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FLIGHT, 6 October 1949 47» tion Marks; Airworthiness of Aircraft; and Facilitation ofInternational Air Transport. These standards were originally drafted by I.C.A.O. members' representatives and then exam-ined and adopted by a 21-nation council. Such adoption of a set of standards gives them legal effect as an Annex to theConvention on International Civil Aviation, and they are then submitted to the member-nations for approval. If the majorityof members approve, the standards become final and each nation must put them into effect in its own territories, or notifyI.C.A.O. of the differences so that other nations may at least be warned of discrepancies. The United Kingdom agreed to the I.C.A.O. Airworthinessrecommendations and incorporated them as standards in the A.R.B. British Civil Airworthiness Requirements issue pub-lished on January 1st, 1948. Those standards then applied to all British civil prototypes requiring Certificates of Airworthi-ness subsequent to that date. Standards and recommended practices for the Facilitation ofInternational Air Transport were adopted by the council on March 25th, 1949. They include the adoption of standarddocuments and procedures to facilitate and expedite the navi- gation of aircraft between member-states, and to prevent un-necessary delays to aircraft, crews, passengers and cargo, especially in the administration of laws in relation to immigra-tion, customs and clearances. AIR FRANCE ANNIVERSARY HPHIS year Air France is celebrating the 30th anniversary of -*- the starting of three of its routes Paris-London, Paris- Brussels, and the first service between Europe and Africa, Toulouse-Casablanca. The two routes from Paris were opened by Messageries Aeriennes, now incorporated with Air France. The route from Toulouse was started by Aeropostale (now also amalgamated) on September 21st, 1919, and later extended by degrees to Dakar and thence across the South Atlantic to Brazil and Argentina. The usual winter curtailment of the company's services in the Northern sector of its European network has been com- pensated by an increased frequency on the African routes as well as by an increase in seating capacity. Thirty-three- seater Languedocs are being replaced by DC-4S, carrying be- tween 44 and 55 passengers, for work between Marseilles and Tunis, Bone, Algiers and Oran, and on the Algiers-Tunis and Casablanca-Tunis routes. The only service in North Africa continuing with Languedocs will be Casablanca-Algiers. M.C.A. AT RADIOLYMPIA ON several stands at Radiolympia (which remains open untilOctober 8th) are to be found examples of radio and radar communications and navigation equipment to which reference- has been made in several recent issues of Flight. Though they are naturally overshadowed by the less austere domestic radio sets with which the show is principally concerned, the Ministries of Civil Aviation and Supply are attracting interested crowds to their radar exhibits. The M.C.A. presents a G.C.A. demonstration: A working model of the main runway at London Airport, complete with approach runway and taxiway lighting glowing attractivelv in the semi-darkness of the stand, is used in conjunction with a full-scale control console with radar screens. A model air- liner, with lights shining through its windows, is made to "take off" from the runway, make a circuit and land again, and its 3^-min flight is accompanied by a recorded commentary explaining the procedure and a typical talk-down. Spectatorscan see on the screens the radar signals on which the G.C.A. director bases his instructions. Although artificially generated,the signals are actual "' blips" and indicate to a high degree of accuracy, at every stage of the approach, the actual positionof the model in relation to the runway. The airport model was constructed by Hunting Aerosurveys, Ltd., and the mech-anism was designed and constructed by M.C.A. staff at Black- bushe airport. This model is being demonstrated to 30 personsat each session for n sessions in each hour, and the exhibition is open for about 11 hours each day. The Ministry of Supply demonstrates search radar by meansof a rotating aerial in a water tank in which are obstructions: These objects are indicated by '' blips" on an accompanyingcathode-ray screen. The R.A.F. stand includes a model of a typical Servicestation, and at certain times during each'day demonstration landings are made by means of model aircraft. Officers andN.C.O.s are ready to answer questions on the R.A.F. radar and radio equipment which is also on view. - ,• '.?...-. •; , SCANDINAVIAN TOUR /"TVHE Short Sealand destined for a demonstration tour of J- Scandinavia, left Belfast on Monday, September 26th, piloted by F/Lt. McCall. Also in the aircraft were Mr. George Puddicombe, Shorts sales representative, and Mr. Adams, flight engineer. The tour will include demonstrations at Amsterdam, Hamburg, Stockholm, Helsinki, Oslo, Stavanger, Bergen, Alesund, Trondheim and Antwerp, and the aircraft will be away for about seven weeks. SOUTH AFRICAN NEWS DURING the past year the monthly passenger load carriedby South African Airways has increased by about 2,000. In June this year 16,030 passengers were carried on trunk,regional and internal services, compared with 14,397 in June, 1948. On September 1st S.A.A.'s new timetable came intooperation, providing same-day connections with other services in the Union, Rhodesia and South-West Africa. The Sky-master service between Johannesburg and Cape Town has been increased to daily frequency and the service linking CapeTown and Port Elizabeth now flies daily instead of twice weekly. Twenty-four-seater Dakotas are to replace the 12-seater Lodestars previously used on services between the Union and South-West Africa. DAKOTA-ANSON COLLISION IN a report* on an accident involving a B.E.A. Dakota andan R.A.F. Anson at Exhall, near Coventry, on February 19th, 1949, the Chief Inspector of Accidents states that thecause was a mid-air collision in clear visibility, neither aircraft, apparently, having seen the other. The Dakota, G-AHCW,left Northolt at 0913 hr under V.F.R. conditions on a scheduled flight to Renfrew, carrying six passengers and acrew of four. The aircraft passed a departure message to A.T.C. Uxbridge at 0922 hr saying that it was flying overRugby at 4,500 ft V.F.R. and requested permission to contact the Northern Flight Information Region Control Centre, Pres-ton. Permission was granted at 0944 hr and the Regional QFF was given as 1015 mb. The message was acknowledgedand no further communication with the aircraft was made. The Anson left Middleton St. George, Yorks, at 0809 hron a cross-country navigational training flight via Shrewsbury and Chatteris, carrying a captain, wire-less operator, navigation instructor and pupil. At the time of the collisionthe Anson was on its way to Chatteris. Both aircraft were flying at about4,500 ft, the Dakota in a N.W. and the Anson in an E.S.E. direction. Oncollision, both aircraft disintegrated and some of the wreckage from the Dakotafell to the ground in flames. There were no survivors. In his report, the Chief Inspector stated * M.C.A. Publication No. 76. Price 6d. H.M. Stationery Office. RADIOLYMPiA TOWER ; The opera- tion of night-landing devices at London Airport was shown by means of a working model on the M.C.A. Stand at Radiolympia. Both the lighted run- way and the Radar screens can be seen. The model was built by Hunting Aerosurveys, Ltd. B iq
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