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344 FLIGHT MARCH 24TH, 1949 Civil Aviation News between production and developmentsections, the staff of the air repair depart- ment dealing with sales and contracts"have recently been moved from Hack- bridge to the head offices at Chelmsford. * • • It was recently announced in Colomboby Sir John Kotelawala, Minister of Transport, that Ceylon was prepared tonegotiate " on a basis of full reciprocity and on equal terms'' with any inter-national airlines wishing to operate ser- vices through Ceylon. The texts of therecent air agreements with India and Pakistan, submitted to the House ofRepresentatives for approval, do not in- clude the I.C.A.O. rate-fixing clause;either party, therefore, will be able to fix rates lower than those charged byinternational airlines. ADVANCE GUARD : The first four-engined aircraft to be flown on the Paris-Manchester service, this 33-seater Languedoc landed at Ringway on March ISth, replacing a temporarily absent DC-3. When the Ringway runways have been lengthened the Languedocs will go into service and fly to Paris in I hr 45 min. At a recent meeting in Glasgow, the Scottish Advisory Council for Civil Aviation announced a recommendation to establish an air terminal in Glasgow for use by all airlines and jointly controlled by the City Council and B.E.A. Pro- visional plans have already been considered by officials of the Glasgow Corporation and B.E.A.; and the Lord Provost, Sir Hector McNeill, is to call a conference of all air- line representatives. * * * Mr. Charles H. Pentland, who was forthree years officer in charge of training for the Atlantic Division of B.O.A.C. inMontreal, has now been appointed manager for the trans-Pacific operationsof the Canadian Pacific Air Lines. From Vancouver he will direct the company's16,000-mile routes to New Zealand, Australia and the Far East. fleet will then consist of 50 DC-6s and 75 Convairs. American Overseas Airlines are operating with Constellations on the London-New York service and Skymasters within Europe, but from August the Skymasters will be gradually replaced by BoeThg Stratocruisers.. Mr. C. H. Pentland By April 1st, American Airlines, the U.S. domestic operators, will have placed the last of their DC-3S in retirement and the e sixth exiition of Cloud Forms (H.M.S.O., price is 3d), . recently issued by the Meteorological Office of the Air Ministry, ygjffs > full description of the internationally agreed classi- fication of cloud types as revised by the Washington Meteoro- " nference in 1947. k * • » In the early hours of last Sunday, March 20th, one of theB.E.A. helicopters completed the final flight of the nightly series of mail-carrying tests carried out for one month betweenPeterborough and Norwich. No official statement has yet been made, but it is understood that the results are regardedas very satisfactory. Incidentally, in the account which appeared on March 10th three names of personnel were slightlymis-spelt; correctly, these names- should have read J. S. Fay and D. H. Bryon (pilots), and L. S. Wigdortchik (assistantexperimental engineer). FROM THE CLUBS A FLYING display and race meeting will be held at Wolver-hampton Aerodrome on Saturday, May 28th. The Good- year Trophy Race, organized by the Wolverhampton Aero Club, is to take place on the same day and will be open to all types of piston-engined aircraft flown by professional and amateur pilots. A considerable number of entries is expected, and the club will cater for some 10,000 spectators. Details of the other events are not yet available, but an interesting flying programme is being organized. • * » A LTHOUGH high^ winds curtailed February flying at the. -£*• Strathtay Aero Club, Perth, to a total of 34 hours* thepr were periods of milder conditions which enabled five members to qualify for "A" licences. Flying members who have recently joined the club come from Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh—a fact which is some indication of the enthusiasm for private flying in Scotland. A considerable number of alterations is being made to the club premises, in which accommodation for members will be improved, while offices will be provided for the chief flying instructor. With the winter social season over, members are now looking forward expectantly to the coming of even- ings long enough to permit mid-week flying. * • * '"PHE recently founded Orkney Flying Club is rapidly build- •i- ing up a strong and enthusiastic membership: already there are more than 100 members from Kirkwall alone and others from the more remote areas. It is hoped to arrange special facilities for members from the Isles of Shapinsay and Stronsay, who are taking a keen interest in the Club. The position of the clubhouse and hangars is yet to be decided, but temporary arrangements have been made and the T.A. accommodation at Hatston nas been placed at the dis- posal of the Club for training purposes. Various committees have recently held a number of meetings and the flying-training programme will be finalized at the first general meeting, to be held on April 22nd. As stated in Flight of March 10th, a supper-dance is being held on April 1.5th and it is expected that Sir Basil Neven-Spence, M.P., will attend. » • »M EMBERS of the Yorkshire Aeroplane Club last month enjoyed a very full programme of functions, social and otherwise. On February 10th Mr. J. Taylor, of the Shell Aviation Department, gave an interesting talk on his recol- lections of 33 years of flying, and on the following day he flew with the C.F.I., Mr. Woodhouse, in the Slingsby Motor Tutor sailplane which had come over from Kirbymoorside. A film, How an Aeroplane Flies, was shown on February 16th, and on the 23rd the Club entertained twenty R.A.F. officers and then- wives from Church Fenton to a hot-pot supper, followed by a film show. An international and club invitation rally will be held on June nth to 13th at Sherburn and Monk Fryston Hall. » • # A SSOCIATE membership of the Association of British Aero •**• Clubs and Centres is now available for the benefit of newly formed clubs which cannot qualify for full membership : it will -enable them to obtain guidance on the standards and organizational methods adopted by the old-established clubs which constitute the present membership. Appreciating the difficulties of embryo clubs, the Associa- tion offers the new grade of membership at a nominal annual fee of one guinea, and intends to meet the consequent deficit out of its "fighting fund." For the benefit of club organizers not acquainted with the activities of the A.B.A.C. its services and publications may be briefly summarized as follows: Standards for technical arid operational aspects of club flying; standard rules and flying regulations; flying-training syllabus and manual; aircraft ser- vicing system; costing and accounts system; legal matters; and representations to Government departments. A reciprocal- membership scheme operates between A.B.A.C. Clubs. Head quarters of the Association are at Londonderry House, 19. Park Lane, London, W.i.
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