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1948
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408 FLIGHT APRIL 15TH, Civil Aviation News could be made oi each aid by highly skilled pilots, after whicheach operator would be responsible for determining minima •having regard to the experience of its own pilots. It was alsoresolved that airfields should not be closed for reasons of weather, and that nothing should restrict a captain from theright of operating in accordance with the prescribed minima. Subsequent to the formation of the International Federation,the conference passed a resolution expressing the desire to see all nations as members of the International Civil AviationOrganization, irrespective of political or racial considerations. It also requested that the Federation should have the rightof representation at meetings of I.C.A.O. Undoubtedly the formation of an international body ofpilots which can be relied upon to give advice to I.C.A.O. is a step in the right direction^ in the interests of safety andihe development of civil aviation. The determination of pilots to maintain at all costs ultimate authority in the air is under-standable ; but if we are to have order in the air in the future, with the inc:easing traffic flow and speed of flight, then thepilots must surely be willing to obey orders from the ground. However, only when captains have faith in directions from theground will air traffic control become a reality. Before the air- line pilots go too far in forming themselves into an exclusiveinternational organization, would it not be prudent to include other aircrew and form an Aircrew Association? Representatives at ths S.A.L.P.A. meeting. (Left to right) Captain F. Ormonroyd, D.F.M. (U.K.), Captain C. R. Robinson (Canada), Captain H. B. Cox (U.S.A.), Captain R. S. Cohin (U.K.) and Captain At J. R. Alderson (U.K.) BRITISH AIRLINES' STATISTICS"THERE are some interesting figures in the detailed traffic v,|ces however the monthly average in 1938 was 256,277, and X and operating statistics produced by the Economics and the revenue passengers earned were 12,133. The all-over Intelligence Division of the M.C.A. which are now complete to revenue load factor was not known. However, in 1945 the re-December, 1947, for B.E.A., and up to October for B.O.A.C. venue passenger miles flown was 1,458,566, and the number of and B.S.A.A. From April to December, BE.A. flew 10,605,876miles and carried a total of 442,374 passengers, which repre- sented a revenue passenger load factor of 72 per cent. Thenumber of hours flown on revenue passenger services by the Corporation were 77,186, and including charter and otherflights the total was 83,383. The equivalent annual utilization hours flown per aircraft was 1,193, and the percentage regu-larity was 96.7. It is rather interesting that the average length of stage flights was 138 miles. B.O.A.C. in all divisions flew16,206,265 miles, and the total number of passengers carried was 66,359, representing a passenger load factor of 72.5 percent. The number of hours flown on revenue passenger services was 74,596, and the total hours flown was 89,522. The regu-larity of services was as high as 99.1 per cent, and the average length of stage flights was 827 miles. B.S.A.A. flew 2,804,386miles and carried 7,507 paying passengers. Load factor was, however, only 59.8 per cent. On passenger services 7,831passengers were carried over 12,992 miles, the total number of hours flown was 13,950, and the average length of stageflight was 1,270 miles. The Corporation averaged a regularity of 98.2 per cent. Taking the U.K. airline operators as a whole, revenue air-craft miles flown in October, 1947, was 3,592,196, whereas in 1938 the average was 1,101,666. On international services in1938 the monthly average miles flown was 845,389, and in Octo- ber last year 3,052,675. The revenue passengers carried increasedover the same period lrom 6,140 to 23,832. On internal aer- revenue passengers carried was 9,755, mail carried 47.4 tons,and freight 36.2 tons, when the overall revenue load factor was 79.2. In December, 1947, the revenue aircraft miles flownwere 357,935. The number of passengers carried was 16,256, mail 109.2 tons, and freight 69.9 tons, representing an overallrevenue load factor of 47.5. A NORTH STAR TWO : The first pressurized DC-4M to fly on scheduled services across the Atlantic arrived at London Airport on April 2nd. It returned to Canada the same evening. They will fly intermittently on T.C.A. services until in full operation on June 1st, VIKING COLLISION NEAR BERLIN B.E.A.C. Viking on the regular service to Berlin crashedin the Russian zone outside the city on April 5th alter being in collision with a Russian Yak fighter. All the occu-pants of the Viking, and the pilot of the Yak, were killed. There are several marks of Yak fighters, some of which areused as trainers. It is normally powered by in-line engines of the M-100 series. The crew of the Viking were: Capt. JohnRalph, Mr. N. B. Merrington (first officer), Mr. C. Manser (radio officer), and Mr. L. G. Goodman (steward). S. AFRICAN CARGO SERVICES IMILAR to the cargo service which has beer, flown betweenLondon and Sydney by B.O.A.C. and Qantas Empire Air- ways since December last year, a new route has been openedbetween London and Johannesburg, and the first service left on April nth. Eleven B.O.A.C. Lancastrians have beenstripped of interior furnishings and converted into freighters which will operate, at the outset once a week, jointly byC. and South African Airways. About 4 tons of cargo will be carried in each aircraft and the6,850-mile route will include stm^s at • Tripoli, Cairo, Khartoum, Nain>V and,if necessary, Salisbury. CIVIL AIR APPOINTMENTST WO further appointments have beenmade by the Ministry of Civil Aviation to British Embassies overseas.Mr. D. S. G. Honor, D.F.C., who is 35' has been appointed Civil Air Attache atBuenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago and Montevideo, and to the Legations atAsuncion and La Paz. Since 1944 he lias been Air Attache at Bogota, Colombia.Mr. R. G. Barnard, who is 31, has been appointed Civil Air Attache at Baghdadand Teheran and to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. He has served atthe Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farn- borough, on aeronautical research andwas for two years technical officer on loan to the Combined Intelligence ObjectivesSub-Committee. Mr. R. C. Graves has been appointed as Assistant Civil AnAttache" to the Embassies at Paris, Brussels and The Hague.
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