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1947
1947 - 0773.PDF
MAY 15TH, 1947 FLIGHT 45* CIVIL AVIATION B.S.A.A. Tudor Routes : Manchester's Air Ter- minus : Civil Aviation in New Zealand GEMINI GEMINOUS : Both air- craft left recently for Singapore. One is to be used by the Governor- General and for flying V.I.P.s, and the other is for use by the Depart- ment of Civil Aviation, Singapore. STOWTING CRASH CONCLUSIONS REPORTING on the accident at Stowting on January-nthwhen a B.O.A.C. Dakota flown by Capt. I. R. Goalen crashed with the loss of eight lives, the Chief Inspector oi Accidents makes several recommendations. It will be remem- bered that the aircraft was on a journey from London to West Africa, with Bordeaux as the first step The accident is stated to be due to the following contributorj' causes: the weather conditions encountered throughout the flight; bad crewing, as a result ol which three of the four operational members of the crew were unfamiliar with the route from London to Bordeaux ; the captain failing to ensure that he had all the necessary navigational landing aid informa- tion for that part of the route, in which respect the navigator could not be considered blameless; the unfortunate interven- tion of a York at Bordeaux, but for which it seems likely the Dakota would have landed there. The captain's decision to go to Le Bourget before ascertaining the weather conditions there in preference to returning to the U.K. was considered to be unwise, for it is clear that he would have had more than half an hour's fuel had he returned direct to England. The captain also failed to inform Le Bourget of his E.T.A. until six minutes before arrival and the authorities consequently had very short notice at a time when much traffic was being handled" there in Q.B.I, conditions. The inability of CEREMONY IN MANCHESTER: The Lord Mayor of Manchester asking Mr. Lindgren, third from left, to open the new Airways Terminus. The Lady Mayoress can be^seen standing behind the microphone and Councillor J. fc. Fitzsimons is in the foreground. i Cormeilles to handle the aircraft it once. o\< ing to the lick of a second channel was contributory as also u;is the captain's failure to ask control lor further guidance alter being unable to establish contact with Cormeilles. He also made an uuwin- decision in trying to reach England having so little tucl. The following recommendations were made: Grealei alien tion should be paid to crewing and crews should be made familiar with the airfields on their route, particularly with main airfields and diversionaries. It was recommended also that navigational let-down procedure information for any airfield mi the route should be available in the a in-raft ; and that there should be a second radio channel at all airfields to make it possible to hold one or more aircraft during the handling ol another. It was strongly recommended that tin- British and French control organizations should expedite the introduction of a scheme whereby control areas would be defined (or hand ing over aircraft flying from one country to another. B.S.A.A. AND THE TUDOR IV FLIGHT trials of the Tudor IV are nearly (inished. A.V-M.Bennett expects only a short time to be taken on C. of A. tests and hopes to start flying the type on operations this summer. The four Mark IV Tudnrs uill be used on tin- South American East Coast route to the Argentine at a he quency of once a week to replace one York service. Ibis mark has a 6ft extension to the nose section and when loaded with 32 passengers and 550 lb ol freight is expected to have a range of 3,200 miles. With the same number <>l passengers and 4,680 lb of freight the range is expected to be i,7«o miles. Fuel consumption, which on 1he Tudor 1 trials was higher than expected, has now been improved by a general arm dynamic clean-up, tail buffeting has been eliminated at speed. higher than about 2 knots above stall, and various improve- ments have been made to reduce swing on take-off. Avro's believe that the original performance figures will be met, and in some respects exceeded. The six Tudor Mark Vs which have been ordered will eventually take over the east coast route and the Mark IVs will then be used on the route to Mexico City. There is a temporan arrangement witli Mexico for opening up that route, but a bilateral agn-.-menl is being negotiated. PROVINCIAL AIR TERMINUS ON' Tuesday last week the new Airways Terminus in ManChester was officially opened by Mr. George Lind^rt-n, Par- liamentary Secretary to the Ministry ol Civil Aviation. At a luncheon, attended by the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, Councillor J. E. Fitzsimons, chairman of the Airport Com- mittee, drew attention to the lead the city had taken in estab- lishing the first airways terminus 111 the British Isles, outside London. The Committee, he said, had been active for twenty years, first of all in developing an airfield at Barton, and then later at Ringway. Barton was licensed as long ago as 1930, and, judged by the standards of those days, was considered !<> be a good site-. Mr. Lindgren, in his speech, said that the Manchester Cm poration was considering whether Burton should be retained for club flying, charter and taxi work. Pending settlement ot the national airfield programme, Ringway was to remain unck-r the control <•' ;;cbi-ster Corporation, but contact will) the Ministry y maintained through a local representa- tive. Mr. Liudgit-ji also mentioned that the large hangars which had been uw.-d by A. V. Roe were at the moment not
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