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646 FLIGHT JUNE 14TH, 1945 CIVIL AVIATION NEWS NEW YORK-LISBON HPHE first Clipper of the Pan American direct service from -*- New York to Lisbon arrived at Lisbon last week. IN CONFERENCEA DEPUTATION of the Aerodrome Owners' Association met Lord Swinton to discuss the association's recommendations on civil aviation, especially their part in the development of air transport and of private flying. SAFETY RECORDK .L.M. Royal Dutch Airlines have been awarded by the 1 liter-American Safety Council the annual Aviation Safety Award for 1944 for having operated without an accident or a fatality to passengers or crew. EXPANSION T 7ANCOUVER airport is to be enlarged to become a terminus V of a Pacific service. It will serve both a service from Australia and a new route which the United Air Lines propose to start at some future date from Mexico City direct to Vancouver. SHIPAIR A PETITION of three Clan Line Group members—theHouston Line, Ltd., the British and South American Steam Navigation Co., and Turnbull, Martin and Co., Ltd.— to alter the objects of their companies so as to enable them to operate air transport and own aircraft has been approved by Mr. Justice Cohen ^ ACCEPTED THE Governments of Afghanistan, Australia, Colombia andPeru have declared their final acceptance of the Interim Agreement adopted by the Civil Aviation Conference in Chicago. The Mexican Government accepted the agreement and will put it into force provisionally until it is approved by the Senate of the Republic in accordance with Mexican constitutional procedure. CROYDON-STOCKHOLM THE British Overseas Airways Corporation service to Stock-holm which, during the war, operated secretly from Leuchars, in Fifeshire, is now using Croydon as the terminal airport for Great Britain. A daily service in each direction is being operated with Dakota aircraft. On the outward journey the time taken is 5 hours 30 minutes owing to prevailing tailwinds from the west. The inward journey takes 6 hours 15 minutes. INDIAN PROGRAMME *> OVER 11,000 miles of post-war air routes are planned inIndia, according to a Government statement of policy. The statement said that it is the Government's intention " to promote the development of air transport services, internal and external, by a limited number of sound and reliable private commercial organisations, with their own capital and operated under normal commercial principles. " In selected cases the Government will take a financial interest, but not a controlling interest, in companies operating air services and will appoint a director on the board." This policy, it was added, does not rule out the operation of air services by the Central, Provincial or State Governments. It is intended to operate daily air services on a series of trunk routes radiating from Karachi and Calcutta. SOUTH COAST PLANNING TJASTINGS Reconstruction Committee recommended to the H Town Council that the airfield at "West St. Leonards, on which the Council have already spent £51,000. should be aban- doned because it is too small for modern needs. The committee point out that it is now necessary for the smallest type of airfield to have a main runway of not less than 1,920 yards long and 150 yards wide. This is Hearty double the size of the airfield at West St. "Leonards, and the minimum may be raised. As air transport seems likely to become at last a regional concern, the committee states that any further expenditure will be so heavy that it should not be borne by a local council. The practical course, they say, is to act in conjunction with one or more neighbouring towns, but they addiii proviso that "JT airfield should be within ten minutes <if Hastings. AIRPORT TTED them NtoQ£|gsi* ivasor Gwelo as an inter- is\now said that expertsaerodrome in Southern FOLLOWING on the reportasking consideration of B national air traffic stopping vMce, \tcannot visu;i!i>i a suitabl^J^cistin Rhodesia. >^<< airport was needed near Salisburyt route and fitted in with operational flying distance and passenger traffic. pg^because it was on jhe needs as to fuellin FUTURE TYPES FOUR types of aircraft are likely to be in use five years afterthe war, according to D. R. Parvin, of the United Airlines. A 7(»ton four-cngined low-wing monoplane equipped with aJ supercharged cabin accommodating 100 passengers for long- >• range de luxe services. For schedules with frequent stops, a lour-engined low-wing, 35-ton type is envisaged, also equipped with a supercharged cabin to carry 75 passengers over moderate range. For the initial period of development of freight trans- portation Mr. Parvin predicts a mixed type which he calls a "variable" carrier either for passengers or freight or both. The change-over would.be effected by quickly adjustable bulk- head separating passengers from cargo. This type would be a twin-engine high-wing monoplane of about 20 ton carrying a maximum of 52 passengers or 14,000 lb. of freight at a cruising speed of about 212 m.p.h. Finally, with the increase in freight carriage a specially designed freighter is foreshadowed. This type would be a high-wing monoplane of about 15 ton carrying over 5 ton of freight at 210 m.p.h. cruising speed. TAXATION PROBLEMS HPHE Civil Aeronautics Board, in a report to Congress, has -L urged Congressional action to safeguard the development of the air corrimerce of the United States against the economic barriers of multiple and other burdensome taxation by States and their political subdivisions. Congressional action had followed the recent decision of the Supreme Court in the North-west Airlines Case, in which con- curring justices had suggested that the problems of multiple taxation should receive the attention of the Congress. In that case Minnesota had taxed the entire aircraft fleet of North- west Airlines to its full value notwithstanding the fact that six of the seven other States through which the airline operated had each also taxed a portion of the same fleet. To avoid multiple taxation of air carriers, the Board recom- mends a federal statute to accomplish an equitable apportion- ment of taxable property among the States through which the airline's operations are conducted. The statute would prescribe certain methods under which this taxable property would be allocated. Because there may be. need for some flexibility in the application of the statute, the Board recommend that the federal statute may provide for an existing federal agency to interpret and administer the formula, working with an advisory committee of tax experts nominated by the States. The Board was critical of the taxation by some States of aviation fuel used in inter-State commerce, stating that such taxation threatens to impede the development of air trans- portation. It Recommended that Congress '' direct the Treasury Depart- ment to make a study, in the light of the overall fiscal interests involved, of the merits of such proposals as that for the ex- clusive taxation of aviation fuel by the Federal Government and the ultimate exclusive taxation of motor fuel by the States, and of proposals for the sharing of tax revenues between thQ_ Federal Government and the States." The report also condemns the multiple taxation of flight per- sonnel under State income-tax laws, and urges that the plight of all multi-State workers be remedied by co-operative State action, if necessary, under federal leadership. It also recom- mends that airmen oj»erating or taking part in the operation of aircraft engaged in inter-State or foreign air commerce not lx- required to obtain a State licence or pay State licence or regis- tration fees.
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