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1946
1946 - 0779.PDF
AP&IL ,TH, I946 FLIGHT 401 CIVIL A VIATIO N NEWS to operate a trans-Pacific airline, similar services will be putinto operation by Trans-Canada Airlines and by Pan American Airways. The T.C.A. base will probably be Vancouver, andthe company will operate in partnership with B.C.P.A., pooling its traffic revenue on the basis of scheduled operations. Mr. Drakeford said that Australia and New Zealand hadbeen given authority to operate a regional service in certain defined areas of the South Pacific; also that New Zealandhad become the main capital holder in Trans-Tasman Airlines, which is planning a daily service in each direction betweenAuckland and Sydney. Speaking of the route to and from the U.K., he said thatB.O.A.C. and Qantas Empire Airways would run a parallel partnership of services between Sydney and London, via India.Lancastrians would be used to provide the fast mail service on this route and the slower and more comfortable servicewould be provided by flying-boats. Decisions on the types, of aircraft to be adopted for future operations would be reviewedin September after the results of the Tudor II trials were known. Mr. Drakeford added that the B.C.P.A. would ultimatelyuse Merlin-engined D.C.-4M aircraft which were now being produced in Montreal under licence from the Douglas AircraftCorporation, but that, as they were unlikely to be available until next year, it was hoped to arrange an interim serviceby contract with Australian operators. STRAIGHT TRAINING QFIRST of the Straight Corporation's activities to be resumed has beenthe Central Navigation School. Group Capt. W. N. Cumming, O.B.E.,D.F.C., who was in charge of Straight Aviation Training before thewar, has taken over its direction, and the curriculum will cover all require-ments, from civil conversion courses for ex-pilots to comprehensive abinitio training in all branches. The accommodation taken over atBush House, London, will allow for six simultaneous classes. In addi-tion to the equipment of its pre-war days, the school will be providedwith Link and other "synthetic" trainers and a cin6 projector. TheLink trainer and other aids will be available also for those who wish for, a refresher course. Facilities for practical flying are already beingestablished near Londtfn. Fees for complete courses range from under £20 for theshort conversion courses to £55 for a 1st Class Navigator's course. Classes for the "B" Certificate and 2nd Class Navi-gaters started on April 1. Incidentally, all the directors of Straight Aviation have beenengaged on active war service. IMPROVED SUMMER SERVICES LAST Monday the summer schedules on various internal air-lines came into operation. Railway Air Services and West Coast Air Services, for example, stepped up the frequency onmany of their routes. The London-Belfast service now runs three times a day instead of once, and there is also an after-noon, as well as a morning, service between London, Liverpool and Belfast. Services between Liverpool and Belfast and Glas-gow and Belfast are increased to three daily. All these schedules operate in each direction. Avros are being used to provide a once-daily service betweenLondon and Glasgow (Renfrew), and the flying time for this schedule has been reduced to 2| hours. For travellers to andfrom Eire, West Coast Air Services and Aer Lingus Teoranta are «ach operating two services in both directions betweenLondon and Dublin. At present, Railway Air Service and West Coast Air Serviceoperations are restricted to week-days, but it is hoped that, during the summer, the delivery of additional aircraft willenable these new schedules to be further improved. The services between Glasgow and both Belfast and Londonare run in association with Scottish Airways, Ltd., who, as announced briefly in Flight on April 4th, also have improvedthen services since the beginning of this week. The company o has reintroduced the Renfrew-Inverness air link which wassuspended at the outbreak of war, so that there are now daily services between Renfrew and Kirkwall in the Orkneys, andShetland. There is also a new daily sendee to Shetland from Inverness. Instead of thrice weekly services, a daily schedule nowoperates between Inverness and Stornovmy, and late-afternoon services have been introduced on the Glasgow-Campbeltown andGlasgow-Islay routes. In addition, Scottish Airways services now link the Outer Hebrides and Renfrew with a daily servicein both directions. These services call at Tiree, Benbecula. Barra and Stornoway. LONDON AIRPORT AGAIN TTHE London Airport at Heathrow was the subject of yetJ- another statement by the Minister of Civil Aviation last week. Replying in the House of Lords on April 10 to a ques-tion by Viscount Swinton, his predecessor, Lord Winster referred briefly to the history of the selection of Heathrow foruse as an airport and outlined once again the plans for its immediate development. Since the beginning of the year, the various proposals for,and criticisms against, Heathrow have been constantly reported and commented upon in Flight, but as Lord Winster's lateststatement represents a straightforward summary of the present position, we propose to print a full account of it next week.In the meantime, it is noteworthy that, after Lord Winster had spoken, Viscount Swinton agreed that Heathrow wasthe best site available and added: "I say without the least hesitation that it was the only possible site on which a greatairport for London could be built." During the course of his statement,the Minister made it clear that the airport at Heston would go out ofuse as aii airfield. He also said later that the future of Bovingdon was atpresent under discussion, and that the possibility of another site for futuredevelopment as an additional civil airport for London was being con-sidered. PROCTOR DELIVERY '"TWENTY-SIX Percival Proctor Va-*- have been ordered for distribu- tion in India. The first of these isbeing flown out by Mr. Jim Mollison, who recently flew a Proctor V toBrazil on its delivery flight. The air- craft which he is flying to India isfinished in turquoise blue with silver wings and has grey leather uphol-stery. It is for the use of Mr. Rusi Mistri, of Bombay. o It's all your fault, Flingsby. 1'tSlJTyou that you'd get them mixed up." CLUB FOR GUILDFORD THE recently-formed Guildford Aero Club is hoping to beginits activities shortly, but at present it is negotiating for both club premises and the use of an airfield. The club hopesto be elected to the Association of British Aero Clubs and to be included in the allotment of the 100 aircraft made availableby the Ministry of Civil Aviation for club flying. Anyone in the Guildford aiea who is interested in flying, in-cluding fitters and riggers able to assist in the maintenance ot the club aircraft, should get into touch with the HonorarySecretary, Mr. J. T. Hills, at 79, Beech Grove, Guildford, Surrey. BREVITIES British South American Airways, South African Airways Cor-poration, Iraqi Airways and the Middle East Airlines Company have all been accepted as active members of I.A.T.A. # * # Air mail which was posted in the United Kingdom on March 9 and 20, for civil addresses in Australia, New Zealand and islands in the South-west Pacific, was on board the Lancastrian aircraft which was lost after leaving Ceylon on March 23. * * * The Canadian Government has decided to grant a year'sextension to the Canadian Pacific Railway in its operation ot Canadian Pacific Air Lines. Under Government order theC.P.R. sir service was due in May to become a separate unit. Presumably lack of airline facilities generally has caused thepostponement of the decree
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