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1946
1946 - 0918.PDF
472 FLIGHT MAY 9TH, T946 CIVIL AVIATION. NEWS service between London and North America. The existingTransport Command service between Prestwick and London would, he said, be replaced by a civil air service " as soon aspossible." SOUTHAMPTON'S AIR FACILITIES THE Southampton Airport at Eastleigh, which has now beenderequisitioned by the Air Ministry, will, in future, remain open each day from 6 am. until dusk, with the exception ofSundays when it will open at 8 a.m. In a few weeks' time, when full night lighting equipment Decomes available, nightlandings will be possible subject to prior notice. Hangar accommodation ana 73 octane fuel are available at the airportand the airport authorities hope shortly to be able to proVide 87 octane fuel as well. There are Customs facilities daily from6 a.m. to 10 p.m TRANS-AUSTRALIA THE Australian National Air Lines Commission has decidedto give the Government-operating company the name of Trans-Australia Air Lines, and the first of the two DouglasSkymasters ordered by the Commission is expected in Septem- ber, with a further two in October. These DC4S will be Merlin-engined, so that there will be standardization on the Pacific route; it will be remembered that Trans-Canada's Skymasterswill also be so powered. The Australian policy in this matter is, in any case, one ot standardization, and a Sydney factoryis, we hear, being tooled up to produce Merlins. D.H. SPARES ALTHOUGH both the Fox•**- Moth and the Moth Minor have been "orphaned" in thiscountry as far as spares are concerned, it is now possible toobtain parts for both these types from two of theDominion D.H. companies. Now that the Canadian factoryis producing an improved Fox Moth there is hope of revivalof servicing possibilities. At the same time, the Australiancompany has re-purchased a quantity of Moth Minor andGipsy Minor spares from the R.A.A.F., and these are avail-able at pre-war prices. ANOTHER CHARTER COMPANY A NEW air taxi concern, Kenning Aviation, Ltd., of Ken-ning House, Sheffield, will shortly be starting o.peratioas, At the moment the company is awaiting delivery of D.H.Rapides-, for the hire of which there will be a charge of 2s 6d. a mile. One of the directors is Wing Cdr. Roy Harben, ofAir Training, Ltd., Derby, and, at least for the moment, the company will use the Derby airfield as a base, passengers beingpicked up by car from there to home. The general idea, in any case, is to provide a door-to-door service for Midlandresidents. SUNDERLAND STORY ALTHOUGH not very recent history, the story of the•**• delivery of two more Sunderlands to South America may have interesting repercussions in the future. In this case theseaircraft were delivered to C.A.U.S.A.—Compania Aerouautica Uruguaya, S.A.—for operations across the River Plate. Apparently the boats were ordered by C.A.U.S.A. and con-verted into sixty-seaters. The managing director of the com- pany came over to this country, but, not unnaturally, foundconsiderable difficulty over the present-day international requirements in such matters. The boats had been insuredby a firm in Lloyd's, and the chairman of this firm decided thereupon to take the whole thing over, engaging the necessarycrews and making the various arrangements. He himself, with the aviation co-director, flew over in the first of theboats—an effort which considerably impressed the Uruguayans. There was an exciting (and possibly apocryhal) epiloguewhen, after the arrival of the first boat, the managing director, Col. Don Tydeo Larre Borges, who had never before handleda Sunderland, more or less immediately took a hull-full of blissfully confident passengers on a trial run between Buenos They say it's the Tudor Aires and Montevideo. There were a few excitements on therun-up—during which the mooring cable parted under the load—but all was well. C.A.U.S.A. have previously beenusing Junkers 52 seaplanes on their services. BREVITIES When the first Dutch aircraft left Schiphol Airport on theMoscow-Amsterdam service a few days ago, it carried 30,000 Dutch bulbs.as a gift for the city of Moscow.• * » The Interim Council of the' P.I.C.A.O. has proposed thatthirteen weather ships should be maintained in the North Atlantic. These will also be used for air traffic control andrescue work. • * * Chambers of Commerce and similar civic organizations inAmerica are now permitted to intervene, in their own right, in cases before the Civil Aeronautics Board which involve newroutes or other formal proceedings. • * • Trans-World Air Lines have appointed Capt. John T. Murphyas their Irish Traffic representative. Capt. Murphy served in the Eire army as Staft Officer to the Director of Supply andTransport Services during the war. • * •Peruvian International Airways has been given permission by the Peruvian Government to establish an airline betweenLima and Montreal with stops at Panama, New Orleans and Washington or New York. The service may later be extendedto other countries. • * • Agency and service agreements have been reached between — Tata Air Lines and Trans-World Airways, to cover oper- ations in India.• * * A new air service which will'start operations in India in August this year, linking Cal-cutta, Bombay and New Delhi, has been formed by Mr. K. S.Balakrishnan. The company will be known as Bharat Air-ways, Ltd. * # * Mr. T. L. Hogan, Chief Air-port Engineer to the Eire De- partment of Industry and Com-merce, has left Shannon Airport for America in order to study the latest developments in theUnited States in the design and layout of airports. • « « Criticisms are being made locally of the fares now beingcharged by the East African Airways Corporation, which took over from the old Wilson Airways. For instance, while thelandplane fare between Dar-es-Salaam and Mombasa was £6 los, that by flying boat is £11. • • • Butler Airways of Australia has now been floated as a publiccompany with a capital of ^200,000. It operates internal services from Sydney, and its managing director is Mr. C. A.Butler, who made a record-breaking flight in a Comper Swift between London and Australia. • • • The first Constellation belonging to Panair do Brasil, S.A.,to arrive in this country, landed at the London Airport re- cently. It was the first airliner of a foreign airline companyto use the airport. Panair do Brasil are to employ four of these machines on a weekly service from Brazil to England viaDakar, Lisbon and Paris. • * * Luxury air cruises to Switzerland at a cost of £75 per headare to be run throughout the summer beginning on May 31st by Sir Henry Lunn, Ltd., the travel agents. Yorks will beused, and there will be two flights leaving London each week for Zurich. The cost of the cruise includes rail fare betweenZurich and a selected destination, and fourteen davs' hotel accommodation at first-class hotels chosen by the traveller. • * * Mr. G. A. Auguste and Mr. G. Ashton, who are employed atB.O.A.C.'s Bournemouth station, will this year have served jointly for 50 years in civil aviation. Mr. Auguste is SeniorTraffic Officer at Poole, and Mr. Ashton is in charge of the Import Bonded Warehouse at Hum,
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