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1946
1946 - 0776.PDF
4OO Ft/GHT APRIL I8TH, 1946 CIVIL AVIATION NEWS ORDERS FOR THE CONVAIR IT is reported that American Airlineshave ordered no fewer than a hun- dred Consolidated Vultee 240 aircraftfor use on their shorter service. The 240 is a twin-engined, 40-passenger aircraftemploying exhaust thrust as an auxiliary. Its estimated cruising speed is 300 m.p.h.and it has a number of interesting features from the passengers' point ofview. K.L.M. AFFAIRS K.L.M. are to use Prestwick as an inter-mediate station on their north Atlan- tic services between Amsterdam, NewYork and Curacao as from May 21. In addition the company has applied to the Ministry of Civil Avia-tion for permission to operate regular services between Amster- dam and Prestwick beginning provisionally on May 1. The TN Flight of March 28 we gave a telegraphic list of the air-necessary ground services at Prestwick will be supplied by X fifil(1s whe.re civil aircraft fup.l r.onW b« nhtahipd for Scottish Aviation, LtcJ., and Mr. J. L. de Jongh has beenappointed manager of the local organization which is to be set up at the airport to represent K.L.M. Incidentally, as from April 29, all internal Dutch air ser-vices will be taken over from the Dutch Government by K.L.M., and priority regulations for passengers will no longer apply. SHOT-WELDED FREIGHTER : Very little has been heard of the Budd Conestoga stainless steel freighter, but some of these are now in service with a cargo-carryingconcern and manned by ex-Burma U.S. aircrew. REFUELLING 28 we gave a telegi fields where civil aircraft fuel could e obtained for coupons. There have since been one or two additions. Brox- bourne (Herts) and Weston-super-Mare, for instance, can now supply 73 and 87 octane fuel, while Wolverhampton and Sherburn-in-Elmet (Yorks) have 73 octane fuel available. Cambridge, incidentally, can supply both 73 and 87—-and net only the 73 octane mentioned in the paragraph. TWO TYPES OF CONTROLLER A NOTHER example of the confliction of terms in common•*"*• usage in aviation circles was brought to our attention a few days ago. In the article "By Air to the Isles" in theissue of Flight for April 4, Mr. K. Stuart Smith was mentioned in an inscription as the Guernsey controller. As might be seenfrom the picture to which the inscription referred, the reference was to air traffic control. It should be explained, however, thatat both Jersey and Guernsey airports, the airport manager is known as the airport controller, and, in case any readersshould have been misled by the inscription, we would like to assure them that Mr. F. A. Swoffer is still Airport Controller atGuernsey. If the nationalization of Civil Aviation and the inaugurationof such international bodies as P.I.C.A.O. can bring about finally a standardization of terms as well as practices, a greatbenefit will have been bestowed on civil aviation generally. NOR WEGIAN AIR LINES CAIRO SPEED-UP A FAST B.O.A.C. service to Cairo was introduced lastweek. The new service is operated by twelve-seater Yorks similar to those in use on the South Africa and India schedules,and it is being run twice weekly in each direction, leaving Hum on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and Cairo on Thursdaysand Sundays. The outward journey to Cairo is scheduled to take I2hr 2omin, and the homeward journey I3hr iomin.This service brings the total number of B.O.A.C. services to, or through, the Middle East to twenty-four, per week in eachdirection. I.A.T.A. REGIONAL OFFICES THE establishment of regional offices for the InternationalAir Transport Association was announced by Sir William Hildred when he arrived at Montreal* last week to take up hisnew post as Director-General of the Association. One of these regional offices has already been opened in Paris and othersare planned for New York and Cairo. Sir William said that sixty-one nations now belong to I.A.T.A., which has, in THE first post-war civil airline flight between Norway and addition to its main committee, eleven sub-committees engaged,.^ 1 Rnrianri took nlace on Annl 8 when a Dakota of Det in the studY oi a lar«e number of technical problems in order *England plac April , f t Norske Luftfartselskap A/S (Norwegian Airlines) arrived atCroydon from Oslo. In the evening, the directors of British European Airways entertained representatives of D.N.L. andthe Norwegian Press at a dinner at the Dorchester Hotel. Col. Johan Christie, D.N.L.'s Director of Operations, presentedone of the Norwegian airline's flags to Sir Harold Hartley, the Chairman-designate of B.E.A. Daily services are now being run by D.N.L. between Oslo,Stavanger and Croydon, and also between Oslo, Gothenburg •and Copenhagen. Early iti May the company proposes to beginoperations between Oslo and the following cities: Paris, via Amsterdam and Brussels; Marseilles, via Copenhagen andZurich; Prague, via Copenhagen; Warsaw, via Copenhagen; and Stockholm. DC-3 and DC-4 aircraft will be used for theservices on European and inter-continental lines. D.N.L., which was originally formed in 1933, is now one itudy of a large number of technical proble to further the interests of safe, regular and cheap flying. He hoped that, in time, I.A.T.A. would be able to establish co-operative air rates, which will benefit the ordinary people of the world. PACIFIC STATEMENT IN an announcement to the House of Representatives onApril 10, Mr. Arthur S. Drakeford, the Australian Air Minister, disclosed some of the plans for Pacific air services,and for the set-up of the new corporation, British Common- wealth Pacific Airlines. The statement was, in the main, onparallel lines to that made by Lord Winster after his return from the Pacific Conference. The B.C.P.A. is to be based on Sydney, and Australia willown fifty" per cent of its shares, New Zealand thirty per cent, and Great Britain twenty per cent. The date for the opening of the three partners in Scandinavian Airlines, a joint airline of B.C.P.A.'s operations depends on the establishment of the organization formed by Norway, Sweden and Denmark, which will, in due course, operate services from Scandinavia to the United States necessary ground organization and meteorological facilitiand also on the conclusion of bilateral agreements with various countries concerned. On the same date as B.C.P.A. begins
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