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1948
1948 - 0846.PDF
628 F Li G H T JUNE IOTH, 194S CIVIL; NE%S GUARD OF HONOUR : Emir Feisal of Saudi Arabia arriving on June 1st at London Airport on a normal B.O.A.C. service from New York. The Sixth Airborne Division formed a Guard of Honour. The Constellation Bedford G-AKCE is the aircraft bought privately by B.O.A.C. about six months ago, and which came into service last month. International Aeradio Manuals : Details of American Airline Finances ; Tudor Crash Report the Channel Islands, the rest of the U.K. area had a weeklyfrequency of services amounting to 366. For the period between January 1st and August 31st, 1939, 10,865 passengers werecarried in Scotland with a capacity of 354,791 ton-miles. In 1946 under the A.A.J.C., on services provided between Aprilof that year and the end of January, 1947, 29,134 passengers were carried with a capacity of 531,500 ton-miles. For theyear 1947-48 B.E.A. had carried 114,826 passengers and the ton-mileage had amounted to 3,573,300. There were sugges-tions that the Advisory Council was not acting in its proper capacity and that B.E.A. were not encouraging people olScotland to fly on internal services. MARATHON CRASHT HE only information so far available about the proto-^peMarathon which crashed on May 28th is that it was flying on normal development trials from Boscombe Down. Mr.Brian Bastable, the Ministry of Supply pilot at Boscombe Down, and Miss Beryl Edmunds, one of the women observers,lost their lives. Two more Miles Marathons are in an advanced stage of construction, one of which will be powered by Arm-strong Siddeley Mamv^ airscrew turbines. ARM. ELECTRICAL REQUIREMENTS A NEW bound Section "J," covering the minimum accept-able standards for electrical equipment to be used in aircraft, its installation and its performance, has been issued bythe Air Registration Board. The requirements are intended primarily for the designer, and they have been written in termswhich allow for segregation of responsibilities of the aircraft designer and the equipment designer. Loose-leaf amendmentsand additions to Airworthiness Requirements for Contents, General foreword, and for sub-sections A.i, A.3, A.4 and A.5,and a new sub-section A.43, have also been published. AERADIO SERVICET HE British company International Aeradio is making avail-able a new service to aviation which will be known as AERAD. The service will consist of the publication of routemanuals following the form used in airlines for routes over most of the world. Manuals will be available for areas or routes NEW MINIST1L ORD PAKENHAM has been ap-~pointed to the post of Minister of Civil Aviation in succession to LordNathan, who is resigning in order to return to his practice as a solicitor. LordPakenham, who is 44, was chairman of the Marine Bases Committee and as suchhad the opportunity of studying closely some aspects of civil aviation. This isthe second occasion that he has succeeded Lord Nathan, the first being in 1946when he became Under-Secretary of State for War. Since April 17th, 1947, LordPakenham has been Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Lord Pakenham. SCOTTISH GRIEVANCES A DEBATE on civil aviation in Scotland developed when theHouse of Commons went into Committee of Supply on the Civil Estimates on May 31st. Mr. J. S. C. Reid asked theMinister to intervene in the attitude of B.E.A. towards aviation in Scotland. There was, he said, too much interference fromthe South and there had been misguided decisions which the Corporation had since admitted. He complained of the dis-missal of Captain Fresson, and suggested that Sir Patrick Dollan as chairman of the Scottish Advisory Council and asa member of the Board of B.E.A. devoted most of his attention to active propaganda on behalf of B.E.A. and the Ministry.In reply Mr. Lindgren set out to prove that Scotland had never been better served than it was now. Before the war there-were only three municipal airfields, whereas there were now in Scotland, as a result of the war, 14 first-class airfields receiv-ing scheduled services; and England, Wales and Northern Ireland had only eight airfields. Since the war ^604,000 hadbeen spent on airfields in Scotland, while only £300,000 had been spent on airfields in the United Kingdom excluding LondonAirport. Scotland's route mileage at present was 2,083, whereas on internal services in the rest of the U.K. mileage amountedto only 1,704. The weekly frequency of services in Scotland was 184, whereas, including services to holiday Tesorts, such as
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