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1948
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464 FLIGHT APRIL 29TH, 1940 Civil Aviation News concern and will install and maintain navigation and com- munication aids for aircraft throughout Siam. It is expected that the airlines flying services through Siam will take shares, and those who subscribe more than 4 per cent of the capital °f ^33>°°° will be entitled to nominate a director for the Board. Each of the sponsoring companies has already nominated a director and the Siamese government have appointed a Siamese as chairman. B.O.A.C., Pan American Airways, Air France and K.L.M. fly through the country. International Aeradio announce that their agreement with the Greek Government has been terminated, and the respon- sibility for air services has now been transferred to the U.S. Army Air Corps. FRENCH SERVICING COMPANY WITH main offices at 66, rue Pierre-Charron, off theChamps-Elysees, Paris, a new French company known as the Seci^te Commeiciale Air-Nolis, has been formed. TheParis office will include facilities for making air bookings, hotel accommodation reservations, and arranging the carriageof freight; and at Le Bourget the company have equipped workshops for the servicing of aircraft and equipment. Thecompany is already acting as agent for several British and foreign charter companies, including Luxemburg Airlines,Kearsley Airways and Braathen S.A.F.E. The president of the company is Mr. F. Rebeix, who is also vice-president ofthe Syndicat National des Transports Aeriens Prives The company have been officially accredited by the French AirMinistry for servicing aircraft and the handling of passengers and freight at Le Bourget. ROLLS-ROYCE REVIEW IN 1947 Rolls-Royce civil engines accumulated i8£ millionaircraft miles over routes operated by B.O.A.C., B.S.A.A., F.A.M.A., Q.E.A., T.C.A. and Alitalia. Merlin 500 seriesengines flew in Avro Yorks and Lancastrians and Merlin' 620 series were installed in the North Star aircraft operated byT.C.A. on the North Atlantic route, and in the Avro Tudor IVs in service with B.S.A.A. This latter series flew a total of46,000 engine hours since its introduction on scheduled airline services. The 500 series was operated at an established over-haul life of 840 hours with a cylinder block change at half engine life. A total of 291 engines reached their full timeexpiry life and the average life of all engines removed through- out the year for all reasons and returned for overhaul was 615hours. Some civil operators ran a number of Merlin 500 series to a, life of 1,000 hours, and it is expected that a thousand-houroverhaul life will later be established. A similar extension is expected for the. Merlin 620 series. The average life of allengines of that series removed during the year was 552 hours. The majority of overhauls were completed at the Rolls-Roycefactories at Derby and Glasgow, but many of the civil Merlins were repaired in Australia and Canada by Qantas Empire Air-ways and Trans-Canada Airlines. During 1947 Rolls-Royce formed a subsidiary, company in Canada which included a tech-nical branch to give advice on all aspects of the installation, maintenance and repair of Roll-Royce "engines. A sparesdepot holding a large stock Las also been established. - It is rather interesting that B.O.A.C., who operated Yorks and Lan-castrians, accumulated 216,500 engine hours, equivalent to 10 million aircraft miles, on the Merlin 500 series. Type T.24-4engines were flown in Lancastrians on the North Atlantic route by T.C.A. until they were replaced about a year ago by NorthStars powered by the Merlin 620. Altogether the two types flew 906 single crossings of the North Atlantic during the year.The engines in the Lancastrians completed 12,352 engine hours and the Merlin 620 completed 46,084 engine hours. Of theformer type repaired during 1947, the average running time was 90 per cent of the established overhaul life of 700 hours,whilst that of the Merlin 620 series was 91 per cent of estab- lished overhaul life of 600 hours. On the South Atlantic routeB.S.A.A. Tudor IV aircraft flew approximately 280,000 miles and the 620 series Merlins ran for 4,677 hours. An example ofhigh utilization was shown by Skyways with two York air- craft which flew more than 4,500 hours over the twelvemonths period. TRAFFIC FIGURES-USA. STATISTICS recently issued in Washington show that theU.S. mail ton-miles flown by the 16 domestic trunk air- lines for December, 1947, increased 6.68 per cent, freight ton-miles increased 68.40 per cent, and express ton-miles decreased 6.85 per cent from the corresponding period in 1946. Revenuemiles flown decreased 8.69 per cent, and the number of revenue passenger-miles decreased 14.09 per cent in December, 1947,compared with December, 1946. Comparative figures for the months of December in 1946 and 1947, and for the whole ofthese two years, are given below :— . -•• • • • • - - Revenue miles flown Revenue passengermiles (in thousands) U.S. mail ton-miles Express ton-miles ... Freight ton-miles ... Revenue passengerload factor Dec. 1946 26,940,971 503,479 3,456,722 3,522,272 2,798,279 68.27 Dee. 1947 24,599,188 432,548 3,687,747 3,281,007 4,712,246 59.70 Year Ended Dee. 31,1946 Dec. 31,1S47 304,544,012 311,879,430 5,903,111. 6,010,627 32,867,976 32,878,825 23,051,666 28,533,362 14,433,101 35,213,590 78.81 05.(57 FEEDER SERVICES IN SOUTH AFRICA /"COMMERCIAL AIR SERVICES, Ltd., of Johannesburg, whoVw> received a licence to operate in the eastern area of South Africa last September, have taken delivery of the first of fiveCessna 195's which they have on order. These aircraft are to be used on the South African feeder services which are dueto start on June 1st. Commercial Air Services are planning four services a week over two long routes and two a week overtwo other routes, according to the demand. Of the five air- craft now on order they plan to use three for feeder work andtwo for charter flying, and they have so arranged their feeder schedule that a^«i>are machine is always available. The pro-posed charge on all routes is 6d per mile for passengers, whfie negotiations haveyet to be concludawfor mail contracts, the South AJwSirPost Office say thatthey wjW^!HjiTiiails free by air wherever therqgyrsaving of time. The Cessna 195is "9?iiigh-wing monojAane of all-metal onstruction powireJTflfr a Jacobs 300engine a,titLjf\xh seats for five It Jias/been proved to cruiseand climbs UNOBSTRUCTED APPROACHES : Surrounded by water and low ground, the Peter 0. Knight airport in Tampa, Florida, is close to the suburbs of the city. The immediate approaches are completely unobstructed SERVICES URING the operation of summerschedules B.E.A. are offering more than 22,000 seats on Scottish services, a43 per cent increase on the winter schedules, which ended on April 17th.Frequencies have been stepped up, Sun- day services have been introduced be-tween London and Glasgow, Belfast and the Isle of Man, and Dakotas have re-placed Rapides on the Glasgow-Benbe- cula route. The Isle of Man to Glasgowservice has also restarted. The old Lon- don-Edinburgh-Aberdeen-Shetland ser-vice will in future terminate at Orkney instead of Shetland, and passengers willconnect with the Glasgow-In verness-Ork-
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