FUTURE AERIAL SERVICES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1955, 22 March 1919, Page 1

FUTURE AERIAL SERVICES.

UTILISATION OF WIFELESS, AIR REPORTS AND AEROGRAMS.

The new organisation for the development of the air service for passengers, mails, parcels post, and parcels delivery, or even larger goods, was referred (o recently in an interview by Mr Godfrey Isaacs.! managing director in London of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Companies, Ltd. The service will commence in the United Kingdom and the immediate Continent, but will later develop to all parts of the world. A measure s of safety is going to play an important part in tin* rapidity with which the services are developed, said Mr Isaacs, and it must be apparent that safety will be increased by the assistance of wireless and a thorough and complete organisation for its effective use. The company will be prepared to supply every aeroplane with a combined wireless and telegraph installation, and to supply with it an efficient and thoroughly qualified operator, adopting the same system as in force with regard to ships. They will issue charts giving the exact positions of a number of their stations in all parts of the world, and these will be furnished with direc-lion-tinders, which will serve to give the operator the’ exact position of (he aeroplane wherever it may be. There will also be charts issued dividing the air into zones, each of which will be numbered. They will at given periods send out air reports, and in return will receive air reports. • Record charts will be issued from time to time showing these reports, which will serve as comparisons of disturbances in the air, and will furnish valuable information for the guiding of pilots. General weather reports will be issued Irom the dif--Cerent stations, both at borne and abroad, in respect of which (he associated companies situated in foreign countries will take part, and these will be of great value. The large number of ships at sea upon-which there arc Marconi installations will help in the complete organisation. The same facilities will be given to aeroplanes as are afforded to ships, viz., they will have accounts with tho Marconi Company to send telegrams from the air to tiny part of Ihe world. As every aeroplane will doubtless have 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 sea, to the aeroplane. There are now no fewer than 4,000 ships with the Marconi installation, worked by Marconi operators. It is intended that this organisation will be ready by the time peace is signed, and the relaxation of restrictions will allow the free flight of aeroplanes.