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MAY IOTH, 1945 FLIGHT CIVIL AVIATION NEWS -LANCASHIRE INTEREST DIRECT services from Manchester to such European countrieswith which Lancashire had close business ties are asked for by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce.In a request sent to the Minister for Civil Aviation, it is stated that these direct air communications "would be of valu-able service to the development of export trade. ARGENTINE ORDER A DECREE establishing national air space sovereigntyover the State's territory has been issued by the Argen- tine Government.Argentine air transport lines will extend their services to neighbouring countries, while international transport linesmay enter the country and leave it freely after complying with various rules as to route and airports used. CANADIAN PLANS /^ANADA is interested in establishing a trans-Pacific serviceA^ to Australia, in co-operation with Great Britain, Australia d New Zealand. Declaring that Canada's policy was co-operation with EmpireAir Services and not competition, Mr. Norris Wilson, Canadian Civil Aviation Director, in an interview, said that a service toSouth America, in co-operation with Great Britain, was also contemplated. The present trans-Atlantic soldiers' air mail service wouldserve as a foundation for the post-war commercial service. FOR FEEDER SERVICES \ MERICAN feeder airline operators have been warned toxV expect lean years in the immediate post-war period. A survey concluded that they might be able to fix passengerrates at only 3.5 cents (about i|d») per mile should a suitable type of aircraft become available for feeder operations. Sub-stantial economies must be obtained first through efficient aircraft and engine design. Indicating that at present no such specialised aircraft isavailable, the survey stated that should it be possible to operate on a direct flying cost of 17 "to 20 cents (about 8|-iod.) peraircraft mile, and allowing for indirect expenses being double this figure, passenger rates per mile of 3.5 cents could beachieved. The envisaged ideal feeder liner type, the survey concluded,might cost from 50,000 to 70,000 dollars (from ^12,500). l\ SPITE OF DIFFICULTIES Continued from page 510) If the war had not intervened this line would have met with the success it merited, farit the company lost ^16,000-^18,000 in pioneering trnVroute. When war broke out all air lines which did not operate over water were closed, and thus Allied Airways was the only independent air line left to operate from Aberdeen ^ Orkney and Shetland. The passengers consisted mainly of Government priority personnel, Servicemen and women and merchant seamen. It should not be forgotten that the mail contract from Aberdeen to Shetland, which com- menced in November, 1937, continued to be carried daily and became a great boon to the Forces stationed in these outlying districts. Operation during wartime has been extremely difficult, often entailing the management working fourteen and even sixteen hours a day. Shortages of pilots, staff and engineers did not help, and then there were difficulties over obtaining spare parts and having repairs carried out. Suppliers and manufacturers had to give precedence to the fighting part of the war effort and Civil Aviation could only collect what crumbs there were. Until 1942 it had not been possible to purchase aircraft, new or second-hand, and the aircraft which have been used throughout the whole war period have therefore been DH89A Rapide or Dominie, no other types being available. The company, having traversed ten years of hard work, naturally looked forward to the days of peace when they could extend their activities and improve their organisation. The White Paper appears to dash any such hopes. FOR THE CARIBBEAN AN air freight service in the Caribbean is to be operated bythe Aero Transport Corporation, whose parent company is the Siple Air Transport Company of Montreal. Capt. W. C. Siple, former superintendent of civilian flyingpersonnel of the R.A.F. Transport Command at Dorval, Montreal, is the president of the company recently organisedhere, with a view to operating a coast-to-coast freight service in Northern Canada. The company purchased from the Canadian Governmentthrough the War Assets Corporation twenty of the famous Stranraer flying boats, British-designed twin-engined aircraft,built at Canadian Vickers, Ltd., Montreal, which have been used throughout the war on coastal command work and whichhave been flown to all parts of the world. The Caribbean aerial freight service will start, Capt. Siplestated, at Tampa, Florida, as soon as route details have been worked out. These routes will take in Cuba, Haiti, DominicanRepublics, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama Canal Zone, and towns in Mexico and Jamaica.It is understood that the Siple Air Transport Co. will be an all-Canadian company. AIR WOR THINESST HE Vice-chairman of the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board,Mr. Edward Warner, in a paper presented to the Society of Automotive Engineers, outlined progress in the developmentof an international civil aviation airworthiness code. • Mr. Warner emphasised that the draft annexes appended tothe final documents at the Chicago International Civil Aviation Conference (I.C.A.C.)—which include civil airworthinessstandards—are subject to a continuing process of evolution, and quoted two arguments in favour of international stan-dardisation, which are: (1) The facilitation of world aircraft trade. (2) The reduction, if not elimination, of the pos-sibility of competition either between manufacturers or among airlines in the lowering of costs by lowering of safetystandards. He said one of the arguments against standardisation is"the administration complication ot the regulatory process," but that, obviously, it would be advantageous both for•manufacturers wishing to export and for purchasers wishing the widest possible range of choice, if they could be assuredthat aircraft eligible for certification as airworthy in one country would be eligible in all others as well.Mr. Warner spoke of U.S.-British discussions in 1942 and 1943 on the desirability of securing the greatest possiblemeasure of uniformity, at least among as many as possible of the leading aircraft manufacturing countries, if not among allnations. Last summer in bi-lateral talks on civil aviation between the U.S. and several other countries, the desirabilityof internationally standardised practices was agreed upon and followed by preparation of a first draft of a suggested code,Mr. Warner said. The draft was laid last November before the technical committee of I.C.A.C. in Chicago. The final I.C.A.C. resolutions accepted the draft annexes"as constituting models of the desirable scope and arrange- ment." All participating governments were asked to studythe annexes and by May 1st, 1945, submit suggestions for additions or changes. As soon as the provisional international civil aviationorganisation have been established in Canada, Mr. Warner con- tinued, the further development of the airworthiness code maybe expected to come iuto the hands of an airworthiness sub- committee, reporting to the Committee on Air-Navigation andunder supervision of the Provisional Council. The provisional body cannot make any of the technicalannexes an integral part of the permanent air convention. The convention setting up the permanent world air body willcome into force only after it has been formally ratified as a treaty by at least 26 governments. It would then require atwo-thirds vote of the permanent council to establish formally the annexes to the permanent convention, including that ofairworthiness-standardisation. Although the I.C.A.C. did not provide for compulsiveacceptance of the technical code by any member nation of the projected world air body, he was confident that the desirabilityof a high degree of international uniformity in a great many matters will be generally recognised, and that the prestige ofthe standard adopted by the international council will be so great that national adherence to them will be spontaneousand unquestioning.
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