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i8 FLIGHT 1947 Civil Aviation News miles in 150 flying hours. Fifty hours were flown on demonstrations TWO B.O.A.C. PILOTS RETIRE APT. G. W. BELL1N and Capt. K. M. Cass, two of theBritish Overseas Airways Corporation's most experienced pilots, have retired Capt. Bellin, a South African by birth, has flown 18,800 hours—in which time his air mileage totals 2I millions, a total believed to have been exceeded by only one other civil airpilot, Capt. E. S. J. Alcock, also of B.6.A.C. In 1927 he became an instructor at the Johannesburg LightAeroplane Club and in 1929 joined Union Airways which was later taken over by South African Airways. He joined Im-perial Airways in 1935 an(i two years later was promoted to command an Empire flying-boat w'hich class of aircraft he hascommanded ever since, flying mainly between Durban, Egvpt and India. Capt. Bellin's war service included the evacuationof Crete and of members of B.O.A.C staff from the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. He now intends to farm atGreytown, Natal. Capt. Cass, after service with the R.A.F., also joined Im-perial Airways in 1935. He obtained his captaincy a year later and spent the greatest part of his service commandingEmpire flying-boats out of Durban, South Africa, where he made his home. He has flown more than 13,000 hours. A.O.A. FINLAND SERVICE HTHE first regular service between America and Finland was•*• started on June 26th by American Overseas Airlines. The service is, in effect, an extension of the company's route fromAmerica to the Scandinavian capitals. Owing to runway limi- tations at Malmi, Helsinki, passengers for Finland change atBromma, Stockholm, from the trans-Atlantic Skymasters to Dakotas. There are no night landing facilities at Malmi, andpassengers remain overnight at Stockholm, flying on to' Hel- sinki the following morning. These flights will be made threetimes a week ia each direction. FUTURE OF AUSTRALIAN ROUTE TVyfR. HUDSON FYSH, managing director of Qantas Empire•»-•-*- Airways, the Australian airline which is now entirely government owned, was in this country from June 1st to 17thto discuss future plans for operating the route to Australia from the U.K. It will be remembered that Q.E.A. have purchased four Con-* stellations which, with a payload of 13,5001b, including 42 passengers, and capable of flying stages up to 2,500 miles, Capt. G. W. Beflin Capt, K. M- Cass makes the existing arrangement of joint services between B.O.A.C. and Q.E.A. quite impossible. Mr. Fysh has explained the arrangements, which should take effect from about the beginning of 1948. " It is expected," he said, " that two services a week in each direction between Sydney and London will be operated by Qantas while B.O.A.C. will operate one Lancastrian carrying mail and freight only, and two flying-boat passenger services, with Solents. Though the flying-boats will be considerably slower than the Constellations, they will serve a greater number of centres and will be supplementary to the service with American aircraft.' When viewed as a whole, it would seem that such an arrangement would provide a good air service to travellers all along the route. B.O.A.C. have not, however, confirmed that these decisions are final. The introduction of the Constellation to the England-Aus- tralia route to meet competition is considered essential by Aus- tralia, and necessary to help preserve British traffic on the main trunk route of the Empire. It seemed, said Mr. Fysh, to be that in the future competitive fares on international air routes would be fixed on the basis of the most economic operator, and it was felt, in consequence, that events in the next five years would strongly bear out the wisdom of the course pursued. In addition, Australia had to think of her own requirements in a general way in regard to the establishment of such facilities within her own boundaries and when reviewing her standing and geographical position. In this respect the Constellations would be wholly maintained in Australia and would intro- ACTIVITY AT BLACKBUSHE : Passengers about to embark on one of the Airwork Vikings flying;to Pans and Dinard for the Polytechnic Touring Association. On Friday, June 20th the twenty- sixth tour left Blackbushe, and on the same day the twenty-second flight to Wadi Haifa took offand a third Viking left for Dar-es-Salaam.
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