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762 FLIGHT JUNE 30TH, 1949 Civil Aviation News fifth-freedom rights are granted only when the home-basedairline is unable to provide a .service. Actual passenger and cargo capacity and rates to be charged will be agreed beforethe agreement comes into force. * * # American Overseas Airlines has taken delivery of the firstof eight Stratocruisers which are to operate non-stop services between New York and London and New York and Shannon.It is expected that the first will be put into service on August 17th. » * * A week-end feature ot interest to visitors- at London Airportis an occasional talk on aviation through the public-address system. On June 19th to commemorate the Alcock-Brownflight. Mr. Basil Clarke spoke on Atlantic flying, a history of which he has recently written. • • * • B.O.A.C. Yorks, now operating on the routes between the United Kingdom and West Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan and India, have been converted to accommodate 21 passengers in one large cabin; they originally seated 18 in two cabins.Several internal modifications have, also been incorporated, in- cluding double-thickness windows, new soundproofing materialsin the walls, a false ceiling, concealed lighting and overhead racks for hand luggage. The modifications were designed andcarried out by the Corporation's No. 2 Maintenance Unit at Hum. * * * Since its formation in June, 1946, and up to the end of 194S,Iranian Airways Co., of Teheran, have totalled 13,142 flying hours, carrying 42,239 passengers and 558 tons of excess bag-gage, cargo and mail. Mail was not carried by the airline during 1946. In addition to internal routes, the airline also operatesto Athens, Baghdad, Beirut, Bombay, Cairo, Karachi, Jeddah, Lydda, Paris and Rome. * * * Passengers travelling on the Qantas Empire Airways' Con-stellation service between Australia and the United Kingdom may now send airadiograms of up to 20 words at all timesexcept within two hours of reaching terminal airports or one hour of intermediate stops. The reintroduction. of this pre-warservice also applies to the Sydney-Hong Kor.g Skymaster- service which started on June 6th. FROM THE CLUBS VTEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE held its annual air. display at-*-^i the Municipal Airport, Woolsington, on June 19th. R.A.F. Week was staged in Newcastle from June 20th to 25thand the display was arranged on the Sunday as the opening feature ol an Air Week. More than 10,000 spectators wereestimated to be present when Air Marshal Sir Basil Embry, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., D.F.C., A.F.C., having been introducedby the Lord Mayor, Councillor A. Charlton Curry, J.P., declared the Display open. Impressive timing brought No. 607 (County of Durham)R.Aux.A.F. Squadron of Spitfires over the airfield within seconds of the Display being declared open, and then followedformation flying and aerobatics. The display did not inter- fere with normal scheduled civil operations of Air Transport(Charter) (C.I.), Ltd., whose DC-3 took off, between events, for Jersey. Mr. E. Harrison demonstrated an Auster fittedwith the Goodyear cross-wind landing gear, and a perfectly timed parachute descent from 3,000 ft, with 1,000 ft delay,was made by Mr. C. Thompson. S/L. Evans, A.F.C., C.F.I, of Newcastle Aero Club, delighted the crowd with an aerobaticdisplay in a Tiger Moth, and Mr. John Leach, chief engineer and test pilot of Slingsby Sailplanes, gave a revealing demon-stration on the Motor Tutor, finishing off with a dead-stick landing. Newcastle Gliding Club was represented by a Petrel and atwo-seater sailplane in the hands of Mr. Arthur Burningham and Mr. O'Grady respectively, the latter looping, spinning andstall-turning as he lost height. No. 616.R.Aux.A.F. Squadron then shattered the stillness of the previous event with theirMeteors in close formation. In a crazy-flying event, staged by the Newcastle Aero Club, everybody seemed to participate,including police, fire fighters, and air-traffic control. The crash siren sounded as a "spectator" dashed out of the crowd anddragged the pilot from the cockpit of a Tiger Moth, which DRY LAUNCH: The new all-metal model Cessna 170 floatplane was flown-off from Witchita Airfield on a " dolly." Tests are being conducted at Lake Afton, Witchita. This four-seater is powered by a 140 h.p. Continental six-cylinder horizontally opposed air-cooled engine. was then seen to take off with the "spectator" head down-wards in the cockpit and his legs in the air. Four sticks of parachutists of the 17th Parachute Battalion(Durham Light Infantry) T.A., made descents from a static balloon with Mr. Raymond Glendenning broadcasting a shortbiography of each parachutist. The display closed with a highly polished display of aerobatics in a Spitfire and Meteorfrom R.A.F. Station, Acklington. * * *RECENT dances held by the South Coast Flying Club have proved so successful that it has been decided to hold a"Mid-Summer Dance" on Saturday, July 9th. A coach has been arranged to take members to the Daily Express AirPageant at Gatwick on July 23rd. » * *A T a meeting of the reorganized Aero Club of India, heldin Nevv Delhi recently, Mr. Biren Roy, of Bengal, was unanimously elected chairman of management for 1949-50, andSir Ushanath Sen, vice-chairman. Members of the executive committee for the year.are Mr. D. Nanavati, Mr. J. Sinclair,A.V-M. S. Mukherji, Mr. G. Subramaniam, Mr. K. Cambata, F/L. Contractor and Mr. B. Lai. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru,Prime Minister of India, continues to be president for the year. * * * TNSTEAD of a public flying display at Derby this year .theJ- Derby Aero Club held a garden party and "At Home" for members and their, guests. This departure from the prac-tice of preceding years proved extremely -.successful, as the Club was fortunate in. having .brilliant sunshine for the occasion,although flying conditions were turbulent. Strong thermals were ideal for Gerry Smith's exhibition of aerolxitics in asailplane and he could, undoubtedly, have amused himself over the airfield for hours. He ^brought his graceful exhi-bition to a close by landing and parking within a foot of to- other aircraft on the tarmac. Five Magisters competed for theHarben Memorial Trophy, which is con- iined to professional pilots on the staff of;.:.- Air Schools, Ltd., and its associated companies, Derby Aviation, Ltd., andWolverhampton Aviation, Ltd. The handicapping was extremely close, re-sulting in' a fine finish in which S/L. Loyeridge won by half a length fromF/L. Findlay. S/L. Smith gave a very convincing exhibition of how an aircraftshould notJ>e flown. The annual inter-dub competitionbetween the Derby Aero Club and the Wolverharnpton Aero Club in the formof a relay race was won by the home team. ' The Woodward Trophy, pre-sented for a,competition -between mem- bers of thf- Derby Aero Club in a land-ing -contest, was won by the donor of the Trophy, Mr. C. A. Woodward. S/L*.'R. L. Porteous wound up the programme with a display of aerobatics in an AusterAutocrat and a demonstration of an Auster fitted with the Goodyear under-carriage. -.-.•.-
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