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1949
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JULY jni, 1949 FLIGHT from which has been deducted an ad-jus.ted loss (brought forward from last year's account) of £11,477, leaving£8,715. After setting aside the sum ot £7,500 to meet the company's antici-pated liability for taxes, there is left •£1,215 to be carried forward. The turn-over for the year amounted to £557.499. compared with £131,817 for the financialyear of 1947. The largest expendi- ture—for overseas operations—totalled£464,806, but the overseas income ex- ceeded that figure by more than £2,000.Three members of the Board, retiring by rotation—Captain A. G. Store, Mr.Whitney W. Straight and Mr. J. V. Wood—have offered themselves for re-election. International Aeradio expect that thedemand for radio and other facilities in many parts of the world will continue,and that expansion of the company's activities will mainly be to encourageand initiate the formation of locally- registered companies or associations. Itis expected that additional technical advisers to local administrations will bemade available to improve services for civil air operations. COMBINED OPERATION: Towed *i'a British Ferguson tractor, one of the eight DC-6s of Swedish A.8.A. is here seen being placed ready for loading. With four other aircraft of this type—from D.D.L and D.N.L—the combined S.A.S. airline flies DC-6 services from Stock- holm and Copenhagen to Paris, Istanbul, Nairobi, Teheran and Amsterdam as well as across the North and South Atlantic. ATLAS TOUR PHOTOGRAPHS of the interior of Sky Merchant, theDouglas DC-4 " flying showroom " owned and maintained by the Atlas Supply Co., appeared in Flight last week. Inaddition to the display of the owners' products, the aircraft carries its own cine projection apparatus, and shows soundfilms covering technical and sales aspects of the company's activities. The present tour of North Africa and Europe represents thethird international flight undertaken since the end of the war. After visiting all the important cities in the U.S. and Canadain 1947, Sky Merchant toured South America arid then, in 1948, made a world tour, visiting nearly all the territories inthe British Empije. Including the present tour, more than 80,000 miles have been flown. The company is satisfied thatthe " flying showroom " has made a major contribution to in- creased business. LIVINGSTONE DELAYED /"ORIGINALLY scheduled to open to traffic in November this• >-' year, Livingstone Airport (Northern Rhodesia), is not now likely to be ready until August, 1950. -Difficulty hasbeen experienced by the contractors with the bitumen runway- surfacing; before proceeding they are anxious to subject tothe fullest possible bearing tests that portion of the main runway so far laid, in order to ensure that the completedrunway will be perfectly safe for the large aircraft that will use it immediately it is opened. Though expert advice—including that of the Air MinistryDirectorate-General of Works, Nairobi—has been taken at every stage of construction, soft patches have appeared in the runway. Samples of stone and bitumen were immediately sentto London by air freight for scientific testing by the Road Research Laboratory of the Department of Scientific Research,who have recommended the addition of a chemical to improve adhesion between the two.The area of bitumen already laid is about 40 per cent of the whole runway, at a cost of about £13,000, but some of thiswork may have to be replaced. Should it prove impossible to complete the laying before the onset of the next rainyseason, it is considered unlikely that the main runway will be ready for use before August, 1950, although every effort will bemade" to complete it earlier. It is confidently expected that by that date construction of the airport buildings will havereached a stage that will permit full day-and-night operations. HORIZON.BAR LIGHTS MOST readers will by now be aware of the principle of theR.A.E. Horizon Bar approach-lighting system: in brief, there are three groups of lights per bar, the number of lightsin the central group decreasing as the runway threshold is approached. Any individual bar in view may serve as anartificial horizon, and, since the overall length of the bars decreases towards the runway, a pilot flying so that all appearto be the same length as they pass under the nose of his, air- craft knows that he is losing height at the correct rate. A new light has been designed by The General Electric Co.,Ltd., to take the sodium lamps used in installations of this type. A 140-W sodium lamp is mounted horizontally in frontot a reflector of super-purity anodized aluminium, the assembly being clamped between cast alloy end-pieces. A Perspcxpanel in front of the lamp, and windows of the same material in the end pieces, ensure a wide horizontal spread of light. BREVITIES IN their first year of service with American Airlines, Convairscarried 1,032,000 passengers and flew 265,900,000 passenger- miles. American Airlines now provides Convair services tomost of the 77 cities on the routes over which they fly. # • # B.C.P.A. has made arrangements with Trans-Canada Air-lines to carry passengers from the United Kingdom to Aus- tralia or New Zealand via Canada at the .same low fare (£260sterling) as that for the route via the United States. T.C.A. will take passengers from London to Vancouver via Montreal,and B.C.P.A. will complete the journey from Vancouver to Sydney or Auckland. Stop-overs may be made anywhere enroute without increase of fare. # * • In the new B.O.A.C. 21-seater Yorks (an interior view ofone. of which appears on the next page) additional modifica- ticns include double windows and new soundproofing through-out. There are a false ceiling, strip lighting, luggage racks and individual reading lights for passengers. Each aircrafthas been equipped with an air-conditioning plant to add to D II the passenger-comfort whilst on the ground. Although themodified aircraft will carry three extra passengers, there will be no alteration in the all-up weight; freight payload will In-only slightly ieduced. * # *Weston Aircraft, Ltd., Oshawa, an associate company ol the Hunting Aviation Group, has been appointed sole Canadiandistributor for the new Hiller helicopter, manufactured at Palo Alto, California, by. United Helicopters, Inc. The Millercarries two passengers in addition to the pilot, and one dis- tinctive feature is the self-centering overhead control stickwith finger-tip control. The Hiller is expected to sell in Canada for just less than $25,000, plus the cost of spare partsand extra accessories. * * • The de Havilland factory at Witney Airfield, Minster Lovell, Oxfordshire, which has been occupied since 1940, was due to close on June 30th. The airfield was used as a repair depot for Hurricanes from May, 1941, and for Spitfires from March, 1942. During the latter part of the WPT, Rapides were built
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