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1946
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2ND, 1946 FLIGHT 440 for 32 years. During this war he was with Bomber Command, and in 1941 went to West Africa to organize air reinforcement to the North AfricanForces. After the European war had ended he commanded a Training Group engaged in trainingcrews for the war with Japan. Air Commodore Bussell served for five years at Air Headquarters.India, and was to a large extent responsible for the enrolment and training of personnel for theRoyal Indian Air Force. Mr. Jeffcock has, for many years, been engaged in the development o£radio communications, and during the war in radar development. He was a member of the CivilAviation Radio Advisory Committee to the Ministry of Civil Aviation. MERLIN ACHIEVEMENT TTHERE can be few corners of the Common-L wealth or Empire where Rolls-Royce products are not to be found, but it is even more note-worthy that at the present time all the Empire air routes are being operated by aircraft using Rolls-Royce engines. Services to India, Australia. South Africa, and South America, and also theT.C.A. transatlantic services, are all flown with Rolls-Royce engined aircraft, and although theseaircraft are interim types mostly developed from military machines, the speed arid reliability of theschedules which they are operating are being con- stantly maintained. SOUTH AMERICAN SURVEYW HEN the British South American AirwaysLancastrian aircraft Star Land flew from London airport on April 22nd to South Americain order to survey routes across that continent, it set up a new record for the flight from London to Buenos Aires, flying to anaccelerated schedule. The aircraft was commanded by Air Vice-Marshal D. C. T. Bennett, Chief Executive Officer ofB.S.A.A. The survey which he is undertaking of South Americanroutes included a flight over the Andes, which were crossed at 23,000ft without incident, to Santiago; thence on to Limain Peru; to Bogota the capital of Colombia; Caracas in Vene- zuela; and finally to Trinidad, returning home via Natal andBathurst. At each port of call talks are taking place with Government officials regarding the extension of the B.S.A.A.route, and it is nnderstood that already a satisfactory discus- sion has taken place in Santiago. THESE (DIS)AGREEMENTS T AST week an announcement was made of the approval in-L' principle by the Egyptian Cabinet of an agreement to form an Anglo-Egyptian company with a capital of £250,000 tooperate air services between U.K. and Egypt, and on to various other parts of the Middle East. This "approval in principle,"however, is still subject to Egyptian Parliamentary sanction. It has also been announced in America that discussions oncivil aviation, on the lines of the Bermuda talks, are to take place between the United States and Russia. In spite of all these signs of promise, however, the positionwith regard to air agreements becomes more and more in- volved each week, and there is clearly a good deal of "behind-the-scenes " uneasiness. In last week's issue we mentioned thedomestic contretemps in the U.S. re- \ garding the legality of the variouscivil aviation agreements concluded by the State department. Now aproblem has arisen over a proposed contract between Trans World AirLines of America and the Italian Government whereby the formerwould obtain almost exclusive rights to operate internal air services forthe latter through the formation of an Italian-American airline company.To this, the British Government has not unnaturally objected, and hasrequested that British European Air- ways should be given an interest inany such concern. It is understood that the U.S. State Department is,up to a point, in sympathy with the British objection, but the wholeproblem seems now to have entered subterranean diplomatic channels. TUDOR PLAN : The narrow-chord tapering wing of the Tudor II Kives it, in plan view, a somewhat more graceful appearance than might beexpected m such a relatively large-capacity civil transport. BREVITIES Gahvay Corporation is making an application to the EireDepartment of Industry and Commerce for the use, as an airpoit, of land at Oranmore about six miles from the city.* * * The Vice-Chairman of the United States Civil AeronauticsBoard is now Mr. Oswald Ryan. He was first appointed to the CA.B. in 1938, and he was a member of the U.S. delegation tothe recent Bermuda Conference. * * * An agreement signed in Budapest at the end of last monthbetween the Soviet Union and Hungary provided for the forma- tion of a joint Soviet-Hungarian Maritime Association and ajoint Civil Aviation Association. * • # Regular services between Bombay and Calcutta have now-been put into operation by Tata Air Lines of Bombay. The routes operated by the company are now, therefore' fromBombay to Karachi, via Ahmedabad; to Delhi via Ahmedabad; to Colombo via Hyderabad and Madras- and toCalcutta via Nagpur. » * • To enable passengers on their "East Indiaman " service In embark at a more convenient hour in the morning Indian National Airways aircraft to Calcutta will now leave Delhi at - 6.30 a.m. Dakotas are used and they call en route at Cawn- pore and Allahabad. Accommodation for non priority passen- gers is available on these aircraft. * # * A three-thousand-mile Soviet arcticair route, from Krasnoyarsk in South- ern Siberia, via Yakutsk and the Bavof Lavrenty, to the far north shores of the Bering Straits, which wasstarted during the war, is said to be specially equipped for arctic condi-tions so that services, including regu- lar night flying, can be continuedthroughout the year. * * # Short Sunderlands converted forcivilian use are to be used by two more South American airlines. Oiu-of them is the Compania Aeronautica Uruguaya, S.A., and the other is Corporacion Sudamericana de Servicio- Aeros, S.A., of Buenos Aires. Thethird South American airline com pany, which already has four of thes<-flying boats, is the Dodero Company of Argentine.
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