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222 FLIGHT FEBRUARY 28TH, CIVIL AVIATION NEWS P.1.C.A.O.S FUNDS WHEN he submitted the financial report of P.I.C.A.O. asat December 31st last year to the Interim Council, Dr. Albert Roper, the Secretary-General, disclosed that, to date,thirteen States have advanced funds to the organisation. They are Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Ice-land, Ir^q, Liberia. Norway, Switzerland. United Kingdom and the United States. Many of the countries have alreadypaid in full, including the U.K. and the U.S.A., each of which lias contributed 119,160 dollars. ANGLO-FRENCH AGREEMENT "NTEGOTIAT1ONS with the French Government for an agree--*- * ment on air services between France and her territories and the United Kingdom were opened by a British delegationwhich arrived in Paris on February 18. The delegation was led by Mr. Ivor Thomas, Parliamentary Secretary to theMinistry ot Civil Aviation, and included Major J. R. McCrindle, Mr. J. Brancker and Mr. W. W. Burkett, also ofthe Ministry of Civil Aviation, Mr. R. Gallop, of the Foreign Office, and Mr. R. Vile, of the Colonial Office. The negotia-tions were concluded within the week, and, last Saturday, a civil aviation agreement was initialled by representatives ofboth countries. Details will be made known later. "V. I. BUSINESS P.s" ^TWENTY-FIVE per rent, of air and surface passenger-*- accommodation, allocated by the U.S. War Department tor civilian use, is to be reserved for American businessmen.This arrangement has been made with the Departments of State and War by the U.S Department of Commerce, and will applyto American businessmen who wish to use Government-con- trolled aircraft from Europe, or to or from India, Africa, theMiddle East, or the Far East. The purpose of the scheme, as announced by the U.S.Under-Secretary of Commerce, is to " give travel preference to businessmen whose travel will be the most effective in expand-ing exports and imports, in increasing employment in the United States, in speeding shipments of scarce materials andmerchandise and in assisting American concerns to arrange contracts with foreign nationals who will act as their repre-sentatives abroad." ITEMS FROM THE AIRLINES K.L.M, has begun a tri-weekly service between Amsterdam, Madrid and Lisbon. * * * The oldest service operated by K.L.M.—that betweenHolland and London, which first began in May, 1920, is to reopen on March 4th. Their service to Paris will recom-mence at the same time. * * #Trans-Canada Airlines have announced that their service to the U.K. is now available . to normal fare-payingpassengers. In the past, this service has been confined to priority ticket holders. The new arrangement does nut, how-ever, apply to the westbound route, for which British priorities are still nrcessary. * * * A non-stop flight from New York was made recently bya Pan American Airways' Constellation, which arrived at Hum on February nth. The aircraft made the journey in12 hr. 15 min., and was the first commercial aircraft to com- plete a non-stop flight from New York to England. * * # Iberia, the Spanish airline company, is planning to runa service to London to supplement the existing B.O.A.C. service. Ultimately, it is hoped to establish a daily servicebetween London and Madrid, instead of the existing twice- weekly arrangement. The Trans-World Airways Corporation,in conjunction with Iberia, may start a new service between Madrid and New York at the beginning of March.* * # Early this year Tata Air Lines replaced their BeechExpeditor twins with converted Dakotas on the Karachi- Hyderabad-Colombo and Bombay-Delhi routes. A daily ser-vice on the Bombay-Calcutta route should be started early next month.Indian National Airways have, following negotiations with the Indian Government, started their Lucknow-Rampur-Delhiservice. This is being operated daily each way with D.H. Dominies BUSY AIRLINE WHEN Scottish Aviation celebrated its tenth anniversarydinner on February 15th at Prestwick Airport, Mr. D. F. Mclntyre said that the new Prestwick-Belfast air serviceshad carried just over 1,000 passengers in seventeen days' operation. He promised that the present fare of 30s, persiqgle journey, which was primarily necessitated by petrol limitations, would be reduced step by step until he couldoffer fares comparable with those offered to the American public by American internal operators. NAVIGATIONAL TRAINING AFTER six years of aircraft modification work and othlTspecial wartime commitments. Air Service Training, Hamble, are hoping soon to return to the work for whu.:the concern was originally formed—that of civil aircrew training. By way of a start, and because of the urgent needfor it, they will first concentrate on ground instruction. It is known that, very shortly, new standards will berequired of " B " licensed and air transport pilots in the matter of navigation knowledge, and examinations to these newstandards will be held with effect from April 1st. It would also appear that, on and after October 1st, these new standardswill be obligatory, and a considerable number of pilots will need to be re-examinated if they are to retain their presentjobs. In addition, holders vi K.A.F. 1st or znd Class Navigators'Warrants will need to be "converted" and, as the civil re- quirements are based on training which differs in many waysfrom that which obtains in the R.A.F. to-day, those who desire to be converted from warrant-holding to licence-holding willneed more training. With the object of helping those interested, A.S.T. proposeto start, on April 1st, courses of navigation instruction to meet the following requirements:—(a) Training for Navigators'2nd Class Licence, or Airline Transport Pilots' Licence (5 months) ; (b) Conversion of holders of 1st Class R.A.F.Navigator Warrants to 1st Class Navigators' Licence standard (4 months) ; (c) Conversion of and Class R.A.F. Warrantholders to 2nd Class Navigators' Licence standard (3 months); (d) Conversion of 2nd Class R.A.F. Navigators' Warrantholders of 1st Class Navigators' Licence standard (6 months). 17V THE HOUSE .Twenty Tudor I aircraft will be delivered during 1946,two of them in the first quarter of the year, six in the second, ten in the third and two in the fourth, provided that noserious technical difficulties are experienced. These figures were given by Mr. Wilmot, Minister of Supply and AircraftProduction, in a reply to a question in the House of Commons. * « * When asked by Wing Cdr. G. Cooper what state of, pro-gress the Short Shetland flying boat had reached at the time' of its destruction, Mr. Wilmot informed him that theShetland had been completed as a military aircraft, and was undergoing official trials at the time of its loss. The trialswere well advanced and the aircraft was almost ready to be returned to its makers for conversion. One other prototype wasunder construction. The production of the Shetland for use on the Atlantic and Empire air routes was under considerationby the Ministry of Civil Aviation. j * • » Replying to a question from Air Cmdre. Harvey, M; iwWilmot said that 150 Continental engines had been ordered' from the U.S.A. for use in light civil aircraft. At least go percent, of these aircraft when built would be exported from the country. Trie Minister added that it was better to import theengines rather than lose the export order. * • * In a written answer, the Parliamentary Secretary to theMinistry of Civil Aviation recently stated that the" Ministry was considering the question of establishing a flying-boat basein Scotland as a part of the overall study of the future development and use of the flying boat.* < * Another answer by Mr. Ivor Thomas stated that theLondon Air Priorities Board had decided to discontinue the priorities system on internal civil airlines. In spite of this, theoperating companies had agreed to make accommodation avail- able for businessmen travelling between this country andBelfast, shonld a properly sponsored case of great urgency
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