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1948
1948 - 0987.PDF
JULY IST,"1948 FLIGHT 11 Civil Aviation News established practice, and the Baltic Air Freight Section isdetermined to attain the same degree of mutual confidence and understanding between the various parties and compliancewith established practice as already exists in shipping- In addition to these activities, the Air Freight Market has beenable to afford assistance to charter firms in utilizing their aircraft to maximum capacity, and already several governmentdepartments are co-operating with this body. HYGIENE ON AIR ROUTES SIR HAROLD WHITTINGHAM, director of medical services,B.O.A.C, addressed the recent Health Congress of the Royal Sanitary Institute on "Yellow Fever and Air RouteSanitation," and said that a powerful international body was needed, to regulate and supervise the sanitation and hygieneof international air routes. Conditions were satisfactory along British and American lines where their own nationals had con-trol, he said, but there were weak links where lines passed through certain foreign territories. He suggested that inter-national control should be vested in the World Health Orga- nization rather than in I.C.A.O., because hygiene measuresneeded to be extended to surrounding habitations, villages and towns for at least a mile from the perimeter of the airfield. VIKING FOR PAKISTAN'S GOVERNOR A V.V.I.P. Vickers Viking, similar to those which form theKing's Plight, left England on its delivery flight to Paki- stan on June 15th. It is intended for the use of Mr. Jinnah,Governor-General of'Pakistan, and has been slightly modified to include larger staterooms which provide sleeping accommo-dation. There are six windows in the saloons, interior tem- perature of the aircraft is thermostatically controlled and eachcompartment is equipped with an electric fan. The aircraft carries a crew of two pilots, a radio operator and a navigator,and provides accommodation for eight seated or four sleeping passengers, three- equerries and a steward. In addition to theequerries' quarters, behind the aft stateroom, are two toilets and a galley which is equipped with a refrigerator operated by theuse of frozen dioxide blocks. BREVITIES Four Short Solents are to fly on the Tasman Empire Airwaysroute between New Zealand and Australia, and the first one is expected by T.E.A. in December. * * * India is to operate ten air routes and Pakistan nine, undera permanent mutual air transport agreement signed recently in Karachi and which becomes effective today, July 1st.* # # During a recent parliamentary debate on defence in Ottova,a suggestion was made that the Canadian Government should ask British aircraft manufacturers to establish factories inCanada. The Government spokesman, however, stated that tooling costs made the suggestion unworkable.» • * • Western Australians have asked the State Premier, Mr. Dun-can McLarty, to present a scheme to the Brry^h Empire Parlia- V.VI.P. COMFORT: In the Vickers Viking recently delivered to the Governor-General of Pakistan, each of the two aft seats in the two saloons can be converted into a bunk, thus providing sleeping accommodation for four passengers. mentary Association Conference meeting in London next monthurging the operation of a new Empire air joute from Perth across Africa to London. The proposed route is via the CocosIslands, Diego Garcia, the Seychelles Islands, Nairobi, Kane and Gibraltar. « * * K.L.M. services to Palestine have been resumed with a twice-weekly DC-3 flight to Haifa. Lydda was the airport previously used by the airline. * * » The North Pacific Regional Air Navigation Meeting willbegin at Seattle on July 13th. Ten I.C.A.O. members interested in the Pacific area will attend. * * * • . Trans-Ocean Airlines of California have asked for landingrights to enable them to fly American immigrants from San Francisco to Brisbane via Guam, and the proposal is nowbeing considered by the Australian Government. The American airline already operate a regular service to Guam, and ttieynow wish to extend the route to Australia. On the return journey the company plan to fly milk from Queensland toGuam. * # * Mr. William F. Muller has been elected president of theAir Express International 'Agency Inc., and its subsidiary company, Air Express International Inc. . The company ismanaging agent for Lep Transport Inc. which is, of course, connected with the Lep Group in England with its 65 asso-ciated companies. Mr. Muller was previously European traffic manager in A.O.A. After the 1914-18 war he was associated with Handley Page and later with Swissair. * * * A group of experts left Rome recently for the United Statesto study developments in airport construction. - This move has been dictated by the urgent necessity for a new airportior Rome caused by rapidly expanding Italian air services and the heavy international traffic passing through the capital.Rome's main airport is Ciampino, which is devoted mainly to international traffic, amounting to about 350 arrivals and de-partures each week. The buildings were badly damaged during the war. Internal Italian services operate mainly from theformer Littorio airfield, now' called Urbe, which handles about 300 movements weekly. * * "* Between them, American Airlines and American OverseasAirlines flew in 1947 a total of 1,708,884,000 passenger miles. Of this total American Airlines, the domestic carrier, flew1,502,499,000 passenger miles between December 28th, 1946, and the end of 1947, and A.O.A. flew 206,385,000 passengermiles from October 3rd, 1946, until December 31st last year. Operations throughout the year were carried out withoutfatality to crew or passengers, and tor this performance the airlines have gained the American National Safety Council'ssafety award for 1947. The huge total of 6,093,761,000 pas- senger miles was flown in 1947 by airlines within the United Mates. * * * Testing of anti-icing equipment on the Boeing Strato-cruiscr is now in its final phase. More than 400 hours of flight testing have been accomplished with three aircraft, the first ofwhich has completed almost 250 hours. The C.A.A. have completed tests for climbing, general performance, ^tailing,control characteristics, engine cooling, engine accessory opera-
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