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JUNE 12TH, 1947 FLIGHT 559 CIVIL AVIATION NEWS merit, and perpetuated the gap in development which was oneof the costs of the war. He estimated, as we reported last week, that a pure-jet airliner, allowing for the large amountof work it could undertake in a year by reason of its speed, may prove to be on all counts a more economical propositionthan the existing transports. The D.H.106, he said, was of such a calibre that it was inevitable that a considerable periodmust elapse before it would be flying on international routes. US. CHARTER REGULATIONST HE American Civil Aeronautics Board have issued regula-^ tions governing the future operations of some air carriers >vhich have hitherto been referred to as "non-scheduled." Anew group of operators is to be known as "irregular air carriers" who may en- 'gage in common carriage by air of ; persons or property on an irregular basiswithout a certificate of public conven- ience and necessity. Operators in thatgroup will be permitted to carry pas- sengers and freight on internal routesbut freight only on the international routes. The other category is to beknown as " non-certificated cargo car- riers," who. may engage without a cer-tificate of public convenience and neces- sity in carrying freight only, on a regu-lar or irregular basis, on domestic routes but not on international routes. Theregulations will increase the measure of regulations for non-scheduled operators. G.A.PA.N COURT FOR NEW YEARA THIRD of the Court of the Guild ofAir Pilots and Air Navigators re- tires each year and the vacancies art-filled by election, the new Court being confirmed at the Guild's annual meetingon April 10th each year. The Court for the year 1947/48 has, of course, H.R.H.Princess Elizabeth as Grand Master. The Most Hon. the Marquess of London-derry is Master, and the Deputy Master is W/C. N. H. Woodhead. Wardens areG/C. P. W. S. Bulman, G/C. W. N. Gumming, Capt. A. G. Lamplugh andW/C. C. A. Pike. Full Members of the Court are Lt. Cdr.Castlemaine, A. Cdre. A. V. Harvey, W/C. H. F. Jenkins, Mr. F. C. Chiches-ter, G/C. D. F. Mclntyre, Mr. J. K. Quill. Capt. Gordon Store, Mr. Herbert Sutclifle "and Mr. C. H. Willis. Associate Mem- and Mr. D. H. MacBeath. Service Members are represented by W/C. K. A. Gilfiilan and F/L. F. R. Leatherdale. The Test Pilot Members of the Court are- S/L. Hartford and Mr. T. S. Wade, S/L. L. F. Payne is on the Court as representative of the Southampton Branch. The Honorary Wardens of the Court t^are Viscount Trenchard, Lord Newall, Lord McGowan, Lord Montgomery, Sir W. Sholto Douglas, Sir Edward Ellington, Sir John Salmond, Sir James Somerville. and Sir Philip d'Ambrumenile. The Honorary Chaplain is the Rev. John A. Taeroe and the Honorary Medical Advisers are W/C. J. G. MacGown, A Cdre. R." W. Ryan, W/C. R. Winfield, Dr. L C Henry. Lt. Cdr. B. J. Hurren is Editor and Mr. L Wingfield is the Clerk. The Employment Bureau is in the charge of Major J. Cordes and Mf. Ian McNicol is, of coursr. Sec re tary-General. maston, near Reading, will be taken over and the companywill train those civilian aircrew and ground staff which are required by the Corporations. Hitherto B.O.A.C. have under-taken training foi both Corporations, but in the interest' of economy, efficiency and impartiality, it has been consideredbetter to set up-an independent organization, and the training organizations of B.O.A.C. and B.E.A.C. will disappear. Training can be centralized up to the point where it liasnow been found desirable to transfer advance training to the operational lines, and in future the lines will undertake theadvance training themselves. It is considered more convenient from the point of view of finance to have the separate com-pany, and it will also permit of training for all civil air trans- port operators, whether British or foreign. Air Marshal SirWilliam Welsh, director of training in B.O.A.C., will re- linquish his appointment and the staff at Aldermaston havenow been seconded to Airways Training. It may, however, be necessary to reduce the strength of the training school. / Ion I /ihotoyra \>h. / SABENA AT HEATHROW : The Belgian company transferred its English base _,/from Croydon to London Airport on June 1st. Five return seV^iceseach week-jiajr are flown between Brussels and London, and three on Sundays. ATrrgW-frelfnTer isflying six times a week on the same route. From June 15th to September 15th a service will operate to Le Zoute through Ostend twice a day on Monday, Friday andSaturday and once a day the remainder of the week. B.O.A.C. AND B.EA.C NEW JOINT COMPANY AS announced in Flight last week, the two British Corpora-tions B.O.A.C. and B.E.A.C., have formed a new com-pany, Airways Training, Ltd., with a nominal share capital of /i,000. The board has been nominated by the two Corporations and consists of Sir Victor Tait and Mr. G. T. Mellor, of B.O.A.C., . and Mr Philip Wills and Mi. J. E. V. Tysack, representing Empire and prooably the second oldest in the world. B E A C The registered office is at Stratton House, Pic- Q.E^. organization bas had considerable experience in c cadiily. The training school, at present situated at Alder- CANADIAN TWIN-JET LINER N two years or so, says Sir Roy Dobson, a new twin-jetairliner, to be built by A. V. Roe (Canada), Ltd., will be supplied to customers. It is likely to be produced inquantity up to a hundred, both for Canadian use and for ex- port. A thirty-passenger machine, it will probably be thefirst of its kind to go into service; the first prototype should fly by next summer. Speeds of up to 400 m.p.h. are predicted,and the cabin will be pressurized to maintain sea-level density at 25,000 it, so that passengers will be comfortable whilecruising at 30,000 ft. The new transport will be used in Canada for inter-citywork, and, according to our contemporary, Canadian Aviation, will cut travelling time by better than half its present figure. GOVERNMENT INTEREST IN Q.E.A.T HE Australian Government has decided to purchase theQantas private shareholding in Qantas Empire Airways, and Mr. W. Hudson Fysh, the chairman and managing direc-tor of Q.E.A., has stated that the decision had been made as a result of greatly increased expansion, and capital re-quirements. It was, he said, in line with governmental policy and previous action with all other main Empire units, whichwere owned by their respective governments or groups of governments. The company has been operating for twenty-seven years and was founded by Queensland enterprise and shareholders. It is the oldest name in air transport in the •• • Theoperat- ing Empire routes.
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