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1948
1948 - 0142.PDF
122 Civil Aviation News It is pointed out that the development costs of theConcordia, amounting to nearly £500,000, had been borne by the company and that none of theburden had been laid upon the taxpayer. j * * * y The first French civil aircraft to visit New-Zealand since the war, a Catalina converted to carry 13 passengers, flew recently to Auckland.The aircraft belonged to the Societe Francaise de Transports Arien du Pacifique Sud, who have twosuch machines and a Republic Seabee. — # • •In the year ended September 30th, commercial air services, within jfew Zealand, carried 150,264passengers, 8,617,901 lb of freight and 599.707 lb of mail. In the same year clubs and trainingmachines logged 23,145 hours and private aircraft 1,436 hours. * * * •/Traffic returns for December issued by B.E.A. show an increase on those of November, althoughthe net route mileage covered was slightly less than in the previous month, the number of servicescompleted (3,051) and the total distances flown (787,937 miles) were greater, a number of extraservices having been provided at Christmas. ' JANUARY 29.TH, 1943 The International Commission formed to ex-amine possible sites for an international airport on J-iji will leave Sidney for Fiji towards the endof the month. Mr. A. "Hepburn, Director of Air- ports, and Mr. R. H. A. Cochrane, Engineer forRoads and Aerodromes, will represent Australia. The British representatives led by Mr. L. B. Collins, O.B.E.,were expected to arrive on January 22nd. / * * # The Australian Department of Civil Aviation is interested inthe survey of suitable landing grounds in the lantarctic region though they have not confirmed statements that services werebeing planned via the Antarctic should the Middle East route ever be closed. ROAD TO RIO: The first &.S.A.A. aircraft to carry a cinema for the entertainment of passengers during flight, left London Airport last week. The screen is 4ft. square, and the cinema carries a sound track. This particular projector is fitted in the galley of a York and, if the experiment is successful, it is understood that all 6.S.A.A. aircraft will be so fitted. Reporting to the Commissioners of the Port of New YorkAuthority, Mr. Howard Cullman, the chairman, said that a profit had been shown on the Authority's first venture into fikl operation. Operating revenues at \c&. Guardia Field between June 1st, when the Authority took it over, and the end of 1947, amounted to $952,552 (about £238,138) or $50,000 (about £12,500) more than all costs there and at Idlewild Airfield. */ . On January 19th, Air France reverted to their originalroute on the East African and Far Eastern lines. During the cholera epidemic last year the Lydda-Tunis or Athens-Tunisroutes were used to Khartoum, Mombasa and Mauritius as well as on the routes to Saigon, Hong Kong and Shanghai.On January 14th a third service each fortnight to the Far East was introduced to supplement the one single and one fort-nightly Skymaster services. FROM THE CLUBS S FLYING CLUB is maintaining flying activity dur-ing the winter months with regular instruction and cross- country flights, and completing major overhauls on each air-craft in turn in readiness for next summer. In addition the social side is flourishing, there being dancing at the clubhouseevery Sunday. * * - * Without any sinister desire to embarrass the A. & A.E.E.a fortnight ago we mentioned in passing that in January, 1947, the Wiltshire School of Flying had moved from High Postairfield to Boscombe Down. This should have read, of course, that the move had been to Thruxton from High Post, nearBoscombe Down. The move was made, in fact, because of the proximity of High Post to the circuit of the ExperimentalEstablishment. * * * Commencing on January 31st with a special party to cele-brate F/L. Pashley's recent investiture of the M.B.E., the *&>uth Coast Flying Club has arranged to hold a social eveningeach Saturday. Arrangements have been made for taxis to serve Brighton and Worthing areas at special rates and ordersfor these can be booked by telephoning Lancing 2096. The next club dance will be held on St. Valentine's Night, Satur-day, February 14th; the tickets are priced at 6s each. * * * , A sky observers' club has been organized in I^olland by PeiterRijswyk and John S. Webb, founder of the British Associa- tion of Aviation Clubs and Reading Sky Observers' Club. TheDutch organization is entirely independent of the two English clubs, but it is run on exactly the same lines and there willbe the fullest co-operation between them. The Reading Sky Observers' Club has grown from a membership of 19, a littleover a year ago, to 133 members to-day, and there are nearly 20 similar organizations in the country-." There is a possibilitvof forming similar clubs in Czechoslovakia. Persons interested in the Reading organization are invited to get in touch withJohn S. Webb, the organizing secretary, 100, Hemdeau Road, Caversham, Reading, Berkshire. Despite the many handicaps of wintry conditions bycoupled with the loss of the " basic," the Weston Aero Club at Weston-super-Mare is not discouraged by the results of thepast three months. Three members have taken their "A" tests, three others have flown solo and the two lady memberswho are learning to fly have made very good progress. Mem- bers have beon fortunate in obtaining allowances of supple-mentary petrol for twice-weekly visits to the club, but gener- ally the ban on basic petrol has had an adverse effect on socialactivities. On December 20th a film show attracted many members and arrangements are in hand to make this type ofentertainment a regular feature. * t/ * Owing to poor weather the Herts and Essex Aero Club onlyflew 92 hours in December, but the figures for 1947 reveal that a total of 3,136 hours were flown in club machines and250 by private owners; 45 new "A" licences were gained and 63 were renewed. Charges for flying continue at thenormal rates of £3 5s per hour for dual and £3 per hour solo. In anticipation of I.C.A.O. recommendations, a newsyllabus has been adopted for the qualification of pilot-members to carry passengers in club aircraft. This provides for eighthours of advanced dual after passing the "A" licence test which includes cross-country flying, climbing . and steepturns, compass errors, side-slipping, forced and precautionary landings and a general check-up with engine-assisted landings,spinning, etc. The fleet of aircraft now consists of five Tiger Moths, three Austers, four Magisters and a Hornet Moth. S. H.(" George ") Parker remains Chief Flying Instructor with Peter Ayles, who recently obtained his full Instructor's Endorse-ment, as Assistant Instructor.
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