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1949
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SEPTEMBER IST, 1949 FLIGHT 247 can understand sufficient English to permit two-way R/Tconversation and to understand briefing, then a certificate is signed which, when presented to the M.C.A. together with 5s,will entitle the holder to a British Private Pilot's Licence. Attached to each certificate is a copy of the "procedures"already mentioned, for ease of reference. Holders of these two licences will be able to fly both French and British regis-tered aircraft and Frenchmen visiting this country will be entitled to join clubs and fly club aircraft. It is probable thatsome reciprocal arrangement will be made for British pilots. FRENCH SERVICE TO AUSTRALIA AIR FRANCE are about to introduce a new service to theFrench island of New Caledonia, via Port Darwin and Brisbane in Australia. The service, which is due to open onSeptember 21st, will be the first direct link between Europe and Brisbane. Arrangements have been concluded with Trans-Australia Airlines to make connections with Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. For some months the airport at Noumea, thecapital of New Caledonia, has been undergoing improvements to receive the Air France 44-seater Skymasters which at presentterminate their long-distance flights in the East at Saigon in Indo China. The extension will add another 5,517 miles toAir France routes. The fare from Paris to Brisbane will be £241 ros and to New Caledonia ^264, including hotel accom-modation and meals en route. • - •.. PILOTS PROSECUTED TpHE Ministry of Civil Aviation recently prosecuted two-L pilots for contravening flying regulations. The cases were heard at Bow Street. One pilot was charged with infringingthe provisions of Article 24 of the Air Navigation (Consolida- tion) Order, 1923, in that he presented his log-book to theMinistry to obtain an endorsement to his "B" Licence for flying an additional type of aircraft, knowing that certainentries were false. The second pilot was charged with aiding and abetting the offence by certifying the log-book entriesas correct, but the case against him was dismissed. The first- mentioned pilot was fined £10 with 15 guineas costs. In another case, at York City Magistrates' Court, a pilotholding an " A " Licence was prosecuted for carrying a pas- senger for " hire or reward." In defence, he claimed thatthe payment made by the passenger was in the nature of sharing the expenses of the flight. A second charge was madeagainst him for flying the aircraft without a certificate of safety having been issued and in force, since the aircraft wasa "public transport aircraft." The defendant was fined £5 on each summons, with ten guineas costs. CAR FERRY SUCCESS SILVER CITY AIRWAYS. LTD., recently accepted their2,000th car booking for this summer on the Lympne-Le Touquet car ferry service. This represents an amazing increaseover the small number of cars carried last year and the com- pany is convinced that a very bright future exists for this typeof service. Four Bristol Freighters are in use this summer and as many a? sixty cars have been ferried in one day. Certainaspects of the company's ferry plans are unsettled since they hold a licence under associate agreement with B.E.A., which isvalid for only a year, and, of course, the future of Lympne Airport is still uncertain. The company would like to reduceall charges to a flat rate of ^25 per car next year, but the high landing fees imposed by the M.C.A. at Lympne—nearly £7 perlanding—make such a reduction difficult. It is hoped that six aircraft will be in operation in 1950 to carry twice asmany cars, in addition to an " on demand " service to Deau- ville and Paris. AIRPORT ACTIVITY IN APRILD URING April, 1949, the incidence of Easter and the intro-duction of extra services was reflected in a marked increase in activity at United Kingdom airfields. There were nearly37,000 aircraft movements of which 12,544 were air-transport flights carrying 140,437 passengers. Approximately 1,750 tonsof freight and 700 tons of mail were handled. Northolt's share of the total passenger traffic (nearly 45,000) was 32 per cent Airport* Aberdeen (Dyce) Belfast (Nutts Corner) Belfast (Sydenham) ... Birmingham (Elmdon) Blackbushe Blackpool (Squires Gate) . Bovingdon Bristol (Whitchurch) Cardiff <Pengam Moors) Croydon Edinburgh (Turnhouse) Gatwick Inverness (Dalcross)... Isle of Man (Ronaldsway) . Kirkwall Liverpool (Speke) ... London Lympne Manchester (Ringway) Northolt Nottingham (Tollerton) PrestwickRenfrew ShorehamSouthampton (Eastleigh) . Southampton Water... Weston-super-Mare... Wick Yeadon Others Aircraft Movements. Air Trans. 268 462 13 166 96 81 151 17 191 359 234 117 27300 361 464 544 1.849 65 617 2,798 51 513845 30410 73 133 278 62 969 Other. 1,135 16 535 1,230 370 1.295 1,200 1,432 2,562 1,103 937. 667 1,524 55 138 32 326 900 879 1,388 703 885 459323 695826 434 675 281,166 287 Pass. Handled. 1,128 7,780 76 816 1,620 255 450 46 658 1,073 1,913 598 58 2.259 3.298 1,736 6,047 31736 228 5.558 44,982 258 7,4559,529 1383,588 1,471 527 575 133 4,448 Freight (Ib.) In and Out. 17,573 56,823 26,463 80,874 10,701 789,766 14.443 89,091 30,449 34,76* 3 593 23,999 20,468 21,179 71,346 1,493 159 104^93 110,864 745,924 55,81256,877 14,123 32,684 24,026 807 29 41,705 CIVIL MERLINS IN 1948 AN outstanding feature of Rolls-Royce civil aviatio;:activities in 1948 was the increasing use of civil Merlinengines. During the year Merlins in civil use averaged 1,132 flying hours aday and, since all Merlin-powered civil airliners have four engines, it is true tosay that in the 12 months some 158,000,000 engine miles were flown bythat type. In the Berlin Air Lift 125,000 trips were made in eight months,making a total of 50,000,000 miles of which at least half was flown by aircraftpowered by Merlins. These engines are in use at the present time by airline com-panies in this country, Australia, Canada, South Africa, Argentina and Italy, andthe purchase of 22 Canadair Fours by B.O.A.C. is an example of furthergrowth. A life of 1,000 hr MECHANICAL LOADER: A movable winch as fitted to United Air Lines' C-54 cargo carriers. The winch, driven by an electric motor, which can be plugged into points throughout the aircraft, operates a cable to a boom over the door. In this photograph can also be seen a " thermo-sealed curtain " which shuts off the rear of the aircraft to provide a 300 cu ft refrigerated section.
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