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1946
1946 - 1403.PDF
JULY I8TH, 1946 FLIGHT CIVIL AVIATION NEWS INDIAN COMPANY RE-FORMS /T HE Indian Air Line Company, Tata Air Lines, which hasbeen operating continuously for some fourteen years as a department of Tata Sons, Ltd., is being re-formed as a publiccompany under the name of Air-India, Ltd. The new company will have an authorised capital of 50 million rupees (£$lmillion), and shares to the value of 15 million rupees are being issued. The company at present uses DC-3 aircraft to operateregular services from Bombay to Karachi, Delhi, Calcutta, Madras and Colombo. STATE LANDING FEES/T HE rates to be charged at State-controlled airfields forlandings have now been published in a Notice to Airmen. Interestingly enough, these figures vary according to the sur-face of the airfield, the la'hding charges for runways being nearly twice as high as those for grass. The owner of an aircraft with an all-up weight below1,200 lb, for instance, will be charged 3s 9d for landing on a grass airfield, and 6s 3d for a landing on an airfield "withhard runways." At the other extreme, thescharges for single landings by a 30,000 lb aircraft will be £3 7s Gd and £5 12s 6drespectively. No fees will be charged for necessary test flights, and exemption will be accorded to Service, Ministry anddiplomatic aircraft. RELEASE OF AIRFIELDS AS we mentioned some time ago, Mr. Gandar Dower securedthe Debate on the Adjournment in the House of Commons on July 1st, and raised the question of the release of requisitionedairfields, and the necessity for dealing with claims arising from these requisitions as soon as possible. In reply, the Under-secretary of State for Air, Mr. de Freitas, said that the Air Ministry had requisitioned approximately sixty pre-war air-fields. Twenty of those had been transferred to the Ministry of Civil Aviation and good use was still being made of theremainder. For example, fourteen were in use for flying by the R.A.F., and were also open for charter and private flying;another sixteen were used as civil schools for flying training, and a small number were used for storage. Of these last, then-were two on which the actual runways themselves had been used for storage. He agreed that the release of the airfieldswas desirable, but there was enormous pressure on storage space, of which 14 million sq ft belonging to the K.A.F. wasused by departments other than the Air Ministry. The Under-Secretary gave an assurance that the Air Ministrywas constantly being pressed by various interests to de- requisition these airfields, but it was not doing so for themoment because. Very shortly, it was hoped to announce exactly which airfields were required by both the Air Ministryand by the Ministry of Civil Aviation. On the subject of com- pensation, Mr. de Freitas said that the Compensation Act ol1939, the Requisitioned Land and War Works Act of 1945, and the appeal system to the General Claims Tribunal, were quiteclear, and offered enormous safeguards for the operators. BREVITIES Royal Dutch Airlines will start a twice-weekly service onJuly 22nd between Amsterdam and Glasgow. The services will operate on Mondays and Fridays. >r * * *A Paris-New York service i? now in operation by Air France. DC.4s are used and the service calls at Shannon en routeif * • *Although charter services will be allowed to operate from Turnhouse, the amount of accommodation available for suchservices will be severely limited for some time to come, accord- ing to a recent reply in the House.* * * . The appointment is announced of Mr. George Burdick asAssistant to the European General Manager of American Over- seas Airlines in London. Mr. Burdick served with the R.A.F.during the war and was seconded to B.O.A.C., for whom he acted as Assistant to the Regional Divisional Superintendentof the West Atlantic Division in Baltimore. ^/^ * # • A new Air Transport and Navigation Bill was introducedin the Eire Dail on July 2nd by the Minister for Industry and Commerce. Among other things, the Bill provides for increas-ing the capital of Aer Lingus and for giving legislative effect to the Anglo-Irish Air Agreement and to the Convention signed atChicago in December, 1944. ^r 'The service between Glasgow and the Isle of Man, whicliwas suspended in 1939, was resumed on July 15th. Two ser-' vices are being operated every week-day in each direction, withthree services on Saturday. • . .Mr. M. Stuart-Shaw has been appointed manager for B.O.A.C. at Shannon airport. He was operations superin-tendent at Foynes for the Corporation between May, 1944, and May, 1945. • * * Following the first production D.H. Doves, which are beingshipped to Canada and Australia, the next four aircraft will be going to B.O.A.C., Sudan Airways, Skyways and CentralAfrican Airways. The production rate will have increased to one a day before next spring. 1^Since July 1st the Glasgow terminal for R:A.S. and S.A.passengers has been at St. Enoch Station, whence all coaches leave for Renfrew. Using the name Santa Fe Skyways, the American railroadcompany of this name has formed an airline, with a Jter- minal centre at Wichita, Kansas. Two surplus Douglas C-47Shave already been purchased for initial operations, which will be limited to services in the territory served by the railway. # LATEST ERCOUPE : The post-war production version of theErcoupe, of which more than a thousand have now been manu- factured. As will be seen, this new model has been considerablycleaned up, while retaining the features around which the design was originally developed—those of simplified control. In theErcoupe the rudder pedals have been eliminated, and the ailerons, rudder and nose-wheel movements are mechanically co-ordinated.
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