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1946
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65° FLIGHT JUNE 27TH, 1945 CIVIL Viking Order : Con* stellation Snag : Way* farer C* of A. VIKINGS FOR DENMARK : DanishAir Lines—Det Danske Luftfartselkab (D.D.L.) have ordered five Vickers'Vikings for their London-Copenhagen service. This order is the first to beplaced by a European country for any post-war British civil transport type. ITALIAN AIR AGREEMENT FOLLOWING the settlement of the dispute over the agree-ment proposed between Italy and American Trans World Airlines, whereby the latter would have obtained virtually amonopoly of Italian civil airline operations, discussions have now taken place between the U.K. and Italy resulting in anagreement under which British European Airways and the Italian Government will establish an Anglo-Italian airlineoperating company. The capital of the company will be ^1,000,000 to which Italy will subscribe sixty per cent andB.E.A. forty per cent. It is understood that the company will primarily operate external airlines from Italy. TECHNICAL HITCH IT is reported that the United States Civil Aeronautics Boardhas ordered the use of the pressurization system in the Con- stellation to be suspended because of an alleged fire hazard inthe present system of installation of the cabin supercharger. The decision has been made following an investigation of theaccident to a Panair Constellation in America last week. The cabin supercharger is driven from the engine by a shaft andfor the moment this shaft and its universal joints has to be completely removed, the juncture point of the shaft with theengine and supercharger adequately sealed, and the opening for the shaft in the fire-wall S%aled off. B.O.A.C.'s Constellations are, of course, involved in this modification, and consequently Bangor 11, which should havetaken off on a proving flight to New York from London Airport last Friday, was held up while spares and an engineer wereflown from the United States to carry out the modification. It appears that for the time being Constellations will bedeprived not only of their pressurization system but also of all cabin heating, but whether or not these modifications willupset B.O.A.C.'s plans to start its regular transatlantic service on July 1 remains to be seen. At the moment the Corporationis still regarding July 1 as- the inaugural date. CIVIL SYNTHETIC TRAINING NOWADAYS, while the cost of civil flying is, in the absenceof a subsidy, so very high, the value of any form of syn- thetic training has been very much further increased. By usingthis form of training, with ground instruction generally, to the best advantage, it is possible to reduce considerably the flyingtime necessary to obtain the different licences. Mr. Francis Chichester has recently joined the board ofStraight Aviation at Bush House, and it will be his respon- sibility to apply the various ground training aids to civil re-quirements. Mr. Chichester, who was awarded the Johnson Memorial Trophy for his solo crossing of the Tasman Sea byastro-navigational aids has, of course, specialized in all forms of navigational ground training. During the war he compiledthe Air Ministry notes for lectures on which the current train- ing was based and, later, as Chief Navigation Officer of the E.C.F.S., evolved acourse to produce navigationally s e 1 f-sufficient pilots. PA N-AMERICAN PLANS HILE in thiscountry, on hisw REPRESENTING GREAT BRITAIN : The United Kingdom Delegation to the recent P.I.C.A.O.assembly at Montreal are seen alongside Baltimore, one of B.O.A.C.'s new Constellations. In the group are (from 1. to r.) Sqn. Ldr. Carter, Mr. Peter Masefield (Civil Air Attache in Washington), Mr. L. J.Dunnett, Mr. H. G. Vincent, Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Bowhill, Sir Donald Banks (Chairman of the Delegation), Mr. J. R. McCrindle, Mr. M. E. Bathurst, Wing Cdr. G. L. Gandy, and Mr. R. W. N. B. Gilling, secretary to the Delegation. way to Vienna on his *Jcompany's inaugural flight to CentralEurope, Mr. Juan Trippe, President ofPan-American World Airways, had one ortwo interesting re- marks to make aboutAmerican plans. He said that, as hasalready been an- nounced, Pan* Ameri-can would, in due course, be using Boe-ing Stratocruisers in place of Constella-tions. He could not giveeven an approximate date when turbine-(Continued on page 652.)
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