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Aviation History
1946
1946 - 0171.PDF
JANUARY 24TH, 1946 97 CIVIL AVIATION NEWS LOCAL COLOUR : Snakecharmers pursue their ancient craft with amodern magic carpet— a Dakota of Tata AirLines—as a background. MORE U.S. ORDERS IT appears as though the Boeing Stratocruiser (Model 377)will be a good seller. Following their usual custom of plac-ing a token order (with possibly a small deposit!), Pan Ameri- can Airways are said to have ordered twenty deliveries to startin November, 1946. If P.A.A. take delivery of all the types for which they arealleged to have given orders, they will have not only a very diverse stable, but, also, a great many large aeroplanes. Butit is probably a sound policy to make sure of deliveries should a type prove successful, even if it means the loss of a depositon others. The Martin Company at Baltimore, too, continue to receiveorders for their Model 202 at $200,000 each. The latest cus- tomers are Eastern Airlines (50 machines), P.C.A. (35), andColonial Airlines (20). ATLANTIC SAFETY TPHE agenda for the North Atlantic Air Route Service Con-JL ference, to open in Dublin 011 March 4, covers a wide field, and questionnaires have already been sent to the Governmentsof the twelve participating countries in order to obtain detailed information on air navigational facilities in the territories undertheir control and on the proposed future development of these facilities. Working on the resultant basis, the Conference will considerthe existing facilities in the North Atlantic area; the extent to which they can, be used for a substantial period in thefuture; and the degree to which the facilities meet the require- ments of services. Provisions for supplementing existing .arrangements will also be considered. The Eire Department of Industry and Commerce, which is making the arrangements, says that the structure of theConference will probably consist of a general committee and of six sub-committees covering communications, meteorology,airfields and ground aids, search and rescue, air traffic control, and, finally, the co-ordination of the work of the other fivecommittees. A ROYAL EMPIRE OCCASION REFERRING to jet propulsion in connection with civilaviation, Lord Winster, in an address to the Royal Empire Society on January 16, said that, at present, the jet enginedid not lend itself to economic use ill transport aircraft. He did consider, however, that the gas turbine airscrew combina-tion might well oust the piston engine from the aircraft mark<«\ and was likely to give economy of operation without recourseto such high-altitude high-speed flying as is necessary with the simple jet. The Minister for Civil Aviation gave his address on the sub-ject of civil aviation generally, and included a survey of passen- ger flying from the days of the foundation of the Civil AviationDepartment of the Air Ministry in February, 1919, up to the present time. He indicated that the Lancastrian and the Yorkwere both "stopgap" machines and would be superseded by the Tudor I and Tudor II for long-distance services. Theshorter-distance schedules would be covered by the Vickers Viking and the Bristol Wayfarer. Later, replacements wouldbe made by the Brabazon types, of which the de Havilland Dove was the smallest. The chair was taken by Mr. Arthur Gouge, M.I.Mech.E.,F.R.Ae.S. Other speakers were Sir Frederick Handley Page, who stressed the need for indulging the comfort of air passen-gers ; Sir Robert Watson-Watt, who mentioned that he hoped that radar would make some contribution to a warning system DOWN WEYBRIDGE WAY Preparing the Vickers Viking for a visit of inspection by Lord Winster, the Minister for Civil Aviation VM
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