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1949
1949 - 1377.PDF
AUGUST 4TH, 1949 F LIGHT 141 Civil Aviation News to be continuing their demand tor essential foodstuffs to betaken to the island by air. » * * On Saturday, July 23rd, 3,663 passengers passed throughKensington Air Station. Of these 2,201 were departures. Extra ilights were operated and passengers and freight from 104Hights were dealt with. * • # Mr. Roland Gilbert, Assistant Secretary on financial policy (airfields, telecommunications and aircraft) in the M.C.A., has been appointed Chief of the Administrative Bureau of I.C.A.O. He took up his appointment on August 1st. * * * During June S.A.S. flew 1,866 passengers between Europeand New York, the highest figure the airline has yet recorded' in one month on its trans-Atlantic service. The load factorwas 99.6 per cent. During the first six months of 1949 S.A.S. carried 8,009 passengers to and from the United States. * * * Mr. Paul Goldsborough of T.W.A. has been appointed adirector of International Aeradio, Ltd., in the place of Mr. F. L. G. de Keghel of Sabena who served for the statutoryperiod of one year in accordance with the articles of the com- pany. Mr. R. A. Gratz, also of T.W.A., will serve as analternate to Mr. Goldsborough on the board. * * *The following is quoted from The Right Road for Britain, the Conservative party's statement of policy, under the head-ing of Civil Aviation: '' For the full development of mer- cantile aviation, scope must be given to the pioneering spiritof free enterprise. We shall, therefore, review the structure of the Corporations and of the Ministry itself, so as to eliminateunnecessary functions and restore as wide a measure of private enterprise as possible."* • • Total route mileage for internal and international servicesoperated by Australian airlines now amounts to 74,017 miles, over which 64,437 hours were flown in the first quarter of thisyear. During this period 404,748 passengers (a load factor of 71.8 per cent) and 405 tons of freight were carried.Guinea Airways, which opeiates over a number of short routes in South Australia had an average passenger load factor of86.6 per cent, the highest of all Australian airlines. * * # Special lightweight electric fans have been supplied by theG.E.C. to T.C.A. for installation in North Star aircraft. Each aircraft is fitted with seven fans for cabin cooling.* * * On Tuesday of each week a stop will be made at Tangieron the Air France daily Skymaster service between Paris and Casablanca. The -stop is for one houi en the outward andfor i£ hour on the inward flights. /- * # • Mr. Anson McKim, O.B.E.. vice-president in charge oftraffic for Trans-Canada Air Lines, recently arrived in London to represent that company at the civil aviation agreement talksbetween the Hon. Lionel Chevrier, Canada's Minister of Trans- port, and Lord Pakenham. * * * Trans-Canada Air Lines have appointed S. A. CanadianNational Railways (France) as their agents for France and all French possessions' in Africa. The agreement will enableT.C.A. and C. N R (France) to offer greater facilities for travellers between both countries.* * * The restaurant and cocktail lounge at Ringway has beentaken over by the B.E.A. Catering Branch under contract fo: three years from the Manchester Corporation. B.E.A. alsocaters for the airline staff, visitors to Ringway and for its own services and those of K.L M., Swissair, Air France andAer Lingus. B.E.A has thus undertaken all catering at Northolt, Ringway and Renfrew.* - * * As a result of recent decisions by the Council of I.C.A.O.,the Airworthiness annexe to the International Convention on Civil Aviation permits contracting states to prescribe theirown minimum rates of climb. The British Civil Airworthiness Requirements have consequently been amended to the effectthat values prescribed for minimum rates of climb may be reduced by the Air Registration Board for particular casesafter consultation with the applicant. t ' '.- FROM THE CLUBS LT. B. C. G. PLACE, V.C., DSC, R.N., was the firstmember of the Royal Naval Flying Club at Gosport to fly solo, on July 24th. Seven members of the newly-opened clubflew during that week-end, including Rear Admiral the Mackintosh of Mackintosh, C.B., D.S.O., D.S.C. . * * *'"PHERE are now some 400 members of the Airways Aero Club -»- (formed by the British Corporations), including a consider-able number of employees based overseas. Each flying member pays one guinea entrance fee, plus is 6d a week if serving inthe U.K., and is a month if overseas. By such an arrangement overseas members, when on leave in this country, may flythe club aircraft at the normal rates. About 200 members who are based in andaround London fly from Denham airfield where the club maintains two Hawks(converted Magisters), one Aeronca 100 and one Autocrat. At Whitchurch thereare two more Hawks, another Aeronca and a Puss Moth, whereas the thirdbranch of the club, at Hum, has two Hawks, one Taylorcraft D (or Auster I)and one Aeronca 100. The Aeronca can be flown for £1 per hour and the othersmall aircraft for 30s per hour. Such low rates are possible only because main-tenance is carried out by members of the club in their spare time on a voluntarybasis. Instruction is also voluntary by members, although arrangements havebeen made to employ professional in- structors for members at £2 per hour. PUBLIC INTEREST: Visitors to London Airport on Sunday, July 24th were per- mitted to walk through the American Overseas Airlines' first Stratocruiser. Similar inspections were allowed at Shannon. Regular A.O.A. Stratocruiser services between London and New York are due to start on August 19th. c 15 A REPORT of the work and progress of the LeicestershireAero Club, Ltd., for the year ended March 30th, 1940, shows an excess of expenditure over income of ,£468 os 4<i.The loss really represents a subsidy from club funds of approximately £1 per hour beyond the cost of flying whichotherwise would have been charged to members by an increase in the average rate of £3 per flying hour, as at present, to anaverage of £4 per hour. This is typical of the financial plight in which most flying clubs find themselves (through lack ofofficial backing) and it is unlikely that any light aircraft club is at present able to show a profit over a financial year.During the year club aircraft were flown on 353 instruction
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