THE CHI
UP
PLANS TO LINK UP
SOUTH PACIFIC
DARWIN BECOMES THE
"FRONT DOOR"
JUMPING-OFF PLACE IN LONDON TO MELBOURNE SERVICE
Darwin, North Australia. MODERN air transportation is putting Darwin
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on the map. This little northen outpost, administrative centre of a vast, undeveloped territory, has become Australia's first aerial port of entry with the inauguration of 12-day air ser- vice to and from London.
The Melbourne Centenary Air Race and the subsequent opening of the Imperial Airways service has brought notable changes to Australia's new front door. Leading Australian newspapers have stationed representatives at Darwin and the
Miles
MAIL SATURDAY, NOVEMBER Z 1935
AUSTRALIA.
Oceao
TASMANIA Hobar
fation Puta" Darwin on the Mip
AIR LINES COMBINE
EXPECTED
TO COVER
2,200 MILES
Allied British
Airways"
RESOURCES GROUPED INTO ONE UNIT
London.
Plans, have been completed for bringing into one big com- }bine five of the principal inde-
pendent British sir lines.
The companies concerned are: 'Hillman's“ Airways Ltd;
United Airways Ltd
people of the Commonwealth are becoming accustomed to reading LONDON'S NEW AIRPORT Northern and Scottish Air-
reports of news happenings in the Northern Territory.
AERODROME
AT TENGAH
A project for linking all State capitals by air-lines is ex- pected to be undertaken by the Commonwealth Government
within a year. Mail and pas-
COMPLETED senger service under rivate
Squadron Stationed
There In Future
management, helped by govern-
· FAST ELECTRIC TRAIN LINKS AERODROME AND TOWN
Gatwick, Surrey.
-Aways Ltd; MA Highland Airways Ltd.; and Spartan Air Lines Ltd.
The new company, will be called Allied British Airways Ltd. With the exception of Imperial Airways, it will be the
the country.
ment subsidisation, is planned "Tinsley Green and Gatwick Airport, has Its routes will form a system NEW station on the Southern Railway, largest air transport concern in
The incentives to this pro-]
ject frequently cited in Austra-
lim-aviation circles are the just been opened.
advances made by Pan Ameri- can Airways in the Pacific and the possibilities of increased air
BIGGEST SERVICE ENGINEERING armaments by the Common AVIATION LESSON
PROJECT IN SINGAPORE
The opening of the Tengah aerodrome early this month for use by RAF planes will mark the completion of one of biggest Service engineering projects on Singapore Island.
the
More than 2,000,000 cubic Jards of excavation were neces- sary in the construction of the new aerodrome, which is off the Choa Chu Kang Road on, the. west side of the island.
wealth. On the commercial side, there is the prospect of linking. Australia with the United States by a mail and passenger air line.
BRITISH PLANES FOR JUGOSLAVIA
Fighters Purchased On Sheer Merit
London
· BY WIRELESS ·
Air-Mindedness Being Developed
BROADCAST TO CHILDREN
extending 2,200 miles in length, and serving more than 25 cities In itself this may not seem and towns in the British Isles an important amorcement, but it is, for the station is at and Western Europe. London's great new airport
The present scope of the five companies involved is as fol
There.
Present Scope
When work was completed lows: yesterday (November 1) it was
Hillman's Airways connect London, possible to step out of an air Liverpool, Belfast and Glasgo liner and walk under cover on London and Paris; and London, to the station platform to catch Brussels, and Antwerp; and operate a fast electric train to Victoria. Bummer services between London, During the last few weeks an Ramsgate, and Le Zonter and Hall,
Manchester, Livepool and Belfast
amazing transformation hast United Airways, serve. Londen, The BBC is to give a special been wrought here in the cause Liverpool, Blackpool, Morecambe, Car.
of civil aviation.
lisle and the Isle of Man. descriptive broadcast from
Gatwick has been developed Northern and Scottish Airways Croydon Aerodrome to develop air-mindedness in the children as an alternative to Croydon operate joint services with the former because it is outside the Lon-company, linking Glasgow to the Isle of Britain This programme:
of Man and also Glasgow with Camp- included in the afternoon trans den fog belt and will be used belltown and Lela
by all the leading air lines Highland Airways serve Aberdeen, The Jugoslav Government missions to schools, will be a
the In area it is about 1,000 yards
has lately ordered 10 Hawker practical lesson in commercial when conditions make Croydon Inverness, Wick, Kirkwall,
dangerous.
Ownkeys), and Lerwick (in the Shut- square.
Originally the land consisted Fury" single-seater Fighter aviation.
The children will hear the At least one important airlands).
Spartan Air Lines fly of rubber plantations, secon-aeroplanes and 75 Rolls Royce dary jungle and swamp, to con- Kestrel engines of the type officer in the control tower send-line may transfer its operating entridge, Sandowetween
ing instructions to air liners headquarters to this new air-
port. vert which required a tremen-which power them.
This foreign order was won flying to and from the Contin- dous amount of clearing and
by England after intense com-ent Norman Shelley, who as filling.
A squadron will be stationed petition and three years of Tiger Standish was the star at Tengah later." Soon after negotiations.. the completion of the aerodrome the erection of RAF. buildings will begin.
If there is heavy rain in the next fortnight the work will be held up temporarily.
