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o JUNE 9TH, 1949 \ ^£> <£X* discussion took place on the future requirements for strato-sphere weather-reporting. It was also recommended that the fuel reserve regulationsbe changed to provide adequate supplies to sustain 45 minutes' cruising speed after an aircraft arrived over its destination orthe alternate airfield. Dr. W. S. Frederik, of K.L.M., suggested new methods of 685 CHARTER CONTRACT: The first contingent of visitors to British war graves in Italy left Bovingdon for Rome last month. The contract covers well over 2C0 flights, which will be arranged on a daily basis until the beginning of July, when the frequency will be doubled. Twenty-four-seater Vikings are being used by Hunting Air Travel, Ltd., and the round trip takes four days, allowing two days at the destination. evaluating aircrew performance, particu-larly with regard to fatigue. Present methods based on flight time limitationsmay, it appears, be replaced by a per- formance unit designed to allow for thetype of equipment flown, the conditions oi operating and the kind of crew. Mr. N. E. Rowe, Director of Long-Term Development in B.E.A., forecast helicopter mail and local passenger ser-vices in Great Britain within four years. Experiments had proved that daytinmregularity was high and that night ser- vices were fairly reliable. Operatingcosts were high at present, but he thought that within four years they would be reduced to the point where services could be commercially practicable.Reports on the Decca navigation system and ASV 23, a new French instrument-approach system, "were given by G/C. E. II. Fenessey and by Dr. H. Gutton and M. Ponty respectively. The 1950 I.A.T.A.'Technical Conference will be held in theUnited States. BREVITIES NICE AIRPORT, hitherto known as Terrain de California,has now been renamed Nice-le-Var. The airport is about six miles outside the town and is used by B.E.A., Air France,Sabena, Alitalia and S.A.S. * * * American Overseas Airlines have been awarded the U.S.National Safety Council's 1948 aviation safety award for fly- ing 389,000,000 passenger-miles safely between October 3rd,1946, and the end of 1948. During this period A.O.A. carried 149,000 passengers and crossed the Atlantic 4,200 times.American Airlines, the parent company, has also been awarded a safety award for flying 2,933,272,000 passenger-miles withoutloss of life between December 28th, 1946, and the end of 1948. * * * Before the Olympic Games take place in 1956, Australia will develop Essendon Airport to be capable of handling jet- aircraft and the heavy traffic expected for the Games. Other Australian airports will be similarly equipped to accommodate jet aircraft. During 1948 Essendon's arrivals and de- partures totalled 58,370 radio-equipped and 98,486 others— more traffic than any other Australian airport. Passengers handled in 1948 were 752,655—55 per cent of the total carried by all Australian airlines, two-thirds of the freight and just half the air mail. « * » To prevent undue temperature-rise in the cabins while load- ing, United Air Lines' 39 DC-6s are to have the tops of their fuselages painted white. Reflection of sunrays from a surface so treated is said to result in cabins being as much as 15 deg cooler than would otherwise be the case, while the preservative qualities of the paint more than offset the cost. LAMSA, tin' Mexican subsidiary of U.A.L., recently painted its entire fleet in this way and increased passenger-comfort has l^een reported. * * # Schedules on the internal Welsh service were revised on May 30th to provide a flight each week-day between Liver- pool and Cardiff; the timing makes it possible for passengers from Liverpool to make the return journey the same day. allowing 5! hours in Cardiff. On Mondays, Wednesdays anl Fridays the service flies Liverpool-llawarden-Cardiff, CanJiii Hawarden-Liverpool-Valley. On Tuesdays, Thursdays an;! Saturdays the service starts at Valley and flies Liverpool Hawarden-Cardiff, Cardiff-Hawarden-Liverpool. * * * Malayan Airways, Ltd., propose to start a weekly service linking Singapore with Sarawak and British North Borneo. A proving flight was due to leave on June 1st for Kuching, Labuan and Jesselton, and the new service is expected to be inaugurated shortly. The DC-3 aircraft, it is proposed, * 15 will leave Singapore on Mondays and return on Tuesdays.Bookings already made in Canada for flights to Britain during this summer indicate that a record number of Canadians willvisit Britain. B.O.A.C. have already booked 75 per cent of their June flights from Canada to Britain and 60 per cent oftheir July flights. * * * S.A.S. is offering special facilities for parties of passengersriving between Europe and South America. With a party of five, a sixth passenger may be considered as the tour con-ductor and fly at 50 per cent of the normal fare. For a party ot ten, an eleventh passenger is considered as the tour conductorand travels free. Construction of an international airport was recently com-menced at Caselle Torinese, about six miles from Turin. It is hoped that the new airfield will be completed by the autumn.The first runway to be built will be one and a quarter miles long and nearly 206 yards wide. * * * Seven B.E.A. pilots have been promoted captain 1st class;they are: C. E. F. Riley. A.F.C. ; G. H. G S Raver- O.B.E. ; G. T. Greenhalgh," O.B.E. ; W. B. Caldwell, O.B.E.';J. B. H. Pugh, O.B.E ; W. Baillie, A.F.C. ; and E. W. Jordan. This distinction is awarded to captains Jor good service to theCorporation and'outstanding qualities as pilots in command of aircraft. * * * An Air Ceylon Skymaster on a flight to Sydney was recentlydetained at Darwin because, it was alleged, the flight had not been authorized before leaving Ceylon. No accommoda-tion for passengers was available, however, and since there was no alternative to their having to spend the night in theaircraft, permission was eventually given for the flight to be continued. An agreement for reciprocal rights between the twoGovernments has not yet been reached and the recent delega- tion from Ceylon is understood to have criticized the attitudeof the Minister for Air in Australia. Air Ceylon business in Australia is conducted by A.N.A., the Australian independentcompany. * * * Representatives of Trans-Canada Airways are at present dis- cussing with the U.S. State Department, the Civil Aeronautics Board and several airlines the possibility of the Canadian line picking up more passengers in the U.S. They are also trying tn reach a bilateral agreement on the use of the Gander Air- port, Newfoundland, which is now in Canadian territory. At present six American airlines cross the border at nine points, while T.C.A. enters the U.S. at only four, and the Canadians
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