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Aviation History
1947
1947 - 1446.PDF
230 FLIGHT AUGUST 28TH. 1947 CIVIL AVIATION NEWS M^' NIGHT M\IL. The first purely maillfreight service operated by British European Airways about to leave Northolt on August llth. Ihe Dakota freighters now leave on six nights a week for Brussels and Prague, returning the next day with mail and freight over the same route. Air connections carry the mail to other destinations in Europe. Air Section on Baltic Exchange : Ambassador Progress and Future Development : B.O.A.C. Flying-boat Hours BALTIC AIR EXCHANGE Monday, August iSth, a number of air charter operators met and agreed that they would support the opening of an air charter section on the Baltic Exchange. Two days later a meeting was held in the Merchants' Hall, St. Mary Axe, at which Sir Norman Vernon, the Chairman of the Exchange, presided, and at which 250 were present, including air opera- tors, traders and members of the Baltic Exchange. After some discussion, it was decided to start an air section and to allow air operators to become members. Already some air charter companies have made use of the Baltic Exchange through broker members, and the new air Faction will be complementary to the existing organization for shipping. There will, however, be a greater number of broker members necessary for the additional work, but it is thought that no intensive reorganization will be necessary. The fact that the Exchange is open only from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. will not be a disadvantage as already a considerable amount of business is carried on outside those hours. There will be no official opening of the air section but it will gradually expand with the election of .new members and the increase in business. ANSON V IN EUROPE ""I 'HE third Canadian-built Anson V to cross the Atlantic X passed through this country recently on a delivery flight to Tarsa, S.A-, the new Swiss Charter Company. The first was delivered to Loftleider H/F. in Iceland in June last year and the second flew recently to Norway for a demonstration tour. The Anson V with a payload of 2,750 lb has accommo- dation for nine passengers, a maximum speed of 194 m.p.h., a cruising speed of 150 m.p.h., and when fitted with two extra 42-gallon overload tanks, as it was for the Atlantic crossing, the range is 900 miles. The transatlantic journey was made through Greenland, Iceland and Prestwick. A description of the aircraft appeared in Flight, July 17th. Tarsa S.A. with a subsidiary company, Air Bleu, is operating ' from Geneva, and another Arisen and a Beechcraft 18 are on order and a Taifun. TUDOR AND PLYMOUTH ACCIDENTS nPHE first prototype Tudor II, G-AGSU, crashed at Wood- * -«- ford, on Saturday, August 23rd, killing four of the occupants. "\ namely, Mr. Roy Chadwick, Chief Tech- ^ nical Director of A. V. Roe, Mr. S. A. Thorn, Chief Test Pilot of the firm. S./L. D. Wilson, chief of Avro's flight test sec- tion, and Mr. J. Webster, the wireless operator. The aircraft had been used dur- ing the past eighteen months for develop- ment purposes and was equipped with re- search instruments and automatic obser- vers but it was not furnished. It was, however, loaded wfth water ballast tanks. There is a secqncTWototype of the Tudor II on which iiSmopment work will con- tinue, and a third has had Hercules engines installed and is now referred to as the Mark VII Roy Chadwick The circumstances ol the crash were that about 300 yards after take-off the starboard wing dipped and touched the ground; it then struck a hedge and the ai,eron was ripped off. The aircraft finally \ime to rest about 200 yards farther on. On the same Saturday a B.O.A.C. Plymouth-class flying-boat, G-AHZB, S A Thorn crashed on alighting in the dark at Bahrein. The aircraft had left Hong Kong •on the 20th August and was due at Poole on Sunday, 24th August. Seven passengers and three members of the crew are missing, but of the remainder, the majority are either unhurt or not seriously injured. This is the first time a pas- senger on a B.O.A.C. flying-boat service has been fatally injured since November, 1943. (An appieciation of the Avro team will be found on page 229)
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