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1945
1945 - 1630.PDF
AUGUST I6TH, 1945 FLIGHT C.E.R.C.A. vfl!O was invited by the new Minister to attend the Conference,said that if civil aviation is to make the best and most prac- tical use °f science there must be an intimate and constant part- nership between scientists and designers on the one hand and civil aviation administration and operators on the other. He recalled that the application of radar has revolutionised war- fare and thought its application equally important to civil aims. Speakers representing Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Southern Rhodesia, and Newfoundland greeted the assembly and expressed their satisfaction with the work hitherto achieved. Air Commodore A. D. Nevill (New Zealand) thought it difficult to understand the need for any divergence between military and civil methods and equipment in the case of military transport aircraft and civil transport air- craft flying on -our worldwide air routes, particularly in regard to communications, navigation aids and flying control. So that the transition stage should be smoothly effected he suggested that military authorities themselves might give the jaost serious consideration to the possibility of rationalising &eir needs in the light of future civil air transport requirements. If aircraft now emerging from production lines are to be equipped the best radio equipment now available should be accepted and standardised for the next five or six years. Cer- tain broad targets to our research and developments should be kept for the succeeding decade. Sir Frederick Tymms (India) pointed out that some radio aid must be adapted for the small operator and for the private flyer at a cost and weight within their reach, and even in large air- craft weight means money. 2oolb. of additional radio equip- ment in a transport aircraft means the sacrifice of something of the order of ^4,000 a year in revenue. Sir Frederick thought that the adopted systems of ground equipment should have the widest possible range of utility for all classes of aircraft and all geographical and other conditions of navigation to avoid the • multiplication of equipment on the ground. Large and rela tively poor countries would otherwise be unable to afford a ground organisation required for international air navigation. Mr. Charles P. Taft, head of the U.S. delegation, expressing their appreciation of being invited to participate as observers at a Commonwealth Conference,* hoped that in the broad field of aviation the solution of Commonwealth-American relations will be as successful as it is certain to be in the communications field. In this wider field he cited as the only real problem the fifth freedom-—short distance pick-ups on a long hop. ".We are all agreed," Mr. Taft said, "that the long distance civil aviation that concerns both you and us cannot be profitable without these short distance pick-ups. We both want it to be profitable and we deprecate excessive subsidies, I believe. Now, with that measure of agreement and the spirit evidenced by the daily co-ordination between our technical experts and our official representatives, it seems a pity still to keep making stern faces at each other in public." After the inaugural session the Conference split into com- missions composed of experts in the different subjects under dis- cussion. CIVIL AVIATION NEWS LIMITATION NOT more than three members of any one family may travelin the same aircraft on the bi-weekly airline between Lisbon and Oporto, which begins on October 1st. Until more extended services are developed there will be a strict air-travel "rationing," giving priority to Government servants, invalids, journalists, and business men with' urgent affairs. FRENCH TEST FLIGHT ONE of France's newest and biggest seaplanes has arrivedat Dakar, in French West Africa, after covering in its first flight a distance of 2,790 miles from Biscarosse, on the Atlantic coast, at an average speed of -192 miles per hour. The seaplane carried the French Air Minister, M. Charles Tillon, and M. Pierre Charles Cournarie, Governor-General of French West Africa. It has six engines developing a total of 7,740 h.p., and is capable of carrying 40- passengers as well as mail over the North Atlantic by day and night. Its maximum speed is 250 miles per hour. It can remain in the air for 20 hours. SWISS AGREEMENT- 'S HPHE conclusion of an air transport agreement between the Ljr United States and Switzerland was announced by the U.S. pftate Department. The agreement provides reciprocal rights for American air services to Switzerland and for a Swiss airline to operate across the North Atlantic to New York. -AND SERVICES A DAILY air service between Geneva and Paris and between ^* Zurich and Paris is to be resumed immediately and will he operated on the basis of a pool arrangement on equal terms by the French and Swiss airlines. NEW AIRPORT PHILADELPHIA'S new North-east airport was opened re- •*• cently for commercial airline passenger, mail and express services. Six airlines will operate daily schedules connecting Philadelphia with New York, Boston, Washington, Miami, Los Angnles,, San Francisco, Seattle and many other points. DESTINATION. POTSDAM TZXOWN as "Operational Terminal," the R.A.F. airfield at *-!>atow. Berlin, handled the British and American delega- tions to the Big Three Conference at Potsdam. During the three weeks of the operation some 1,800 aircraft —including 970 British and 7C0 American—were logged in and out of Gatow and carried over 2,000 passengers without a hitch. American Skymasters and British Yorks were used to convey British and American Conference leaders, while their staffs were flown in Dakotas, EXPORTS AN enquiry for ^3,000,000 worth of British aircraft and air-field equipment has been received in this country from Argentina. GONE HOME TERSEY AIRWAYS and their associated company Channel A Islands Airways have re-established their head offices in The Channel Islands, Jersey Airport. FIFTY-FIFTY AN international airport is to be established half on Frenchhalf on Swiss territory. A French "delegation is reported to have arrived in -Berne to discuss details of the project. LOWER RATES THE BRITISH AVIATION INSURANCE COMPANY,LIMITED, have intimated that, with the gradual return of Civil air traffic, utilising all modern aids to navigation and control, a general reduction of passenger accident-insurance may be expected. jr THE Irish Airliweek ended J the Dublin-Liverpi and 12 per cent. August, 1938. Th week was 643/ durine.JhaUfi is&ngere^m *tony, Afest/39jj^y 4^EfT'p record week, ^ pre-war peak month of f passengers carried during that PASSED THE Australian Nationalisation of Airline Bill passed with-out one amendment through all stages in the Canberra House of Representatives. The reason for the smooth passage was the Opposition's de- cision to transfer the real fight to the courts, where they expect the measure to be declared ultra vires.
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