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670 FLIGHT JUNE 21ST, 1945 CIVIL AVIATION NEWS A TALLY HO! THREE-DAY coyote hunt by air was staged recently in Western Oklahoma, U.S. U.S. SENATE HEARINGST HE chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee announced the appointment of a five-man sub-committee on aviation to conduct open hearings on the Convention on International Civil Aviation which the late President Roosevelt submitted to the Senate for ratification. Public hearings on the Convention have been arranged, and witnesses from the State Pi JI.II I ijiml Cirii A+uiu^inlirr. Board and U.S. airline companies were invited to appear RETURNING TO CANADA THE United States may soon relinquish* responsiblyleast some of the airfields on the so-called "»n| aviation route linking Western Canada with EJJ North Atlantic. J| Churchill, Manitoba, 1,000 miles finin \^hJ41*^fei»'^>*Bs the main base of the north-west stagijfg roibiaJT It will be recalled that PrtnW'Minister Madlewtfe King (announced in Aug^tyvi«M,f*\(tenns under which j*e Canadian ' Gove/nment ,-t^s ferran^d1-' to take over all .J^'S.I interests in lent Jaitan$ air installations, and n*ffcte known the exist- enceiof fouftj6therto undisclosed aifports in^Iort/iern Canada, each.^ostiag more than $7,ooar©66. _^ The aettt&l-s©ost -of the obligation assumed By the^Canadian Government in Canadian funds is close to $120,00^000, cover- ing the north-west staging route from Edmonton to Alaska, a telephone line Irom Edmonton to Alaska, and the north-east staging route. TUDOR TAKES A BOW AVRO Tudor I, Britain's first civil air liner to take theair since the end of the war in Europe, has made a successful test flight at Ringway, Manchester. The tests were carried out by Messrs. Bill Thorn and Jimmy Orrell. Designed specially for long-range flights, the Tudor I is a low-wing monoplane with single tail fin and rudder and with & span Oi ilpft. and a length of 85ft. Its gross weight is 76,0001b.; a pressurised and air-conditioned cabin for high altitude flying can accommodate up to 24 passengers. The Tudor is powered by four Rolls-Royce Merlins which give it a maximum speed of 346 m.p.h. at 20,000ft. Max. cruising speed is 295 m.p.h. at up to 25,000ft., and max. cruising range 4,980 miles. Commenting upon the Tudor's debut, Mr. Roy Chadwick, the well-known Avro designer, called it '' the most wonderful day in British civil aviation." He said that the first order for two Tudor I's for the B.O.A.C. will be completed at the Avro works at Chadderton, near Manchester, and that several machines will be ready for use on the U.K.-Montreal service by the end of this year and will replace the Lancastrians. The Tudor I is scheduled to fly non-stop to Montreal in 12 hours. He and his team of designers, Mr. Chadwick added, are now working on the Tudor II, a 60-passenger air liner for the Empire air routes. BO AC SERVICES THE Mosquito service to Stockholm, which has been such aprominent feature of B.O.A.C. wartime operations, has been cancelled and replaced by a service operated with Dakotas (Flight, June 14th, 1945). Aircraft leave daily Croy- don and Bromma simultaneously at 0900 hours G M T. (n a.m. B.D.S.T.). This is one of the four new services inaugurated by the Corporation since VE-day. The others are: the United King- dom-Australia service operated with Lancastrians leaving Thursdays" from Hum, and in the opposite direction from Sydney; the United Kingdom-Karachi service, leaving Hum Mondays and Thursdays with Dakotas, which started on June 4th: and the Lodestar Cairo-Nairobi twice-weekjy service in both directions, with a night stop at Khartoum. On other B.O.A.C. lines several changes have been made to improve services. The U.K.-India service operates with Sunderiands twice weekly to Calcutta and return and fourtimes to Karachi and return. The new schedule reduces transit time in both directions by one day, and it will include Mar-seilles as an additional port of call. On routes radiating from Cairo the Sunderland service toKarachi is now operated three times weekly in both directions, with the transit time reduced by one day, and the schedule ofthe thrice-weekly service to Calcutta with "E" class flying boats has been amended to permit lunching on the ground atBahrein. OPERATORS' REACTIONSF OLLOWING upon the receut Government announcement modifying the White Paper on Civil Aviation (Flight, June 14th), the Association of British Aircraft Operators has issued a statement expressing its approval of the proposed setting up of a licensing authority. The Government's promise that pre-war licensed companies may resume their routes and that any company may apply for new routes is recognised as a concession, but the association registers disquiet at the fact that the extensive network of Scottish Lines should be assigned to a monopoly company. "It should be emphasised," the statement says, "that if a large number of routes are handed to the monopoly, pre-war operators will have no room for expansion and there will be little left for a new company to develop." , 4 The association is of the opinion that there is ample scSpT1 for at least five British companies, and it draws attention to iht success oi American aviation, which "leads the world, with nineteen Free Enterprise Companies, an increasing number of which are being permitted to operate internationally." The association has received complaints from members that the Minister of Civil Aviation declines interviews with indepen- dent operators, but consults regularly with constituents of the proposed monopolies. INDIA'S POLICY HPHE Government of India have approved an initial post-war -1- air transport plan providing daily internal services estab- lished and operated by private commercial organisations on a series of trunk routes totalling more than 11,000 miles. It is planned to operate these services with aircraft of twelve to twenty passenger capacity carrying additional mail and freight loads. Critics of the Government plan hold that the scheme gives no indication as to what trunk routes will be established, what the ground facilities will be, and what arrangements art being made for the training of Indisui personnel. The Government policy they say is modelled on the British White Paper, and yet unlike Great Britain it does not propose to associate railways and shipping under a co-ordinated scheme. It is pointed out that the limited number of private companies operating on profit basis is bound to create monopolies with all their attendant evils. The Government of India, it is argued, should have planned their post-war civil aviation policy on State ownership and management, and should have created the necessary machinery to co-ordinate all forms of transport. FROM LATIN-AMERICA /JEROVIAS DE GUATEMALA, S.A., the domestic airline, -^i has been expropriated by the Guatemalan Governments which is now forming a new air transport company to operate internal routes. Thirty per cent, of the new company's capital will be subscribed by the Government, 55 per cent, by the local investors, and 15 per cent, will be disposed of to a foreign concern providing technical guidance and assistance. A Civil Aviation Club, sponsored by the Government, is to be set up to promote private flying. # * # T~YETAILED topographical studies for a new national airport -»-' for Panama, have now been completed by the Engineering Division of the Panama Canal. The airport is scheduled to be completed in spring, 1946, and construction plans are now being drawn up. •' * * JI N Cuba lack of adequate steamship passenger services con- tributes to the increase in air traffic. According to recently published statistics for 1944, incoming aircraft numbered 6,188 and outgoing 6,187, compared with 4,565 and 4,589 respec- tively in 1943. Incoming passengers in 1944 numbered 26,233 and outgoing 29,000 as against 20,545 and 20,128 in 1943- Freight carriage also shows steady increase, rising from 574»354lt>. in 1942 to 659,3671b. in 1943 and 825,787 during 1944.
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