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1947
1947 - 2217.PDF
DECEMBER 25TH, 1947 FLIGHT AIRPORTS IN THE UNITED STATES BY midsummer this year some 5,300 landing fields wereavailable for use m the United States. Many of them had been built with the aid of the $500,000,000 fund provided bythe Federal Airport Act of. 1946. Since the airpoit programme toas started in 1946 about $77,500,000 has been allocated fromthe fund and matched by State and municipal support for the construction or development of 896 airports. Privately-ownedtypes ana small commercial aircraft are catered for on a large scale but many are built, however, for large passenger-carryingtransports, and the smallest of those now under construction has runways 1,500 yards long, while the largest has runwaysover 3,000 yaids long. At the New York International Airport at Idlewild the Port of New York Authority has sanctioned theconstruction of two hangars 300ft deep and 225ft wide, capable of housing about five large aircraft. Second to Idlewildin size and capacity is the municipal airport at Boston, which is being re-named Logan International Airport. 10,000 SQ MILES AIR SURVEY TO give as wide a range as possible and to conserve film,the Bristol Freighter with which Hunting Aerosurveys are to map oilfield areas for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. will fly at22,000ft. Oxygen equipment has been installed to make opera- tion at this altitude practicable and to increase range an extrafuel tank holding 350 gall, will be used. The camera is a Williamson Ordnance Survey I type with a 6in wide-angle lensand takes 500 exposures per spool of film, each measuring gin square. It is mounted behind the port nose door normallyused for loading freight, and two Perspex observation panels have been inserted in the lower parts of the doors. Whenusing the panels, the photographer will lie prone in much the same way as a bomb-aimer and he will use an Aldis' sight,operating the camera shutter by a remote-control apparatus. When it is completed, the survey will result in a mosaic ofprints covering 10,000 sq miles, which will be examined stereoscopically by geologists, stage by stage, to determinewhich areas merit a closer ground survey. FUTURE OF FAIRLOP "TvEVELOPMENTof Fairlop Airfield, Essex, as London's second-L' air terminal has been shelved, and the project is not expected to be taken up again for several years. Fairlop is owned by theCity of London Corporation, and is under requisition by the Air Ministry, which used it during the war as a fighter station ;after the war it was handed over to the M.C.A., but the site has now been returned to the A.M. It is not correct, Flightunderstands, that the airfield will be ploughed up, as some reports have stated, for it is to be scheduled as agriculturalland in the category which is not to be ploughed but use1, only for such purposes as grazing. The airfield covers about 1,000acres, and its conversion to a main airport was expected to cost £1,000,000. B.O.A.C. CONSTELLATIONS TO BERMUDA THE three Boeing flying boats operated by B.O.A.C. on theBaltimore-Bermuda route will be withdrawn on January15th when the Cs. of A. expire. The British service to Bermuda will then be flown six times a week by Constellations—threefrom Baltimore and three from New York. This has be;n possible since the introduction of the Corporation's winterschedules which involved a slight reduction in services. There will now be five transatlantic flights each way to New Yorkand two to Montreal. The flying boat maintenance base at Baltimore will consequently be closed which will result in ;•.considerable saving in dollars. The Bermuda service will in effect be operated as an extension of the B.O.A.C. transatlanticroute. I.C.A.O. MEETINGSD URING 1948, the International Civil Aviation Organizationplans to hold the following meetings of its various divisions: —Statistics Division (Montreal) January 13th Aeronautical Maps and ChartsDivision (Brussels) March 8th Rules 0] the Air and Air Traffic Con-trol Division (Montreal) April 20th Facilitation Division (Europe) April 2jth Second Assembly (Western Europe) .. June (provisional) Operations Division (Montreal) September 8th Airworthiness Division (Montreal) . . September zist FROM THE AUSTRALIAN FRONT GUINEA AIRWAYS accepted £20,000 for the loss of its old-established service to the Northern Territory through legis- lation, referred to last week, which reserves the route to theTerritory for the Government airline. The legislation could seriously affect other operators, as it empowers the Director ofCivil Aviation to refuse licences for routes between a State and a Government territory. Companies at present operating toNew Guinea and Papua on a permission basis, without licence, could be eliminated in favour of Qantas, the Governmentinstrument LiA.M.S. (Australia), Ltd., which has been restrictedfrom taking the freight normally carried by Trans-Australia Airlines, Australian National Airways and Qantas, is examiningthe prospects of carrying meat from the Northern Territory and N.W. Australia to the Philippines and southern cities ofAustralia; fish from New Zealand and Hobart for Australian capitals; fruit from Australia to New Zealand, Pacific terri-tories and Singapore; and textiles to Singapore, New Zealand and the Philippines. " Territories " of the Commonwealth, such as Papua, are notsubject to the constitutional position as regards transport of the " States " which make up the Commonwealth. The Govern-ment v. operators disputes over interstate routes, in which Ansett Airways have been prominent, are therefore a quitedifferent matter. I.L.S. IN AMERICA 'HPWELVE American airlines are now authorized to use I.L.S.-L at 43 airfields, and more are being approved. Generally, aircraft are permitted to come in with a 300ft cloud base usingthis system. A number of airlines have already installed into their aircraft the "terrain indicators," ordered on the recom-mendation of President Truman's Air Safety Board. Two FREIGHTER SURVEYOR. The Hunting Aerosurveys' Bristol Freighter, showing the Perspex observation windows fitted in the doors, and (right) looking forward in the interior, with the camera dome to port, and the remote control apparatus in the starboard door.
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