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1946
1946 - 1020.PDF
524 FLIGHT MAY 23RD, 1946 CIVIL AVIATION APPOINTMENT A FURTHER appointment to the Ministry of Civil Aviation**• was announced by the Minister recently. Mr. H. G. Vincent, C.B., C.V.O., is to become Under-Secretary of theMinistry in charge of policy and administration. Mr. Vincent, who has had a wide experience of the Civil Service, wasprivate secretary successively to Lord Baldwin and to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald from 1928 to 1936. He served on theCombined Production and Resources Board in Washington iorom 1944 to 1945, and recently acted as British Secretary ofthe Anglo-American Palestine Committee. P.I.C.A.O. DELEGATION T"HE appointment of Sir Donald Banks, K.C.B., D.S.O.,-*- M.C., to lead the U.K. delegation to Montreal for the Assembly of P.I.C.A.O. which began on May 21, wasannounced by the Minister of Civil Aviation a few days before the delegation was due to leave. He will work in associationwith Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Bowhill, vvho is the per- manent U.K. member on P.I.C.A.O.'s interim council. Inaddition to Sir Donald Banks, the delegation is composed of Mr. H. G. Vincent, C.B., C.V.O., Air Vice-Marshal A. C.Collyer, C.B., C.B.E., and Mr. L. J. Dunnett, with Mr. R. W. N. B. Gilling acting as secretary. Technical and legaladvisers are attached to the delegation. The alternative members of the main delegation include Air Chief Marshal SirFrederick Bowhill, Air Comdre. J. O. Murray and Mr. Peter Masefield. Sir Donald Banks, who was Director General of thePetroleum Warfare Department which organized the use of flame weapons and the development of, Fido and Pluto,was a member of the U.K. Trans-Atlantic Air Mission to Ottawa and Washington in 1935. From 1934 to 1936 he wasthe first Director General of the Post Office, and subsequently Sir Donald served as permanent Under-Secretary of State at theAir Ministry until 1939. WORLD-WIDE CHARTERST HE York belonging to Skyways, Ltd., which waschristened Skyway on Monday, May 13, left this country the following day on its first trip for thecompany. The aircraft flew to Basra and back on charter for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, which haslong made a practice of flying its personnel and urgent freight between the U.K. and the Middle East.Skyways, Ltd., which will offer a world-wide charter service, has been formed by Sir Alan Cobham andCapt. Ashley, previously a B.O.A.C. senior pilot, with Brigadier General A. C. Critchley, the former DirectorGeneral of B.O.A.C., as chairman of the company. Lt. Cdr. Castlemaine has, we hear, just left the R.N.V.R. EXTRA AIRCRAFT A NOTHER two DC-4S have been ordered by K.L.M. Royal•**• Dutch Air Lines so that they may be able to maintain the expansion of their inter-continental and transoceanic ser.vices. When T:hese additional aircraft have been delivered K.L.M. will have a fleet composed of twenty-four DC-3S,sixteen C-54a Skymasters, six civil DC-4S, four Constellations, and six D.H. Dominies. EMPTY SEATS DURING the fortnight ending April 27, the percentage ofempty seats on the B.O.A.C. services to Brussels, Paris and Copenhagen, was 11.8. This figure was given by theParliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation in a reply to a question in the House of Commons on May 8.He added that he did not consider the figure alarming, as, in normal peacetime operations, 60 per cent would be con-sidered a good load factor. NEW SUDAN AIR COMPANY THE Sudan Government has decided to form Sudan Airwayswith the object of developing internal air services within the Sudan, a territory which covers 1,000,000 square miles andwhich has only limited communications. The Sudan Govern- ment will provide the capital, whilst Messrs. Airwork, Ltd.,the founders of Heston Airport, will be responsible for the flying and technical services on a management basis, the Sudanrailways handling the passenger and freight services. At first, four Doves (D.H. 104s) will be used, fitted withmedium and high frequency radio and direction finding ap- paratus, and they will operate over four internal routes radiat-ing from Khartoum. The routes are via Atbara, Kareima * and Dongola * to Wadi-Haifa; via Kosti,* Malakal, Wau, andYirrol * to Juba; via El Obeid, Nahud, and El Fasher to El to become the company's commercialmanager. The offices are at 175, Piccadilly, London, W.i, and the company will ultimatelyuse a fleet of aircraft comprising Yorks, Lancastrians, Doves and Rapides. The picture shows the interior arrangementof the York Skyway, which provides seating for 30 passengers in considerable comfort.In the group in the lower photograph are, reading from left to right, Capt. Ashley,General Critchley, G. T. Ross, Capt. Blythe, Capt. Coleman, Miss Carol Pearce, andSir Alan Cobham. Capt. Blythe is the chief pilot of the company. Incidentally, the first of all air charterservices was organized by Sir Alan Cobham with the de Havilland company in 1951.
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