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1946
1946 - 0075.PDF
JANUARY IOTH, I946 FLIGHT 45 CIVIL AVIATION NEWS B.O.A.C. CHANGES EARLY this month the B.O.A.C. landplane service toKarachi was extended to Calcutta, with one stop for theYorks at Delhi. At the same time the Dutch K.L.M. service to Lisbon, which is operated five times weekly, and toGibraltar, once weekly, have been taken over, while the fre- quency of the Stockholm service has been increased. THE FIRST CHARTER \ LTHOUGH by no means the only concern preparing for/"-»- chartet operations in and from this country, Cambrian Air Services, of Cardiff, were the first to start work in, so tospeak, an official capacity. At a luncheon given on the very first day of their "freedom," Mr. S. Kenneth Davies,the managing director, outlined the special advantages of charter operations from the business point of view in compari-son with the more immutable movements of regular air services. MORE DC-3s FOR TATA A FURTHER ten Douglas aircraft have recently been pur-chased by Tata Air Lines from the U.S. Liquidation Com- mission. The company now has twelve such aircraft: eightC-47S, two C-53S and two C-48S—all of them, of course, variants of the civil DC-3, or Dakota. Another Indian air transport firm was formed recently foroperation within the State of Hyderabad. This is known as Deccan Airways and the company's base will be at Hyderabad. CANADIAN NEWS A PLAN to carry all first-class mail by air is now being laidbefore the Canadian Parliament. Colonial Airlines is to start a service from Ottawa, viaMontreal, to New York early this year, having purchased new DC-3 aircraft for this purpose. Colonial has also orderedtuenty Martin 202 forty-passenger aircraft for delivery in 1947 and for use on the Montreal-New York run, on which a75-minute non-stop trip will be offered. A. V. Roe (Canada), Ltd., is to purchase the CanadianGovernment's wartime-built Victory Aircraft works, where Lancaster and Lincoln bombers are being built, and the plantwill be operated jointly with the Canadian Government. The de Havilland Aircraft of Canada has started the re-pro-duction of the de Havilland Fox Moth, for both Canadian and British markets.A general investigation of tailless aircraft is being conducted by the Government's National Research Council at Ottawa.This includes wind-tunnel work as well as flight trials of a model, to study stability and control. This model has a 47ft.span and maximum weight of 4,000 lb. Both pilot and observer are carried, with dual control, and a tricycle landinggear is fitted. . , COLONIAL CHANGES IN the course of a lecture on flying in the Colonies givenrecently by Mr. B. C. H. Cross, the Air Transport Adviser to the Colonial Office, one or two not very well known factsivere given of the incidental services in different colonies. In Flight of December 13th we said something of the work>f British West Indian Airways, operating from Trinidad, and |f the "one-man" efforts of Major Williams and his Irelandtoiphibians of British Guiana Airways. In addition to these :rc?rp&iiies, there are one or two others in the Central Americanirea about which little has been heard. For instance, there is 1 concern called Bahamas Airways, operating from Nassau andmploying a single Douglas Dolphin amphibian of early intage. In British Honduras a local service from Belize has>een built up by a New Zealander to give charter facilities rom various landing strips. Mr. Cross suggests that for opera-ions in the West Indies area a really efficient medium-sized ommertial amphibian would have very considerable possi->ilities if this could be built both to be se'aworthy and to carry useful pay load. In East Africa local needs before the war were filled byVilson Airways, and three or four of their original Rapides •re still in use. The work has now been taken over by a5.O.A.C. subsidiary with six D.H. Dominies based on Nairobi, nd Mr. Cross considers that a modern variation of this type is still the most suitable for work in this and similar areas.Farther south, the original Rhodesia and Nyasaland Airways, a company associated with Imperial Airways, has been "re-formed into a Government-owned concern known as Central African Airways. This will operate regional services betweenSouth Africa, the Rhodesias and East Africa, while, at the same time, developing local services. AND NOW FRANCE A PROVISIONAL agreement has been reached between the-**• U.S. and French Governments for the mutual, operation of transatlantic services. France is to provide facilities forAmerican aircraft flying between the U.S., Paris and Calcutta, with branch lines extending elsewhere in Europe and the MiddleEast, and between the U.S. and Marseilles, via Lisbon and Barcelona. In return, Air France will receive the saintfacilities in America for services to New York and Washington, and to Chicago, via Montreal. THE BERMUDA SER VICE JUST before the New Year Pan American Airways announcedthe discontinuance of their boat service between New Yorkand Bermuda and this will by now have been taken over by landplanes since temporary permission has been obtained forthe use of Kindley Field—the only airport on the island. Apparently P.A.A. now have a sufficient number of Sky-masters to permit both a daily service across the North Atlantic and a twice-weekly service to Bermuda. At themoment B.O.A.C. is running three return trips from Baltimore to Bermuda with one of their Boeing Clippers, the other twobeing used on the Atlantic service. CIVIL AIRWORTHINESS REQUIREMENTS WITH the introduction of officially permitted civil flying,the Air Registration Board has issued a folder giving the necessary information about present-day civil airworthinessrequirements. The necessary procedure is outlined for the issue and renewal of certificates of airworthiness, for theapproval of ancillary items, for aircraft maintenance, and for the issue and renewal of aircraft engineers' licences. Thesection dealing with design and construction performance requirements covers all the outstanding points, including thoseconcerning initial climb and engine failure considerations. The fire precautions are much more thorough than those in force inpre-war years, and the necessity for induction system de-icing is impressed and methods of protection recommended, thedesigner being free to select that most suitable. THE FIRST CIVIL INSTRUCTION SO far as we can discover, the only private flying school orclub to start operations on January 1st was that at Cam- bridge. Here, incidentally, is one of the only six points where,for the moment, 73 and 83 octane fuel can be obtained. Marshall's flying school- has made a start, using one Tiger Mothfor training and one Falcon Major for other purposes, and the rates for instruction, at least until some subsidy scheme is insti-tuted, are £5 10s. an hour. Orders have been placed for three additional aircraft—a Miles Messenger, a Percival Proctor anda D.H. Rapide—and it id to be presumed that more Tiger Moths will also be used when these are obtainable. The chiefinstructor is Sqn. Ldr. L. V. Worsdell, D.F.C. THE LONDON CLUB WHETHER or not a subsidy is available, or the subsidyterms announced in good time, the old London Aeroplane Club will be resuming operations, using Tiger Moths, early thisyear. Its headquarters will no longer be at Hatfield, since such incidental flying would interfere with more serious testwork there, and the club has arranged to use Panshanger, a grass airfield between Hatfield and Hertford. This is still, officially, an R.A.F. station, but Wing. Cdr.J. A. Harris who, for six years-previous to the war, was chief instructor, has taken up a tactical position there and will beglad to hear from old and new members. Since the Post Office may not yet be prepared to give the telephone numbers ofR.A.F. airfields, we should say that the number is Essendon 301, and that Wing Cdr. Harris's extension is 11.
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