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1946
1946 - 1877.PDF
SEPTEMBER IO,TH, 194O FLIGHT CIVIL AVIATION NEWS Proposed Unused Ticket Charges : Dominions' Pacific Agreement : A New Hangar PRE-WAR DESIGN. Theterminal building at Collinstown Airport, Southern Ireland. THE P.I.C.A.O. DEMONSTRATIONS yT HE P.I.C.A.O. delegates are visiting the three R.A.F.Stations at Bassingbourn, Malvern and Farnborough, and, in addition, visits have been arranged to several well-knowncommercial firms making radio and other equipment. The demonstration of air traffic control systems at Bassingbournis described elsewhere in this issue. R.A.F. Transport Command have set out, in a simple demon-strative manner, the exhibits, and the delegates should be able to obtain all the necessary information from the demonstrators,all of whom have had personal experience of their operation. Much of the equipment which will be shown for the first timeis identical to that used by the operational commands during the war. The delegates will fly in Dakotas which have beenspecially prepared for demonstrating the equipment. Passen- gers are seated looking forward at the operators, who, with theaid of a microphone, demonstrate how each individual item is used.It is not a show of new gadgets but of old and well-known devices, all of which can be applied to civil aviation. Un-doubtedly radar will contribute very largely to the solution of the problem of making the fullest possible use of air spacein the immediate vicinity of airfields and on the approach lanes. B.EA.C. MOBILE REPAIR UNITS ^ IN Flight of August 29th we mentioned that two BristolFreighters were being rigged out as flying workshops for B.E.A.C. Several erroneous statements have been made aboutthese two special aircraft, for it is understood that there is no intention by the Corporation for setting aside two specialaircraft for the purpose of emergency maintenance and repairs. It is true that certain equipment is under consideration forinstallation in any Bristol Freighter that might be available ANGLO-AMERICAN : The Douglas D.C 4ms., which have the new Rolls-Royce Merlin serie»62O power plants, are now'in service with Trans-Canada Air Lines. at the time of need. This equipment is essentially mobile andcapable of rapid installation, and as the aircraft would be perfectly standard, there is no question of any special alloca-tion for a flying workshop. It is well-known that such a luxury would not be an economic proposition. CARIBBEAN AIRPORTS .T HE following British airports in the Caribbean area areamong 108 which have been recommended by the Wash- ington Conference for international use as terminal or alter-native airfields: Nassau (Bahamas), Barbadoes, British Guiana, British Honduras, Antigua, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Trini-dad and Windward Islands. The conference also recommend that 32 airports in theUnited States should also be made available. The submission of the list paves the way for a speed-up of work by the com-mittees concerned with air traffic control, meteorology, com- munications, search and rescue, and the other facilities whichmust be located for the internationally used airports. AIRLINE DEPOSITS^T HE North Atlantic Traffic Conference of I.A.T.A. haveapproved service charges to discourage passengers from wasting precious space in aircraft by failing to occupy bookedseats. The vote by the airlines concerned in the service be- tween Europe and North America is subject to the approvalof their respective Government authorities. The proposal is for a charge of 25 per cent, with a $50maximum, on refunds for unused tickets which are not can- celled before take-off. On the transatlantic route, seats whichare unused lose their entire value since there is no oppor- tunity for picking up further passengers until the longest partof the flight has been completed, and in the present circum- stances of tight bookings a vacant seat means that someonewho might otherwise have used the seat has been deprived of their chance ofmaking the journey. The service charge will become effective fifteen days after allGovernment authorities concerned have approved the measure. The conference also adopted a standardtable of great circle mileages between transatlantic route points to be used byall members in computing rates and tariffs. The standard mileage for thegreat circle non-stop distance between New York and London is estimated as3,341 miles. For the purposes of this computation the distance from New Yorkto other points in Europe were as fol- lows: Copenhagen, 3,842 miles; Amster-dam, 3,633; Brussels, 3,655; Lisbon, 3,360; Oslo, 3,672, Stockholm, 3,915;and Paris, 3,623. The mileage basis used is the total of the great circle distancesbetween stops on the route; thus, the price of a ticket from New York to Stock-holm is based upon the accumulated great circle mileages from New York toGander, Gander to Shannon, and Shan- non to Stockholm. CfTD
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