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1946
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628 FLIGHT JUNE 2OTH, 1946 CIVIL AVIATION Auster, while a Percival Proctor and a Vega Gull are on order.They are now operating from Squire's Gate, Blackpool, with maintenance at Stanley Park. So far they are almost thesole tenants at S.G., where W/Cdr. Tipper, previously senior flying control officer in Bomber Command, is airfield manager. TRANSATLANTIC RECORDS THE first of B.O.A.C.'s Constellations, Balmoral, carried outa non-stop proving flight from New York to London Air- port in the record time of nhr 24mm last week-end. Weatherconditions were favourable for this trial flight, and so the aircraft overflew Gander and Rineanna, and covered the 3,520-mile Atlantic crossing at an average height of 21,000ft and an average ground speed of 310 m.p.h. Balmoral's captain wasCapt. W. S. May, and, in addition to the B.O.A.C. crew, there were also Corporation officials and technical staff onboard the aircraft. The other four B.O.A.C. Constellations will be named Bristol II, Berwick II, Bangor II and Baltimore. B.S.A.A. NEWS T AST week, a British South American Airways' York Star-•»—' leader, on charter to the Shell Petroleum Co., made a . direct flight from Gander (Newfoundland) to London Airport,a distance of 2,000 nautical miles, in io£hr. Capt. D. A. Brice was in command of the aircraft. On June 28th, with the introduction by B.S.A.A. of a threetimes weekly service to South America, Avro Yorks will be used for the first time on this service, in addition to Lan-castrians. The Yorks will carry twenty-one passengers as compared with fourteen on the Lancastrian. Another new ser-vice will be introduced on June 27th, when a weekly through schedule to Santiago (Chile), using Lancastrians, begins. TUDORS FOR THE ARGENTINE FOLLOWING the signing of the air agreement between theBritish and Argentine Governments comes the news that orders have been placed by this country lor six Avro trans-ports. Negotiations had been in progress for some time and the orders placed some two months ago, but the official an-nouncement could only be made last week. The Argentine company concerned is the National Airline—Flota Aerea Mer-cante Argentina—and the aircraft ordered are three Yorka and three Tudors. The Yorks, which are being laid out as 21-seaters to BritishSouth American Airways standards, should be delivered within ten weeks, but the delivery position in the case of the Tudorshas not yet been settled. These Tudors will be 40-seaters with day-flying accommodation only. LONDON'S TERMINAL AIRPORTSE XCEPT for their North Atlantic service between Prestwick and Canada, all B.O.A.C. landplanes are now operating either from the London Airport or from Northolt. The last B.O.A.C. service to operate from Hum left there for Egypt last Friday. The terminal arrangements for B.O.A.C. services are, therefore, as follows : — • London Airport: To Egypt and India (twice a week); to South Africa and Australia (three times a week); to Canada (five of the seven weekly services); to United States (two services a week operated with Constellations, beginning on July 1st). Northolt: To Egypt (daily); to Palestine (twice weekly); to Persia (weekly). In addition, as described in Flight on June 6th, all the Con-tinental services of British European Airways Division operate from Northolt. GOING UP AS might be expected, the nationalization of civil aviationis resulting in a steady build-up in the number of staff employed in the Ministry of Civil Aviation. The followingfigures for personnel and pay for the staff at headquarters and outstations which were disclosed recently show the rate atwhich both have increased during the past six months. The figures do not include messengers or cleaners! Date Permanent and Temporary and Cost of Sala- Established Unestablished ries and Wages Staff Staff £ Oct. 1st, 1945 Feb. 1st, 1946 Apr. 1st, 1946 May 1st, 1946 387 470 506 553 434 565 695 862 319,168 not quoted not quoted 560,220 BREVITIES In order to provide a further air link between Prestwick andLondon, arrangements have been made for the Glasgow-London service to call at Prestwick five times a week in each direction.This service is additional to the E.A.F. Transport Command "shuttle" which already operates between Prestwick andBlackbushe. • * • An augmented schedule between Renfrew and Belfast will beintroduced from next Monday, when an additional service is brought into operation every week-day in both directions,using 21-seater D.C.3S. INTERNAL ROUTE EXPANSIONT HE first stage of the expansion of internal air routesin the U.K. is covered by a schedule of air services which has been announced by the Ministry of CivilAviation, and which will be operated by the proposed British European Airways Corporation. The programme contemplatesnot only additional routes radiating from London and other important centres in the U.K., but also "cross-country"routes and "seasonal" routes, the latter being intended essen- tially to augment the regular services at holiday periods. In addition to the existing services from London to Belfastdirect, to Liverpool and Belfast, to Glasgow, and to the Channel Islands, a service to Belfast via Manchester will beginhi July. A London-Prestwick service will start in August; services from London through Bristol, Exeter and Plymouthto the Scilly Isles, and also direct to Cardiff and Swansea in September; and in October, a service through Birmingham,Manchester, Liverpool, Carlisle and Prestwick to Glasgow, another through Bradford/Leeds, Newcastle, Edinburgh andEnrol to Inverness, and a third through Edinburgh to Aber- deen. Finally, so far as the schedules from London are con-cerned, there are also proposals for two more services to Bel- fast, one through Manchester and Liverpool, and the otherthrough Blackpool. The first of the " cross-country " routes will come into opera-tion in September and it will run from Liverpool to Grimsby via Manchester, Bradford/Leeds, Doncaster and Hull. Threemore are contemplated for October: Newcastle-Prestwick- Glasgow ; Newcastle-Bradford / Leeds-Manchester-Bristol; andLiverpool - Birmingham - Bristol - Southampton - Isle of Wight- Brighton. Other cross-country services, the dates for whichhave not been finally arranged, will be Bradford /Leeds-Hull- Newcastle; Bristol-Birmingham-Norwich; Belfast-Newcastle. The existing Scottish services will be augmented next monthby a service from Glasgow through Aberdeen, Lossiemouth and Inverness to Stornoway, and in October, by an Edinburgh toGlasgow direct service. Later there will be additional services from Glasgow via Errol to Aberdeen, via Oban and Mull toBarra, one to Skye direct, and also an Orkney inter-islands service. Other internal services to be introduced in July will operatefrom Swan sea/Cardiff to Bristol, and to Weston-super-Mare. There are also to be four additional services introduced nextmonth from the Isle of Man. They will run to Manchester, Blackpool, Carlisle and Newcastle, and Belfast respectively. Further additional services are scheduled for operationbetween Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight, Brighton and the Channel Islands, Swansea/Cardiff and Land's End, via Barn-staple and Newquay, and Liverpool and Glasgow via Blackpool and Barrow, but the target dates for these have not yet beenfixed. Similarly, the seasonal routes, so far, have no target dates, but altogether six of them are contemplated at present.They will be as follows:—London-Isle of Wight; Bristol- Bournemouth-Isle of Wight-Brighton; Southampton-Isle ofWight; Cardiff-Exeter-Channel Islands; Isle of Man-Glasgow; Birmingham-North and Western Wales. In all, the proposed schedule covers fifty-two services in-cluding the six seasonal routes, but adherence to the target dates will depend not only upon the delivery of aircraft, butalso upon the provision of essential ground services and organi- sation on the routes. The services calling at Prestwick areprimarily for the benefit of passengers travelling on the North Atlantic services, and internal services connecting Prestwickwith other points in U.K. will be developed to meet the needs of this transatlantic traffic.
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