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Ale Facllities at Singapore IL has been decided to provide a wireless direction-finding station the latest type at Singapore, and a site for this' purpose has Just' been 8g] chosen at Toa Payoh, The technical equipment 1s expected to arrive shortly, and will be ready for. Installation early in the New Year.
The resident engineer at Singapore's new airport gave some fresh dotals concerning the terminal. buildings the other day. They will, he explained, be among the most modern of their Kind to be found anywhere, Outward and inward trafic. will be separated, while for visitors" other than passengers there will be a large Mat root from which to watch the coming and going of the aircraft. 'The main-hall on' the groand floor provides office "accommodation for the various companies; also a Post Office, administrative and control otices, and facilities for passport examination, medical Inspection, and Customs.
'The first floor will provide office accommodation for those connected with the regulation' and control of the airport, including the meteoroloical staff, and there will also be Tooms for' pilots who may have occaslon to spend t few hours at the alr-port before taking off again. Surmounting the building, and reaching a height of 70 fect, will be situated the control tower from which all trame will be regulated, Alr Mall Across Canada The Imperial Airways weekly] "Bulletin" has news from Canada that mails "are to be flown in the spring over western sections of the trans-Canada alr-mail between. Vancouver and Winnipeg and that the entire route across Canada will—according to arrangements made by the Minister of Trans-Port—be open for alr trafic in July. Sixteen airports and landing-'lelds have been provided between Vancouver and Lethbridge. When the entire trans-Canada "route is completed, there will be landing-fields every 25 or 30 miles. aeronautical exhibition a few weeks age. Tt is probably the most powerful aero engine yet ordered quantity by any " government. A large bath of Perseus engines Is already in production. Before those. engines roached their present state, Single-cylinder running. tests alone: totalled some 20,000 hours, or two years and fifteen weeks. consumption decreases steadily as the engines are used, a fact proved in the service trials' with Imperial Airways that will astonish old-time motorists, who remember how the sleeve-valved engines installed In some automobiles used to} engulf all after a few thousand miles fon the road. Further, the sleep which are made of special metal, show no signs of wear afler many hundred hours' running. Fuel con sumption in one series of prolonged tests worked out at only 0.43 1b. per horsepower per hour; for comparison, with the engines now in service Imperial Airways average about 056 Ib/up the. Here is big saving, which must be reflected in useful load of, the aeroplane.
'A Five-Gun Fighter 'An aeroplane which Is' attracting much notice on the Continent is the Féroce, a heavily armed, single-seater, biplane fighter, now being Produted at' the Avions Fairey Works, the Belgian subsidiary of the Fairy Company. Two of these aeroplanes have lately, been ordered by. the Soviet Government.
'The' Féroce, veloped from the Fantéme, built in Nest Pass, Winnipeg and across Northern On-tano to Cochrane;, and then south to Blmsdale, (Ontario) where it divides {nto two branches, one going on to Toronto, and the other to Montreal. From Montreal the route crosses the State of Maine to St. John and Mone-ton, while another branch—from Moneton will go on to Halifax (Nova Scotia).
Heston Airway Last week I referred to an action brought against the British-American Air Services, Ltd, by the widow of one of the passengers who was killed when a machine supplied by the Company to take a party to see the Naval Review in' July. 1935. crashed just after starting. And T mentioned the pilot's argument that, in certain sets of the wind, and possibly due to the surrounding ploughed land, there were air currents) which forced 3 machine down.
As Heston is an important aerodrome, likely to become still more $0, T should add that the Judge finding for the plaintiff and awarding her £10,000 damages, pooh poohed the idea that there was anything abnormal in the atmosphere Heston, and said that it was "abundantly clear that the accident was the fault of the pilot."
Tue Chinese municipal authorities in Tientsin have taken steps to prevent Chinese along Haiho from selwhich has been de- ling land to the Japanese, says the "shun Pao."
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