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AIR TRANSPORT NEWS
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POSSIBILITIES OF SERVICES TO IRISH FREE STATE.
I N the past few months, several schemes for air services between the Irish Free State and Great Britain have been submitted to the Free State Government. The Government maintains a conservative control over such matters and is not likely to permit any service to be run unless several exacting conditions be fulfilled.
One of these is likely to be that.all the capital in the company must be Irish, and, if enough Irish pilots with the necessary qualifications cannot at once be obtained, the company may have to undertake to intoaduce Irish personnel so soon as possible. The Government has been considering • the principle of allowing only one company to operate these services, with a form of conditional monopoly.
The most important connections will probably be between Dublin. Belfast and Glasgow, between Dublin and Liverpool (for connection with HUH, Amsterdam and Northern Europe) and between Dublin and London, with, perhaps, a call at Cardiff. Several groups of Irish financiers are now awaiting the conclusions of their 'Governinent.
JERSEY-RENNES SERVICE INTERRUPTED.
FOR some months there has been an apprehension that the air service run by jersey Airways, Ltd., between the Channel Islands and Rennes, in Brittany, would have to be stopped, because of the fear of Colorado beetle being carried_ on the wheels of aeroplanes from the French' fields to the Channel Islands. This insect pest has' greatly troubled the French farmers by its damage to potato crops.
Finally, on March 19. the British Government was obliged to interrupt the air service. It is not likely that the service Will reopen this summer.
AIR MAIL AT ORDINARY RATES.
AFURTHER step in the direction of sending all first-class mail by air has heen taken by the Netherlands Government. As an experiment, all
letters and postcards from Holland for' other other countries in Europe Will, loom April 1,, be sent by air at usual rates.
As already reported, the British Government is working with the Dominions on a big scheme for sending all first-class mail throughout the Empire by air, and hopes to bring'this project to fruition by 1937:
NIGHT .. FLYING ••• AT ESSEX --AIRPORT.
ESSE.X Airport, the base of J-fillman's 1-....1Airways, Ltd:, is to be completely equipped fin' night flying. Experiments with a new type of boundary light, introdnced by the, Cardiff Foundry' and
Engineering Co., Ltd., have shown that this indicates to the approaching pilot not only the limits of the landing ground hut also his angular position, This summer the company will probably run, three services daily to Paris, and before the season of the heaviest traffic, it expects to have three D.H.86 aeroplanes (four' Gipsy Six 200 h.p. engines).
A short-range radio, beacon, for guiding aeroplanes the last few miles into Essex Airport, may be sanctioned.
I.O.M. AERODROME PROBLEMS.
(AN March 22 the House of Keys, ‘.-/the Isle of Man Legislature, rejected a resolution to establish a municipal aerodrome at Ballagilley, at the south-west end of the island. The Attorney-General„ who moved the resolution, explained how the Roitaldsway aerodrome, which adjoins • Ballagilley, was unsuitable for large Machines, so that Railway Air Services, Ltd., could.
not call there. .
Mr. J. D. Qualtrough. chairman of the Isle of Man's Publicity Board, said, that the island's only hope of a big. increase_ of visitors front the Midlands' and the South of England depends upon landing facilities for large machines.
GOOD PROSPECTS FOR NEW HULL-PLYMOUTH LINE.
WE are informed by Provincial AirIN ways, Ltd., that already traffic on the Hull-Plymouth . line, opened on March 4, is -showing signs of building up. There appears to be some scope for the development of freight-carrying on this route. There is no news yet 01 a mail contract. Stops are made at Grimsby (by. 'request), Nottingham,
• Leicester and Southampton, and, as Southampton will, this summer, be connected by an air ferry with the. Isle of Wight, as well as being the new . base for jersey Airways, Ltd., many useful connections can be made. . Traffic on the London-Plymouth service of Provincial Airways, .Ltd„ is
also improving. The -company is arranging for the official. opening of its new Torquay' aerodrome within the next week or two.
JERSEY AIRWAYS MOVE TO SOUTHAMPTON.
RECENTLY, Jersey Airways, Ltd. (Which took delivery of its second -.four-e,ngined liner on March 20), moved its 'operating base to Eastleigh aerodrome, Southampton. This municipal airport is becoming increasingly important,and there seems to he scope for a radio direction-finding station, as well as for more complete night-flying
equipment. Moreover, as the ap . proaches are comparatively free from obstructions, blind landings, on the French, German or American systems, might be possible.
There is need for a further aerodrome in England at which blindflying methods can be practised, for, as Croydon has not clear approaches, British transport pilots are not able to secure the same practice in this important branch as Continental pilots.
KINTORE AIR TERMINUS.
IT is understood that Highland Air. ways, Ltd., has completed arrangements to -take over for three years about 40 acres of ground near Kintore, to be used as a landing ground for the 'service between Kirkwall, Inverness, Dingwall and Aberdeenshire.