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1948
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AUGUST 12TH, 1948 FLIGHT 177- Civil Aviation News responsible for such excellent results was Mr. M. J. Dunworth, oi the Society of Licensed Aircraft Engineers. Classes willrestart at the Technical College on Septejnber 13th at 9 p.m.; full details may be obtained on application to the Principal. O.E.A. BORROW A CONSTELLATION NE of the five hish Constellations purchased by B.C5.A.C.has been made available to Qantas Empire Airways in0 ortier that the Australian company will be able to increaselandplane services between the United Kingdom and Australia from three to four a fortnight. The aircraft, operating on thejoint Q.E.A./B.O.A.C. London-Australia service, is on loan to Cj.E.A. pending the introduction by the British Corporationof the remaining four Constellations on that service, and the first flight took off from London Airport on July 30th. TheConstellatoins, which will replace Hythe flying-boats, are at present at Shannon, where B.O.A.C. crews are undergoingconversion training. _ _ * , BREVITIES AT the request of the Government, major Australian airlineshave arranged a reduction of certain of their schedules between capital cities to save 11,000 gallons of petrol each week. Awards to 23 U.S.A. airlines which had no fatal accidentsto passengers or crew during 1947 have been presented by the National Safety Council. * * * Every aircraft now entering Australia will be required tocontact a quarantine office; passengers and crew must on landing produce certificates of inoculation against yellow feverand smallpox. * * # Scandinavian Airlines System has become the third regularairline to transfer from La Guardia Field to the New York International Airport at Idlewild, and is now operating dailyflights into and from that airfield. The service links with Stockholm, Copenhagen nnd Oslo", via Prestwick. * * • A recent Notice to Airmen states that gliding is permissible daily at Edinburgh (Turnhouse) Airport between sunrise and sunset until August 31st Winch-launched gliders may reach a height of i.oooft before the towing cable is released. Two white crosses will be displayed in the signals area when gliding is in progress. * * * Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Bow hill, Chief Aeronautical Adviser to the Ministry of Civil Aviation, left by B.O.A.C. Constellation on August 4th for the United States as guest of the City of New York at its golden anniversary celebrations, to mark which an air .exhibition is now being held at New York International Airport at Idlewild. - * *:.*-._"'•. Under the arrangements whereby B.E.A. appoint associate companies to operate internal services, the Lancashire Aircraft Corporation took over, on August 2nd, the Blackpool-Southport route. Brooklands Aviation have similarly started operating between Shoreham, Cowes and Southampton. Both companies are using D.H. Rapides on these services. * # * Recent stringent regulations issued by the Australian Civil Aviation Department haye forced a number of charter com- panies engaged in operations between Sydney, Athens and Rome either to close down or register under a foreign flag. Of the two companies prominent in the transport of Italian LGreek migrants. New Holland Airways, it is understood, ^registered in Italv under the title Ita'lo-Australian Travel Transport Company a^id is operating a fortnightly service be-tween Rome and Sydney; and Intercontinental Air Tours has ceased operating from Sydney, but may later decide to open anew company overseas. • * * Canadian Pacific Airlines have purchased a fleet of CanadairFour aircraft to operate on the company's new trans-Pacific ser vices. Operations over the North Pacific to Tokyo and Shang-hai, and through the South Pacific to Australia via Hawaii, are also contemplated. The initial order is for fou- aircraft andspare parts, deliveries of which are scheduled to commence early in 1949. * * * Trans-Canada Airlines' North Star passenger aircraft are to use the airport at Lethbridge, Alberta, while construction and repair work is being carried out at Calgary airfield, which has so far been used. In addition to reconstruction work, it is expected that two 6,000-ft runways will be built, and com- pletion of the project will require two years. A feeder service via Edmonton, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat and Regina will link Calgary with the company's main line routes. • * * Before being assigned to passenger scheduled services, the Consolidated Vultee Convair 240 was flown more than 325,000 miles by American Airlines after factory test flights had already totalled many miles. In addition to familiarization and train- ing flights a cargo-only operation was carried out between New York and Los Angeles for 100,000 miles over a period of five weeks while the Convair's capabilities and performance were closely studied. , - , • • •# • • •,'.•• Civil aircraft accidents in Canada during 1947 totalled 279, an increase of 101 over the previous year. Commenting on the statistics, Canadian Aviation said that in most cases "show-off pilots in light planes" were the culprits, and that behind most crashes there was usually a criminally careless pilot rather than a faulty aircraft. The journal concluded that Canada's aim for 1948 should be to "eliminate the unsafe pilot from the Canadian sky." * * * One of the two Lockheed Constitution transport aircraft built for the U.S. Navy recently flew non-stop from Moffett Field, San Francisco, to the Navy Test Centre at Patuxent River, Maryland, in 10 hours 19 minutes. The 92-ton pas- senger transport, built at a cost of ^6,750,000, and carrying 7,700 gallons of fuel, was the largest aircraft to make the transcontinental flight. Known as the AR-60, the Constitu- PRESSURIZED ; The Second prototype Airspeed Ambassador is completed and is seen in this photograph alongside the first Ambassador both are undergoing engine tests, ft will be remembered that this latest aircraft has a pressurized fuselage and during the past few months has undergone special pressurization tests in the hangar.
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