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1947
1947 - 0261.PDF
FEBRUARY 13TH, 1947 FLIGHT GUERNSEY CHARTER COMPANY A NEW charter company has been formed in the ChannelIslands by Messrs C. F. Hutchesson, Anthony Drake andRoy Payne. The company, known as Guernsey Air Charter, Ltd., is operating from the airport at La Vill'aze, and theLondon agents are Atlas Aviation. Several long-distance charters have already been flown, including trips to Johan-nesburg, with passengers, and to the Canary Islands for fruit. Four Consuls and two Proctor aircraft are in operation, andthree Proctors, five Ansons and six Mergansers are on order. AIR FRANCE AGREEMENT WITH UNITED AIR LINES AIR FRANCE and the American company. United Air Lines,have come to an agreement by which the French trans-atlantic service will link up with the 9,000-mile domestic system of United. Under the agreement reservations may bemade and passages booked in the sixty cities which are served United for terminals in the Air France network, whichseves fifty-one countries and covers about 100,000 miles. Direct passenger connections and the through carriage of bag-gage between points on the systems of the two companies is therefore provided. This will place such towns as Chicagowithin twenty-one hours of Paris and twenty-three hours of Amsterdam. AUSTRALIAN AVIATION BUDGET THE Australian Department,of Civil Aviation has made anappropriation ot 54 million pounds to meet the cost ofairport construction and the development of flying facilities during the current financial year. Work on the new inter-national airport at Sydney is to be started. The Essendon Airport at Melbourne, and a secondary airfield for light air-craft to serve the same town, are also to be developed. At Adelaide a site is to be prepared for an airport and three newrunways are to be constructed. The taxiways and aprons at Eagle Farm, Brisbane, are to be extended, and new buildingserected. Work on a new airport is due to start this year at Davenport. Additional runways are to • be built at severalother aiTfields in Western Australia. In addition to these new constructions, £; 18,000 has been approved for radio com-munications and air navigation facilities. Sixty K.A.A.F. airfields have been taken over by the Department, and ijmillion pounds has been set aside for the construction of build- ings at these airfields and for their development as airports.Included in the 1947 programme is a scheme for the separation of commercial airline operations from the activities of clubsand private owners. The Department hopes to provide separ- ate airports at all the capital cities. It has been reported by a pilot who recently flew to NewGuinea and New Britain that the airstrips there are rapidly being covered by jungle growth, andthat unless some action is taken very soon many of these airstrips will beuseless At the end of last year 510 aircraftwere registered in Australia, of which 152 were Tiger Moths and' 37 wereDakotas. The number of licensed en- gineers has increased from 623 in 1939to 1,523 in 1946. AIRPORT IN WATERFORD F\UNMORE EAST has been granted a-L' licence under Air Navigation Regula- tions of Eire "as a regular place o\landing or departure by aircraft carry- ing passengers or goods for hire orreward and for instructional flying." This new airport, which has been de-veloped by Mr. Arthur Westcott-Pitt, is the only one in Ireland, south of Collins-town and Shannon, licensed for the use of civil aircraft. There is ample hangaraccommodation and parking enclosures for aircraft, and customs clearancefacilities will be available quite soon. The customs airports at Bristol andLiverpool are within ninety minutes' flying time, and London, Edinburgh andCherbourg are less than three hours away. This airport, on the east coast of Ireland,will consequently be of great convenience to private owners flying from thiscountry. Aviation petrol will be avail- able and a ground engineer always in attendance. The airportis not open to the public yet and may be used for flying only with the prior permission ol the owner. Mr. Westcott-Pitt,however, does not intend to make any charge lor the landing of private aircraft. B.EA. TAKES OVER ON February 1st the network of air services operated by theAssociated Airways Joint Committee was handed over to British European Airways in accordance with the provisionsof the Civil Aviation Act. Simultaneously the English an 1 Scottish Divisions of the Corporation came into existence.The Associated Airways Joint Committee was formed in 1941 from a group of private companies for the purpose of operatingon beha'c of the Government those services which it was essen- tial to maintain in the national interest. Included in thisgroup were the four operating companies, Railway Air Services, Scottish Air Services, Great Western and Southern Air Lines,and Isle of Man Air Services. The services run by those operators have now been made the responsibility of the Englishand Scottish Divisions. Cdr. G. O. Waters, manager of the English Division, will be immediately responsible for servicesbetween London and Northern Ireland through Liverpool and Manchester, and to the Isle of Man and the south-west ofEngland. Mr. George Nicholson, manager of the Scottish Division, will be responsible for services between Scotlandand Northern Ireland and between Glasgow and the Hebrides, and most services to the North of Scotland, the Shetlands andthe Orkneys. Channel Islands Airways'will continue to oper- ate services between the Channel Islands and the ,United King-dom, and Allied Airways between Aberdeen, the Shetlands and Orkneys. P.I.C.A.O. AND ACCIDENTS '"PHE P.I.C.A.O. Accident Investigation Division was due to•*- meet for its second session on February 4th. It is expected that the Division will decide to collect the reports on investi-gations into aircraft crashes no matter where they occur, and to publish analyses of their causes, in an effort to prevent therecurrence of similar accidents. It is also expected that the delegates will discuss the possibility of establishing regula-tions to govern the investigation of aircraft accidents. National laws and regulations vary considerably throughout the world,and it is hoped to ensure, by securing sufficient uniformity, that every accident in the future will be investigated fully andaccurately, and the cause determined. It will then be more simple for P.I.C.A.O. to take action and bring to the noticeof all operators the causes of accidents, so that the same set of circumstances may riot be allowed to exist and producefuture crashes. One of the important international questions on this subject of accident investigation is the bearing of thecost of the investigation when an aircraft registered in one SABENA DOVE : One of the first two of a series of D.H. Doves to be orderedby Sabena, photographed recently on arrival at Haren Airfield, Brussels. They will be used for internal routes in Belgium and on feeder lines in the Belgian Congo.
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