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1948
1948 - 1571.PDF
SEPTEMBER 23RD, 1948 FLIGHT CIVIL AVIATION NEWS flight" photograph. * AIRLINER ADVANCED TRAINER : In addition to its important role as a charter and private owner aircraft the Dove/HM filled u gup as a trainer for large civil airliners. Including Devons for the R.A.F., which differ only in items of equipment, 187 of the type are now in service in various parts of the world. Sir Frank Whittle's Paper to I.A.T.A. Conference : Charter Companies' Air Lift : First Year of Aviation in India I.A.T.A. GONDEMNS TRAFFIC CONTROL METHODS T~\ELEGATES to the I.A.T.A. General Meeting in Brussels-L' considered that airline expenses would be 1 educed enormously by an adequate system of air traffic control andnavigational aids at airports. The Association's technical com- mittee had estimated that delays due to the lack of properfacilities for handling traffic during bad weather had cost United States air lines alone more than £7 million. At oneContinental airport the cost of one hour of "instrument" weather was computed to be /ioo, and 1,200 hours had beenexperienced - over twelve months. The technical committee report proposed that a special panel of airline experts shouldbe set up to undertake what it called '' the major task and co-ordination on an international basis of the all-weather airtraffic control problem." The committee's next meeting will lake place in May, 1949. The assembly was also told that the I.A.T.A. Clearing Housein London would handle more than ^25 million-worth of inter- airline transactions during 1948, and a forecast for 1949 wasin excess of £55 million, all of which, by special arrangement between governments, would be settled in both dollars andsterling. Mr. A. J. Quin-Harkin, manager of the Clearing House, announced that 30 members had joined the organiza-tion, and he predicted that by 1952 it would be handling an annual turnover of ^65 million. Members were saving almostfj\ million a year in btokerage payments alone. It had also covered members against more than £30 million of losses in thedevaluation of the French franc, he said, and it would protect them from the recent appreciation of the New Zealand pound. In the course of two reports, the traffic committee announced(hat the traffic conferences would meet in Bermuda on Novem- ber 9th, to deal with questions of rates, tariffs and conditionsof carriage, and agency administration. The basic terms on which carriers accept passengers and freight were reported tol>e in the process of amendment for the benefit of the travelling public. Whereas the new conditions did not mean that carrierswere expected to meet unsupported claims for losses, the traffic committee were of the opinion that the airlines should dealmore reasonably with the public. Observing that I.A.T.A. members had occasionally been faced with fare competitionfrom some airlines which were not members of the conference, B 13 the traffic committee suggested that the question of unfair coin-petition should be dealt with by governments. Dr. Albert Plesman, founder and president of K.L.M., waselected president of I.A.T.A., to take office at the 1949 assembly at The Hague. SABENA ANNIVERSARY TN commemoration of their first cross-Channel service in 1923,-*• a special flight was made by Sabena from Ostend to Lympne on Friday, September 17th. The passengers includedAlbert Van Cothem, who flew the first cross-Channel schedule in D.H.9 OO-BIEN, powered by an Armstrong-Siddeley 200h.p. Puma. On that occasion he flew a navigator and one pas- senger, but the aircraft was later converted to carry two passen-gers. Mr. Van Cothem as no longer connected with aviation pro- fessionally, but at 59 makes a point of flying his Auster Arrowevery day. Other visitors included Col. Baron Frederic de Woelmont, president of the National Civil Aeronautical Asso-ciation of Belgium; Mr. P. Goddard, director of the Belgian Ministry of Transport; Mr. S. Van den Borne, director of theBelgian Ministry of Education, and Mr. L. Pineax, of the Belgian Post Office. WEATHER SHIPSB Y June, 1949, the North Atlantic ocean weather stationsystem should be completed. Eight out of the total thirteen stations are at present maintained by nations border-ing the North Atlantic, and the United States Government has notified I.C.A.O. that the remaining -five stations will beput into operation during the next nine months. It will be remembered that the system was recommended by the NorthAtlantic Regional Air Navigation meeting in Dublin. It was a United States weather ship which rescued 69 passengers andcrew from the Bermuda Sky Queen flying-boat, which ran out of fuel and alighted in the Atlantic about a year ago. B.E.A. TRAMPS return journeys to Northolt two of British EuropeanAirways' freighters will fly as tramps during the coming winter. Agents and shippers will be able to deal with anyconsignment of goods from the Continent which could not be carried in the holds on normal Viking passenger services.This arrangement applies particularly to the London/ Hamburg via Amsterdam and Copenhagen service and theLondon/Athens via Marseilles and Rome service. The
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