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AUGUST 25TH, 1949 FLIGHT 227 CIVIL AVIATION NEWS ALTITUDE TESTING: Designed to transport 24 to 31 passengers with baggage and freight, the Armstrong Whitworih Apollo is capable o[ carrying a total payload of 7,5001b for 1,000 miles at 276 m.p.h. at 2O,OOOft. A maximum cruising speed of 305 m.p.h. is attainable. U.K. Routes Agreement with Canada : D.H. Servicing Base : Dakota with Pressurized Cabin B.E.A. DAKOTA CRASH At approximately 1300 hr last Friday (August 19th), aB.E.A. Dakota crashed at Greenfields, a few miles from Old- ham, Lanes. The aircraft had left Belfast on the 1150 hr ser-vice and was due at Manchester at 1310. The weather was not good at the time and, after passing over Ringway Airport,the Dakota hit the ground about 20ft from the summit of a hill approximately 1,300ft in height. There were 29 passengers(including three infants under two years of age) on board, 21 of whom were killed. Capt. F. W. Pinkerton and twoother members of the crew of four also lost their lives. It would be premature to comment upon the specific cir-cumstances of this most recent disaster, but it does appear, from first reports, to have been to some extent comparablewith the Atlantic ditching of a Transoceaa Air Lines Sky- master four days earlier. In the case of the Skymaster,although communication appeared to have been lost through some unforeseen circumstances, the aircraft ran out of fuelwhen other bases might possibly have been used. Whether the B.E.A. Dakota had developed some mechanical or otherfault is not known, but if no such trouble had occurred, it is certain that it should not have been below safety height inthe vicinity of high ground clearly marked on all maps. U.K. CANADA AGREEMENT BY the terms of a new air services agreement signed betweenthe United Kingdom and Canada on August 19th, this country obtains five routes. The selected British airline is per-mitted to fly through Gander to New York, Bermuda and beyond; to Montreal via Gander; from the British Colonies inthe Caribbean area and Bermuda to Montreal; across the Pacific between Fiji and Vancouver; and to Hong Kong viaNorth Canada, Alaska, the Aleutians, Japan and Shanghai. The agreement gives Canada four routes: between Canadaand the U.K.; from Canada via Bermuda or Tampa (Florida) to the British Colonies in the Caribbean area and beyond to Bin South America; from Vancouver through Fiji to Australia andNew Zealand; and between Vancouver and Hong Kong. The arrangement made in 1947 is continued whereby theCanadian airline flying between Canada and the British Colonies in the Caribbean area enjoys cabotage rights betweenBermuda and the other British Colonies. The U.K. undertakes not to operate on its reciprocal route between Bermuda or theBritish Colonies in the Caribbean area and Montreal until January 1st, 1951. As far as Bermuda and the Bahamas areconcerned, the agreement is subject to approval by their legis- latures. STRATOCRUISER TRAINING B.O.A.C. Stratocruisers will be manned by crews consistingof two pilots, two engineers, a radio officer and a navi- gator. Specialists in each branch have alreadv been trained atthe Boeing school, Seattle, Washington, and thev will instruct the remaining B.O.A.C. aircrew in a Stratocrutser school re-cently opened at the Corporation's base at Filton, Bristol. Thirty-five complete aircrews and 170 ground staff will berequired for the Corporation's Stratocruiser North Atlantic operations, for which a special flight has been formed underCapt. J. W. Burgess. The officer in charge of training is Capt. J. T. Percy, assisted by Capt. W. S. May as chief flyinginstructor. Each has some 10,000 flying hours to his credit and many years' experience of North Atlantic flying. Four tech-nicians from the Boeing factory have arrived to assist in the initial stages of training, and for instrument-flying training ,1D.H. Dove has been equipped with an instrument panel similar to that of a Stratocruiser. D.H. REPAIR AT LEAVESDEN CLOSING of the I).II. Civil Aircraft Repair Depot atWitney, Oxfordshire, as part of the post-war re-develop- .ment of the de Havilland Aircraft Company's resources, wasreported in Flight of July 7th. Ne.v information is now avail-
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