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1949
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446- FLIGHT, 29 September T949 CIVIL AVIATION NEWS . , . The new bill is expected to facilitate shipments by eliminatingmuch of the duplicated paper work previously necessary. Panagra has a similar agreement with National Airlines forcargos between the west coast of South America and the east coast of North America. The Bonrd of Central African Airways Corporation hasappointed Mr. Robert Gavin McCoy as general manager. Mr. McCoy joined Imperial Airways in 1938, and became technicalassistant to the director-general of B.O.A.C. in 1942 and later deputy-manager of No. 1 Division. He went to Africa in 1945as technical manager and later became B.O.A.C. station man- ager at Johannesburg. . • MacRobertson-Milier Aviation Co., Ltd., plans to open a service between West Australia and Indonesia. Normally the route is flown via Darwin, but the company proposes to shorten the journey by 700 miles by flying via Derby and K'eopang. Pan American World Airways are extending their reducedsummer fares until the end of November, although tickets must be purchased before November 1st. By an arrangementbetween P.A.A. and two domestic airlines, the excursion fares operate between the eastern and central United States andtourist resorts in the Caribbean, Central America and Mexico. During August the Government-owned Trans-Australia Air- lines carried their millionth passenger; they claim this to be a world record for the first three years of any airline's operations. The line recently received a new retrospective airmail contract increasing its annual grant from ^324,000 to ^400,000 for the year ended June 30th, 1949. Prior to a demonstration tour of the United States, a Saab Scandia landed at Hartford on September 8th after a successful flight via Scotland, Iceland and Greenland. Designed as a replacement to the DC-3, the Scandia completed a successful demonstration tour of Europe last year. A modified version is at present being planned to suit American requirements; seating capacity is being increased from the present 24-32 to 30-38 and cabin pressurizing installed. Fairfiight, Ltd., one of whose directors is A.V-M. D. C. T. Bennett, has reconverted its Tudors for passenger-carrying after service as tankers on the Berlin airlift. The seating layout has been so arranged that only the number of seats required is carried, thus leaving generous space for additional passenger comfort. Two classes of travel are offered—luxury and " airist"—and the cost of chartering is usually of the order of 3d per passenger per statute mile for the luxury class and just under 2d when 72 passengers fly "airist." At a meeting of the International Air Transport Association in The Hague on September 16th, Mr. Warren Lee Pierson, president of Trans-World Airlines, was elected president of the Association in succession to Dr. Albert Plesman, of K.L.M. Mr. K. H. Staple, of B.O.A.C., was elected chairman of the Legal Committee. The meeting also accepted an invitation to hold the sixth annual meeting—which is due to commence on September 10th, 1050—in the United States. Mr. William Walter Warner, A.F.R.Ae.S., has recently been appointed service manager of Airspeed, Ltd., at Christchurch, and is responsible for the servicing and maintenance of Ambas- sadors at home and abroad. Apprenticed to the Sopwith Aviation Co. in 1917, he has been concerned with the practical engineering side of Service and civil aviation ever since. During the war he served in the Technical Branch of the R.A.F., after- wards becoming maintenance superintendent of B.S.A.A. and, later, special technical representative for Skyways. FROM THE CLUBS A NORTH African "fine wines" rally and air race has beenorganized by the Aero-Club d'Oranie and will be held on October 15th to 16th at La Senia airfield, Oran. The race will consist of 20 laps of 20 km, preceded by an eliminating race, and is limited to aircraft with maximum engine capacity of 8 litres. The first prize is fr. 1,000,000, and in the 7-litre class a first prize of fr. 300,000 is being offered. A rally prize of fr. 300,000 and other awards will also be competed for. Com- petitors will congregate on October 15th at Sidi-bel-Abbes. The entry-list closes to-morrow, September 30th, but entries made within the next day or two through the R.Ae.C. are likely to be accepted provided the intending entrant imme- diately notifies the Aero-Club d'Oranie by wire ; the address is: 14, Avenue Loubet, Oran. AT Yeadon Airport during August, the West Riding Avia-tion Centre completed 36 hours' flying and one student made his first solo. Among recent visitors to the Centre were Mr. Geoffrey de Freitas, the Under-Secretary of State for Air, together with a Dakota-load "of ministerial officials, who—as reported in Flight at the time—were on a tour of flying clubs. Another visitor was Colonel Beyers of the South African Air Force. * • * WHEN Mr. de Freitas visited the recent A.B.A.C. Conven-tion at White Waltham he did not, as reported, arrive in an R.A.F. Anson. Though he left in an Anson he had arrived (like many other visitors) in an aircraft belonging to his own club—in this case a Herts and Essex Auster. STARTING YOUNG. S1. E. J. Furlong, D.F.C., introduces a young passenger to the joys of gliding in the two-seater T-21 Dragonfly. During the recent National Gliding Contests at Great Hucklow one of his passengers was Lord Pakenham. DURING the coming winter the Surrey Gliding Club is toorganize a series of lectures every Saturday evening ; these are in addition to a number of social events, which will include the Christmas party, to be held on December roth. The club now has 37 Silver "C" members, while two Gold "C" height awards were won during the summer. On August 14th "Micky" Gilbert reached 7,000ft and so became the first woman non-power pilot in the club—and possibly in the countrv—to obtain her Silver " C." During July and August launches numbered 747 and 648 respectively, and the hours flown were 166.39 and T90. On September 10th the usual crowd of enthusiasts was supple- mented by visitors from Cambridge and the Anson-Hurry Olympia from Dunstable. A few days later, a welcome visitor was John Leach of Slingsby Sailplanes, who demonstrated the Motor Tutor. A number of members were able to fly it (although the weather that day was uncooperative) and pro- nounced themselves very impressed. 1- 18
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