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1949
1949 - 0951.PDF
6i6 FLIGHT MAY 26TH, 1949 Civil Aviation News between London and the Belgian Const willbe introduced. From July 16th until Sep- tember 6th the frequency will be increasedto two flights each dav, with extra flights at the week-ends. Sabena has been operating for 25 yeai>,during which time 726,175 passengers have been carried. The fleet now consists of 51aircraft, including DC-6s, DC-4S, DC-3S and six new Convairs. Route mileage over theentire network amounts to 34,176. I.A.T.A. PUBLIC RELATIONS CONFERENCE REPRESENTATIVES of 20 member-air-lines of I.A.T.A. recently attended the Association's first Public Relations Confer-ence in Oslo, and a concerted international programme to develop all-year traffic overthe world's airlines was advocated. The Conference also requested the setting-up ofpermanent machinery to ensure continuous co-operation between international airlinesin public relations matters and supported a project for continuous internationalpubli ;-opinion research which would enable the airlines to know more exactly the preferences and pre-judices of the air-travelling public. During the Conference the representatives studied informa-tion submitted by the U.S. Department of Commerce on the travelling habits of American tourists; discussed new tech-niques of public relations work; and comparv-d notes oil the organization and administration of airline public-relationsestablishments. Major General Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, pre- sident of D.N.L., was chairman of the Conference, with Messrs.Fahnestock and Vogels as vice-chairmen. The I.A.T.A. Public Relations Officer, Mr. S. Ralph Cohen, was secretary. A NEW V.H.F. TRANSMITTER A FTER investigating the requirements of users of V.H.F. FOUGA FREIGHTER : Taking off from Orly is the CM. 100, designed and built by the Fouga Company primarily as a freighter, but adaptable for passenger work or mixed loads. The engines are S.N.E.C.M.A. /2s, giving 580 h.p. each for take-off. A proposal exists for installing small auxiliary turbojets for take-off and emergency use. It is anticipated that the transmitter will normally lieoperated from a remote position and a very flexible remote- control system has been provided. Simple operation of thetransmitter can'be obtained over one pair of lines, control of three additional facilities over two pairs, or control of sixfacilities over three pairs In the simplest case the operator can transmit either speech or m.c.w. from the remote position,the h.t. being switched on and selection of service being auto- matically obtained by operation of the key or the pressleswitch on the microphone handset. Additional facilities obtainable include choice of transmission on either or bothfrequencies and control of l.t. and h.t. supplies. TRLBUTE TO CIVIL AIR LIFT •**• transmitters all over the world, Standard Telephones and A/T^- BEVIN, speaking recently in the House of Commons, ' -LV-L nraised the work of the civil comrjanies ooeratinff theCables, Ltd., have produced a 50-watt V.H.F. transmitterespecially suited for ground to air communication. The fre- quency range of the first models is 1^5-135 mc/s, but sincemany other uses are envisaged for this transmitter provision lias been made to supply models to operate on a number ofbands within the range 70-150 mc/s. It was found that one of the features required at airportswas the ability to speak through the same microphone to air- craft listening on two different frequencies, and arrangementshave therefore been made whereby the operator can select at will transmission on either one or both of two frequencies.To make this possible the r.f. equipment is duplicated and the power-supply equipment and modulator are so designed praised the work of the civil companies operating theBerlin Air Lift. He was grateful, he said, for the opportunity of paying tribute to the contribution which the British civilair-charter companies had made to the success of this great operation. No fewer than 26 of these companies had partici-pated in the Air Lift at one time or another during the past ten months. Official figures provided by the Air Ministryshowed that almost a quarter of the total supply tonnage borne to Berlin by British aircraft operating in the Air Lift wascarried by them. Another fact which was perhaps not sufficiently known,said Mr. Bevin, was that the entire quantity of liquid fuels— including petrol, diesel oil and kerosene—which the Western that they can drive both i.t units at once. A. V.O.G.A.D. sectors of Berlin had received by means of the Air Lift was (voice-operated gain-adjustment device) incorporated in the carried in British civil aircraft. In the month of April, for speech amplifier ensures a substantially constant depth of example, supplies of this kind amounting to over 400 tons modulation, irrespective of wide variations of input level. The per day were transported in a fleet of civil air tankers specially transmitter is housed in a single cabinet. adapted for the purpose. BREVITIES FARES on the B.E.A. and Air France Manchester-Parisservice were reduced on May 17th, and are now £tx single and £\g 16s return. The old fares were £11 and £21 12s respectively. • # » A reduction of 50 per cent in fares for students making return flights on Qantas Empire Airways services during school holiday periods has been granted. The fares are applicable to children between 12 and 18 on international services and 12 to 19 on internal services. The return fares are valid for four months and will in particular help students living in India. Malaya, New Guinea, New Britain, Fiji and Norfolk Island who attend Australian schools. * * * All services flown between Hong Kong and Shanghai by British Overseas Airways Corporation, and by its associated company Hong Kong Airways, were suspended on May 16th for an indefinite period. The decision to resume operation? if conditions should improve in Shanghai will be made on the spot by British Overseas Airways' Far East representative in Hong Kong. * * . * The Australian Minister for Air recently announced that the £A 13,900,000 to be spent on improving 134 Government-owned airfields, as reported in Flight, May 12th, would be divided between the states as follows (all sums in Australian £): New South Wales, £3,632,000; Queensland, £2,464,500; Victoria, £1,960,000; South Australia, £1,482,000; West Australia, £1,407,600; Tasmania, £1,069,000; Northern Territory, ?r.017,500; and New Guinea, £788,800. * * * K.L.M. are to open a fifth transatlantic service on May 29th. Operating with Constellations, the service will fly between Amsterdam, Glasgow, Montreal, Havana and Curacao, linking Canada with the mainland of Europe for the first time. Exist- ing transatlantic services are between Amsterdam and New York or Curacao via Glasgow and Gander, and between Amster- dam and Buenos Aires. Amsterdam-Curacao flights via New
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