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1946
1946 - 0184.PDF
FLIGHT JANUARY 31ST, 1946 information about the type, and we shall be able to find out ii it really is as good as it is claimed to be. Five machines out of the large total of types to be used are not likely to cause trouble when it comes to replace- ment. It is a different matter when an air line is com- pletely equipped with a single type of aircraft, with all its spares. Then its replacement does become a problem. We are, of course, assuming that so soon as the Avro Tudor I has been thoroughly tested on the route and is available in sufficient numbers, the American aircraft will be withdrawn from the Atlantic service, and that the Government will not take* the view that, because a great deal of money has been expended on these machines, we must continue to use them. We are also taking it for granted that every possible assistance will be given by the Government departments concerned to expedite the construction of the British aircraft. Getting Into the AirA S a fust st( p towards really making a start comes the announcement of the foundations of the new corporations, and the appointment of their chiefs. British South American Airways, Ltd., are to tv taken over by B O.A.C. so as to be state-owned, and iii due course will be a separate corporation under the same name but with "Ltd." omitted from its title. Both shipping and air experience will be available at the top, with Mr. James Booth as chairman and Air Vice-Marshal Bennett as chief executive. Internal and European services will be run initially by B.O.A.C., two of whose members, Sir Harold Hartley and Mr. d'Erlanger, have been given the special duties of organising British European Airways, of which they will, when the corporation is established, become chairman and chief executive respectively. They will then, presumably, be replaced on B.O.A.C.'s board by CONTENTS The Outlook ... - Westland Cabin Atmosphere Control Here and There - - - - Civil Aviation Plans Hawker Sea Fury X - A Spitfire Score—Part II Halton School - Safer Flying .... Civil Aviation News • •Coastal Command's Own War - Correspondence - Service Aviation ... 103 105 108 IIO in fl! n3 120 121 123 125 126 others. Again we have a surface-transport expert (in this case railways) and man with air experience as chair- man and chief executive respectively. On B.O.A.C. itself the new blood on the board does not appear to belong exclusively to any of the recog- nised "groups." Major Thornton certainly has experi- ence of both shipping and flying, and is thus undoubt- edly a valuable addition. Mr. Garro-Jones, when he was an M.P., took a keen, though not always very well- informed, interest in air matters. Altogether it can probably be said that, so far as can be judged at pre- sent, the new appointments are fairly sensible. We hope that, when all three boards are fully constituted, they will show a rather greater preponderance of men with practical transport flying experience than does the present B.O.A.C. board. The announcement-made by Mr. Ivor Thomas about, the frequencies of services to Europe, and more par- ticularly his promise that these services will be started in February, must be welcomed. * ONE OF THE ERINYES • There are two iormsot the Land Fury, one powered by a Centaurus (shown above) and one by the Sabre VII, indditi 'o the Sea Fury described on pp, 111-116 of this issue.
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