ATLANTIC AIR SERVICE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19104, 27 August 1936, Page 6

ATLANTIC AIR SERVICE

FLYING BOATS FOR TRIALS CONSTRUCTION IN BRITAIN (British Official Wireless.) Real. 1 p.m. RtUGBY, Aug. 26. Two of the new Empire flying boats should be afloat at Rochester and ready for the iinal trials within the next, 10 days. One of the boats is intended by Imperial Airways for immediate service in the Mediterranean between Briridisi and Alexandria, while the other is destined for long-range experimental flights in connection with the preparation of the North Atlantic route. Other machines now under construction which will engage in the same longdistance experiments are a Mayo composite aircraft, and a De llavilland Albatross.

Meantime, in preparation for the North Atlentic service, air pilots, meteorologists and observation stations have been working in Newfoundland since the autumn of 1934 on accumulating data for one of the most comprehensive weather forecasting schemes ever devised. Investigations which have been undertaken on behalf of the Air Ministry and the Canadian and Newfoundland authorities include the charting of the upper air and an examination of the prevalence of fog in the Newfoundland zone and over the 'mouth of the St. Lawrence River. The object of the organisation which is to be set up is to keep the pilots on the Atlantic route informed of the movements of fog and to lead them through clear channels. The charting of the upper air will provide data upon which it is hoped a high degree of 'accuracy in forecasting may be based. The principle of radio control is to be extended, and the pilots are to be instructed as to their course and '' ls to landing places by radio, in accordance with the weather reports.