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AUGUST 2ND, I945 FLIGHT I2y CIVIL AVIATION NEWS A A NEW LINK N airline service is reported by Moscow Radio to be in operation between Berlin and Moscow. AIR SAFETY AIR CHIEF MARSHAL SIR FREDERICK BOWHILL,the United Kingdom delegate to the Interim Council ofthe Provisional International Civil Aviation Organisation in Montreal, said that the Council's meeting on August 15th will cover the whole field of aviation. Every possible means of providing safety on international air routes will be examined, Sir Frederick added. AIRPORT FOR BUTE EVIDENCE of the keen interest of civic bodies in the pro-vision of air transport facilities comes from all parts of the country. Most recent is the claim of Provost Mackay, of I'Jtothsay, asking that priority should be given for the provision ' of an airport in the Island of Bute. I EIRE NOT INVITED EIRE received no invitation to attend the recent Common-wealth Air Transport Conference and was not going to seek any, stated Mr. De Valera in the Dublin Dail. "While I say that," Mr. De Valera added, "I should also like to say that there is a war situation for Britain and the Statesof the British Commonwealth, and if they are discussing there matters which relate to their conduct of war, I quite ; understand why we should not receive any such invitation." !v AMERICAN PLANS MR. JOHN E. Slater, chairman of American Export Air-lines arrived recently in Europe to discuss the company's new routes and schedules. It will be recalled that by the recent decision of the C.A.B.American Export Airlines were authorised to operate air ser- vices from New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington,Chicago and Detroit to the British Isles and to the European Continent via two routes. One via Newfoundland, the Azores,Foynes, Glasgow, London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Berlin and Warsaw, to Moscow; the other route via Labrador, Green-land, Iceland, Stavanger, Stockholm, Helsinki and Leningrad to Moscow. At the same time, American Export Airlines and AmericanAirlines a U.S. domestic airline) were permitted to provide jointly a single system of air transport service, the first instantof a unified domestic and overseas airline system. ANGLO-EG YPTIAN "COLLOWING lengthy negotiations in Cairo between the•*- British and Egyptian Governments and British Airways nd Misr Airlines, agreement is understood to have been . reached for the formation of a company to be known as[^Egyptian Airways, with an initial capital of ^250,000, to It^perate air services between Britain and Egypt. The projectnew awaits the formal sanction of. the Council of Ministers.The company will have four Egyptian directors, one the chairman, and three British, and i^s aircraft will fly under theEgyptian flag. The service will be subsidised, with the British subsidy larger than that from Egypt. It will be some time before the company begins operating, owing to the difficulty of obtaining aircraft. Negotiations for the creation of an Anglo-Egyptian air com-pany were started in 1938, but were halted by the outbreak °f war. They were resumed with the Nashas Pasha Govern-ment when the end of the war in Europe approached, but were delayed by the fall of the Government.The Misr Airlines is an Egyptian company with several years' successful experience in operating local airlines. Ithas services operating to Jerusalem, Beirut and Damascus, and it is expected that its aircraft will connect with main airlinesfrom Britain. It will be recalled that the Egyptian application to theChicago Conference included, in addition to services to neigh- bouring countries, following routes: to Istanbul from Cairo viaBeirut, Adana and Ankara; to London via Athens, Rome and '>:i"is and from Mersa Matruh via Crete and Athens to Istanbul. ia view of the plans entertained by different Middle East•-'•-•luitries to establish their own air transport services it can be assumed that some reciprocity arrangements will have tofop made between the Egyptian and the Palestine, Lebanon, Syrian and other Governments. CANADA-FRANCE Tj*ORERUNNER of a fleet of passenger and cargo transportsJ- to be delivered to France for internal air lines, a Dakota aircraft left Montreal for Paris on the first flight ever to be madefrom Canada to France. The aircraft will be used until France can produce her ownpost-war type of commercial- machines. PORTUGUESE DEVELOPMENT TPHREE two-engined Dragon Rapides (D.H.89S) ordered-»- from England are to make their first trial flights on the Lisbon-Oporto route in October. The development of Portuguese International Airlines is tobe entrusted to a new organisation to be known as the Aerial Transport Company. Senhor Carlos Beck, the well-knownPortuguese airman, will be its technical director. New airfields are to be constructed in Luanda, Angola, andon the Ilha do Sal in Cape Verde Island—Portugal's " Devil's Island," it was officially announced. SURPLUS THE fourteenth allocation of surplus transport aircraft,non-standard to military specifications, was announced recently by the Surplus Property Board. The transportsallocated at this time include five of the Douglas DC-3 type and two of the Lockheed Lodestar type. Three of the DC-3type aircraft allocated had been rejected by airlines to which they have previously been assigned. The other two wererecently declared surplus. Up to date, 163 Douglas DC-3 type transports have beenallocated. Domestic airlines have received 103 and foreign airlines 60.Previously, the Board removed Lockheed Lodestars from allocation because the supply had "become sufficient to satisfythe demand. In the announcement the Board said that the airline "version of the Lockheed Lodestar (C-60) was againsubject to allocation because the supply was not sufficient to meet the demand from those entitled to priority considera-tion under the terms of the Surplus Property Act. Under the new procedure two airline-type Lockheed Lodestars wereallocated. VETERANS /"WTALINA flying-boats which, as previously reported, ha'vev.^ been withdrawn from the service operated by Qantas Empire Airways from Perth to Ceylon and Karachi across theIndian Ocean, have rendered yeoman wartime service. Commencing operations in July, 1943, the Catalina flying-boats forged the first regular air link between Australia and the outside world, after the Empire flying-boat route betweenEngland and Australia was severed by the fall of Singapore in 1942. At that time the Catalina flying-boat was the only aircraftavailable which had sufficient range to cover, non-stop, the distance of over 3,500 miles between Perth and Ceylon.Although the greater part of the route was through Japanese patrolled territory, the service encountered the enemy on oneoccasion only. Both aircraft and crew escaped unhurt. The first " Qantas "-operated service departed eastboundfrom Ceylon on July 10th, 1943, in the command of Captain R. B. Tapp, and the first westbound service from WesternAustralia to Ceylon on July 22nd, 1943, also in the crjmmand of Captain Tapp. From the outset a weekly frequency was maintained untilthe acquisition of additional aircraft enabled frequency to be increased and allowed the service to be extended to Karachi.The average time taken for the Perth-Ceylon section of the trip was 27 hours. Astronomical navigation of an exception-ally high standard was required to make a landfall after traversing 3,500 miles of the Indian Ocean. Towards the end of 1944 tvvo converted Liberator bomberswere received from the British Air Ministry. After being further modified for civil use in the company's workshops atBrisbane, they joined the Catalina fleet and increased the mail and priority passenger uplift considerably. For the two years from July, 1943, to the end of June, 1945,the Catalinas carried 13,9531b. of freight and no,oo2lb. of mail across the Indian Ocean. A total of 630 passengers werecarried on 262 crossings, which constituted a distance of 924,860 statute miles flown. Now, after two years of continuous service, the sturdy Cata-linas are to retire, leaving this important Empire air route to be operated by larger and faster Liberator and Lancastrianaircraft.
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