FlightGlobal.com
Home
Premium
Archive
Video
Images
Forum
Atlas
Blogs
Jobs
Shop
RSS
Email Newsletters
You are in:
Home
Aviation History
1949
1949 - 1526.PDF
ago FLIGHT, Z September 1949 CIVIL AVIATION NEWS ... have been paid high salaries,- even though heavy losses havebeen incurred through high overheads, so creating an un- realistic impression. When, however, cuts in overheads werenecessary, many B.E.A. aircrew were dismissed but found em- ployment in the charter companies, who paid the salaries theycould afford. The effect of this award will be to increase operating costs and so adversely affect the charter companiesin these difficult times to the extent that many may be forced out of business. B.A.L.P.A., it would appear, is protecting the salaries ofthose pilots in employment and apparently thinking nothing of the future. The fewer employers there are, then the fewerchances of employment will there be. P.A.W.A. EUROPEAN SERVICES PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS have opened direct daily ser-vices between New York and Vienna with DC-4S. Until September 1st P.A.W.A. Flight 104 (DC-4) terminated in London and passengers continued by DC-3 after an overnightstop. This service was inaugurated in May, 1947. With the new extension to Vienna, Pan American has eliminated alltwo-engined passenger services in Europe and provided a third direct-service terminal point in Western and Central Europe,the other two being Brussels and Prague. Connections are also made with Munich, Stuttgart and Frankfurt. In WesternEurope the company flies direct services from New York to Lisbon, Barcelona and Marseilles, and an application hasbeen made for permission to include Nice. SAFER AIRLINES ^ THE fatality rate in scheduled air transport during 1948 wasone in 30,487,279 passenger-miles of operation as against one in 21,184,108 passenger-miles flown the previous year. Forty-three out of 60 airline members of I.A.T.A. operated without a single fatal accident. In 1948 there were 20 acci- dents of this kind as against 32 in 1947, and the number of fatalities was 325 as against 488. It is notable that the improvement in safety accompanied an increase in traffic. BREVITIES A TKINSON FIELD, the United States air base on the•**• Demerara River, has been handed back to the British Guiana Government. It is understood that it will now beused as a civilian airport. * * * Special Loran (long-range navigation) radar equipment isbeing purchased by B.C.P.A. for installation in the company's DC-6 fleet. Loran coverage in the Pacific extends from Van-couver to just south of Canton Island. * * * B.E.A. resumed daily Viking services between London andBerlin via Amsterdam and Hamburg on September 1st. Until then Vikings had flown only as far as Hamburg whence ashuttle service to Berlin had been maintained by a Rebecca- equipped Dakota. * » • Figures are now available of traffic carried in the first sixmonths of this year over the 166,000 miles of B.O.A.C. routes. Passengers numbered 61,455, compared with 55,652 in theeame period last year and total freight weighed 1,490 tons as against 1,230 tons Passenger-miles increased by 14,282,412to 176,702,637. * * *Frequency on the London-Geneva-Cairo-Bombay route by Air-India International Constellations has been increased fromtwice weekly in each direction to five times in each direction every fortnight. The additional services leave Bombay onalternate Sundays and London on alternate Tuesdays. This is the third increase in frequency since the route was openedin June, 1948. * * * An advisory pamphlet has been issued by the Ministry ofCivil Aviation for the guidance of all concerned with the fuelling of aircraft. Its purpose is to encourage standardizationof fuelling procedure which will reduce fire risks to a minimum at all civil airfields in the United Kingdom. An initial dis-tribution to interested bodies has already been made, and further copies may be obtained on application to the Ministry01 Civil Aviation, Est.A4 (Stationery), Fleet Street, E.C.4. The reference number of the pamphlet is M.C.A.P. 74. * * * In statistics recently issued by the Johannesburg PublicityAssociation it is stated that 12,068 tourists and business men travelled to South Africa last year by air, whereas only 9,346went by sea. * # * On September 19th Canadian Pacific Air Lines will start aweekly direct service with Canadairs between Canada and the Far East. The route will be from Vancouver over the AleutianIslands to Tokyo and Hong Kong. * • * A.R.B. Notice to Licensed Aircraft Engineers and to Owners of Civil Aircraft No. 33 deals with the provision of battery master switches. After December 31st this year C.s of A. will not, unless a master battery switch is fitted, be issued or renewed in respect of any aircraft fitted with unprotected electrical circuits (including unprotected starter circuits) which may be connected with the battery in flight. « * • • . Lancashire Aircraft Corporation has announced inclusiverates from London, Leeds, Newcastle and the Isle of Man, for passengeis visiting the illuminations at Blackpool betweenSeptember 16th and October 24th. The Corporation will pro- vide road transport, hotel accommodation at Blackpool forone night with meals, and a free half-hour flight over the town by night. Charges are: from London, £j 19s 6d; fromLeeds, £3 19 6d; and from Newcastle and the Isle of Man, £4 19s 6d. -. . . • ; "« • • .••••* B.O.A.C. pilots are training for Stratocruiser flying on the Pan American Airways Dehmel electronic flight simulator at La Guardia Field. Approximately 36 crew members will take the full course in which captains and first officers spend 30 hours "flying" the trainer and an additional seven hours SURVEYOR: The . Percival P.54 is a special survey version of tha Prince. The windscreen has a noticeable slant and the fuselage has been extended forward to include a navigator/ observer's post in the nose. In the main cabin is the camera/radio operator's post and on each side aft of the win^ are two I7-in ports for oblique pho- tography. Provision has been made for an unusually wide variety of camera combinations. G 12
Sign up to
Flight Digital Magazine
Flight Print Magazine
Airline Business Magazine
E-newsletters
RSS
Events
