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MAGA!

Page G DAVENTRY TO REVISE SCHEDULE

New Scheme To Take Effect Soon

Beginning on Sunday, April 18, the transmissions from the Empire Broadcasting Station Daventry will take place according to a revised schedule. The revised times of transmission, in Greenwich Mean Time, are follows:- Transmission 1

BBC

at

: 0600-0815

(This timing will change from

month to month.)

Transmission 2

1045-1355

Transmission 3

1415-1700

Transmission 4

1720-2300*

Transmission "5 Transmission 6

2320-0130 0200-0400

*During Transmission 4 there will be an intermission of 15 min. between 2045 and 2100.

Owing to important technical considerations, the timings of pro- grammes during Transmission will vary as follows:-

April 18 to May 1

May 2 to June 5

June 6 to July 31

1.

0600-1815

0500-0715 0430-0645

August 1 to September 4 0500-0715 September 5 to October 2 0600-0815

Beginning April 18, also, the Em- pire transmitters will go on the air' three minutes before the ad- vertised time of the beginning of each transmission. During this per- iod identification-announcements and a resume of the programmes to be broadcast during the succeeding transmission will be given by the

announcer.

AIRWAY WEATHER SERVICES IN

THE FAR EAST

Conference Of Experts

At Hong Kong

The Far-East Meteorological Commission held recently in Hong Kong, discussed the requirements of civil air routes, including the Imperial. Airways Hong Kong service, and impending develop- ments in regard to the Pacific and the China Coast,

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FLYING TO SEE THE

CORONATION

Fully-Booked Air-Liners From Africa, India,

And Australia

One of the delegates was Mr. C. D. Stewart, Superintendent of the Malayan Meteorological Services, who explained on returning to Singapore that one of Empire air-liners arriving in the aims of the conference had England just prior to the Corona- been to arrange a general plan of tion will be carrying passengers co-ordination in regard to aerial who have flown thousands of miles meteorological services in the Far to witness the historic ceremony. East, the idea being to obtain the All available accommodation in same type of observations, and the aircraft reaching London from same methods of communicating India, Africa, and Australia, in the weather data

commercial weeks just preceding the Coron- aircraft.

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THE CHINA MAIL APRIL 19, 1987.

UETTA AIT

The Story Of Flying In Air Mail Covers

The romantic story of the de- (increasingly historical value, such velopment of the Empire flying as seastained covers retrieved from routes by Imperial Airways la told Hawker's trans-Atlantic aeroplane graphically in flown covers and after he and his navigator were other material at an

exhibi-forced to abandon it in mid-ocean. tion by the Air-Mail Society of It is fascinating to have such epics Great Britain which was opened in told, story by story, in a display of London the other day by the Post- covers actually carried by heroes master-General.

who have written their names, im-

Ross

The full significance of our air-perishably, on the history of avia- ways of Empire, and what they tion. Alcock and Brown, mean in speeding-up inter-Imperial Smith and Keith Smith, Van Ry- communication, has been realized neveld and Brand! Great exploits by visitors who have examined the on the Atlantic, and eastward displays of flown covers sent over across the Empire, are recalled as studies historical sections. these routes on inaugural flights. one

flown on pioneer flights And now to-day we stand at the Covera threshold of another great era to bring back vividly to the mind the struggles of airmen who be instituted this year when first- heroic class letter mails will be air-borne blazed trails which the big Imperial without surcharge between the Airways mailplanes of to-day fol- Homeland and distant parts of the low with such precision and speed; Empire.

:

It is one of the most fascinating

COLOMBO AND THE NEW of all stories that is outlined by the

EMPIRE AIR SCHEME exhibits of the Air-Mail Society the story of the aerial carriage of Postal experts have recently letters by balloon, airship, aero-been discussing in Colombo the pro- plane, and flying-boat.

jected air route which is to bring

Away back in the past, pioneer Colombo within the network of the balloonists were carrying up sou-first-class mails without surcharge' venir letters with them and drop-Empire scheme. ping them from mid-air. Then came The matter is now regarded as a milestone such as the dispatch of letters by balloon from Paris dur ing the siege of 1870. After this pioneer afrships appeared on the world's stage, and experimental mails were carried by dirigibles such as the early Zeppelins.

urgent, as it is planned to have a Karachi-Colombo service flying re- gularly prior to the coming into operation of the big 'all letter- mails by air" "plan.

Final matters are now under dis- cussion by the experts concerned, The story of the part played by and an official announcement is ex- the aeroplane is shown clearly by pected shortly. the exhibits of the Air-Mail Society. There is that famous Hendon- In just under 8 hours, flying by Windsor post of 1911, following as air-liner between New York and it did the first unofficial experiment Florida, passengers can pass from at Blackpool in 1910. Then, after the rigour of winter into a climate the Great War, come exhibits of an of summer warmth.

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