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MAY 26TH, 1949 FLIGHT 617 Civil Aviation News ,York will decrease from three nights to one flight a week when'the service through Montreal is opened. * * * About S.ooo square miles ol forrst land in North Sweden arc to be surve3-ed and mapped photographically from about I3,ooof c by two aircraft. The work is being done by the State cartographic authorities. * " * # It has been reported from New i "elhi that all Dakotas operating with Indian airlines will go out of commission in 1951 and be replaced by a faster typt- of transport aircraft. About J 10 Dakotas now ojJerate internal services ii: India. * * * Qantas Empire Airways have equipped a Lancastrian as abreakdown-aircraft. It can fly a spare engine and maintenance crew to any Qantas or B.O.A.C. Constellation delayed byengine trouble at any point along the route between Sydney and Karachi, so saving the cost of maintaining stocks of spareengines at intermediate airports. * # *Capt. N. S. Buckley, chief pilot of -Guinea Airways, has been elected president of the Aastralian Air Line Pilots'Association, with Capt. A. C LoveH, of A.N.A., as vice-presi- dent, and Mr. Keith Steedman as general secretary. Member-ship of the association has increased from 420 two years ago to 645 in 1949; all members hold air transport Ketaces. * * * ' • During March, 3.7*3 Americans visited England, in addition to 1,588 passing through on their way to other destinations.According to the Travel Association, the number of U.S. visitors showed an increase of 27 per cent over the previousMarch and a slightly higher proportion travelled by air than in March, 1948; this year -exactly a third of all the visitorsarrived by air. * * *Sir Patrick Dollan, chairman of the Scottish. Advisory Council for Civil Aviation, recently referred to th" great in- SW/SS DESIGN : This vicv of th3 Pilatus PA climbing steeply from a small mountain airfizk shows the cantilever undercarriage. A small but versatile aircraft, capable of carrying four passengers and a pilot, it is powered by a 260 h.p. Lycoming GO-43S six- cylinder engine driving an Asromatic constant-speed airscrew. crease in Scottish air traffic since 1939, when 10,000 passengers were carried, mainly on internal routes. In 1948, no fewer than 205,000 were carried, 90,000 on routes going overseas. It was expected, he said, that during 1949 the figures would be increased to 250,000. * * * Special through-rates for passengers and freight are in force on Skyways East Africa), Ltd., services to and from Mauritius and destinations in Europe and North America, including New York, Montreal, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Oslo. * * * It is understood that the first weather ship, under the joint control of K.L.M. and the Netherlands Indies civil aviation authorities, has been installed in the Indian Ocean to act as a radio beacon and to broadcast meteorological information. * » # In the three months ending March 31st, Pan American Air- ways carried 9,792 passengers across the Atlantic in approxi- mately the same number of flights made during the correspond- ing period of 1948, when 7,001 passengers were carried. Total passenger revenues for the three months were 15 per cent higher than in 1948, despite lower rates. » *" , * A daily service between Deauville and London will beopened by Air France on June 3rd. Aircraft will leave Croydon for Deauville every weekday at 17^ hr and Sundays at1915 hr; the flight takes one hour. On July 14th there will also be daily services to Deauville from Paris and one to LaBattle. On May 17th Air France reduced fares for all services from Manchester to the Continent and North Africa. FROM THE CLUBS AFTER a period of enforced inactivity during the war years,the Ro3'al Naval Flying Club is about to re-open at the Royal Naval Air Station, Gosport Qualifications for member- ship and details of the fleet are given in " Service Aviation " (p. 634) in this issue. * * * •O N Monday, May 16th, the Orkney Flying Club, in conjunc- tion with the Orkney Education Authority, held the fourth of a series of ground-training lectures at Kirkwall. The- senior air-traffic control officer of the M.C.A. at Grimsetter, Mr Smith, discussed air navigation. A lecture on May 9th on meteorology, by Lt. Cdr. R. C. Ross, R.N.V.R., was illustrated with two films. * * *D UTIES of chief flying instructor of the Lancashire Aero Club have been taken over by J. M. M. Thompson. The new C.F.I, has had long instructional experience, at Reading before 1939, in the R.A.F. during the war and in Syria immediately before taking up this appointment. His pre- decessor, W/C. W. L. Woodward, A.F.C., was appointed manager and chief instructor of the Club in 1937 and rejoined in 1946 after service as an instructor in the R.A.F. during the war. He has now returned to South Africa, where for a period during the war, he was in command of No. 48 Air School (E.A.N.S.) at East London and Port Elizabeth. * -* *F URTHER details are now- available of the arrangements made for the Yorkshire Aeroplane Club's international rally to be held at Sherburn-in-Elmet from June nth to June 13th. On arrival at Lympne on June 10th and nth, the foreign visitors will be welcomed by Messrs. Bidgood, Catton and Rigby, who will assist them through the formalities of clearing Customs, and arrange for their arrival at Sherburn in time for lunch in the clubhouse on the Saturday. The Lord Mayor of Leeds is holding a civic reception in the late afternoon at-the Town Hall, after which guests will depart by motor coach for the Hotel Majestic, Harrogate, where cocktails will be served, followed by dinner and dancing until 2345 hr. At 1000 hr on the Sunday the guests will be taken by coach to Scarborough, for lunch at the Prince of Wales Hotel. After a short interval for sight-seemg and tea the guests will be taken back to Monk Fryston Hall, Sherburn, where the farewell banquet will be held in the evening, preceded by cocktails and followed by dancing. On the Monday morning the guests will be taken by car to Sherburn, wheie coffee and biscuits will be served prior to their departure. Since there is accommodation for only 100 people in (he banqueting hall at the Hotel Majestic, a waiting list has been opened for the dinner on the Saturday evening, but members and their guests can reserve tables for dinner and dancing in the normal way. A few tickets may still be available for the farewell banquet on the Sunday ; the price, inclusive of dinner, champagne and dancing, is £1 12s 6d per person.
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