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1934 JERSEY STATISTICS.
FR011.1 the start Of the Jersey service on December 13, 1933, to Deoember 31, 1934, the number of passengers carried was 19,886, and Channel cross-. ings totalled 3,912. Between PortsMouth, Southampton" and Jersey, passengers per flight averaged 5.324 (equal to 74 per cent, of capacity), and between Heston and Jersey 4.763 (equal to 65 per cent. of -capbeity). Of the scheduled services to Heston, 97 per cent, were completed, and to Portsmouth and Southampton WO per cent.
At present the schedule includes one service each way daily between Jersey and London, and one between Jersey, Portsmouth and Southampton ; there is also one service each way, on Tuesdays and Fridays, between Jersey and Rennes. We May hear of developments in connection with this service. The Jersey-Paris service may be restarted in the spring, with, perhaps, a different arrangement for bookings in France.
YEADON AERODROME TO BE MUCH EXTENDED.
I MPORTANT developments at the Leeds-Bradford municipal aerodrome at Yeadon are foreshadowed by the action of the joint aerodrome committee of Leeds and Bradford Corporations. This committee recommended the two municipalities to apply for Government sanction for the borrowing of the netessary money, estimated at R.41,000, for the extension of the aerodrome by 177 acres to 294 acres.
This development will afford an eastto-west runway 1,100 yds. long and 20 yds. wide, and a north-to-south runway 1,000 yds. long and 200 yds. wide. The aerodrome is used by the Yorkshire Aeroplane Club, a subsidiary of Yorkshire Airways, Ltd., the licensee of Leeds and Bradford Corporation. A new hangar, which will house 12 to 15 light aeroplanes, is approaching completion. The joint committee's aim is t6 develop the aerodrome for use as a port of call for regular air services.
NEW LEICESTER AIRPORT.
LER:ESTER'S new municipal aerodrome will be officially opened on July 6 next. A feature will be a huge beacon, visible to aircraft 47 miles away, which will be utilized to floodlight the runway and to assist pilots in night flying.
NEW IMPERIAL RADIO SETS.
THE five D.H.86 aeroplanes now on order for the extended Continental services of Imperial Airways, Ltd., are being equipped with the, new Marconi medium-wave transmitting and receiving set, type A.D.41/42, and the Marconi homing device.
LATEST CUSTOMS AIRPORT.
SOUTHAMPTUN (Atlantic Park) aerodrome has been approved as a Customs airport. Clearance facilities are not continuously available, to that prior notification has to be made.
The regular daily attendance of a Customs officer at Penshurst landing ground has been discontinued, but an officer can be specially summoned in the event of an aeroplane being forced to land there from abroad. MUNICIPAL AIRPORT PROBLEM.
DISCUSSIONS that have taken place since the Air Transport Conference in London (January 10-12) show that several municipal officials have a wrong idea about the proposed planning of internal air lines, airport and radio services. Having been told that the Ministry may request the AerodrOmeS Advisory Board to supervise the pre paration of such a plan, some municipal authorities are inclined to allow their own schemes for the provision of airports to fall into abeyance until the plan has been published.
The central bodies, such as the S.B.A.C., the Aerodromes Advisory Board and the Automobile Association (Aviation Section) are anxious to impress upon municipal-aerodrome committees that the suggestion of suitable sites from an economic standpoint rests with them, and that realization of the plan will be much delayed if municipalities be not prepared to go ahead if and when the plan is published.
PROSPECTS OF INTERNAL AIR SERVICES.
THE cost of equipping the arterial air routes of Great Britain (about 2,000 miles in total -length) with radio stations and light beacons for allweather day and night flying, the prospects of a national plan for internal air services, and the outlook for the 1935 summer are dealt with in two leading articles in the Air Transport sertion of our associated paper, The AeroplaneThe first of these articles appeared on February 13.