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206 FLIGHT FEBRUARY 22XD, 1945 CIVIL AVIATION NEWS AIRMINDED "PORTSMOUTH City Council have agreed that its finance-t committee should report on a suggestion that the corporation should offer land and foreshore rights for the con-struction of a Government-sponsored international airport on l.angston Harbour. COLONIAL AIR LINKS LORD SWINTON, Minister of Civil Aviation and formerResident Minister in West Africa, told the Royal Empire Society that we must hold on to the up-to-date communicationswhich war has brought to West Africa. "Air communications to this country, within and from thecolonies," he said. " art' !^<Jinj4 to be of the greatest value; it may be that they will be the greatest contribution to colonialplanning." SCANDINAVIAN TYPE A N ICW aircraft for the private owner has been developedl>v the Swedish aircraft industry. It is a single seater i-onstructed in wood with a wing span of 22.4ft. and a stream-lined njlt. long fuselage Powered with a 60 h.p. engine, it has a cruising speed of1..'=, m.p h. and a range of 1,060 miles, which is probably more than anv otner type in this class. Ceiling is 24,600ft.The diving speed, stated as 370 m.p.h., appears to be extra- ordinarily high for an aircraft of this type and construction,and it is tor this reason that it is likely to be used for advanced training ot fighter pilots. The aircraft is said to have shownverv good living and nianmivring qualities during its test Ilights ami his been approved b_\ the Swedish Air authorities. IN PARLIAMENT WHAT His Majesty's Government has done to concludereciprocal air transport agreements to further British I JOS I .-war civil aviation and with which States negotiations areon foot was a question asked in the House by Mr. A. Edwards. In reply the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Air-craft Production, Mr. Lennox-Boyd, representing the Minister of Civil Aviation, said that " His Majesty's Government havesigned the International Air Services Agreement, which pro- vides as In tacen the signatories the right of transit over terri-tory and the right ol making non-traffic stops, aird the Interim Agreement for the establishment of the Provisional Inter-national Civil Aviation Organisation. "The Government are in constant touch with other BritishCommonwealth countries," he added, "and agreement has been reached for the operation of Commonwealth Air Services,subject to the exigencies of the war. With a number of foreign C.oveniments they are discussing plans for co-operation. BLAIR BRITISH LATIN AMERICAN AIR LINES, LTD., whichcombine the interests of the Royal Mail Lines, the Blue Star Line, the Pacific Steam Navigation Co., and Lamport andHolt, Ltd., Dave an ambitious programme for their post-war operations. They propose to operate a service to Buenos Aires via Lisbon,Bathurst, Natal, Rio, Montevideo, a total of some 7,152 statute miles, in flights of about 2^ days' duration. The service isto be co-ordinated with U.K. internal services so that pas- sengers from all parts of-the country could fly from their hometowns to Rio or Buenos Aires, and the home terminal is to be somewhere in the South of England. Within six months of obtaining Government permission theroute could be operated with one service a week, to be increased to three services weekly.It is refreshing to note that no enticing lares are being blared by the B.L.A.I.R. ; ignoring the fashion of announcingmeaningless if impressive low rates, the company predicts that at the outset their passengers fares will be somewhat higherthan the sea rates. The chairman of the company is Mr. John \V. Booth, J.P.,and other directors are Messrs. C. C. Baker, S. \V. Black, W. H. Davies, L. Davies, and F. H. Lowe. PLANNING IN FRANCE FRANCE is to hold a National Aviation Congress fromApril 3rd to April 8th under the auspices of the French Ministry for Air. Scientists, industrialists, pilots and other French experts willtake part in a series of meetings which it is expected will lay the basis of the future of the French aviation industry. Anumber of the sessions will be secret. One of the problems is the production of new aircraft type.During the occupation French factories were turning out Ger- man designs only. LOOKING EASTWARDS A MERICAN airlines planning their post-war services con-**• template new routes linking India, and China'with the U.S.A.Nine airlines have filed their applications with the Civil Aeronautics Board, at present in session, for routes in thePacific area. Five want routes connecting with India, China" and Japan, and four along the west coast of America toAlaska Pan-American Airways seeks a great circle extension of its pre-war routes to China and New Zealand by way of theHawaiian Islands. It also asks approval for a link from the former terminus at Hong-Kong direct to Calcutta through thefacilities ot National Airways, and from its former terminus at Auckland, New Zealand, to Sydney, Australia. Hearings of the Board will continue for the next twoweeks.—Renter. MI* 060S. U.S. ACCEPT THE U.S. Government has taken steps to accept the InterimAgreement on International Civil Aviation, the Inter- national Air Service" Transit Agreement and the InternationalAir Transport Agreement signed at the International Civil Aviation Conference at Chicago on December 7th, 1944. TheConvention on International Civil Aviation will in due course be submitted to the U S. Senate for its advice and consent. These acceptances by the Government of the U.S., however,are given with the understanding " that the provisions of Article II, Section 2, of the International Air Services TransitAgreement and the provisions of Article IV, Section 3, of the International Air Transport Agreement shall become operativeas to the U.S of Amenca at such time as the Convention on International Civil Aviation, signed at the International CivilAviation Conference shall be ratified by the U.S. of Amenca; and that the provisions of the second paragraph of Article Vof the Interim Agreement on International Civil Aviation are, in respect of the U.S. of America, subject to the requirementsof its constitutional processes." The articles to which this special reference is made read asfollows: — International Air Services Transit Agreement, Article II,Section 2: If any. disagreement between two or more con- tracting States relating to the interpretation or applicationof this agreement cannot be settled by negotiation, the pro- visions of chapter 18 ot the above-mentioned Convention shallbe applicable in the same manner as provided therein with reference to any disagreement relating to the interpretation orapplication of the above-mentioned Convention. International Air Transport Agreement, Article IV, Sec-tion 3, is identical. Interim Agreement on International Civil Aviation,Article V, second paragraph : The expenses of the organisa- tion shall be borne by the Member States in proportions to bedecided by the assembly. Funds shall be advanced by each Member State to cover the initial expenses of the organisation. A SCOTTISH PLAN (Continued from previous page) two years, and there is little likelihood of modifications of' late date it may require the exercise of some good Scotsxisting British bomber designs being able to compete against fundamental common sense, or its equivalent, to see that it foreign airlines without subsidy. The structural weight ofaircraft designed to withstand heavy enemy flak would be too high."Of aircraft manufacture the surve\ states that even at this is the experience of the commercial airline operator which willproduce the specifications for British-built commercial aircraft, and that prudence demands a division of aircraft manufacturebetween North and South.
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