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AIRWAYS AND AVIATION.

PRANSY

THE POSSIBILITIES OF

ondon

COMMERCIAL FLYING IN HONG KONG.

POTENTIAL AIRWAYS IN THE FAR EAST;

[BY MAJOR E. B. BRASIER-CREACH.]

In the map here displayed you will see, marked in dot-and-dash lines the chief long distance air routes that affect the question which we are discussing.

From London, Amsterdam and Paris three streaks wonder across Europe, two wid the Balkans and one (the Iritish) vid North Afrien till they join at Basra and run paráilei as far as Delhi. You will notice that the stretch from Basra to Karachi is along the northern shares of the Persian Gulf, to the South is no

inhospitable Ambia, to the North mountainous Persis and

Alghanistan. That portion of the Eastern Air Route in what the Suez Canal and the Red Sen are

This spring, Imperial Airways, with the assistance of Commodore Kingsford-Smith, teated out a sche dule by which a connection was effected bobres Detection or

Darwin, in Australia, practically on the border of this map nearest the Dutch Islands, by which the total distance of 10,000 miles from Lon- don was covered, each way twice, in 18 days.

When this route, and that to Capetown, is in full swing, Im- perial Airways will be operating over a total of approximately 20,000 miles.

What Imperial Airways Has Done,

10 days

•London

"I have hoped, by, this degrea-" sian intp figures, to give you some grasp of two things. Turstly, the vast distances which are, nowadays, regularly and safely covered to schedule by aircraft and, secondly, "the extent of the use that is being made of air transport in other parte of the world.

I may safely say, then, that, if the English, French and Dutch co- operate, we are to expect & tri fortnightly, oven a tri-weekly, each way service passing through Ran- goon before the end of 19g The machines available will probably have accommodation for from four to six passengers and 1,000 to 500 lbs. of mail each trip. Rangoon will then be under eight days, by ait, from London, the service will run like clockwork.

Why do I pick on Rangoon Because, as Singapore is the only way through for ships wishing to pass from the Indian Ocean to the Chian Sea, ao Bangoon is the turn-

7days

6,000,000 MILES OF FLYING

FINE RECORDS OF IMPERIAL":

AIRWAYS PILOTS:

Air line pilots constitute a bod of men who, though they gaged in daily work that is for more obviously picturesque, any, tann

or pil ving,

lime-

seem seldom to get into light. Men and women who dash at high speed by light aeroplane. Across the world particularly the women get plenty of public notice; the wark of the military or naval pilot stalweare a halo of romance, but the men who are re- sponsible for safe conduct of the big mohines plying regularly be- tween the great cities remain com paratively unknown and their achievements are rarely obronicled.

Magnificent Records,

This seeming neglect 14 a phy not because the pilots themselves "crave, attention, but because their -magnificent records of

up proof

ply some of the best poss of the cherent safety of aviation, Flying in sorts Boku"conditions; bad and good, to time table resem bles very little the more or less. desultory fine weather flying "of the typical owner pilot; it imposes at once a greater strain and test on the individual.

Those records; some of them compiled over a period of twelve

years or more, sre

indeed, Nine lots of impuri Airways have spent between them, no less than 50,000 hours, equal to 2,400 days and nights or 6 years 10 months, at the controls. 'In that time they have travelled an aggre gate of nearly 6,000,000 miles, equivalent to 25 journeys to maón ⠀⠀ or 240 flights round the more incentive to progress towards work at the Equator The fact independence them in European that each of these men is still ply- countries. The record in the United ing his profession makes any insiste Biates, unlike that in most parts ence on the degree of suiety re- of the world, shows actual evidence vented by the figures quite super" of steady advance towards self- fluous. support, and the Government out lay per unit of traffic, in 1000, was less than half that in 1998 some outlay is still required.

In shore, the position of air transport, and rapecially of the air mail, in essentially, the position of great many other transportation unterprises and industries, in theor

early days

Below they are given in detail.

