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Air Transport News
Page 73
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THE EMPIRE'S BEST-LIGHTED AIRPORT.
THE General Electric lighting system at Croydon is now complete and is one of the best airport installations in the world, It was demonstrated the other night.
Around the landing area is a number oI (i-kw. triple-trough floodlights controlled from the tower, so that two or three can be used according to the wind direction, and the machines land or take off with the light behind them. Each has a spread of 150 degrees and lights 4,500,000 sq. ft., so that the illuminated area is half a mile across. Orange boundary lights surround the airport, whilst the G.E.C. Neon beacon can be seen 60 miles away on a clear night.
The wind tee is 20 ft. long and has a 20-ft. cross-piece, and on this electric lamps at 1-ft. intervals have been found more effective than strip lighting. Recently a permanent 1,100-ft. line of 30-ft. red Neon tubes has been laid down below ground under an armoured glass covering. This is the only fog line of its kind in the world, and it
seems to be „a, success. '
IMPORTANT I. OF T. LECTURE.
THE first of the lectures which the Institute of Transport is arranging to perpetuate the memory of the late Air Vice-Marshal Sir W. Sefton
Brancker, A.F.C. (who was president of the Institute for 1928-2)), is to be given by Lieut.-Col. F. C. Shelmerdine, C.! E., 0.B .E., DirectorGeneral of Civil Aviation, on October 30, at 6 p.m., at the Institute of Electrical Engineers, London, W.C.2. He will speak on "Air Transport in Great Britain : Some Problems and Needs."
A SURVEY OF THE NORTH.
RDECENTLY, a Saro Cloud flyingboat made a survey Right for flyingboat bases among the Scottish islands. The survey was carried out for United Airways, Ltd., and its associated companies, among which are Northern and Scottish Airways, Ltd., Renfrew, and Highland Airways, Ltd., Inverness. The machine visited the Orkneys and Shetlands, and flew to Stornoway and other centres in the Western Isles,
EXPRESS WORK BY AIR AMBULANCES.
IN less than three hours, a woman
patient was, recently, brought in an aerial ambulance from St. Helier, Jersey, to Yeadon—a distance of 340 miles— whence she was taken by motor ambulance to a Leeds nursing home. The journey was made via Southampton, where a change of aeroplanes was effected.
CROYDON-HESTON WINTER SERVICE.
THE Inner Circle service which has been run successfully throughout the summer by Commercial Air Hire, Ltd., between Croydon and Heston, four times daily, has been made a week-end service for the winter months. The departures from Croydon on Saturdays and Sundays are at 11 a.m. and 2.30 p.m., and the departures from Heston are at noon and 3.15 p.m.
A BLIND-APPROACH SYSTEM AT HESTON.
IT has now been definitely announced that the German Lorenz blindapproach radio beacon for aircraft is to be installed almost immediately at Heston Airport. This follows the recent visit to Germany of Mr. Roderick Denman, technical director of Airwork, Ltd. (the company which owns the airport), and he has prepared plans for the installation in conjunction with Messrs. Norman, Muntz and Dawbarn, architects to the airport company.
Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd., holds the British rights for the Lorenz system and will be in charge of the work of installing it. It makes use of ultra-short waves.
As first installed at Heston, the Lorenz equipment will bring a machine to within about 25 ft. of the ground. The pilot knows his height to within 3-4 ft. by his sensitive altimeter.
INCREASING AIRPORT LAND VALUES.
NAUNICIFALITIES which did not Ifitake the advice of the Prince of Wales at the London Conference, on December 8, 1933, to go ahead and reserve sites for future airports, are finding that land values are increasing against them.
Manchester Corporation has had to resort to arbitration over the price of a small plot of 124 acres required for its Ringway Airport. The owner* first asked £105 per acre and his valuation submitted to the arbitrator is £74 per acre. The arbitrator reserved his decision.