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AUGUST 9TH, I945 FLIGHT 157 CIVIL AVIATION NEWS NORWAY'S AIRLINES NORWAY now has eight air lines in operation includingone to London and one to Edinburgh.They are at present controlled by the Norwegian Air Ministry and served by military aircraft, with military personnel. FOR DENMARK AIR services between Danish provinces are to be operated bya new Danish air taxi company. As no pilots have beentrained in Denmark during the occupation the company hopes to employ ex-R.A.K. pilots. SWEDISH EXPERIMENT ONE of tne first Swedish experimental transatlantic flightsused Minagan, Quebec, about 100 miles south of GooseBay, Labrador, as an interim halt and then continued to New York. Although Sweden was not a signatory to the Chicago interimair agreement, courtesy rights for the flight were granted by the Dominion Government. FROM CEYLON COLOMBO has become one of the chief airports on one\s of the fast air mail routes between Australia and England. A suivey made by the Director of Civil Aviation in Ceylonwhich notes this as one of the important changes affecting civil aviation in Ceylon, records also as an important factorthe acceleration ot the Tata air mail service between Ceylon and India. The journey between Colombo and Karachi is nowcompleted the same day. A sum of Rs.30,000 for providing a part of the equipmentfor the Colombo airport necessary to meet immediate demands is included in the 1945-46 estimates under civil aviation. Ceylon has now one of the largest airfields in the world.Hacked out of the dense jungle it is part of the island's share in the development of aviation stimulated by war conditions.From Ceylon aircraft fly to Australia and New Zealand along the longest air route in the world, reaching Sydney in under55 hours. AUSTRALIAN PLANS THE battle around the nationalisation of Australian air-»- lines is still raging, with both sides not sparing each other. Air line operators have published a legal opinion stating thatthe Constitution does not grant the Commonwealth any explicit power to monopolise any form of trade or transport.Following Mr. Menzies' announcement that the Opposition will hotly contest the Bill, Sir Earle Page, member of theWar Advisory Committee, said that delay and uncertainty must result from the Government's plan because the constitu-tional issue would undoubtedly be decided by the courts. De- fending the Government's proposal Mr. J. J Daly said thatthe British people had just returned a Government pledged /to nationalisation plans far more advanced than those of^Rustralia. It was therefore fitting tfiat at this moment Aus- tralia should be debating a measure which signified Australianunity with the British people in the search for a new and better way of life. "Anybody else for Paddineton or ESgware P.I.C.A.O. '"PHE Secretariat of the new Provisional International Civil-*- Aviation Organisation, the seat of which will be in Mon- treal, will offer a numbei of employment opportunities forqualified personnel, announces the Canadian External Affairs Department. Personnel will be required to be skilled in the technicalspecialities of aircraft airworthiness, qualifications and licens- ing of operating personnel, organisation of air routes andrelated subjects such as wireless, communications, air traffic control, meteorology and air mapping. Persons seeking employment with "P.I.C.A.O." shouldcommunicate with the Canadian Preparatory Committee. Room 1212, Dominions Square Buildings, Montreal. PACIFIC SER VICE T ANDPLANES will replace flying boats on the San-L' Francisco-New Zealand service which Pan American Air- Ways hope to resume in the near future. The route will be much the same as that followed beforethe interruption of the service by the Pacific war but flying time would be 36 hours and the fare $292 (£73) plus anyGovernment travel tax. This is less than first class steam fare. The machines with which the service is to be operated willbe either the DC-7S or Lockheed Constellations. The former are powered with four engines of 3,000 h.p. each, develop acruising speed of 300 m.p.h., and carry 100 passengers in addition to mail baggage and express freight. Constellationscarry 60 passengers. Some time will, however, elapse before the DC-7S are used,as they are not likely to be available before the middle of next year, and until then smaller machines are to be put intoservice. FACILITIES AT NEW YORK TDRITISH air lines will be allotted space at the Idlewild air--L* port, Long Island, New York, which the city is construct- ing on the shores of Jamaica Bay at a cost of £40,000,000.This decision marks the conclusion of two years of negotia- tions, and places at British disposal space at least sufficientfor transatlantic service facilities. Altogether ^8 "gate positions" each 150ft. wide and in-cluding separate customs and passport offices have been allo- cated. Of these 31 go to American air lines and seven toforeign operators, of which Britain receives two. The future use of Idlewild as the terminal for British trans-atlantic services would bring them within easier reach of New York. At present the rail journey from the marine baseat Baltimore where B.O.A.C. flying boats anchor, takes 2| hours as compared with half an hour car journey from Idle-wild to New York. The use of Idlewild, however, would imply a change over to land machines, but such a move willonly become topical in about two years when the airport is completed. B.O.A.C. APPOINTMENTS /CONGRATULATIONS to B.O.A.C. Capts. Alger, Bailey,v_^ Harrington and Mollard in their new appointments. Captain R. P. Mollard has been appointed manager No. 8Line, Durban. He has logged some 13,000 hours, flown prac- tically all types of aircraft, was co-pilot on the first experi-mental air mail service to Australia in 1931, and was com- mended in the Honours List, January, 1945. Capt. J. C.Harrington, O.B.E., who goes to Hurn as manager, No. 2 Line, has been with flying boats since 1937 and flew in 1940the first flying boat on survey through the Belgian Congo. Capt. F. Bailey, appointed operations superintendent MiddleEast Region, joined Imperial Airways in 1924 and made a world's record on the Brindisi-Alexandria sector by flying4,500 hours on one aircraft. He piloted Canopus on her maiden flight in 1936. Capt. H. W. C. Alger, appointed man-ager, No. 4 Line, Poole, has completed over 14,000 flying hours and had considerable experience since 1928 on differ-sectors of Empire operations. Among these he piloted the [H-66 City of Cairo on the Capetown survey, and the Shortsnt Satyrus in 1937 on the Singapore survey. *""he new appointments follow the Corporation's policy ofisferring senior captains who have shown exceptional tech- ;al and administrative abilities to executive positions con-Terned with flying operations.
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