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1945 - 0969.PDF
MAY 17TH, 1945 FLIGHT 539 CIVIL AVIATION NEWS TOURISTS 'TVHE interest of the American public in visiting Britain and•L the consequent expectation of large passenger traffic volume across the Atlantic is evidenced almost uniformly innumerous surveys and polls conducted in the U.S. Art enquiry recently held by Time among its 1,000,000readers as to their travel intentions showed that 310,000 plan to visit the United Kingdom when travel conditions becomenormal. POST-WAR MARKET /~pO study the post-war market lor private aircraft Parks Air X College (U.S.) had arranged for a survey aimed at 6 percent, of the financially able section of the population. On a basis of a summary of 1,000 interviews showing that78,000 prospective buyers plan to pay a price of $1,500 lor private aircraft, the survey envisages a potential maTket of275,000 machines. Some time ago the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerceredicted that within ten years there will be 400,000 privately ed aircraft vflying in the U.S. FREIGHT MORE than one-third of the total weight carried in 1944 byHawaiian Airlines consisted of fresh fruit and vegetables. A total of 6,958,362 lb. of this perishable cargo was carriedthat year. Pan American Airways have established special rates forpoultry, meat and fresh egg shipments from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico. Lower Air-express rates for fresh fish, fruits and otherperishables have been fixed for shipments from Colorado Springs, Denver and Pueblo to points in Texas and Oklahoma HELICOPTERS \ MERICAN aircraft authorities are encouraging the develop-*"Y. ment of helicopters for future civilian employment. Blending foresight with realism, the view held is thatalthough at present the helicopter has not yet reached a satis- factory state of development it is well on the way to capturean important place in civil aviation. Many uses for helicopters were predicted by the DeputyAdministrator of the C.A.A., who said that although the heli- copter has gained tremendous impetus from the demands ofwar, it is also being retarded in certain directions because of military expediency. It is to make up for this retardeddevelopment that the American aircraft industry concentrates so much attention on the helicoptei in the knowledge of a vasi.ready market waiting. To quote again the American official "everyone from theGreyhound Bus Corporation to the owners of a single taxicab decided that the helicopter was the answer to their plans forthe future." TOKYO, A "WAY STATION'T HE designation of Tokyo as a "way station" on a pro-posed airline route between the U.S. and China was listed by Pan American Airways in an application for a certificate o£convenience filed with the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board, Hear- ings on applications of five U.S. airlines for the establishmentof post-war air serviee across the Pacific are before the board. At the conclusion of the hearings the board will draw up areport of recommendations. Mr. Harold M. Bixby, vice-president of Pan American Air-ways, told the board that his company estimated that there would be about 36,000 persons a year travelling between theU.S. and the Orient after the war. Asked by a member of the board hov/ he had arrived at this estimate, Mr. Bixby said thatit was a " conjecture " based on travel by ship across the Pacific before the war. In presenting the application to the board. Mr. Bixby saidthat his company proposed to establish a great circle route to the Orient, flying from bases in San Francisco and LosAngeles to Shanghai, China, with stops aL. Nome (Alaska). Paramushiru, in the Kurile Islands north of Japan, andTokyo. This "short route" was being planned by Fan-AmericanAirways in addition to the route it operated to the Far East before the war by way of Honolulu, Midway, Wake and GuamIslands and Manila, in the Philippine Islands. The airline also operated a southern route from Honolulu to New Zealand,which it seeks to extend to Sidney, Australia, in post-war operation. Mr. Bixby said that the airline planned to fly the Pacific with FOR FEEDER-LINE SERVICE: Avro XIX, a development of the Anson. Powered by two Cheetah XV engines of 375 h.p. each, the new Avro has a gross weight ©f "9,500 lb. and cruises at 150 m.p.h. With still-air range of about 400 miles on a tankage of 140 gals, of fuel, consumption is 2-85 m.p.g. or 52-5 gals./hr. It is shown flying on one engine.
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