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1949
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IO FLIGHT JANUARY 6TH, 1949 Civil Aviation News Dakar, Lisbon and London again for /231. Tickets, whichwill be on sale until February 28th, will be valid for go days and may be combined with any other fares. * * * Again, Turnhouse Airport, Edinburgh, has been used by British European Airways for diversion. On December 20th, owing to fog at Renfrew, the London-Glasgow Dakota carrying 17 passengers, landed at the airfield. A Dakota on the Irish service was also diverted to Turnhouse from Prestwick. * # * Air Services of India have applied for permission from theDirector-General of Civil Aviation, India, to operate the Bom- bay-Indor-Gwalior-Delhi service with French ten-seater3NCA du Sud-Ouest, SO95 twin-engined transports as an alter- native to Douglas DC-3S. The present fleet comprises elevenDouglas DC-3S, six de Havilland Dragon Rapides, and two light aircraft. * * * Increases have been announced by B.E.A. on the London- Zurich-Vienna route. The service now operates four instead of three return services a week on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Friday's, returning the following day in each case. The times of departure and arrival of the outward ser- vices have been brought forward by one hour. ~* * * LAMSA, the Mexican company affiliated to United Air Lines, has introduced a scheme to encourage visitors to Mexico. Under the scheme a man pays full fare, his wife, children between 12 and 18, and children's nurse pay half fare and children between 2 and 12 pay a quarter fare. Tickets are available until March 10th, but the return journey portions of the tickets are valid until March 30th. * * * Safety standards for the operation of aircraft on scheduled international services have been adopted by the Council ofICAO and will come into effect on January 1st, 1950, if they are not disapproved by May 15th, 1949. Five other sets ofstandards, due to come into effect on various dates during 1949, have been adopted by the Council, including Personnel,Licensing, Aeronautical Maps and Charts, Rules of the Air, Dimensional Practices in Air-Ground Communications andMeteorological Codes. * * # In 1948, with December estimated, United Air Lines, theU.S. domestic operator, flew 20,068,000 freight ton miles com- pared with 10,161,000 in 1947. In addition the company flew7,233,000 express ton miles, an increase of 5 per cent on 1947, and 9,271 mail ton miles, a gain of 7 per cent. Further gainsin air mail volume are anticipated, due to a full year's opera- tion of air parcel post. In a report on activities of the Canadian Pacific RailwayCompany, mention is made of the C.P.A. preparations for opening services between Vancouver and Australia and • NewZealand about mid-summer this year. Proving flights to the Orient are expected to take place as soon as equipment is avail-able. During the past year C.P.A. opened a new route between Vancouver and Calgary, and have now applied to operatebetween Montreal, Val d'or, Rouyn and Noranda. * * • When visibility is below one nautical mile, a trainedmeteorological observer is to be located at the runway con- troller's caravan at London Airport for making personal esti-mations of visibility along the runway. This is being done as an experimental measure and observations may be passed toincoming aircraft by R/T. No guarantee can be given, that these observations will always be available, however. Normalarrangements for visibility observations from the Meteoro- logical Office are not affected and will continue to be the stan-dard visibility for all purposes and to be available at all times. FROM THE CLUBS WITH the formation of a new company, Inter-City Air Ser-vices, founded by Aircraft (Hereford), Ltd., who have purchased the aviation assets of Autocars (Worcester), Ltd.,members of the Hereford Aero Club will enjoy an extension of club flying facilities. An Aero Club and Gliding Club havebeen formed at Worcester and the members of both these clubs and the Hereford Club will be able to avail themselves of aninterchange of facilities, and it is hoped, lead the way for affiliation of clubs in neighbouring areas. The new company,providing a link between the cities of Hereford and Worcester, hopes to get Perdiswell airfield, on the outskirts of Worcester,into operation again, and until this can be arranged it is hoped that the use of Pershore airfield can be obtained. The cluband company fleet will be considerably increased as a result of this step which will provide additional Rapides and Proctors,and the purchase of an amphibian is contemplated in the spring. # * •» AT a public meeting called by the Luton Corporation on' December 20th to consider the future of club flving at FOR BOUNCERS : Here shown installed on a Piper Cub, the new no-bounce shock struts are the tension members between the stub axles and the centre "V" under the fuselage. Luton Airport, the Hunting Flying Clubs, Ltd., who operate the Luton Flying Club, agreed to continue the organization of this club until February 28th. Hunting's had previously decided to withdraw from the Luton Club on December 31st, but, pending the formation of a new company to run the club and completion of negotiations regarding a lease from the Corporation, the Hunting company agreed to carry on manage- ment until the date fixed for the launching of the new com- pany, so ensuring continuity of flying activities. The provi- sional plans are for the new management to take over when the current lease from the Corporation expires on February 28th, and in consequence the new company will probably come into being on March 1st. Flying at Luton during December totalled 50 hours and the Luton Club reports a satisfactory year just completed with a total flying time of about 2,000 hours. * * * IN November fog and bad weather restricted flying at theWest Riding Aviation Centre to fifteen hours solo and twelve hours dual. However, membership continued to increase, four flying and three ground members having joined, which brings the total to 412. On December 28th a lecture was given to flying members by Capt. P. F. Middleton on the Berlin Air Lift. An unusual charter flight was made during November when Arne Wallentin, a young Swedish seaman, who docked at Liverpool ea"rly in the month, wished to get married before sailing again, four days later, for the Canary Isles. As the law required fourteen days' notice before the marriage could take place Wallentin chartered an aircraft from the Centre and, with his bride and Pastor Abra- hamsson of the Swedish Church, was flown out over the Irish Sea until the aircraft was clear of British Territorial waters. There the ceremony took place with the pilot and wireless operator as witnesses. The Centre announces, for future reference, that a best man can be provided for this service at no extra charge but a bridegroom would be re- quested to provide his own clergyman! c 16
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