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Aviation History
1946
1946 - 2091.PDF
OCTOBER 17TH, 1946 FLIGHT 427 PARISIAN TERMINAL : In spite ofthe damage suffered during the later years of the war, Le Bourget israpidly returning to its pre-war appearance. Apart from the workwhich has been done on the terminal building, shown here, new runwaysare being laid down. U.K. Internal Services: Improved Constellation Performance: Cheaper Atlantic Crossing CIVIL AVI ANOTHER VIKING TOUR T^EELING that there is a considerable aircraft market-T potential in South Africa and over the Near East, Vickers- Armstrongs are shortly sending out a Viking to cover the areaon a goodwill and demonstration tour. The machine will leave this country on October 28th and will fly via Egypt, theSudan, Kenya, Rhodesia, Portuguese East Africa and the Union of South Africa, afterwards returning to Europe, viaAlgiers, starting on December 5th. Significantly enough, the aircraft will carry, in addition toits normal demonstration crew, Sir Ronald Weeks, deputy- chairman of Vickers, and Maj H. R. Kilner, deputy-chairmanof Vickers-Armstrongs. Lt. Gen. Sir Ronald Weeks was, of course, deputy Chief of Stafl during the war. The demonstra-tion pilot will be Wing Cdr. A. D. MacN. Boyd, D.S.O., D.F.C., and the Vickers-Armstrongs sales manager, Wing Cdr.Maurice Summers, is also making the round trip, so it is all very much in the grand tour style and should produce somegood results. It may be remembered that Air Comdre. Fielden, who is in charge of the King's Flight, has recently been flyinga Viking over much of the South African area in preparation for the Royal visit next year. K.L.M's NEW ATLANTIC ROUTES' AFTER considerable deliberation, study of statistics, andseveral test flights, K.L.M. have chosen the mid- Atlantic route for their service 10 the United States FromAmsterdam the Constellations will fly to Santa Maria in the Azores, and from there to Sydney, in Nova Scotia, andthen on to La Guardia, New York. By using Sydney instead of Gander it is hoped to avoid the fog belt and so obtain saferand more regular and punctual services. The DC-4S which have been flying from Prestwick to NewYork will be diverted for use on the K.L.M. service in Europe', to Africa and South America. There will be a connection be-tween, London and Amsterdam for the trans-Atlantic crossing, which will be run at a frequency of three a week. B.EA. WINTER SCHEDULES / TDRITISH EUROPEAN AIRWAYS have announced winter-*-* schedules for operation on the internal services in the United Kingdom. The services will be operated on a three-monthly agreement by their former private owners until the English and Scottish Divisions of the Corporation are formed.D.H. Rapides still predominate on most of the services, but Scottish Airways are using Dakotas on the Glasgow-Belfastand Glasgow-London routes, and Scottish Aviation on the Prestwick-Belfast route. Railway Air Services are flying Avro19s between London and Belfast, and Channel Islands Airways are flying a Wayfarer service between Jersey and London. The North-West of England, Northern Ireland, the Hebrides,Orkneys, Shetlands, and the Channel Islands are all well served, but there is a very obvious shortage of air connectionsup the North-East Coast, and also to Cornwall and South Wales. These will probably come in time when more aircraftare available and the airfield situation has been cleared up. NEWS " photograph, it is understood that B.E.A. have ordered two Concordia.aircraft from Cunliffe-Owen, which will be used for radio research and development flying. It is possible that a smallproportion order will be placed for some of these aircraft for use on certain internal air routes. The Concordia, it will beremembered, is a 10- to 12-seater, suitable for feeder services. As part of the B.E.A. plan for future Continental services, itis the intention of the Corporation to replace eventually the Vikings with Vickers VC-2S. The VC-2 is a 32-seater withtricycle undercarriage, and powered by four Rolls-Royce air- screw turbine " Dart" engines. The cruising speed is in theneighbourhood of 330 m.p.h. DIRECT INJECTION CONSTELLA TION^^ PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS have started usingConstellations with the new direct injection engines in regular service on the trans-Atlantic and Pacific routes. Theprogramme for conversion to the new system was instituted in September last year, before even the first commercialConstellation was delivered, and since that time exhaustive tests of the system have been made by the engine and air-craft manufacturers. The test flights disclosed that the introduction of fueldirectly into the engine cylinders, in place of the conven- tional method of pre-mixing air and fuel in the carburettor,gave a marked increased in efficiency. The payload capacity of the aircraft is now said to be increased by 900 lb on long-range flights, this being equivalent to four additional passengers on the trans-Atlantic route. The engineers also claim thatthere is less engine vibration and noise, giving altogether a smoother operation. I.A.T.A. ANNUALT HE second annual meeting of the International Air Trans-port Association is convened for October 29th in the Heliopolis Hotel, Cairo. Airline representatives of thirty-fivecountries will discuss, amongst other things, the establishment of an international airline clearing house and a comprehensiveinternational communications code for airline use. Additional matters include the appointments to the Standing Committees,the budget, and amendments to the Articles of Association. Dr. Hafez Afifi Pasha, president of Misr Airlines, Egypt,and former chairman of the United Nations Security Council, will take office as president of l.A.T.A. at the opening meet-ing, in succession to Mr. H. J Symington, president of Trans- Canada Airlines Sir William Mildred, the Director-Generalof I.A.T.A., will give hi« report on the re-establishment and improvement of international civil air transport in the firstyear of peacetime civil aviation, and it is understood that he will outline the Association's plans for the coming year. TheFinancial, Legal, Technical and Traffic Committees will also render reports. The meeting will also hear of the activities of the RegionalI.A.T.A. Traffic Conference, through which the airlines con- cerned in various portions of the international air transportsystem apply I.A.T.A. principles of uniformity and stan-
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