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1946
1946 - 0969.PDF
RIAV i6TH, 1946 FLIGHT 497 CIVIL AVI ATION BILL The creation of an air transport board would bring about many difficulties because, in fact, it would have to be a super corporation to run the other three, thus nullifying the Government's policy. As to the suggestion that there should be a board of full-time directors on a functional basis, he still believed that the part-time director could contribute something very valuable to the Boards of our airline corporations. He also believed that the present appointments were exceedingly good ones. He agreed that the Civil Aeronautics Board of the United States had much to commend it, but such a board would not be appropriate to the different policy which had been adopted by this country. Referring to airfields, Mr. Thomas said that the Govern- ment had no great programme to build new airfields up and down the country. There were between 600 and 700 airfields already, and, although many of them were not • NEW POSTM R. DENNIS H. HANDOVER, who hasbeen Air Adviser to the Air Committee of the British Railways since January, 1944,is, at his own request, being released irom this appointment on May 31. With effectfrom June 1 he is taking up the post of Director for the United Kingdom and Eireof the two Swedish airline operators, A.B.A. and S.I.L.A. Apart from his previous goodwork with Imperial Airways, Mr. Handover, played an important part in the preparationof the rail-air plan for a European network of services, which was submitted to theGovernment by the railway companies and their shipping partners in October, 1944. PACIFIC SURVEY WHEN the Australian National Airways'Skymaster Warana left Sydney on May 3 to undertake the first experimentalflight on the Trans-Pacific air service to America, via Fiji, Canton Island and Hono-lulu, the Australian Minister lor Air, Mr. Arthur S. Drakeford, with his wife anddaughter were among the passengers. A.N.A. will run the interim service toAmerica until the Commonwealth Pacific Airways Corporation is established and isable to organize its own schedules. Warana is one of the four Douglas Sky-masters which were ordered some time ago for Australian National Airways. All ofthem have now been delivered. SOUTHPORTS AIRFIELDS THE Town Planning Committee of the Southport corporationis proposing to make an application to the Ministry of Civil Aviation for the renewal of the private-use licences forthe Birkdale sands and Hesketh Park landing-grounds. In addition, the corporation has been attempting to obtain theuse, as a civil airfield, of the R.A.F. station at Woodvale, but the nearby Formby Urban District Council, supported by theLancashire County Council, are strongly opposing the plan. In any case, in view of the proposed Ministerial control of all"transport" airfields, it seems unlikely that the local authori- ties will have a great deal of say in the matter. EGYPTIAN AIRWAYS THE Anglo-Egyptian air agreement, the approval in prin-ciple ol which we mentioned recently, has now been signed by the two Governments concerned and awaits ratifica- . *" _•* _ ^ _ „ _*«>* 1 r A-H* j**1 rt TJ* ffv<r4I\i'1 rill. in the right places for civil aviation, the best possible use of these existing airfields would be made. He suggested that the Scottish question was a " political stunt." It would not be in the interests of Scotland to have a separate operating corporation; first, because it would involve a small fleet of aircraft which could not possibly produce the high utilization figure which made airlines pay. The higher degree of utilization would be possible with one Corporation running all European ser- vices, and Scotland would automatically benefit. The second reason was political; integration of world civil air- forces was required, not the splitting up of existing forces. As to the reserve powers vested in the Minister, he assured the House that they would only be used to give directions after consultation with the chairmen of the Cor- porations. He added: "If I may so express it, these things will be done on an ' old boy ' basis. My Noble Friend (Lord Winster) and Lord Knollys do not normally put on their coronets to address each other." When the House divided, the Opposition's amendment was defeated by 315 votes to 126.' ' 4 civil air transport company which will be known as EgyptianAinvrys and have a capital of a quarter of million pounds. The company's shares will be equally divided betweenB.O.A.C. and Misr Airwork, which is the existing Egyptian national company. The first international service to be under-taken by the new company will operate between Cairo and London. SERVICE HERMES : A close-up of the prototype Handiey Page Hastings,which is the military transport version of the Hermes and which made its initial test flight on May 7. The Hermes is expected to carry a payload of 15,950 lbover 1,500 miles at 254 m.p.h. Other pictures on p. 482. Egyptian Airways will be granted rights under the agree-ment, to operate services, with terminals in Egypt, to countries within the British Commonwealth, and also to France, Italy,Greece, and any other countries as may be agreed in future with the Egyptian Government. However, these rights arenot granted exclusively by the Egyptian Government to Egyptian Airways, except for the U.K.-Cairo service. RECORD-BREAKING SUR VEY WHEN Air Vice-Marshal Bennett returned from his recentsurvey flight to South America, he said that the countries which he had visited were most anxious to have British co-operation in the sphere of civil aviation. He emphasised that any extension of British South American Airways' servicesacross the continent of South America would be carried out with the complete co-operation of the various countries con-cerned on such matters as joint routes and mutual bookings. There was no intention to compete with local airlines, of whichthere were many, Colombia, for example, having twenty-three. As a result of the survey flight, B.S.A.A. hope to extendto Santiago at least a proportion of their services which, at present, terminate at Buenos Aires. It is also hoped that itmay be possible to inaugurate a service to Trinidad, and on to Venezuela and Peru. During the flight\Statila>ui covered 14.933 nautical miles in
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