But

PILOT

HOURS

Horsey

5,500

Jones

7,500

Roger

0,200

Wilcockson

0,600

Walters

6,000

Olley Tonell

9,400

4.500.

Dianare Robinson

5,600

6,500

Total Average

50,000

Years of large-scale operation at a continuous deficit in- volve sacrifices too heavy to expect Private capital to bear them, expecially when there is, no namuir- ance of protection against the com- petition of neureomers in the field

We firmly believe that, by the end after the corner is turned

of 1933, or, at the very latest two years thereafter, the air mail will be fully self-supporting,"

Must Have Government Support

These are statistics worth aiting. in any argument over the safety, or the perils, of aviation.

ways, the rule that each colony of protectorate, through the borders of which the Imperial Service passes, must allocate the mail con-

Trunk Line cunnot operats prost tract or subsidise the "monopoly- bolding company has resulted in an ably unless it has:→→→

almost ideal state of affairs. The needs of the Far Each can only be served by immediate co-operation,

ing point for sir traffic between In other words, the Far Eastern India and the Far East. The range of mountains, which forms the Malay Peninsula, carries on North- words between Burma and Siam, Thibet and Chine, and into Mon- golin and the only made passage scross it is to be found just to the South-East of Rangoon, From

Statistically, this is what has to Eastern Shipping, a channel happened. In 1924 Imperial Air which must be followed by all, and | ways carried 15 tons of mail; in its termini, Basra and Karachi are 1930 this figure had risen to 315 all important strategie points. It tons and it is still steadily increas- is worth doticing that they are ing. Each week the Indian Air vader British control, and the route | Mail shown an average load of free to all comers. Karachi, 5,000.

more than 40,000 letters, rising to miles from London, is reached in 70,000 or over af peak times such i Calcutta to Rangcon is another 6 days I hours and 35 minutes.as. Obristmas,

From Alexandria (* days and 7 ♬ In 1924-8, the figure for Hights hours from London), the African completed to schedule was 76 per route is now stretching away to cent, this has risen now to 94.2

narrow lane, like that between Basra and Karachi and, strangely, again the ends are in British chre.

Now, Eastward of Rangoon, the

the Bouth. At prosent it is only | por cont. From April 1985 to June | road is open to the South, vid ball completed, but, already, Kenya, 1931 the Company had flown a total | Bumatra or Malaya, to the East, Colony has had its distance from

the Centre of Empire reduced from 180, three weeks to only a few hours froi over six days Plans are under way to extend the service to Cape town this coming December when the whole 8,000 miles will be cover, ed în not more than eleven days, and this figure will eventually, he

585 milos, and carried vid Slam towards, Saigon, or, für, Preseegers and 0,531 tons of ther

1,000,000 and 933 tous of treip figures which are indicative of the 1930 pers naj

America Tar Ahesi.

1-A guarantee of monopoly for, say, minimum period of (seven years. 2—It receives a subsidy from the

"Governments, of the territories.

over which it passes

It is so protected by the fulf);" ment of the above necessities that the public be induced firstly, to take up its capital, and, secondly, through the widespread “inforest thus-en- gendered, to make use of it for transportation of freight, mails and individuals.

Trunk Air Service. This, then, is my whole argument. Trúnk That the Far East needs a Air Service,

That the proper ter “mini” for such” & “service"are" Ban--

in the West and Yokoham 600

in the EastThat, this route fol- lows the natural flow of traffic and will act as supplier to and drawer off from Feeder services of all kinds, Siam, Indo-China, China, the', Philippines, Korea, and oven further afield. That this Air Ber- vice can be set in motion.

As I have pointed out in these columns on a previous occasion, the by co-operat

Continent of Europe is not con- and governments of the stituted for co-operation sipporting it is not the busi

minië

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year,

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reduced, it is hoped, to nine

early 1,000 miles a day

days

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atural 16,715,597 miles, carrying 3,610 tons course, Let me quote from the Tar the oys back to Karachi of mails alons at an average com Editorial

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Dutch and French Routes.

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