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NOVEMBER 22ND, 1945 FLIGHT \* CIVIL AVIATION NEWS I MAKING AN EXPORTSTART: The three D.H. Rapides and one PercivalProctor which have been purchased by the Portu-guese operating company C.T.A. and were flownout to Lisbon a fortnight ago. These are probablythe first civil - registered aircraft to be sold byordinary commercial con- tract since the start pfthe war. THE SPRINGBOK SERVICE N Flight of November 8th it was announced that B.O.A.C. and South African Airways were reopening the service" between this country and Johannesburg. The first York, which left Hum on November 10, reached Johannesburg 68 hours later. The reverse service from Johannesburg completed the run in 63 hours. It may be remembered that the through South African air mail and passenger service was first opened in 1931 and ran without interruption until June, 1940, when Italy entered the war and the Mediterranean was' closed. In the immediately pre-war years Short Empire boats were used for the whole run, using Durban, where the traffic was taken over by the South African Airways, as the African terminal. Some of the Short boats are still being used on the '' HorsesifBe '' route between Durban and Karachi. ^^^ STOCKHOLM-US. '"FHE first transport flight between Sweden add Canada wasJ- completed last month when an aircraft/Of the/Swedish Inter-Continental Air Lines section of A.I5. Aerojtraijsportlanded at Montreal on October 11. The aytraft, a fconyerted B-17 Flying Fortress, was one of a numbe^which/Tnskte'forcedlandings in Sweden after U.S. bomber rfAfls aa-.Ge^n^fl^. Since early June, Sweden has beejn operating• two convertedFortresses on six services a month Qach^i:ay between Stockholm and New York, via Iceland attd\Mjrigen, Quebec. In duecourse, when A.B.A. is equipped witp Douglas C-54 Skymasters, the service will, writeSva'•Montrea/corresnaHdent, be operated r \ \ in jirtnppe, A.B.A«^,re*i5ow operating ten services,eight Douglas DC-3S, five JU-52S and three con- B-19 Fortresses—apart from the two Boeingseing used on the Atlantic service. The longest regulaf"runs made are those between Stockholm and Paris (fourtimes weekly), Geneva and Prague (each once weekly) and Lon- don and Croydon (four times weekly). In the first half of 1945A.B.A. carried 25,586 passengers, in comparison with the 10,165 carried in the second half of 1944. Although the services arenaturally used mainly by V.I.P.s, quite a few seats are available for ordinary travellers. The London office of A.B. Aerotransport(Swedish Air Lines) is now at 57, Grosvenor Street, London, W.i (Mayfair 2064/5). i. P.I.CA.O. IN ACTION AFTER completing the necessary preparatory work, the•'*• Provisional International Civil Aviation Organisation has now started to function as a fully-fledged concern. It cameofficially into being on June 6th, 1945, after the acceptance, by twenty-six nations, of the* Interim Agreement at the ChicagoConference, which provided for the setting up of such an organisation to deal in detail with international regulationsand to continue the work of the conference. Headquarters have been established at Montreal.The principal business of the second conference was that of making definite decisions on the suggestions of the variouscommittees and sub-committees. For instance, the committee on air transport has been gathering general data on such sub-jects as subsidies and operating costs, while a committee on air navigation has taken over the work of formulating andrecommending standards and practices covering technical aspects such as load limitations, qualifications, measuring unitstandardisation, and rescue organisation. Mr. A. C. Campbell Orde, of B.O.A.C., has, incidentally,been recently elected chairman of the technical committee of the International Air Transport Association. TRADE BEGINNINGS .T HE Portuguese operating company, Companhia deTransportes Aereos (C.T.A.), has recently purchased three D.H. Rapides and one Percival Proctor, and these aircrafthave been flown out from this country by Portuguese airline pilots. These four are probably the first civil registeredmachines to be sold by commercial contract and to be exported since the beginning of the European war. The company is based at Lisbon, and the first route to beopened 'will be that to Oporto, carrying passengers, freight and newspapers. As and when other airfields become avail-able in Portugal, a network of internal airlines will be built up, and it is hoped that there may even be international exten-sions in due course. The company's technical director will be remembered by those in aviation in pre-war days—Senor CarlosBleck, who was the D.H. representative in Portugal for many years. ARGENTINIAN SUNDERLANDS HTHE first of the Sunderland fleet purchased by Compania-*- Argentina de Navegacion Dodero, S.A., was due to leave Poole for the Argentine early this week. The route to be fol-lowed, as already stated in Flight, will be Lisbon, Bathurst, Natal, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. This first boat was christened Argentina by Senora Doderoat Belfast on November 1. The second boat is to be named Uruguay. Both these boats have 45 seats, and a high state of passen-ger comfort for short domestic journeys has been provided. The third and fourth boats will have fewer seats for conversioninto sleeping berths. For his operations, Senor Dodero has engaged fifteen ex-R.A.F. crews on a temporary basis, after which Argentine-born trainees are to be recruited. It is surprising to know thatthere are more than three hundred such aircrews in the R.A.F., so that there should be plenty of experience a\'ailable.B.O.A.C. are training the first group of crews, who will go out to the Argentine at the end of the year, and they are also" lending" their despatch and route arrangements to cover the delivery flights. The deliveries themselves and the crew arrangements are,as already recorded, the responsibility of Air Cdre. G. Powel!, whose newly formed company, British Aviation Services, Ltd ,is acting as general agent for the Dodero Company. Capt. Dudley Travers has been loaned by B.O.A.C. for the firstdelivery, and Air Cdre. Powell himself will be taking one of the later boats.
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