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1945 - 1872.PDF
SEPTEMBER 2OTH, . 1945 FLIGHT 321 ) CIVIL AVIATION NEWS Bombay. While landing rights are still the subject of negotia- tions, the company propose to start the service early in November with three or four daily frequencies. England being hy-p-issed, the Irish Airways are to operate a connecting shuttle service. TO THE FAR EAST THE conviction that trade and travel between the UnitedStates and the Far East and Pacific area will greatly expand in post-war years was expressed by the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board in a review of proposed airline routes across the Pacific. C.A.B. examiners, in a preliminary report which will be considered later by the five-man board, recommended that present services ot Pan American Airways across the Central Pacific be expanded. The examiners recommended establish- ment of, a link from Midway Island to Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Bangkok and Calcutta, and another link from Manila to Singapore and Batavia. The examiners also recommend the extension of air services from Noumea, New Caledonia to Sydney, Australia. Pan American is already authorised to fly the Central Pacific rom San Francisco and Los Angeles by way of Honolulu. From Hawaii the present Pan American route divides into a northern segment through Midway, Wake and Guam Islands to Manila and Hong Kong, and a southern segment through Canton and Suva Islands to Noumea and Auckland, New Zealand. Following a policy of regulated competition laid down by the board, the examiners also recommended the establishment of a northern Arctic route to the Orient by North-West Airlines, a cross-country domestic line which has been flying to Alaska and the Aleutian Islands during the war. On the proposed northern route, North-West Airlines would operate aircraft between Chicago, Hong Kong and Manila on a route through Canada, Alaska, the Aleutians, Paramushiro, in the Kurile Islands, Tokyo and Shanghai. The examiners pointed out that military operations already had established the safety of the northern route which will be in easy reach of landing fields most of the way, and that the northern route would cut more than 1,500 miles from the pre-war routes between the Far East and the large eastern industrial areas of the United States. The report says that air service, which will' bring even Cal- cutta to within two days of the United States, will open up an entirely new tourist market, and business trips to the Far East which were not economically feasible by surface travel could easily be made by air at a saving in cost and time. Entirely apart from the general increase in traffic to the Far East which can be expected in the post-war period, the ability of air service to create its own traffic will enlarge the travel arket to this part of the world. 'an American Airways, in a study of Pacific air travel, estimated that 34,132 passengers each year would cross the Pacific by air in each direction, after services had been established. North-West estimated a total of 29,200 passengers a year in both directions. The" North-West estimate was based on a survey by Dr. Edward P. Warner, vice-chairman of C.A.B., who estimated a total of 80 passengers a day across the Pacific. HELICOPTER FREIGHTER A HELICOPTER wilh a top speed of 130 m.p.h., cruisingat 90 m.p.h. and designed for a freight payload of 800 lb., is to be built in Canada. A Montreal syndicate sponsoring the venture has already arranged for the mass production of the type by Engineering Products, Ltd. The aircraft is the SG Mk VI designed by B. W. Sznycer ami Gottlieb, ot New York, and is described as an improved, simplified and cheaper version of the original machine, incorporating results of flight tests and ready for mass production. The first prototype may cost some $80,000, after which production costs are expected to decrease sharply. CHANNEL ISLAND SERVICES /CHANNEL ISLANDS AIRWAYS, LTD., will continue to ^-^ operate their London-Guernsey-Jersey service throughout the forthcoming winter period. Up to date, 2,154 passengers and 44 tons of freight have been carried on this route. In addition, 1,104 local passengers have been conveyed between Jersey and Guernsey. The service between Channel Islands and Southampton, which, as reported in Flight, September 13th, was recently resumed, carries mail and passengers. Air schedules are as far as possible designed to provide convenient connections with the Southern Railway's services to and from Waterloo, and arrangements are being made for air and rail-steamer tickets to be interchangeable. Until larger aircraft become available seven-seater DH Rapides will be employed on this service. NEGOTIATING THE commercial use of Kiudley airfield, the big flying basebuilt by the U.S. in Bermuda—one of the two defence bases leased by Britain—is the subject of negotiations in Washington. A delegation going from Bermuda will be accompanied by Mr. W. J. Bigg, Adviser on Civil Aviation to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, who was a member of the British delegation to the Empire Air Conference at g5<^/'j\— Montreal last December, and by 1y^rA~* Wing Cdr. E. N. Ware, CO. <ii R.A.F. Transport Command at Bermuda. Lord Burghley, Governor of Ber- muda, will also be in Washington for the talk, and Messrs. J. W. Buchanan and E. V. P. Miller, of the British Ministry of Civil Avia- " I participate in the talks 'advise on air control measures. MOVEMENT THEX greatest mass movement ofaircraft in aviation history was conclu/ed when the European Divi- sioj^TOf the'U.S. Army Air Force the re-deployment from the Theatres of 5,615 aircraft belong- ing" to the 8th, 9th, 12th and 35th Arr Forces and 9th Troop Carrier Command. Under the code name of "White Project" the re- deployment schedule was put into operation on May 17th, just nine days after VE-Day, and 86,077 crew members and passengers were flown out of the European Theatre. Seven major accidents occurred during the operation, involving the loss of seventy-two lives. Since May 12th, 66,524 American veterans of the European campaigns have been flown back to the U.S. by the European Division of Air Transport Command. ON POLICY IN a dinner speech during his recent visit to Montreal, LordWinster said that the Government is now engaged on shaping British air policy. He referred to the White Paper on Civil Aviation, the plan of the last Government which set up three corporations with a qualified interest reserved for private enterprise within the State control. He could not be specific about what future British air policy would be, but emphasised that the Labour Government was not bound by any previous commitments or statements of the Labour Party or its members. TRIBUTE SCOTTISH AIRWAYS have received a letter offrom Lord Winster, Minister of Civil Aviatioj(^in which he pays tribute to r the air communicatioii|QMmitained by Scottish Airways between the mainland, QjReyr^nd Shet- land, anl the Hebrides throughouj^tni&j^^WlfLpt/ Frgggon, .vho pion_ ....,._ 'rttr "which Scottish ices during six years of rvices MTVe been run to 100 per cent, orst YJBT is recorded as high as 97 per oijfte war their unarmed aircraft had enemy machines. commen Airways _ war. Frequently the regularity, while the cent. In the early p; several narrow esca their, \u
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