JAPANESE GLIDER FLIER KILLED
First Crash Of Kind In Japan
Nagoya, October 21. Authorities of the Nagoya Aviation School here to-day are investigating the first "fatal glider accident in Japan, which yesterday caused the death of Mr. K. Motojima, a second-class pilot, and injured a spectator.
Corres
£200,000 Resources -Hillman's Airways and High- land Airways are both carriers
tract from the General Post Office.
of the recent B.B.C. series, The WORLD AIR RACE of the Royal mail under con- Exhaustive trial tests were lystery of the Seven Cafes," made by Jugoslav pilots, and and is himself a pilot with 400 the British firm won the order hours flying experience, will largely because the manufac explain the technique of the turers did not mind how severe airport.
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the
£135,000 In Prizes For 25,000-Miles Event
Paris
The companies, in statement, say
that joint the rem sources of all five companies will be grouped into one unit, and "will exceed £200.000 in of equipment tangible assets
were the stresses imposed on A French liner landing, and the machines in power dives some of the giants of Imperial and other manoeuvres at the Airways starting off on hands of the foreign pilots. Empire route, will be heard: A round-the-world air race and cash, it being understood The machines were attached Should visibility be bad, the open to pilots of all nations is that Messrs. Erlangers Ltd. and for long periods to air force fog-lighting mechanism of the projected in connection with the Messrs. Whitehall squadrons in Jugoslavia for airport will be described. ordinary routine work.
Paris Exhibition in 1937.
Securities
Corporation Ltd are actively The idea originated with supporting the new venture and
DOUBLED SERVICES to England
-THE REASON
All these air liners have four engines for greate reliability and offer the highest standards comfort and service
THE RESULT
The weekly service to England has become so popular that it has had to be doubled
Ask about through combined fores by sea and air vie Singapore at through rates
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Mon.-Fri.
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There are big reductions on return journeys and 10% reductions on fures for Serving Officers in -HM Forces and British Government Officials.
"Thurs
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS
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- Lidy Trading & Transport Cas Hong Kong-
·ROYAL- DUTCH AIR LINES TWICE WEEKLY
& ACCELERATED SERVICE
During this time their sturdy ARCTIC ROUTE FOR Prince Videsco, president of the have undertaken to subscribe HONGKONG LONDON
qualities were contrasted to their favour with other machines from Europe.
NEW FLYING CLUB
› IN RHODESIA
Lord Wakefield's Gift
AIR SERVICE
A Promoting Company
International Aeronautical £100,000 to the working capital Federation, and the arrange of the company* ment of details-is in the hands
of the Aero Club of France.
The approximate distance of SCHOOL AEROPLANE
CLASSES
the race will be 25,000
anies.
A company has been formed and it is proposed to allot £135.-
in London with registered 000 for prizes.
capital of £5,000 to promote the The organisers hope that establishment of a northern air this early announcement will
service between Europe and give aircraft constructors ample Rossall's New Project
Lord Wakefield, whose long America. It is intended that time to prepare.
The fier crashed ·· from a series of benefactions has done the machines should fly via Den-
height of about ten metres much to encourage civil aviation mark, Scotland, the Faroe IMPERIAL AIRWAYS while practising at the Obataga- and air transport throughout Islands, Iceland and Greenland
Fleetwood.
Bossall School is to have an
har aerodrome, Moriyamachi, the Empire, has given the to Canada and the United GAIN 100 PER CENT. aeroplane for instructional pur-
Eastern Route
rear here, shortly after noon newly-formed Flying Club of States.
[poses. The school racquet yesterday. He was picked Northern Rhodesia funds to The directors of the company
courts are to be altered and up unconscious and died soon purchase, and assist in main are Mr. Augustine Courtauld.
extended to form an aerodrome, after from concussion of the taining, an aeroplane."
the leader of the Courtauld Ex-Traffic In India. And and the headmaster, Mr. H. G. brain.
The club is under the patron bedition to the Arctic, the Hon According to eye-witnesses age of the Governors of G. G. Bennell Rodd, son of Lord
M. Clarke, is arranging with the War Office for an aeroplane the pilot apparently misjudged Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rennell, and Mr. Sveno Aager
to be transferred to the school. | the height and sent his machine Phodesia, and Nyasaland - A Dohm
There has been such an in- crashing to the ground
large number of would-be pilots Mr. Dohm said recently that India and Eastern route of crease in senior boys this term, Bengo.
have long been seeking facilities the company was merely a pro-Imperial Airways increased ion in aerodynamics and other and so many desire instruc- for the instruction and practice moting company. The object MANCHESTER'S NEW which will now be available.
approximately 100 per Cent. was to investigate the route-
during May, 1935, as compared that the school council has de -matters- pertaining--to-flying, with the same month last year, cided to include instruction in according to a recent report. ---Maß traffic-was-60-
sero-engines and the general construction-of-
AIRPORT
Work To Begin Soon
Manchester.
London-Air traffic in the
Seaplane Flier Claims Record higher. For the ans
Washington
The United States laid claim to another world aeroplane" cord last month after an
Levelling of the site of Man-tude fight by Benjamin chester's new airport at Ring engineer and sportsman way, Cheshire, is to begin this
month.*
Before the work falities are to be g
group of expert natura make a survey of the danna at present in
ay Any ra
which would be
irport will be
In a flight of two hours 20 minutes, Mr. King repo
new mark of 16900 feet for ight seaplanes, – smashi
record of 11
pilot
of 1935 compared passenger-ton mile
187797,
the curriculum-
The ac
les by 39 per-mille 2,063,525
totale incr
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