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FEBRUARY 12TH, 1948 FLIGHT J;-:.:;;.::::S:::;y ^^ji^^^S^^^^S^j^^S^jliiii^^^ •;:;:;••:;quickly after the correction of the fuel cock setting or mighthave failed altogether due to an air lock. The air-sea rescue operationshad not been undertaken promptly owing to confusion inthe signals from Guernsey to Lympne announcing the e.t.a.of the Proctor. Contributing to this confusion was the inadver-tent reversal of two of the letters of the registration-mark-ing G-AHZX, transmitted cor- rectly but received as G-AHXZ.When it was realized at Lympne that the aircraft wasoverdue enquiries revealed that a Rapide, bearing the lettersG-AHXZ, had landed at Croy- g 37 minutes after the Proc-or was expected at Lympne. Since this was about the time the aircraft would have taken to cover the extra distance, itwas assumed that a mistake had occurred in identifying the type of machine. A further factor in the delay was the mis-interpretation of the e.t.a. of the Proctor, given from Guernsey in DoubleT3ritish Summer-time figures, and taken at Lympneto mean G.M.T. The report points out that as the Ministry of Civil Aviation had not informed the Channel Island authori- AEROLINEE ITALIANE INTERNAZIONAU : One of the five Avro Lancastrians operated by" Alitalia," in which company B.E.A. have a 40 per cent interest. From May to December last year 10,967 pas- sengers, 105 tons of freight and ISO tons of baggage were carried. Proving flights with Lancas- trians will shortly be made to South America. ties that times should be given in G.M.T. as stated in A.P. 1083, para. 77, section c, the latter were not to be blamed. It is further pointed out that although the machine's C. of A.was in order, neither the 50 hours minor inspection nor the pre-flight inspection had been carried out by a licensed en-gineer. The pilot had no " B " licence, necessary for carrying fare-paying passengers, nor had he a navigator's licence. BREVITIES OF the 625,000 persons who crossed the Atlantic in 1947,100,000 went by air, according to statistics issued by U.S. shipping companies and by the Civil Aeronautics Board.* # # Scandinavian Airlines System completed 707 transatlanticnights in 1947 : 610 on the North Atlantic route and 97 on the line to South America. The total distance flown was 3,367,000miles. Of the 19,000 passengers carried, 16,300 crossed on the northern and 2,700 on the southern route. * * * Beginning on Friday, Feb. 6th, Air France opened a weeklyservice to Lisbon leaving London Airport every Friday at 10 a.m., calling at Le Bourget at 12.35 and arriving at Lisbonat 16.40 hours. The fare is ^28 9s single and £51 4s return. The return journey is made on Saturdays, leaving Lisbon at9.30, Paris at 15.20, and arriving at Heathrow at 18.24 nrs- * * * By making a stop at Brussels on the London to Istanbulstage, previously flown non-stop, Pan American Airways in- cluded Europe in their round-the-world service, for the firsttime, on Feb. 7th. This follows the introduction on Feb. 1st of a third service a week between New York and Calcuttawhich connects with the P.A.W.A.. Pacific services. The New York-Calcutta sector extends over approximately 10,000 miles 4nd takes 40 flying hours, calling at Gander, Shannon, Lon-un, Brussels, Istanbul, Damascus and Karachi. * • • - • . ••' During 1947 B.O.A.C., on its air routes throughout theworld, carried some 2,000 tons of freight, nearly twenty times that carried in 1939 when figures included those of the Europeanroutes now operated by B.E.A.C. In addition to the regular passenger and freight services to all parts of the world B.O.A.C.Liberators operated on three times a week freight and mail ser- vices from London Airport to Canada via Prestwick; threetimes a fortnight freight and mail Lancastrians left London for Sydney, Australia. * • # Hornton Airways, Ltd., have recently been granted a licence to operate as a charter company from Nicosia airfield, Cyprus. The area to be covered includes the Middle East countries, Africa and Europe. They have been asked to co-operate as much as possible with- Cyprus Airways, Ltd., who are not, at present, in a position to undertake charter work. ; - .-•;"' • * «: , A recent arrangement between Hornton Airways and WhiteStar Continental Tours, Limited, allows the latter company, who are well known in Switzerland and possess a fleet of 3030-seater motor coaches, to make use of two of the Hornton offices in Brook Street, W.i. These two companies are plan-ning air and motor-coach tours from London to Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, and the South of France. The average number of passengers per journey carried onthe Aberdeen-Edinburgh and Edinburgh-Aberdeen service was 7.4 and 7.6 respectively for the period May 19th, 1947, toDecember 31st, 1947. # * * Traffic returns just issued by B.E.A. for 1947 show thatduring the year the Corporation carried nearly half a million passengers over a distance of more than io£ million miles; air-crews completed well over 90,000 hours' flying time. The pas- senger miles flown amounted to 108,914,763.# # * The number of passengers passing through Kastrup Airport,Copenhagen, in 1947, was 282,743. This figure compares with 233-254 m 194& and 9,181 in 1927. There were 33,326 land- ings and take-offs in 1947, compared with 21,563 the previousyear. # * * Declaring that State-owned enterprises could be run suc-cessfully from a financial point of view, Tasman Empire Air- ways have drawn attention to the dividend of three per centwhich has been paid regularly although fares have been among the lowest for international services, and the airline has beenmaintained without Government subsidies. # * * The first of the fleet of ten Boeing Stratocruisers which havebeen ordered by Northwest Airlines is expected to be delivered before March, and the remainder within the next six to ninemonths. The company plans to have four of those aircraft in service on flights to the Orient by July this year, withrefuelling stops at Minneapolis, Seattle, Anchorage, Shemya and Tokyo. # • # Notice to Airmen, number 37, of 1948, contains a warning topilots that spot elevations at present shown on aeronautical charts of Spain may be considerably in error. The areasaffected are: the Pyrenees, approx. latitude 43 deg N., and the high ground north-west of Saragossa. Until accurate surveyfigures are available it is considered necessary to issue a general warning to pilots and navigators to maintain the1 maximumpossible margin of height clearance when flying in the vicinity of high ground in northern Spain. # * * New Zealand National Airways Corporation is flying4'I5T.77° miles a year made up as follows: Internal passenger services, 3,704,376; freight charters, 172,432; Pacific regionalservices, 274,768 miles. These figures are based on the time- tables as on December 31st. The daily mileage flown onscheduled passenger services is: New Zealand internal services, 11,873; Pacific services, 775; and it is expected that thesefigures will be increased during 1948. Dakota freighters will be introduced in air-freight services on all main trunk routesthis year and machines will also be available for charter at i'24 for every hundred miles flown from base and back to base.
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