1936-06-06 — Page 7

THE CHINA-MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE~6~1936′′

CLASS-ROOMS FOR AIRMEN OUTSIDE CROYDON

REDUCED FARES

SINGAPORE TO BRISBANE

Duplicated Services In Operation

TWICE WEEKLY IN EACH- DIRECTION

It is announced that arrange- ments have been completed for the duplication of the service be-) tween Singapore and Brisbane operated by Qantas Empire Air- ways Ltd, the associated Com pany of Imperial Airways Ltd. operating that sector of the through England Australia ser-

vice.

This duplication began with the castbound service leaving) Singapore on Friday, May 15, and in the westbound direction the first duplicated service left Brishane on May 16.

on

There is now a twice weekly service in each direction, leav ing Brisbane westbound Wednesdays and Saturdays, and Singapore eastbound on Mon- days and Fridays, connecting, in each case with the eastbound and westbound duplicated Im- | perial Airways services to and

Above is a photograph of the German airship Hindenburg, just before her successful crossing, of the North Atlantic recently.

PROGRESS OF COMMERCIAL AVIATION

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Four years ago Imperial Air- ways and its associated Compan- les were operating routes with a total of 8,320 miles. This figure has now increased to just over 40,000 miles and Imperial Air ways aircraft are now dying an average of 17,000 miles a day.

from London; the Hong Kong-MR. HUDSON FYSH

Malaya service connects at Sin- gapore, of course, with the Saturday arrival westbound and the Monday departure east- bound.

Concurrent with this In- creased frequency of services, the fares and freight rates be- tween Singapore and Brisbane are being very considerably reduced, resulting in a conse-

rates from Hong Kong, the in- clusive Hong Kong-Brisbane fare being £87.

NEW DIRIGIBLE FOR AKRON

Largest In The World

75 FEET LONGER THAN

HINDENBURG

Akron.

INTERVIEWED

Valuable Savings Effected

DUPLICATION WELCOMED

Director of Qantas Empire

cation.

route

"FINISHING SCHOOLS" FOR PILOTS

WIRELESS, METEOROLOGY, AND OTHER SCIENCES

Seventy aeroplane pilots have gone back to school again. They sit at their desks in class-rooms, just near London's busy air-port at Croydon and, while they listen to lectures, big air-liners go droning past overhead.

All these men are already qualified pilots, holding their official licences as commercial aviators. All of them have spent long periods up in the air. But the work of an air-line captain grows more exacting every day. Far more is required of him than just sitting at the controls and flying his machine and. as air-liners grow bigger and more powerful. the work of their crews becomes correspondingly more responsible.

When civil flying began, pilots them to be qualified in such were flying small single-engined matters as ground engineering, planes. Then

came big 3-maintenance, and overhaul. engined craft which first merit- Hence the "school" which ed the description of air-liner. Imperial Airways is now operat These were followed by ing. It is really a "finishing engined air giants developing school" for pilots; and it is 2,000 horse-power. And now something more even than that, to-day Imperial Airways have because the pilots leave their

AIRFIELDS ALL in construction a great fleet of class-rooms, at various stages

OVER U.S.A.

Ambitious Plan Sponsored

FLAT AREAS TO BE PROVIDED

flying-boats and landplanes, the of their tuition, and carry out crews of which will have to take practical experiments in wire- up into the air machines weigh-less in special test-rooms; while fing approximately 18 tons, and they also go over to the big driven by engines developing ajsheds at the air-port so as to total of 3,000 horse-power. come to grips with airway en- Night And Day Flying xineering under its everyday In addition to 29 giant flying-aspects. hoats Imperial Airways have in Another interesting branch construction 12 huge Land of the expansion plan lies in The plan to sprinkle the planes for use on their main training landplane pilots to American highway routes with routes. These great machines handle big fiving-boat's. This intervals now eaters its second across the Empire. airfields at 15-mile or

will be flying night and day is done at Hamble, near South- And not ampton. the aircraft used for stage in presentation to State only is there the question of instruction being of the 3- highway officials all over the Providing crews for them, but engined "Calcutta" type. United States. Winning the the men who handle them will Expert Knowledge favour of this group will mean need, in addition to their work A visit to the pilots' school a lot to the project, since these as pilots to be experts also in while it is in operation, and a men will probably be respon~

navigation and wireless; while chat with some of those în sible for building and maintain-it will also be

for charge, gives one a remaricable ing these airports.

