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FULL SUMMER PLANS OF HILLMAN'S AIRWAYS.
WE are now able to announce the full summer programme of Hillman's Airways, Ltd. The three new D.H.86 machines should be delivered by June 6. They will be placed on the LondonParis service, which will be run four times daily each way, with a flying time of t hours. Fares have been slightly increased. The single fare is now £4, the day return £5, the weekend return £5 10s. and the period return £6.
The London Liverpool Belfast Glasgow mail service is to be run twice daily each way, instead of once, using D.H.89 machines. A new internal service with D.H.84 aeroplanes will be run between Hull, Manchester, Liverpool and Belfast. There will be one machine each way daily, leaving Hull at 9.30 a.m., reaching Belfast at 12.35 p.m., leaving there at 3.30 p.m. and arriving at Hull at 6.30 p.m. The Hull-Belfast fares are to be £4 single and £6 return.
Then there are two new services to the Continent, one a regular air line from London to Ostend and Brussels, and the other a "trippers special " between Margate Mad Ostend. On the air line, D,H.89 machines will be used, and there will be three services daily each way; the trip will take one hour between Essex Airport and Ostend, and 45 mins. between there and Brussels. The London-Brussels fares will be £3 15s. single, £5 week-end return, and E5 15s, period return.
The day trips between Thanet and Ostend will be flown by D.H.84s, with four services each way daily. The machine will start from Essex Airport each day at 9 a.m. and return there at 8 p.m. The Thanet-Ostend fares will be £1 10s. single and £2 5s. return. The aim is to cater for people spending their holidays at Margate and Ramsgate.
This service cannot start until the municipal airport serving these two towns is ready. It is expected to be open by June 30.
NEW COMPANY AT CROYDON.
WE learn that a new company called Wrightways, Ltd., has bought over the assets of Messrs. Wrightson and Pearse, and has started business at Croydon. The directors are the Hon, John D. Kemp, son of Lord Rochdale, Mr. G. P. McGiveney, who managed Messrs. Wrightson and Pearse, and Mr. J. W. Duggan, who did much of the piloting.
There are at present three sides to the business. A daily freight service to and from Paris, leaving Croydon at 4.30 a.m., was started on April 29, and the company has a contract to carry loads of newspapers for William Dawson and Sons, Ltd., and has secured permission to bring back return loads.
B36 The second part of the business is concerned with special charters for passengers or goods. The third branch is airframe and engine maintenance ; a bonded store has been established, to the approval of the Aircraft Inspection Department, so that approved parts can be issued instantly. Day-to-day maintenance and complete overhauls for Certificates of Airworthiness are undertaken. There are two machines in service, both being de Havilland Dragons with Plessey radio sets.
EDINBURGH INCLUDED IN ARTERIAL AIR ROUTE.
AS from May 27, North Eastern Airways, Ltd., of Heston, has extended its London Neivcastle service to Edin
burgh. The Airspeed Envoys are using the R.A.F. aerodrome at Turnhouse.
Machines leave Heston at 11.30 a.m. and 5.15 p.m. and reach Edinburgh at 2.30 p.m, and 8.15 p.m. respectively. In the opposite direction machines leave Edinburgh at 9.20 a.m. and 3.55 p.m., and reach Heston at 12.20 p.m. and 6.55 p.m. The time is 41 hrs. between town centres. The morning machine southwards and the afternoon a.eroplarhe. northwards connect with services to and from Paris by means of the Inner Circle Air Line between Heston and Croydon Airports. The London Edinburgh fares are £5 14s. single and £10 return.
CRISS-CROSS CRILLY CONNECTIONS.
1N addition to the twice-daily BristolLeicester-Norwich service, started on April 2, Crilly Airways, Ltd., has started a twice-daily service each way between Nottingham, Leicester and Northampton. On the north-south lines and the east-west lines all services connect at Leicester. On June 6 the company is starting a Leicester Skegness Nottingham service.
CAMBRIAN CO. AND WESTERN AIRWAYS MERGE.
ANagreement has now been arrived at between Cambrian Air Services, Ltd., Swansea (the activities of which were referred to in this paper on May 17), and Mr. Norman Edgar, Bristol, for Western Airways, Ltd., under which the two companies are to unite. Under this amalgamation Mr. S. Kenneth Davies, Lt.-Col. R. G. Llewellyn and Mr. G. H. Wilson-Fox join the directorate of Western Airways, Ltd.
Steps are being taken by Western Airways, Ltd., by which a part of its air fleet and a pilot will be always on call at Cardiff.
As from Monday last, the Cardiff
Bristol air-ferry service is being increased, there now being three more journeys each way daily, making 12 journeys per day in all.
The Cambrian company, too, will now examine the possibility of developing from Cardiff, as well as Swansea, air cruises to other Welsh towns.
THE IMPROVED SHORT SCION.
rrHE latest version of the Scion high1. wing monoplane for light commercial work, made by Short Bros., Ltd., Rochester, is better in performance and is eminently suited to work not involving high speeds.
The machine has two Pobjoy Niagara 91:/ h.p. engines cleanly fitted into the wing and completely cowled. It has a lofty cabin with roomy seats for five passengers and the pilot, who has an excellent view all round. The take-off with hill load is 140 yards, and landing is correspondingly slow, which means that the machine can work from quite small fields. The cruising speed is 115 m.p.h., and as the petrol consumption is eight gallons per hour, the Scion carries six persons and luggage at 115 m.p.h., at no less than 14i m.p.g.