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IMPORTANT BRIGHTON DEVELOPMENT.
I T is announced that the British Air Navigation Co., Ltd., has been granted a long lease of the new Brighton. Hove and Worthing municipal airport, under an operating and soleauthority tenure. The new airport is now being prepared by the municipal authorities and, it is expected, will be ready for an official opening next June.
Plans are well advanced for an extensive programme of services and other facilities to be offered to the public and, so soon as these have reached their final form, they, together with time-tables and schedules, will be announced.
Although part of the new programme will mean the amplifying and linking up of existing services of the British Air Navigation Co., Ltd., and Portsmouth, Southsea and Isle of Wight Aviation, Ltd., these services will continue to run from a London terminal and, although the new aerodrome will become headquarters, a full London terminal will be maintained.
The new Brighton-Hove-Worthing Municipal Airport will be open to ail corners.
NEW MACHINE FOR L.S. AND P.A.
(IN Saturday last, at 4 p.m., the L./Heston office of London, Scottish and Provincial Airways, Ltd., was advised from Portsmouth that its latest Airspeed Courier was just leaving on its delivery flight. About 20 minutes later the new aeroplane G-ACSZ, landed at Heston. By reason of its specification it attracted some attention.
Powerful Zeiss landing lights are fitted in the leading edge of the wing, the instrument board has a resilient mounting which damps out vibration, and the instruments themselves are particularly complete. There is a Sperry directional gyro, an artificial horizon, a Reid and Sigrist bank and turn indicator, and one of the latest Standard radio sets for telegraphy or telephony.
So that telegraphy can be employed, a wireless operator will be carried on flights which warrant such provision. /3oth fixed and trailing aerials are to
be fitted, the former for low flying and fog approaches. This aeroplane has a Siddeley Cheetah engine of 270 h.p. and cruises at over 150 m.p.h.
G-ACSZ has already gone into service on the Leeds-Nottingham-HestonParis line, which the company is running daily with quite considerable traffic. Mr. C. S. Bell, the managing director, informs us that it is hoped to purchase one or two Airspeed Envoys (two Cheetah engines) which will carry a crew of two and about six passengers, with luggage. Another plan of the company is to extend the line northward to Edinburgh.
COWES SERVICE CEASES. ,
THE service which has been operated throughout the summer by Spartan Air Lines, Ltd., in conjunction with the Southern Railway, between Croydon and the Isle of Wight, was discontinued last Wednesday. The autumn schedule included Southampton as a port of call. A modified service will be operated by the Spartan company on its own account daily. from November 1 'until further notice.
GLASGOW-ISLAY SERVICE MAY REOPEN.
THE Glasgow Campbel town Islay service, abandoned by Midland and Scottish Air Ferries, Ltd., will probably be reinaugurated next month by Northern Airways, Newcastle. A lease of Mr. Sword's landing grounds at Strathfield, Campbeltown and Duich, Islay, is being arranged by Mr. George Nicholson, who inaugurated the air service between Newcastle and the Isle of Man. The service is to operate three days a week during the winter.
OLLEY'S WINTER PROSPECTS.
IN addition to having recently acquired control of Blackpool and West Coast Air Services, Ltd., 011ey Air Service, Ltd., continues to be extremely busy with charter flying from its Croydon base. The company has been occupying even the evening hours by conveying parties on night flights over London. Continental work still provides its regular demands.
A NEW CHARTER SERVICE FROM CROYDON.
A HIGH degree of regularity, this PI summer, has been maintained on the London-Plymouth-Penzance air service of Provincial Airways, Ltd. For the present, this is being continued and it may be operated throughout the winter, although perhaps not with absolute daily regularity. The company uses de Havilland Dragons, with two Gipsy Major 130 h.p. engines, and they are equipped with radio. The machines are available for charter flights and the company has just issued a new list of rates for a large number of destinations.
The return flight from Croydon to Glasgow can be made for £34 18s. If two passengers be carried, the cost is £17 9s. per person, or with three to six passengers £11 12s. 8d. per person, MORE BLACKPOOL STATISTICS.
A REPORT from Blackpool and West Pis Coast Air Services, Ltd., states that from May 1-September 30 the company carried 2,762 passengers on its Liverpool-Blackpool-Isle of Man service, an increase of over 100 per cent. on last year's figure.
The regularity, this year, was 99.6 per cent. ; on only three occasions were services cancelled, and then on account of extremely bad weather. The winter service is being well Patronized. Departures are from Liverpool at 9.30 a.m. and from the Isle of Man at 2.15 p.m.
GROUND-TRANSPORT DIFFICULTIES IN LONDON.
AT last the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner has prohibited ,K.L.M. and Air France from the use of sites in the central London area as terminals for their coach services to Croydon Airport. The K.L.M. has, every day for 15 years, used a rendezvous at the Hotel Victoria, Northumberland Avenue. From November 1 this is changed to Horseferry House, opposite Lambeth Bridge.
The K.L.M. will have a new departure station in Horseferry House as from December 1. Air France will continue to use its offices at 52, Haymarket, but will pick up and set down at Horseferry House from December 1.