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566 FLIGHT NOVEMBER IITH, 1948 IVIL AVIATION NEWS Association to Assist Charter Business : Martin 2-0-2 Con- sidered Safe : American Airports on a Profit-making Basis UNOBSTRUCTED VIEW: Taxyingpost the Le Bourget hangar at Schiphol in a Fokker Promoter. The forward view from the cabin is excellent. Each hangar at Amsterdam ^fe-jjgfliecf after another intarriaiional oifp&R!*** f| Flight " photograph, j1 BO.AC. STAFF CUTS "DEORGANIZATION in B.O.A.C, entailing the pruning of-l-V staff establishments at home and overseas is in the early stages. Part-time Directors Lord Burghley, Major R. H.Thornton, Sir Clement Jones and Lord Douglas have volun- teered to serve at fees reduced from £1,000 to ^500 a year.Several high executive posts have been abolished including those of Public Relations Director and Administrative Director,from which G/C. F. W. Winterbotham and Mr. G. T. Meller respectively have resigned. The posts of Secretary andSolicitor have been telescoped and Mr. K. H. Staple has become both Secretary and Legal Adviser, while Mr. D. S. S. Mac-Dowall has resigned. Major J. R. McCrindle, previously Managing Director of External Affairs has now been appointedAdviser on International Affairs to all three British Airways Corporations but at the same time remains a member of theB.O-A.C. Board. It is understood freca Sir Miles Thomas, Deputy Chairman of the Corporation, who is in charge of thereorganization, that a mission to the Middle East has recently returned and arrangements are in hand for a reduction inB.O.A.C. staffs amounting to some 450-500 in that area. Other economies in overseas station costs are to be expected. AIR BROKERS' ASSOCIATION N Wednesday, November 3rd, air brokers met at the BalticExchange and unanimously resolved to form an Air Brokers' Association. The Air Freight Advisory Committeewas authorized to investigate its financial requirements and submit detailed proposals. It is understood that the AirFreight Advisory Committee is already too fully occupied to give that information on activities all over the world that isnecessary for the growing air charter business, and brokers believe that full-time attention should be paid to publicizingthe activities of the Exchange, investigating potential markets, and passing such information to the brokers. The result, it isunderstood, would be beneficial not only to the brokers but indirectly to the air charter companies who feel that consider-able business is being lost through lack of such information, and publicity overseas. The Association would be maintainedby the subscriptions from member brokers. It is rather in- teresting that of some 70 members of the Baltic who have in-dicated their interest in air matters there are barely one-third who are actually active in the air market. Many of the othershave been watching the trend of the market and it is believed that with an efficient Air Brokers' Association there would be anoticeable increase in business. I.C.A.O. VICE-PRESIDENTS TPHREE Vice-Presidents have been elected by the CouncilJ- of the International Civil Aviation Organization; First Vice-President, Mr. Henri Bouche (France); Second Vice-President, Mr. D. Chakraverti (India); and Third Vice-Presi- dent, Dr. E. M. Loaeza (Mexico). In addition the Council haselected Mr. Stuart Graham (Canada) as Chairman of the Air Navigation Committee; Sir Frederick Tymms (United King- dom) Chairman of the Committee on Joint Support of AirNavigation Facilities; and Dr. Paul T. David (United States) as Chairman of the Air Transport Committee. Members of theAir Transport Committee are: Captain A. A. Irungaray (Argentina), Dr. K. N. E. Bradfield (Australia), Lt. Col. JeanVerhaegen (Belgium), Brigadier C. S. Booth (Canada), Mr. Y. C. Wu (China), Mr. Henri Bouche (France), Ali Fuad Bey(Iraq), Dr. E. M. Loaeza (Mexico), Dr. F. H. Copes Van Hasselt (Netherlands), Mr. G. Hulstrom (Sweden), SirFrederick Tymms (United Kingdom), Dr. Paul T. David (United States). SABENA PROFITF ROM the balance sheet recently published by Sabena theBelgian Airline, profits are announced amounting to 1,020,200 Belgian francs in 1947. During the year more than30,000 passengers were flown on the Bnissels-Leopoldville route alone and 13 per cent of the total mileage flown was inthe carriage of freight compared with 5.9 per cent the previous year. In the Belgian Congo the air network extends over about7,500 miles, through 20 centres of population. The company employs 2,946 of which 228 are air crew and 655 natives. Theairline has six Convair 240 aircraft on order for replacing the DC-3S on European routes. Early delivery is hoped for andthey are expected to start operations during the first half of next year. % MARTIN 2-0-2 IN SERVICE AGAIN "VTORTHWEST AIRLINES, the American domestic operating-L ' company, has restored its fleet of Martin 2-0-2 aircraft into full service. Subsequent to a fatal crash of one of these air-craft on August 29th, a microscopic crack was found in the wing structure of another Martin 2-0-2 which had flown througha storm and it was thought that a possible weakness in the wing structure existed. The airline then voluntarily groundedthe entire fleet and together with the manufacturers and the Civil Aeronautics Administration a series of rigorous tests werecarried out. It is understood that although no structural weak- ness was in fact found some wing strengthening has been in-sisted upon by the C.A.A. in view of the possibility of metal fatigue after prolonged service, or under extreme stresses inviolent weather conditions. Since these precautionary measures have been taken Martin 2-0-2 wings have been testedthoroughly and the C.A.A. are satisfied. A.O.A. ANTICIPATES CARGO INCREASES OFFICIALS from American Overseas Airlines met in Londonon October 23rd to discuss ways and means of assistingthe delivery to Europe of goods under Marshall Aid. Since there has already been an increase in the amount of air cargocarried since Marshall Aid was introduced, the meeting con- sidered there would be progressively more as the Europeanrecovery programme developed and as European countries were able to export more. One way of hastening delivery was thesimplification of manifests and all procedures, and A.O.A. are B 12
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