FUTURE AERIAL SERVICES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17113, 19 March 1919, Page 8

FUTURE AERIAL SERVICES.

UTILISATION OF WIRELESS. ; AIR REPORTS AND AEROGRAMS. Toe new organisation for the development of the air service for passengers, mails, parcels post, and parcels delivery, or even larger goods was referred to recently in an interview by Mr. Godfrey Isaacs, managing director in London rt the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Companies, Ltd. The gcrvico will commence in the United Kingdom' and the immediate Continent, but will later develop to ail parts of the world. A measure of safety is going to play an important part in the rapidity with which the services are developed, said Mr. Isaacs, and it must be apparent that safety will bo increased fcv the assistance of wireless and _ a thorough and complete organisation for its effective use. The company will be prepired to supply every aeroplane with a combined wireless and telegrapn installation, and to supnly with it an efficient and thoroughly qualified operator, adopting the same 6vstem as in forca with to shins. They will issue charts giving the exact positions of a number of their Stations m"all parts of the world, and these will be furnished with directionfinders, which will serve to give the operator the exact position of the aeroplane Wherever it may be. There will also be charts issued dividing the an? into zones, each of which will be numbered. They will £.1 given periods send out air reports, and in return will receive air Record charts will be issued from time to time showing these reports, which Will s/>jve as comparisons of disturbances in the air, and will farnkh valuable information for the guiding of pilots. General weather reports will be issued from the different stations, both at homo ,and I abroad, iu respect of which the associated companies situated in foreign countries will take part, and these will be of groat value. The large number of ships at sea upon which there are Marconi installations will help in tte complete organisation. The same facilities will bo riven to aeroplanes as are afforded to Slips, vie, they will hive accounts with the Marconi Company to send telegrams from the air to any part of the world. is every aeroplane will doubtless nave either a name or distinguishing number, it will be possible- to send telegrams from any part of the world, or from any ship on the eea. to the aeroplane. There are now no fewer than 40CO ships with the Marconi installation, worked by Marconi operators. It is intended that Una organisation will bo ready by the time peace is signed, and the relaxation of restrictions will allow the free flight of aeroplanes. ___«_.