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1946
1946 - 1692.PDF
226 FLIGHT AUGUST 29TH, 1940 CIVIL AVIATION NEWS JB.EA.C. SPARES POSITION "DRITISli EUROPEAN AIRWAYS-*-» have accumulated at White Waltham great quantities of spares in preparationfor the Continental Viking services. This reserve has been built up well ahead ofaircraft deliveries, and the Corporation is already in the gratifying position of beingable to maintain thirty-five Vikings on the routes. All Continental airports tobe used by B.E.A. Vikings will be equipped with the necessary spares andmaintenance equipment. This will be backed for emergency purposes by twoBristol Freighters which are being rigged out as flying workshops. Maintenance is the lifeline of an air service, and that, inturn, must be supported by an efficient stores organization— a difficult and complicated task when there is a great networkof routes to cover. Handling equipment and spares are also being accumulated at White Waltham for the Bristol Freighterand Wayfarer which are to be used on the internal services. / WORLD TRADE CONVOYS AT various times during the past decade or more schemeshave been devised, and even carried out, whereby mobile exhibitions have been organized so that British goods could beshown in foreign parts. The idea of such mobile exhibitions is, therefore, by no means new, but a scheme which shouldprove to be more practical and thorough than any previously considered is now being planned by Trade Expeditions, Ltd.Although the aircraft trade is only now being seriously ap- proached, the arrangements which are being made should be ofsome interest to those firms which are able, now or in the future, to export aircraft and parts. The organization known as Trade Expeditions was originallystarted as long ago as 1931, and the first of some forty-odd subsidiaries—Trade Expeditions (England), Ltd.—has recentlybeen formed. This subsidiary is planning to run a series of exhibitions in South America, the exhibits, films and otherequipment being carried in a motor convoy which will be on the road in Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, and the Argentine duringthe coming two years. The next two subsidiaries to be formed will be for Canada and Australia. The primary idea is to prepare the markets for future sales,when tlie various industries are capable of offering maximum and more immediate deliveries. Exhibition space need berented only month by month by firms, and, so that there will TURBINE-POWERED : The Martin 3-0-4 transport, developed from the 2-0-2 and 3.0-3, will differ from these types in having turbine-airscrew units of unspecified type. Orders have been placed for 132 of the 2-0-2 type and 159 of the 3-0-3. be no monetary difficulties, a system of private barter is to bedeveloped through the network of subsidiary companies. For example, if a Brazilian requires certain British goods, thesewill be bought in this country, delivered to Brazil, and the payment will be made in, say, coffee, which will duly be soldby other subsidiaries in other countries. It should be stressed, however, that definite sales are not the immediate object ofthe expeditions, the purpose of which is to show the commercial flag. Where local firms' agents are available, they will beasked to take a front place in the picture and to handle demonstrations and sales. CIVIL CONTROL/ SOME general information covering the civil air traffic controlservice appears in Notice to Airmen No. izo. Apparently the system will, in the main, follow the well-known and setService procedure. For the benefit of those who may not see this Notice, the daytime standardized lamp signals are thesame—with an intermittent green light giving permission to taxi; a steady green light giving permission to take off, or toland; an intermittent red giving instruction to move clear of the runway or, to an aircraft in the air, notification that theairfield is unfit for landing; and, finally, a steady red light or red Very light indicating the prohibition of all movements onthe lauding area, or a temporary prohibition of landing. , There are now twenty-three air traffic control stations avail-able for the assistance of civil aircraft. The position of the control office on an airfield is indicated by a diamond-shapedboard showing a black "C" on a yellow background. Visual signals will be given from the control tower, from the con-ventional chequered airfield control van, or by means of ground panels displayed in the signals area. J BREVITIES"he B.E.A. Viking Vagrant completed a proving flight onAugust 20th from London to Oslo, calling at Stavanger. On September 1st a Viking service to Copenhagen will be openedwith a frequency of four a week, and on the following day the Stavanger-Oslo route will be opened with three services a week,and the Amsterdam route with twelve a week. This replaces the present Dakota service of the same frequency,• * * Quite a few years ago "Indicator" stressed the importanceof dealing with the '' last lap '' of air travel—from the airfield to the doorstep—and suggested that a hire-and-drive-yourselfcar system might be organized at all the major airfields. Something on rather similar lines has recently been started byAirfields Autohire, who are now operating cars from Northolt and Heathrow. The company's head office is at 39, St. James'Street, London, S.W.i. (Mayfair 6656). • * * An Air Transport Agreement has recently been signed by theUnited States and the Lebanon, giving Pan American World Airways the right to make traffic stops at Beirut on the Com-pany's India run. In the usual way, Lebanese Airlines have been given similar rights in the United States. • * * Pending the appointment of a Civil Air Attache1 in Washing-ton at the end of this year, Air Vice-Marshal R. P. Willock, C.B., has been invited to hold the post, which was recentlyrelinquished by Mr. Peter Masefield, who has become head of the recently instituted Long Range Planning Division of theMinistry of Civil Aviation. Air Vice-Marshal Willock has been deputy head of the R.A.F. delegation, and has been attached to the Combined Chief of Staffs in Washington. The Ministry of Civil Aviation has shown initiative by dis-tributing to members of their staff copies of the official publica- tion Merchant Seamen. It will be a step in the education ofchairborne administrators in the trials and tribulations of oper- ating aircraft, creating an interest and understanding which isso often missing in large organizations. • « * Seven Boeing Stratocruisers have been ordered by UnitedAirlines. These will be delivered during the autumn of next year and complete a total of forty-nine of this type which haveso far been ordered Apart from the American companies P.A.W.A., Northwest, American Overseas and United, one"outside" company, Swedish Inter-Continental Airlines, has so far placed an order for this type.« * # Since the appointment of Cdr. G. O. Waters, O.B.E., asmanager of the English Division of B.E.A.C., Cdr. J. M. Keene-Miller, O.B.E., is now acting as general manager forChannel Islands Airways. Cdr. Keene-Miller joined the original Jersey Airways in March, 1934, and has latterly been actingas staff pilot to the company. This last post has now been taken by Capt. E. W. Jordan, who has also been with Jerseysfor some considerable time. » • * Charter flying from the Channel Islands is now being under-taken by a company which has recently been formed in Jersey. This is Island Air Charters, Ltd., the managing director ofwhich is Mr. R. J. Martin. The fleet at the moment consists of three Percival Proctors and one D.H. Rapide.
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