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1937
1937 - 2979.PDF
0CT03ER 28, 1937- FLIGHT. 429' Commercial Aviation ATLANTIC SURVEY : Caledonia taxies to her moorings at Horta, Azores, after her recent survey trip in command of Captain Powell. More Menaces THE Notice to Airmen (No. 227) giving a list of the centres, twelve in all, in various parts of the country where target towing may be carried out is not quite so horrifying as it appears at first sight. Only four of the areas are within the vicinity of the tracks of regular air services, and it is clearly stated that the targets will only be towed at heights where the horizontal visibility is more than five miles. How ever, the tow-line may be as long as 1,000ft., and it behoves all pilots to keep their eyes open in these areas. Meanwhile, it appears that both Highland Airways and North-Eastern Airways are lodging protests with the Air Ministry against the detours which their pilots are compelled to make at certain points on the main routes because of Air Force and Naval exercises. Through compulsory deviations at Cardington to avoid the balloon barrage area and over the Firth of Forth, North-Eastern machines, for instance, are tending to drop behind schedule on the London-Perth route. Australian Additions QUITE apart from Qantas' part in the new trunk service plans, things are nowadays moving along very rapidly in Australia. During the last few months Australian National Airways have increased the number of their services and are co-operating with Airlines of Australia on an Adelaide- Melbourne-Sydney-Brisbane run, using D.C.2s; Guinea Air ways have started Adelaide-Darwin and Adelaide-Sydney runs, using Electras, and Ansett Airways, also with Electras, are flying a Melbourne-Mildura-Broken Hill service. There are also rumours that a really large new company, backed by American interests, is to start nightly inter-capital mail and freight services, using either D.C.3S or Lockheed 14s, and to run a special school for the training of its personnel in its work. Officially, however, nobody appears to know very much about it, though the Federal Government has been in tending for more than a year to send all first-class mail by air. Lorenz ultra-short-wave approach equipment has now been experimentally installed at Essendon, Melbourne, and the whole radio system is being reorganised. Mr. A. R. McComb, the director of ground services, has been over here in connec tion with such matters. British Airways Resignations "C'OLLOWING so shortly after the resignation of Sir Percy •*- Mackinnon from the board of British Airways, it is with special regret that we record the fact that Mr. F. W. Jones and Mr. T. R. Bryans have also severed their connection with this company. No official statement has been issued by British Airways, and the three directors concerned very properly remain silent on the matter. It will be remembered that Sir Percy was chairman of British Continental Airways (a very go-ahead concern which was later fused with British Airways), while Mr. Jones was the managing director and Mr. Bryans a very active and interested member of the board. Mr. Jones, whose connection with aviation and general insurance is well known, has been in charge of West African and South American projects both before and after the amalgamation, and his place will not be easily filled. All three have shown an enthusiasm for air transport, with all its problems and setbacks, which, unfor tunately, is not always to be found in high places. Mr. Farey Jones remains, of course, the chairman and managing director of Rollason Aircraft Services, of which Mr. Bryans is also a director. The "Lieutenant" Out Again A T 7.35 a.m. on Monday the six-engined Latecoere boat, the Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, left Kenitra, Morocco, on an attempt on the long-distance flying-boat record. This is at pre sent held by America with a distance of about 3,280 miles. The Lieutenant is flying to West Africa and thence to Natal and down the South American coast. It will be remembered that the arrangements for North Atlantic trails by this boat were recently countermanded on the score of effective range against possible head winds. Paris—Buenos Aires AIR FRANCE is to make a special demonstration flight with the four-engined Farman 2231, which took part in the Istres-Damascus-Paris race. Codos will be the pilot, and the flight will be from Paris to Buenos Aires—about 8,000 miles—- with only two stops at Dakar (West Africa) and Natal (Brazil). The Farman 2231, it will be remembered, has been specially built for the Air France-Transatlantique Company, and was to make trial flights across the North Atlantic, stopping at the Azores. Pending the necessary facilities from the Portu guese Government for French machines to use the Azores as a stopping place, the North Atlantic trials have been sus pended. The flight from Paris to Buenos Aires will be a speed demonstration and should have valuable propaganda value for Air France and their South American mail service in the capitals of that Continent. The Air Ministry Takes Over AMONG the recommendations of the Maybury Committee was that ot the formation of a comprehensive air traffic control organisation adequate for the safety and regularity of air services, ^his to be provided, maintained and operated by the Government. For some time a training school foi control officers has been in action in London, under Mr. J. J Jeffs' supervision, and a course of practical instruction is alsc given at one of the two existing Air Ministry control station1- at Croydon and Heston Airports. Manchester has now been selected as the first provincial aix traffic control station to be manned by Air Ministry staff, who started their duties on October 21. A similar station will shortly be established at Portsmouth, the opening of which has been provisionally scheduled for November 1. In selectin J the radio communication areas to be the first to receive these fully qualif'ed Air Ministry Control Officers, the deciding factors were density and frequency of air transport move ments within these areas. Analysis of traffic conditions has shown that, after Croydon and Heston (which are already under Air Ministry control) the greatest densities of traffic are in the Manchester and Portsmouth areas, and it was accordingly decided that these areas should be the first to receive them.. It may be remembered that Manchester (Barton) Airport was opened as long ago as April, 1930. Three years later a radio station was installed, but traffic in the North, Midlands, and notably c er the Irish Sea, increased to such an extent that a second radio channel had to be installed early this year. mainly for the use of Isle of Man traffic. The Portsmouth City Airport was opened in rojt, and the radio station was installed in 1934. In addition to mainland and Channel Islands services, Portsmouth has to look after the Empire flying boats which are at present using Southampton Water as a base.
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