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Aviation History
1947
1947 - 1995.PDF
NOVEMBER I3TH, T947 FLIGHT 557 CIVIL AVIATION NEWS LOOKING NORTH-EAST : A K.LM. Dakota standing on the extended portion of the 050/230 runway at Schipol, which now measures 2,530 yds. It is the main instrument runway and its equipment includes S.B.A., I.L.S. and full contact lighting. The East-West run- way also is being lengthened, at the western end, but, since the present approach is over the tarmac, the third runway, measuring 2,300 yds, will be constructed parallel to the existing 140/320 runway. Start of West African Services : Travel Statistics : B.O.A.C. ^Requirements for a Medium Range Aircraft for Empire Routes INDIRECT CARGO CARRIERS THE American Civil Aeronautics Board are considering theintroduction of a new category of air operators to be known as "Non-certificated indirect cargo carriers." Such acarrier would be permitted to transport property by air for compensation, without itself physicallyoperating aircraft, but by utilizing the services of some other organization. Thearea- of operation would be unlimited. The Board proposes that under the pro-visions of the new regulation, if per- mitted, the indirect carrier may deliverproperty for transport only to those certificated and non-certificated com-panies which hold effective Letters of Registration or operate under foreignpermits. The effect would be a restrit tion on indirect carriers to use only thosioperators who are authorized for tin carriage of property by air, and they «illbe subject to economic regulations in- ^bTtiding the filing of tariffs, and thedeclaration of accounts and reports. WEST AFRICAN AIR WA YS GOOD progress is being made by theWest African Airways Corporation, whose first services have now started.Many points in the interior of are joined to Lagos by air and thr^fghthe link with B.O.A.C.'s trans ~ route, London is now within two/daystravel of Nigeria. Future plans /nclude services between the four colonies ofNigeria, the Gold Coast, Sierra Leone and Gambia, extension of interior ser-vices and links to Khartoum, Cairo and East Africa, while charter work is animportant part of the Corporation's activities. A recent instance of this, a flight to the sources of the Niger with an^nglo-French Commission, was noted in Flight last week. Two of the seven de Havilland Doves which are on orderhave been delivered and three Miles Marathons are also on order. Each of the Doves carries a pilot and radio officer,seconded from B.O.A.C., and the colonial governments are providing meteorological^ind other such services. Capt. \V.Armstrong, of the Techm^l Director's staff, B.O.A.C., who ADVANCED TRAINER : Since the handling characteristics of the Dove are said to re- semble closely those of the Constellation, B.O.A.C. have put the Dove into service at Dorval for crew training. A D.C.3 and Lockheed 14 were considered as alternatives, but the cost of operation was estimated to be nearly twice that for the Dove, even though the D.C. 3 wo.:ld have been bought at war-surplus price. In the photograph are (left to right) Capt. W. S. May, Chief Flying Instructor, B.O.A.C., First Officer N. E. Freeman First Officer D. J. Bellingham, and Mr. B. Peterson, No. 3 line, B.O.A.C:
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