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1948
1948 - 1302.PDF
2O6 FLIGHT AUGUST 19m, 1948 Civil Aviation News . . . delay, thus permitting a quick, on-the-spot check of photographic cover and flying. The address of the company is66, St. George's Terrace, Perth, W. Aus- tralia. There are now fifteen companies in theAir Survey Section of the Group and con- tracts undertaken in the last yearcovered many thousands of square miles in countries all over the world. On-August 15th the second post-war con- ference of the Air Survey Group openedin Toronto and representatives from the companies in the United Kingdom,Canada, South Africa, East Africa, Rhodesia, Australia, New Zealand andSouth America were present to discuss plans and methods for the next twelvemonths. AUSTRALIAN ECONOMYA S mentioned in Flight, August 12th.Australian airlines were requested to economize with aviation fuel and a sav-ing of about 5 per cent of normal con- sumption was suggested. AustralianNational Airlines, in fact, saved 416,000 gallons, and the company is hoping tomake further economies and reach a total saving of 600,000 gallons. T.A.A. havesaved 285,412 gallons. Economy will probably be difficult in the future sinceT.A.A. have ordered six Drovers, and there are five Convair 240s due fordelivery. The airline has opened up new routes in competition with private airlines, and hasplans for future expansion. Qantas Empire Airways have also ordered Drovers, and are expecting five more Dakotas forinternal routes. It has been suggested in Australia that petrol rationing was designed to stifle the private airlines. Australian National Airlines received £2:14,000 from BritishCommonwealth Pacific Airlines for operating the trans-Pacific service on a guarantee of ^10,540 for each trip from Sydneyand , 12,000 for each trip from Auckland. Mr. Ivan Holyman, managing director of A.N.A., has said that he is quite willingto run a scheduled service without any guarantee or subsidy. NUTTS CORNER AIR TERMINAL A FTER discussion with the Northern Ireland Advisory**• Council during his recent visit to Northern Ireland, details of which appeared in Flight, August 12th, Lord Pakenham,Minister of Civil Aviation, confirmed the decision to use Nutts Corner airfield as the air terminal for Belfast. In a subsequentstatement giving reasons which prompted the decision, the Minister said that Nutts Corner had been chosen, after asurvey of numerous R.A.F. airfields in Northern Ireland, for its superiority in runway length, buildings, meteorological re-cord, and in its possibilities for further extension. The rival claims of Sydenham airport as a terminal, situated as it waswithin the town of Belfast and built to serve tHs^-town, had also been seriously considered against fJutts Comer,''-which wassituated nine miles from the town. Several ope^Jienal reasons. DORLAND HALL: Part of the British European Airways new booking hall in Regent Street. Heal's Contracts Limited have been responsible for supplying the furniture and equipment, and Mr. A. F. Watson, A.R.I.B.A., was the architect. Each clerk has a pedestal with three drawers, and the indicator boards are of clear Perspex with interchangeable name plaques. however, had led to the conclusion that the move to NuttsCorner from Sydenham was aa-* urgent necessity for post-war scheduled services. Chief among those was the inadequacy ofrunway lengths at Sydenham for aircraft types being used, or rapidly being brought into use; the inadequacy of the run-way layout for various wind directions, especially for smaller aircraft; and the obstructions to the approaches caused bydistant high ground to the East and West, and, in the case of the nearer approaches, by dockyard gantries and shipping tothe north-west, and by several obstacles including a high tension power line and pylon to the south-west. Additionaldrawback to Sydenham was that during the winter, visibility was less than 2,000 yards on 18 per cent of occasions, as com-pared with 5 per cent at Nutts Corner. Further, as a result of the short runways and poor approaches the use of instru-ment approach aids would constitute a danger. For the same reasons night flying at Sydenham would be dangerous. Tin-Minister pointed out that the M.C.A. intended that Belfast should become a terminal for direct services to the Continent,and as the chosen airport had to be developed to international standards it was inadvisable to continue services into Svdenhara. K.L.M. ACTIVITIES IN E. INDIES "DESULTS of the first year's operations of the K.L.M. Inter--tv Insular Division which, since August, 1947, has been ^ responsible for operating scheduled air services in the Nether- *lands East Indies, confirm that rapid progress has been made ACE LINE-UP: The first batch of Chrislea Super Aces has now been completed at the Exeter factory, and as soon as the material supply position improves it is hoped to put the next batch in hand. Overseas interest in the machine, particularly from Commonwealth and South American countries, has been encouraging. B 12
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