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Aviation History
1947
1947 - 1257.PDF
Ma) Personalities at Dyce. In top circle, Capt. D. Prentice : lower Wrcle, W. Mackenzie (B.E.A. Stn. Supt.). Left to right, C. V. Char/ton (Stn. Teh. Officer), A. L. Carrie (Airport Manager), £. C. W. Beale (A.T.C.O.). (b) Passengers arriving at Dyce from the London service. (c) the passenger-handling-building at Aberdeen Airport. (d) B.E.A. Traffic Officer weighing boxes of live chicks bound for the Orkney Islands. About five hundred day-old or week-old chicks are carried regularly each week. theless, the airfield is well equipped with MF/DF, HF/DF, HF/RT, VHF/DF and VHF/RT, and there are sodium run- way landing lights on each runway but not on the approacbes. There is no Area Control at Renfrew, but many movements are dealt with in the control room, which functions in an , advisory capacity to aircraft passing within DF distance. Traffic Density British European Airways fly forty-eight services through tin-, airport each day, and there are, of course, ma.ny position- ing flights for maintenance; there is also a certain amount of charter activity. The Corporation expects that movements will be up to sixty by the end of August of this year. The total number of passengers flying on scheduled services dur- ing June was 3,837, and there were 227 who travelled on aircraft not on scheduled services. Renfrew is undoubtedly operating under difficulties. The accommodation position has already been mentioned, and there seems to be little indication that new buildings will be constructed in the immediate future. The problem is greater in the mornings between 0820 and 0925, during which period nine scheduled aircraft are landing and taking off. During that period the narrow tarmac in front of the clubhouse and old hangars is considered to be inadequate, and a wide stretch of concrete near the Lockheed hangars is used for loading and unloading. A perimeter track connects the concrete to the headquarters and the passengers' assembly hall, but for some reason the perimeter .track may not be used by the passenger-carrying buses. Consequently, after going through the usual weighing and checking procedures, the passengers are again bundled into a bus and taken for a tedious ride out of the airport, along the road and in again at another entrance. The flight from Renfrew to Aberdeen is normally made in Ju 52s, but on the morning we were due to leave, after going through the usual actions before taking off (including the bus ride) one engine of the German aircraft was found to be mis- 6.E.A. Dakota being refuelled in front of the control tower at Turnhouse. In the group are M.C.A. and 8.E.A. officials at the Edinburghr rt. Left to right : W. Broom (Stn. Tels. Officer), W. J. Palmer (B.E.A. Stn. Supt.). W. Beresford-Mortimore (Airport Manager), L. H. T. Ashburner (A.T.C.O.) and 8. V. Bishop (Met. Officer).
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