insight into the amount of ex- pert knowledge which the air.

before he qualified

Flight strips, which

greater

were

Shumway Hanks, member of

necessary

Defences To Be Strengthened

Pot balised to take his

place as a member of the crew

of a great Empire-flying plane. Here, in a summarised form, jare some of the matters with which the pilut has to concern himself as he goes, through his

HONG KONG to

SINGAPORE

2

in 2

days by AIR

DORADO

SMPYRAK. ANNONS

Fast four-engined air liners leave Hong Kong on Fridays, reaching Penang on Saturdays and Singapore on Sundays

At Penang connexion is made with the London- Brisbane route. Now operating twice weekly. This brings Hong Kong to within a few days of England and Australia

Fores: HONG KONG #:

Penang £30 - Singapore £35 - Brisbang £99 - London £175

IMPERIAL AIRWAYS

AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

- PASSENGERS

MAILS

A

FREIGHT

course at his "finishing school:"] Bookings & information from Imperial Airways (Far East) Lid.

Theory of Aeronautics.

Kape.

Navigation

Cloud formation.

Winds.

Airway beacons.

Maintenance and rigging.

Electrical installations. International Air legislation. Compasses

Wireless.

Homing devices..

Course and distance calculations. Aero-engines.

Overhaul of aircraft

Control gear.

Mr. Hudson Fysh, Managing pioneered by Col. Stedman 1,000 PILOTS FOR quert reduction in the through Airways, in a recent interview the Committee for Aeronautics SOUTH AFRICA

with the press regarding the for Massachusetts, will be flat Qantas duplication of services

areas from 200 to 800 feet wide and reductions to existing fares. said:"Substantial fare long and adjacent to the major and.from 1,800 to 5,000 feet reductions will coincide with the highways and spaced from 16 to commencement of the twice a 50 miles apart on public land. week services to be operated by Qantas Empire Airways on the Federal and State funds are Under existing methods

GENEROUS ASSISTANCE Singapore Brisbane

FROM BRITAIN from May 15 and will add con-lopment and it is felt that flight! spent jointly for highway deve- siderably to the value of dupli- strips could be built and main-

Cape Town. Plans for strengthening the tained under the same auspices. defences of South Africa were "The cost of the single air These flight strips will not be out-lined in the Assembly last) journey from Singapore to known as airports, emergency month by the Defence Minis- Brisbane has been reduced landing fields or air parks inter. Mr. 0. Pirow. In view of Paul W. Litchfield, President from £80 to £65 Australian cur- the ordinary sense, so that they events, he said, it was proposed of the Goodyear Zeppelin Cor-rency, whilst the return trip by will not be under the jurisdicto poration, announced last month air may now be made for £117.tion of the Department of Com-Train 1,000 Air Force pilots and 5,000

As the air fare includes the cost merce. that engineers for the concern

The Federal or State) mechanics. had drawn plans for a dirigible of all meals, tips, hotel accom-bureaux should, however, ap- Form an anti-tank battalion which greater in size than Germany's modation and surface transport prove new Hindenburg.

that forms part of the journey, thought. The ship, he said, would be the voyage by air now must the largest in history, 850 feet make a strong appeal, not only long and 145 feet in diameter. to those who wish to save time This length would exceed that but to those who seek economi-Hanks's guidance, has selected gramme might need to be con-expert in, fiving and controlling of the Hindenburg by 75 feet, cal travel as well

40 possible sites alongside its iderably extended. The estab-modern air-liners, but he has he added.

main highways for flight strips.lishment of a large munitions gained a grasp of navigation Mr. Litchfield said that three!

Locations are soon to be check-factory in South Africa was which includes meteorology, eastern cities are,

"For those who wish to in-jed by Federal and State avia- being considered.

wireless, and airway engineer- sideration as the American clude variety in a return tription technical advisers and

Great Possibilities ing which will prove invaluable terminus for a permanent air-to Australia the new sea/air plans laid out according to the He referred to the great mili- to him in his routine work on a ship service between America interchange agreement permits standard plans and specifica-tary possibilities of the mining network of Imperial air routes He named them the outward journey by sea ortions of the Department of industry, with its vast number which already extends over Philadelphia. Alexandria, vice versa. for an inclusive fare Public Works of Massachusetts of experts on explosives. The 26,000 miles.

