In water opera-tions the company moved approximately 247 tons of freight during the same period over the route from Hudsonto Gold Mines and Red Lake by boat and scow. Over the route from Hudson via Root Portage to Dog Hold Bayapproximately 36 tons of freight were moved. Ginger Coote Airways, Limited, Vancouver, another linkin the company's new air services, is operating five sea- planes, one of which is held in reserve. Traffic handledby this company from January 1st to July 15th continued to increase on schedule routes, in spite of the fact thatGovernment flying for fisheries, forest patrol and aerial photography was largely discontinued due to economy. Yukon Southern Air Transport, Ltd., of Edmonton, isone of the existing air services recently taken over by the company. Tourist traffic was expected to take up a normalslack in the sub-Arctic air operations which have always existed during July and August, but July passenger trafficwas light. (The activities of C.P.R. in Canadian air trans- port have been given prex'iously in Flight for June 19th and26th and September 18th,) FLEXILANT PRODUCTS THE announcement has been made ol the formation ofRubber Bonders, Limited. This company has been formed to continue the combined work hitherto carried out by theDynaflex Division of the Manganese Bronze and Brass Co., Ltd. and the Empire Rubber Company. The former of these twoconcerns are experts in all kinds of non-ferrous work, alloys, electro plating, and marine engineering and marine propellers. The Empire Rubber Company are specialists in the now veryadvanced subject of rubber moulding. The work of the new concern, whose trade mark is"Flexilant," has hitherto been in the hands of the Dynaflex Division, due to their having begun working some years agounder the patents of Messrs. S. A. Paulstra, whose trade maru is " Dynaflex."
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