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2OO FLIGHT AUGUST 2IST, 1947 Civil Aviation News ..... The donation followed Congressional denial of funds for 20 of the Radar units which C.A.A. had requested. One of the gift sets has been installed at Washington National Airport, and the other two are already in operation at New York and Chicago for 24 hours each day. ARGENTINE-SCANDINAVIAN NEGOTIATIONS QWEDISH, Norwegian and Danish representatives are vJ negotiating with the Argentine Government for a perma- nent commercial air treaty for a Scandinavian air service to the Argentine. The Scandinavian Airlines System has been operating to Buenos Aires since last December under a pro- visional agreement, which the Argentine Government has ex- tended for the duration of the negotiations. It is understood that the agreement will be on similar lines to the Spanish- Argentine Air Agreement, with several special provisos similar to those in the agreement which the Argentine has with the United States. Although negotiations are being conducted jointly between the Scandinavian countries, each country will sign an indi vidual agreement. TUDOR INZfLRlOR: This photograph shows the spacious seating accommoda- tion in the standard fuselage layout on the Mk. II, IV and VII Tudors. A flight in the Mk. VII, with Hercules engines, was described in last week's " Flight." AUSTRALIAN AIRPORT CHARGES •"PliE Civil Aviation Department of Australia has announced-»- the schedule of charges to be imposed upon aircraft landing at State-owned airports and which are intended to cover theuse of navigation and other aids provided by the Department. A unit fee has been agreed and the charges are multiples ofthe unit fee according to the type of aircraft and its function at time of landing. Types have been divided into four classes:Class I, aircraft used for the personal purposes of the owner, for which the charge is 26 times the unit fee; Class II, aircraftused by the owner in his own business and not for remunera- tion, for which the charge is 52 times the unit fee; Class III,aircraft operated for remuneration otherwise than on scheduled air routes, for which the charge is 78 times the unit fee; andClass IV. aircraft operated on regular scheduled airline service, for which all internal routes have been classified and given aspecified number of units according to the distance covered and the location of the service. Unit fees are, for example, 2B 6d for Aeroncas and TigerMoths, us 3d for Ansons, £2 7s 3d for DC-3S, £6 7s gd l DC-4S, and Liberators are 5 guineas. The Empire FlygBoats are £3 17s and Sunderlands £4 18s. Thus a Tiger Moth landing fee in Class I would be £3 5s, in Class II £6 10s and inClass III £9 15s. For an Anson in Class I the charge would he, £14 12s 6d, in Class II £29 5s and in Class III £43 17s 6d. Forthe airlines the rates will work out, for a DC-3, flying, for instance, from Adelaide to Perth, 9guineas, and for a DC-4 £27 us. The main routes carrying heavy passenger traffic have been ratedhigh with units, whereas the long-distance remote routes carrying light traffic have been given a lowunit value. The Minister for Air has announced that the Government Airlines, T.A.A. andQ.A.N.T.A.S., will pay the same charges as pri- vate companies. It is understood that the operators are indignantthat the charges are as high in view of the fact that already lo^d is being paid on tax for eachgallon of petrol, which produces for the Govern- ment about £Ai,000,000. The general Managerof A.N.A., Mr. H. M. Walsh, has already stated that the company pay the Government about£360,000 each year in petrol tax. On the other hand the Civil Aviation Department estimates thatthe new charges will result in a revenue of, approximately, ,£300,000, whereas the cost ofmaintaining airports, radio and navigation aids is £i\ million. The New South Wales Government anticipatesa deficit of £7,000,000 on the State Railways and proposes to increase the freight and fare chargeson the airways, as it is thought that the railways are being deprived of about £1,000,000 revenuethrough air services. It is also proposed to tax fares on intra-State air services. BREVITIES The technical investigations at Yeadon Airfield, the future airport for Bradford and Leeds, were completed on Juiy 16th. The Ministry of Civil Aviation is examining the report. » • • Mr. J. P. Jeffcock has been appointed Director-General of Civil Aviation in the new Dominion of Pakistan, with head- quarters at Karachi Airport. * * * Czechoslovak Airlines have started a Sunday service betweenLondon and Prague The service is run in conjunction with B.E.A. and there is now a total of eleven flights in eachdirection per week. * * * A delegation representing the U.K. and lead by Sir FrederickBowhill, left on August 14th to attend the South African Air Transport Council meeting at Victoria Falls on August 18th.All aspects of civil aviation affecting the Union, Southern Rhodesia and British territories of East and Central Africa, are being discussed. * * * Ca.pt. David Prowse, chief pilot of Flight Refuelling, has returned to this country from the Azores with the Lancaster tanker after completing three months of trial operation with B.S.A.A. aircraft on flights to Bermuda. Eleven round trips were flown and on each leg the converted Lancaster airliners were refuelled in flight. B.S.A.A. now stop at Sao Paulo on the London-Santiago route. The aircraft on both the outward and inward service take off on Friday of each week. * * * As a result of the Indian ban on Dutch aircraft using Indian airports, K.L.M. transports are now using the R.A.F. airfield at Negombo, Ceylon for refuelling on both westward and east-, ward flights. K.L.M. have suspended the service from Amster-\ dam to Bombay. * » # Sudan Airways made an inaugural flight with a Dove onJuly 19th from Khartoum to Atbara and Port Sudan, and back again to Khartoum. The regular service is now operatedweekly between Khartoum and Port Sudan, and also between Khartoum and Asmara * * # Pan American Airways have puichased four Gold Plate Con-stellations, T.W.A. have ordered four and K.L.M. two. Aer Linte, the Irish airline, have increased their order from threeto five. Pan American intend to start the Non-stop New York to London service with these aircraft. * * * K.L.M. opened a regulai weekly service from Amsterdam to Johannesburg on August 16th. The company have been operating only special flights to South Africa with the DC-4S through Algiers, Kano and Leopoldville. Constellations will be placed on the route as they become available.
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