Air tourism for private in-coastal defences were stin "Duplication is welcomed by dividuals is not very far away. governed by arrangement with GOVERNOR ENJOYS the people of Australia as the The planning for flight strips the Imperial Committee of De- BY AIRSHIP TO

once weekly service has proved at this stage

a long-fence, but they would have to quite insufficient to cope with sighted policy, and one which be extended for Cape Town. the traffic offering. During will avoid the same mistakes Guns of calibre anfficient to April on the Australian internal which occurred in highway deal with any attack were being section quite a list of passen-planning. In the future we provided.

and Europe.

36

under con-

Va and Richmond, Va.

AIR TRIP

Speed And Comfort Appreciated

Variety Possible

lof 103 10s.

the locations,

It probably takes a pilot 12 could be transported 500 miles by it is

air in 48 hours.

to 15 months to pass through Form 12 squadrons, with five high-all the various classER of his speed multi-engined bombers in "school." Then, when he has CA

absorbed all this specialised in- Mr. Pirow said that this pro-struction, he is not only

Massachusetts Begins Massachusetts, under Colonel

seems

gers and freight has had to be may visualise the air touring Mr. Pirow referred to Bri- turned away on each trip. family departing with the auto-tain's generous assistance. Ee His Excelency the Governor

"The airmail has, of course, mobile road map spread on its added that South Africa would of the Straits Settlements, Sir proved of inestimable value to laps with flight strips also care- be willing to give similar assis Shenton Thomas, who recently business in Australia it being fully blocked in for their "hop tance to African territories, for travelled from Singapore to possible to get a letter from to hop trans-continental tour. Ithe sake of common defence. -London by Imperial Airways Brisbane to Singapore in 3% Ltd., was quick to appreciate days and London in 12% daya the speed and comfort of air as against 19 days and 31 days travel and, upon disembarking, respectively by boat. expressed

delighted

himself. with the trip and said he would

Education Complete

Rome

not have missed it for worlds. "At first

First Flying Hospital

D.E.L

Zeppelin Service Planned

JOURNEY TO TAKE FOUR

OR FIVE DAYS

2.1

Berlin. Negotiations will shortly be undertaken between the Zeppe- lin Company and a Holland syn- dicate with a view to creating a dirigible service between Hol Hand and her East Indian An aeroplane which is injing them to be moved under colonies, it is learned here. He considered that the Bang-houses said they would not use being built in England.

business effect & flying hospital is now the most comfortable

condi

Actual negotiations will begin kok-Rangoon' section is the the air mail, but their educa-

tions, and even where the time after the tenth voyage of the finest part of the route.

tion is now complete and the] Mr. S. J. Noel-Brown, of the saving of life, it would avoid North America, as "it is con- factor did not mean the actual giant airship Hindenburg to volume of outward mail from British Red Cross Australia equals the inward-a speaking at

Society, much pain and suffering. Wimbledon last

sidered that this will constitute condition which is not apparent month, said that Great Britain have not only complete medical the feasibility of further exten- The new flying hospital would a sufficient trial period to prove Each of the Empire -flying-with the ordinary mails, the was many years behind other nursing equipment, but blood sion of this type of air trans ships now under construction inwards considerably exceeding countries in the organisation of transfusion apparatus and an port. for Imperial Airways will com-the outwards.

air ambulance work, but an air- tain one and a quarter million

joxygen tent. "Regularity of the Empire craft firm specialising in civil

Dr. Hugo von Eckener has rivets, which means that, for Service from London to Bris-machines was now completing that

Mr. Noel-Brown suggested estimated that the journey the 29 aircraft now being built, (bane over the fifteen

the fighting months the first British machine to be should equip their medical mits lands East Indies, a distance of services from Holland to the Nether the huge total of thirty six and during which it has been operat-built solely as a flying hospital with air ambulances, and that about 7,500 zailes, could be a quarter million rivets willing has been surprisingly good, It would enable have to be driven during the land this has contributed great hours to be saved in the trans-ipal authority possessing its own

valuable on the civil side, every munici-made in four or five days. construction of the Empire air ly to the success of the air-port of sick and injured per-aerodrome should also have its probably serve as the base for The airport at Batavia will fivet

fmails."

sons, he said, as well as allow-town air ambulance wit

the projected line.

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