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1948
1948 - 0617.PDF
HAY 6TH, 1948 FLIGHT 493 Civil Aviation News or the Azores will be subject to a surcharge of either 25 percent or 50 per cent on the standard charge, depending on the number of persons the aircraft can carry. This increase willonly be charged at the airfield in the U.K. at which the aircraft first alights. No landing fees will be charged foraircraft landing from test flights, military and certain other official movements, or for landings for the purpose of Customs,Health, Immigration or Air Traffic Control clearance. The new scale does not apply to private and club aircraft andspecial rates may be obtained for flights made to train or test aircrews. Landings and take-offs made outside the normalhours of watch at an M.C.A. airport will be subject to increased charges, except in emergency. In future cost of housing foraircraft will be at the rate of one-tenth of a penny a day for each square foot of space occupied. fe RADIO INTERFERENCE AT AIRPORTS ]X order to eliminate interference with the radio services onA which the safety of aircraft in bad weather largely depends, all vehicles belonging to the M.C.A. are fitted with suppressorsand it is desirable that all vehicles using airports should be similarly equipped. Interference from a single unsuppressedlorry, tractor or motor engine running near receiving aerials can obliterate the indication of an aircraft on the radio screen in a "snowstorm" effect, and as soon as such interference isobserved it is reported and every effort is made to trace the vehicle and fit suppressors immediately. The Radio IndustryCouncil is co-operating with the G.P.O., B.B.C., British Rail- ways, London Transport and Road Haulage Organizations inthis campaign to eliminate interference, and suitable steps are being taken with all possible speed to complete the necessarymodifications to all vehicles. BRAKE FAILURE AT LONDON AIRPORTI N the report of the Chief Inspector of Accidents on theYork which landed at London Airport and overshot the runway when bringing Mr. Harold Wilson, President of theBoard of Trade, back from Moscow on July 25th, the cause of the brake failure was given as a broken cable due to exces-sive wear over the steel rubbing blocks in the pilot's control column. Although the brake cable and blocks were removedfrom the control column for examination approximately 20 hours' flying time before the accident, it is stated that con-siderable taxying, which had necessitated frequent use of the brakes, had been necessary owing to the nature of the foreignairfields visited. All documents and other factors concerning the flight were in accordance with regulations, and as a resultof the failure of the brake cable these cables are now to be examined during refuelling or between flight inspections asrequired by the A.R.B. amendment to the approved Mainten- ance Schedules. BREVITIES A. Cdre. E. Q. Knox-Knight has been appointed Air OfficerCommanding Overseas Headquarters in London for the R.A.A.F. * * - * For those who wish to combine air and sea travel betweenHawaii and America, an agreement has been reached between United Airlines and the Matson Navigation Company for theissue of combination air-sea tickets between California and Hawaii. • • • The Atlantic services of American Overseas Airlines wereincreased to 20 flights a week on May 1st and a further two, making 22 flights each week, will be added on May 15th.» * * On April 21st a K.L.M. DC-6 airliner, the Queen Wilhelmina,opened a new weekly service between Amsterdam, Rome, Istanbul and Teheran. * * «• *F.I.D.O., the petrol burning fog dispersal system, is to DP installed at Los Angeles airport before next winter. Theinstallation cost is said to be in the region of $837,350. # * * D.D.L., the Danish airline, are operating the Copenhagen-Marseilles route with Viking aircraft in place of the Dakotas formerly in use. LONDON * AIRPORT DY the courtesy of the Air Survey Co., Ltd., we ore able to reproduce this photo- graph showing the present state of development of Stage II of tht building of Heathrow airfield. The main runway is 9,OOOft long and 300ft wide. Both of the other runways in use are 6,000ft long and the peri- meter track, which is I00ft wide, stretches 25,000ft. All runways taxi-tracks and aprons are designed to take aircraft up to 360,000 Ib. all-up weight. Stage /(/, which has not yet begun, provides for the deve- lopment of the site on the north side of the Bath road, and the finished airfield will then hove three parallel run- ways in each of three directions. On Monday, May 17th, Hereford Aerodrome will be closedto all aircraft from 1100 to 1600 hours G.M.T. during which period a- steeplechase meeting at the nearby racecourse will bein progress. * * * Reeve Airways have been authorized by the Civil Aeronautics Board, Washington, to engage in air transport of persons, pro- perty and mail between Alaska, the Aleutians and the Pribilof Islands. • * • A further development in the prolonged dispute betweencivil aviation authorities and airline companies in Australia is that writs are to be served on A.N.A. and Ansett Airwaysfor the recovery of airport charges which these companies have refused to pay ever since their introduction last July. The totalamount involved is £Ai22,ooo, and a long legal fight is anticipated. • # • The Khartoum-Atbara-Port Sudan service operated by SudanAirways was discontinued on April 26th. It is hoped to re- introduce it later in the year. The Khartoum-Kassala-Asmararoute will from May 5th depart on Wednesdays from Khartoum at 7.30 a.m. arriving at Asmara at 11.50 a.m. The returnflight leaves Asmara at 1 p.m on Wednesdays, arriving at
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