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1948
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FLIGHT JANUARY 8TH, 1948 Civil Aviation News .. ... airlines carried 1,500,000 passengers overseas and nearly 16,000,000 passen- gers on internal routes, increases of 44 and 18 per cent respectively. Freight carried rose 84 per cent on domestic lines and more than doubled on overseas routes. An analysis of British civil aircraft asregistered on December 15th last year showed 337 in use by the airline Corpora-tions, 478 by charter operators, 305 by Clubs and training schools, and the total,including those used for private and all commercial purposes, was 1,817. JEWISH AIRLINE A CO-DIRECTOR of London Aero andMotor Services, Mr. Abel Shaban,lias announced in South Africa the formation of a Jewish airline, to l>ecalled Jewish National Airways and owned partly by L.A.M.S. and partlyJby the Jewish agency in Palestine, the former being responsible for operationaland technical arrangements. Plans are being made to acquire DC-4S, it isunderstood, and to operate scheduled services within and from Palestine • toLondon, New York, Prague, Johannes- burg and other cities. All aircraft will bear „there will be no services on Saturdays, and kosher food will be served on board. The Jewish agency will, of course, beeither a government body or the government itself when an independent state is set up in partitioned Palestine, and itis expected that it will hold a controlling interest in the new airline. us. PARES LOWER THAN PRE-WAR A CCORDING to the Air Transport Association of America A the fares on the country's most heavily used internal airlines were, for the most part, lower than those charged before the war. Star of David, POSSIBLE REPLACEMENT ?— The rear fuselage of the Miles Merchantman hinged back, showing the spacious interior which is capable of accommodating 20 passengers. The hinged portion is available for baggage. As suggested in " Flight " last week, this aircraft could perhaps be a suitable replacement for the D.H.89 on internal routes in the U.K. SUSPENSION OF PILOTS AFTER ACCIDENTSI N his report on an air accident in which 14 persons lost theirlives on July 13th, Mr. Carl Donlan, consultant to the -Senate Commercial Aviation Sub-committee, proposed auto-matic suspension of pilots for a given period and re-examina- tion after an accident. He claimed that statistics showed thatpilots who had bad one accident were more inclined to have another and were considerably less efficient than those with aclear record. With regard to the accident that was the subject of his report, he said that the pilots had been in the air for 23out of 37 hours and were either asleep or exhausted, and sug- gested that "drastic proceedings should be instituted against Of the 24 routes examined only 8 showed fares greater than the management and/or the owner." those charged in 1941, the greatest increase being on theChicago-St. Louis route, which had risen to 16 per cent more than the old fares. New York-Syracuse fares were at only78 per cent of the 1941 level and on the Detroit-Cleveland route the figure was only 75 per cent. On the average, faresin the 24 cases which were the subject of the survey were at 94 per cent of the pre-war average. &A.S. EUROPEAN SERVICES WHEN the board of directors of S.A.S. met in Copenhagenlast month statements were made about the desirabilityof increased co-operation between the Scandinavian countries on the European routes. This was later elaborated by thepresident of S.A.S., Mr. Per A. Norlin, who said that investiga- tions into the subject were soon to be started and that theywere prompted by the success of the joint Atlantic scheme. He forecast a joint sales system, more closely knit maintenanceand operations, with the painting of S.A.S. insignia on all aircraft in addition to the insignia of the companies concerned.At the moment, the views of the boards of the individual com- panies are awaited. INTERNATIONAL RED TAPE THE Special kdvisory Committee set up by President Trumanto study air transport problems in the U.S.A. is expected to suggest very soon a plan, the object of which will be toreduce "bureaucracy" in the running of world airlines. The Committee has estimated that U.S. airlines alone spend nearly£2,500,000 yearly on measures to ensure compliance with international regulations. If this cost were dispensed with acut of £25 in Atlantic single fares could be made. There was every justification, the report stated, for saying that thoughany place, in the world was within 60 hours flying-time distance of America, it took more than 60 hours to obtain personalpapers foi" the journey, and one American journal had estimated that 2,802 pages of completed documents were necessary beforea commercial airliner could proceed from San Francisco to Australia. One proposal was the creation of free airports—asystem already adopted in Eire whose Shannon airport allowed transient passengers to pass through without documents. PETROL TRANSFER IN FLIGHT CRITICIZED TTRANSFER of petrol from the main to the feed tanks in-*• flight was strongly condemned as unnecessary and dan- gerous by Mr. Don. Douglas, Jun., in charge of testing for theDouglas Corporation, in a statement he made at the C.A.B. committee of enquiry into the DC-6 crashes. It was estab-lished at this enquiry that the fires which caused the accidents arose from the overflow of petrol from the gravity tanks, whichhad seeped back along the fuselage and reached the cabin heaters. / " Transfer of petrol in flight is safe only if there isaccompanying overflow," be said. "At the time the j^ was granted its C. of A. we did not realize the seriousnessof petrol overflow." He went on to say that under no con- ditions of flight was it necessary to use cross-feeding for thetransfer of fuel. / MAPPING CANADA OINCE the Photographic Survey Co., Ltd., was formed in"•^P Toronto, Canada, in February, 1946, as a subsidiary of Munting Aviation, a number of surveys have been completedand others are still in progress in Canada and South America. In Northern Ontario 125,000 sq. miles are being surveyed fora forest inventory on behalf of the government, a contract which will take five years to complete, and the NewfoundlandCommission of Government has a 5,000 sq. mile survey in Labrador for the same purpose. For the Federal Government90,000 sq. miles in British Columbia are being photographed for mapping and the government of Nova Scotia has 11,000 sq.miles of its territory already mapped. On behalf of six pulp and paper mills, 5,000 sq. miles in British Columbia, NewBrunswick, Northern Ontario and Quebec, and 3,000 sq. miles on behalf of mining companies, have been photographed, anda 'town-planning survey was made of tfie greater metropolitan area of Toronto. Not all the surveys were on a large scale,since about 30 were of 1-10 sq. miles each. Two of the most important overseas contracts were for 10,000 sq. miles inVenezuela and 8,000 sq. miles in Colombia. The control points for surveying the vast areas were established in most cases bvastronomical observations.
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