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AUGUST 23RD, 1945 FLIGHT 199 CIVIL AVIATION NEWS CHANNEL ISLANDS SERVICE fUERNSEY AIRWAYS have carried over 800 passengers\J and 14 tons of freight since they started operating after an interval of five years. By next month the company pro-poses to re-establish their services to Southampton, and as soon as aircraft become available they propose to use largerand faster aircraft. At prescrit it speaks well for the organisation of GuernseyAirways that they have achieved their traffic results with only two new De Havilland Dominies released from the R.A.F, SPRINGBOK SERVICE THE long-expected trunk passenger service between theUnited Kingdom and South Africa is to start this yearand will link up at Cairo with other Commonwealth and Empire services. Announcing this, Col. Leverton, acting manager ofthe South African Airways, said that the service would be •^.operated jointly by the Union Government and the B.O.A.C.,each of which will control its own sector. In the initial stage, during which Avro Yorks will be used,the journey from U.K. to South Africa will take 70 hours, and later when Tudors will be available, 50 hours. Until such timeas the Union Government will be able to purchase Tudors they will charter Yorks from the British Government. A NEW POLICY? RUMOUR wants it that the Government intends to modifysubstantially the plan for the organisation of British air transport services embodied in the White Paper. While it isunlikely that such legislation would be put before the House very soon, it is said that the Government plans to transfer theentire future network into one publicly controlled body. The organisation of Commonwealth and Empire serviceswould, however, remain on the lines agreed at the recent Com- monwealth Conference in London and would be operated onthe basis of "parallel partnership." SEEDING BY AIR T\R. LYTLE S. ADAMS, of San Diego, U.S., designer of-L' a mail pick-up, has developed a method for the quick and inexpensive planting of large acreages. He claims he can plant 20,000 acres an hour with his newlydesigned aircraft seed-pellet disseminator. Rice has been suc- cessfully sown from aircraft, but most other attempts at aerialseeding have failed because the seeds were too light and, if not blown away, were easily destroyed by animals or weather. Dr. Adams' experiments showed that a clay or mud coatingwould provide weight and protection, yet Would dissolve easily in most soil to release trie seed after it had penetrated theground. In seeding bv aircraft Dr. Adams uses another of his inven- tions, the seed disseminator, a kind of rimless wheel with hollowspokes. It provides a controlled, wide band of dissemination with as many seeds per acre as desired. The weight of thepellet plus the altitude of the 'plane determines penetration. Because of the speed of sowing, the low man-power required,and the certainty of germination, it is estimated that costs should be less than half those of planting by ordinary means. MONTREAL MEETING TTIGH hopes of making aircraft an instrument of benefit to•1--1- mankind in the years ahead were expressed in Montreal by representatives of 17 nations at the first meeting of theinterim council of the Provisional Civil Aviation organisation which the 54-nation Air Conference at Chicago last Decemberagreed to set up. This is the first of a series of international bodies designed to promote world peace and prosperity. Mr. C. D. Howe, Canadian Minister of Reconstruction, withjurisdiction of civil aviation, in his inaugural speech, said that Canada intended to play a leading part in world transport byair. '' We are only awaiting peacetime economy to expand our operations," he declared. Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Bowhill, British representa-tive, told the meeting that air traffic would play an ever- increasing part in international relations, adding that "pro-gress in civil aviation must be made on the highest level with lofty ideals, but practical ideas without fear or favour." I.A.T.A. CONFERENCE A CONFERENCE to liquidate formally the I.A.T.A. will beheld in London at Airways House on September 17th. Following the formation of a new International Air TransportAssociation early this year, it was decided that the original I.A.T.A., established in 1919 by the initiative of Mr. GeorgeHolt Thomas and Sir Sefton Brancker, should cease to operate. To maintain some continuity and to give expression to thefruitful work of I.A.T.A., however, the new organisation will retain the initials. It was originally planned to hold the final meeting of the" old" I.A.T.A. at The Hague, but the ultimate decision Was in favour of London. The forthcoming meeting at which thenew organisation will take over thus marks the conclusion of a long chapter of co-operation of air transport operators, inwhich I.A.T.A. was instrumental, and the beginning of a new one which it is hoped will be no less efficient. TO MADRID A WEEKLY cargo and passenger service from Paris to Madridis being operated by the U.S. Air Force Transport Com- mand . It is expected that the service will be increased to at least three times a week. FIRST OF THE TUDORS : The Avro XX (Tudor I) which has successfully completed flight tests will be in operation by nextE P"ng. It will be used on the North Atlantic route until the Brabazon I is ready. Flight tests have shown that the Tudor's estimated max. speed (346 m.p.h.) and payload may be exceeded.
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