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CONNECTING LONDON AIRPORTS BY AIR SERVICES.
THE need for linking up Loricort's airports used for regular services, especially Heston and Croydon, by some quick means for communication, such as an air service, has become acute this spring. Mr. John Pugh, of Commercial Air Hire, Ltd., who has done so. well with the London-Paris newspaper and freight service, which he started last summer, is meeting the demand by starting, on April 14, a service between Heston and Croydon four times daily each way, using the Dragon of the newspaper service.
This machine has been equipped with 10 seats and -has Marconi radio. It is the first Dragon ever to have .a fixed aerial and this will be most useful for such a short service. As an experiment, Hillman's Essex Airport will be counected up once a week and later other aerodromes, such as those at Hatfield. Gravesend, Rochester, Redhill and Brooklancls, may be brOught in.
The HestoteCroydon fares will be
.6d. 'single and 1.0s. 6d. return, and the freight rate will be Id per lb. up to toq lb. and id. per lb. above 100 lb., with a minimum of is. The four services will leave Croydon at 9 a.m., 10.30 a.m., 2.30 p.m. aotitl 6.30 p.m., and will leave Heston at 9.30 a.m., 11.15 aan„ 3.45 p.m. and 6.50 p.m. The trip will take 15 minutes.
POSSIBILITIES OF TRANSATLANTIC SERVICE.
VUE learn that Pan-American Air ways,Inc., has been in communcation with Cardiff airport authorities regarding the possibility of making Cardiff one of its European bases for the -transatlantic service winch the company is developing in conjunction with Imperial Airways., Ltd.
The Pan-American concern operates a network of arterial air services, connecting -United States ports with all the important centres ,in America, the Caribbean area and South America. The company is now organizing a service across the Pacific Ocean to link up with its subsidiary company in China.
Information concerning Cardiff Airport has been supplied by Capt. W. R. Bailey, chairman of the Cardiff Aeroplane Club, and managing director of Bristol Channel Airways, Ltd. This cortipany proposes to run a service front Swansea and Cardiff to London.
BLIND FLYING FOR " B "PILOTS.
I N order to meet certain difficultieS
that have arisen, particularly with regard to pilots abroad, the Air Ministry has decided to postpone the enforcement of the blind-flying regulation for B-licerice pilots from April 1 to July 1, but from April 1 new applicants for B licences must 'have the instrument-, flying qualification.The Worcestershire Flying School, Tilesford, has been added to the list of provisionally approved blind-flying schools given in Notice to Airmen No. 22.
BRISTOL CHANNEL FERRY DEVELOPMENT.
THE Cardiff-Bristol air ferry of Norman Edgar Western -Airways, Ltd., which has been run as an ondemand service throughout the winter, again started regular operation on April 1. At present there are three daily services from Cardiff at 10.5 a.m., 12.35 p.m. and 5.30 p.M., and about half an hour earlier from Bristol. Froth May I a fourth service will be run at about 8 p.m. The service has been operated with great reliability since
September 26. 1932. Last spring it was extended to Bournemouth.
During Easter week-end a service will he run between Bristol and Le Touquet, with a return fare of £6 15s. The first outward journey will be on April 18, at. 4.30 p.m., and the last homeward machine will reach Bristol on April 23 at 7.45 p.m.
LEICESTER AIRPORT OPEN.
THE Air Ministry announced, on
1 April 4, the opening for public use of Leicester Corporation's new civil aerodrome, three miles to the west of the centre of the town. Already Leicester is a port of call on the Bristol-Norwich route of Crilly Airways.
:The, private-use aerodrome at Desford. near.. Leicester, . is . now unoccupied, and the Leicestershire Aero Club has moved to the new site.
IMPORTANT ARRANGEMENTS FOR NEW SERVICES.
CURTHER details are available of
the services which United Airways, Ltd., is starting this month. Between London. (Heston) and Blackpool there will be two services each way daily. The trip will take 11. hour and the fares will be 48s. single and 72s, return, There will be frequent services between Blackpool and the Isle of Man, with connections tithed so that passengers from London can travel straight through to the island. On the Blackpool-Isle of Man route the fares will be 25s. single and 40s. return.
The Isle of Man-Carlisle services of Northern and Scottish Airways, Ltd. (in which -United Airways now has an interest) will give a direCt link for travellerS from Northern cities, not only to the island, but on to Blackpool. The CarlisleIsle of -Man fareai will be 27s. single and 45s. rettirn.
Northern and Scottish Airways, Ltd., is planning an extension to Glasgow. The two companies will give through bookings and interchange of ticketa The Associated companies, Jersey Airways, Ltd., and Spartan Air Lines, Ltd., 10_11, of course, act as agents.
REORGANIZATION . AT ESSEX AIRPORT.
WITH Captain T. Neville Stack as manager and air superintendent of Hillman's Airways, Ltd., the organization of work at Essex Airport is being undertaken on highly businesslike lines .Special arrangements have been made for Mr. James Jeffs, of the Croydon Control Tower, to prepare pilots for the second-class navigator's certificate. Mr. Jeffs is attending at the airport, so that pilots need not be prevented by their duties from receiving tuition.
Captain Stack has introduced a corn. prehensive returns sheet, which shows in detail the receipts and outgoinga of the work done separately for each aeroplane in the fleet. The pay of engineers has been regularized and a wages scale has been published. General-flying and aerodrome regulations have been drawn up..The office's have been rearranged, and rest TOOITM provided.