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OCTOBER 23RD, 1947 FLIGHT 479 Civil Aviation News for flying a Constellation. A first-year Captain on a Constel-lation would receive 1,022.07 dollars a month, and a four- year Captain flying 85 hours a month would receive 1,241.07dollars a month. The cost to American Overseas Airlines is estimated to beover $100,000 a week. Although it is the desire of the com- pany to hold together the basic organization, it has been foundnecessary to dismiss some employees, but others have been suspended on the understanding that they will be reinstatedwhen the strike ends. A.O.A. have offered for lease on a short- term basis their transatlantic fleet of Skymasters and Constel-lations to 14 international airlines. It is understood that the company is willing to arbitrate the pilots' contracts only aftera return to flying. B.EA'S FIRST YEAR /"YPERATING statistics for August published recently by yJ B.E.A. show a steady increase in the volume of traffic, >the single exception being in the amount of mail carried. Com- parative figures for July and August, and also figures for the year ended July 31st, 1947, are given below: Total for year ended July 31st 269,678 2,670,800 July 69,602 201,600 239,800 Passengers carried Freight carried (lb) Mail carried (lb) Passenger miles flown 14,601,824 Aircraft miles flown 1,288,843 No. of flights made 10,546 Route mileage . . 16,548 August 77,787 435,600 231,000 2,239,600 15,680,515 73,689,920 1,443,-419 7,399,206 11,050 46,217 17,640 — In August, 1946, the B.E.A. fleet consisted of 21 Dakotasand two Vikings. Personnel numbered 3,000, services covered 7,311 Jt 1 i n • s ti ^ U i - " - FCT \ < , 1 1 „ - ' — '•* 1 / \ • * % Si !l — P.* -> - — — - - - •• •t I . 1 COMMENT UNNECESSARY: facsimile of a telegram received by " Flight" last week referring of course to the recent forced alighting in the Atlantic. route miles, and 678 services were completed during that first month. By the last month of the first year, July, 1947, the fleet had increased and changed to 26 Vikings, 24 Dakotas, of which four were freighters, 45 Rapides, and nine JU.52S. Personnel had also increased to 7,521, route miles to 16,548, and during the month 9,989 services were completed. IRISH AIRLINES' NEW OFFICE ON October 14th a new London headquarters and enquiryoffice for Irish Airlines was opened at 221, Regent Street. Mr. John Leydon, chairman of Irish Airlines,' Major-General Michael Hogan, assistant general manager, and Mr. John Dulanty, Irish High Commissioner in London, were present at the opening ceremony. Aer Lingus has in operation ten Dakotas and seven Vikings on services from Dublin to London and many provincial towns in the U.K., and also to Paris. Constellations will soon be introduced on the London service, and also from Dublin to Stockholm, Rome and Lisbon. A maintenance contract has been concluded with Lockheeds, who will take care of line maintenance at Shannon, while major overhaul work will be carried out at the Lockheed base, MacArthur Field. CHANGES IN INTERNAL FARES B.E.A. fares on certain internal routes will show an averageincrease of 15 per cent with effect from November 2nd. The increase reflects mounting operational costs, but on cer-tain services there will be a reduction in fares. Thus the single fare from London to Manchester will be reduced from£\ 5s to £4 is; from Tiree to Stornoway from £4 to £3 ys. The single fare from London to Belfast, however, shows anincrease of 6s to £8 6s; from Glasgow to Belfast there is an increase of 9s to £2 19s. The Channel Island rates are notaffected. These new rates have been adjusted to meet the differingcost of varying routes, and in general are less per passenger mile than the existing European fares which are fixed withinthe I.A.T.A. framework. The reduction on monthly return fares, also operative from November 2nd, will be 15 per centon the sum total of two single fares, as against 10 per cent prior to this date. PROVING DC-4M FLIGHT MR. C. D. HOWE, Minister for Reconstruction and Supplyin Canada, and Mr. H. J. Symington, president of Trans- Canada Airlines, recently flew on the first transcontinentalproving flight in the DC-4M Mk. II. This pressurized version of the North Star will soon replace the Mk. Is on the trans-atlantic route, and the latter will then be returned to the R.C.A.F. At the conclusion of the flight the following tele-gram was received by Rolls-Royce: '' Arrived Montreal last night after excellent return trip on T.C.A. 201 M.2 aircraft.Howe and Symington delighted with performance of aircralt and engine throughout trip. Record broken on return flightnon-stop Vancouver to Montreal 2,345 miles in 6 houTS 52 minutes." Pressurization will permit operations at altitudes suitable tothe Merlin, which develops 1,340 b.h.p. -at 20,000ft. T.C.A. fly 14 transatlantic schedules a week with six North Stars. IMPROVED RAPIDE PERFORMANCET HE de Havilland manually-variable-pitch air-screw, already type-approved on an Aerovan, is to be tested for approval on the D.H. Rapide.A useful improvement in performance is expected, and the extra weight will be no more than 20 lb.The take-off run will be reduced by 16 per cent to 450 yards, the maximum cruising speed willbe impioved by 15 per cent to 141 m.p.h., and the useful single-engine ceiling will be 2,750ft.There will also be either improved fuel economy and range through higher cruising speeds forgiven throttle settings, or reduced engine wear through slower running for a given cruisingspeed. The new installation will be of value to the many operators of D.H. Rapides, and theconversion is neither difficult nor expensive. THE FLYING-BOAT INCIDENT HPHE Bermuda Sky Queen owned by American-»- International Airlines left Foynes at 1.54 a.m. on October 13th for Gander. After running intohead winds the Captain decided to alight on the sea near an American weather ship The sequenceof events has been logged by Reuter's and is below. A telegram from Geoffrey Tyson andreproduced Dudley Travers is also reproduced on this page.8.16 a.m.—"XXX"—highest priority air SOS—from the aircraft when it was still 600 miles from Gander saying '' Ihave only 2.75 hours' fuel left and am returning to weather ship for landing at sea, due to severe head wind." H.30 a.m.—Flying-boat alighted in rough sea three mileswest of weather ship, Bibb. 1.35 p.m.—British Air Ministry reported that aircralt hadtaxied two miles to weather ship. 1.40 p.m.—Weather ship radios: "Flying-boat afloat inrough sea. Passengers still on board." 2.15 p.m.—Second weather ship, Duane, 600 miles south-west of flying-boat, ordered to change course, and double speed to reach the scene in 30 hours. 2.40 p.m.—Passengers awaiting transfer to weather ship. 4.11 p.m.—Message to Gander said flying-boat could only"Stand another hour," passengers still on board. 5.30 p.m.—Weather ship reports flying-boat still afloat withpassengers aboard. 6.12 p.m.—Cunard officials in New York say that the QueenMary should be somewhere near the scene.
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