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AIRPORTS EXHIBITION: ALL SITES TAKEN.
EVERY stand has now been taken for the Airports Exhibition, which the Society of British Aircraft Constructors is arranging in connection with the Second Annual Conference of the Aerodrome Owners' Association. This body started as a part of the S.B.A.C., but is now practically an autonomous Association. Most of the important municipal airport authorities and private airport owners belong to it. There will probably be about 75 exhibitors, and they will give a fine display of equipment used at aerodromes and employed in making them.
The conference held last January did much good. It drove home the need for reserving aerodrome sites.
The conference, this year, promises to be still more successful in every way. The Exhibition will not be open to the public, but anybody genuinely interested in air transport may obtain an invitation by applying to the S.B.A.C. offices, 32, Savile Row, London, W.1.
HULL LOOKS FARTHER EAST. 'MEGOTIATIONS have been proceed1 ing for some time with a view to the establishment of a passenger air service between Hull and Leningrad, via Gothenburg, Stockholm and Helsingfors. The Lord Mayor of Hull (Alderman F. Till) recently stated that a decision had not yet been reached. Everything possible had been done to obtain such a service, and because of Hull's geographical position, he did not think that the port could be ignored.
The Hull municipal airport was used for the K.L.M. Amsterdam-HullLiverpool air service, which was suspended in 1935.
TRANSPORT CAREERS FOR BOYS.
THE Ministry of Labour has just produced a valuable pamphlet on careers for boys leaving school. It is No. 24 of the series and deals with careers in transport. The headings covered are road, rail and air, water transport having been catered for inearlier publications.
The air-transport section explains B46 the organization of an operating company. the necessary technical qualifications and the methods and cost of training. It describes the flying tests and navigational requirements in some detail. The prospects of commercial piloting and careers in the maintenance, design and administrative, sides are dealt with ; also the opportunities for training provided by the Royal Air Force Reserve and by short service in the R.A.F.
The pamphlet deals also with road transport and can be obtained for 4d. at any branch of EM. Stationery Office or from any bookseller.
ELMDON AERODROME: TOWN'S MEETING.
ATOWN'S meeting to consider the Birmingham Corporation Bill was recently held, when fewer than 100 people were present. Among the resolutions, one dealt with the Elmdon Aerodrome proposal.
Aid. II. K. Beale, referring 'to the aerodrome plan, said that, at the request of the Air Ministry, the corporation was seeking powers to limit the height of buildings in certain zones around the aerodrome, There was also to be established a system of lights for the guidance of aircraft.
SEVEN COUNCILS SEEK
• AERODROME POWERS.
IN the municipal Bills just presented to Parliament in connection with the 1935-36 session, powers are being sought by the following local authorities to establish aerodromes :—Hereford, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Skegness, Ilfracombe, Rochester and Bognor Regis.
The powers sought are limited to establishing an aerodrome undertaking and to leasing it, making by-laws, etc.
PUSHING PLYMOUTH.
TAKING part in a symposium regarding the New Year, Mr. F. J. Dean, the Plymouth Airport Officer, said :" What I would like to see in 1936 would be the definite selection of Plymouth as a terminal airport for overseas air services from Africa and the United States. Having been established as a terminal port for traffic from abroad, Plymouth would become, a distributing hub for aircraft, dispatching passengers to all parts."
TRAINING FOR RADIO TRAFFIC CONTROL.
THE Heston School of Flying now includes in its curriculum a new aspect of blind flying which should be useful for young transport pilots. They are trained in approaching an airport on a series of wireless bearings and instructions from the control tower.
YEADON DEVELOPMENT.
IIcT view of contemplated improvements at the Leeds-Bradford• municipal aerodrome at Yeadon, a deputation from the Leeds-Bradford Aerodrome Committee recently inspected the facilities at other aerodromes, including
those at Bristol and Brighton. The improvements include the provision of large aerodrome buildings and lighting.