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532 FLIGHT, 27 April 1950 CIVIL AVIATION NEWS — sity for a heavy lead shield around the container, some aircraft are now carrying isotopes in special compartments in their wing-tip. South African Airways are using this method on flights from London to South Africa. The aircraft can be refuelled without any radiation danger to groundcrews, and in the event of delay at a landing point no action is necessary unless work has to be carried out at a distance of less than 10ft from the container. If the aircraft makes a forced landing the container is normally removed by a member of the crew, and, unless it can be transferred to a relief aircraft to arrive within a few days of the normal E.T.A., the container must be removed from the wing-tip and .buried two feet under the ground. . .w .,.-•. . - '., , -. •&:•'•'•':"•'•'• . ', ... "" ' ; Z " ,' •'•'. K.L.M. REPAIRS APPROVEDT HE C.A.A. has announced its approval of K.L.M.s repair and maintenance base at Schiphbl. This means that air- craft and components belonging to American companies and registered in the United States, may be repaired and put back into service without prior inspection by a C.A.A. representa- tive. The certificate relates primarily to aircraft t3rpes used by K.L.M., but also authorizes routine inspections to certain other aircraft, notably the Boeing Stratocruiser. The C.A.A. representative at the American Embassy in London recently flew to Schiphol to hand the certificate to Mr. J. Luymes, K.L.M.'s vice-president (engineering and mainten- ance). The scope of the various ratings includes minor or major repairs and periodic inspections on all current Douglas, Lockheed and Consolidated Vulfee (Convair 240) models in regular commercial use, together with their associated power- plants, instruments, radio equipment and accessories. Routine inspections are also permitted on Boeing 377s and Curtiss C-46S. A BRABAZON FORECAST AT a recent meeting of the Bristol Engineering Manufac-turers' Society, Mr. Walter Gibb, who is now a qualified Brabazon captain, said that before the aircraft made its first transatlantic run it would carry out a trial flight of comparable distance around the British Isles. Due to the effectiveness of its reversible-pitch airscrews, it would be able to land on any of the larger bomber airfields in Britain. Mr. Gibb spoke of the excellent stalling characteristics which had been apparent during recent test flights. We are inclined, however, to doubt whether he was correctly reported by a cor- respondent as having said: '' Stalling tests by dropping the Brabazon 10,oooft out of the sky produced entirely satisfactory results." CHRISTENING COMPETITION TWO free return tickets to Paris by the first week-end serviceto be flown by an Ambassador (scheduled for next month) are being offered as a prize to the member of B.E.A.'s staff who submits the best list of names for the Corporation's new fleet. Names are required for seven classes of aircraft, and the chief executive, Mr. Peter Masefield, has suggested that an interlinked series of names might be an attraction. Some sug- gestions already received are that each class of the fleet should •be given a prefix such as Silver, Golden, Emerald or Sapphire, so that an Ambassador might be named Silver Arrow or Silver Cloud, while a Viscount could be christened Golden Arrow, and so on. It has also been proposed that the Marathons, which will operate chiefly in Scotland, should be given the names of Scottish clan?, while the Welsh helicopters might be called after King Arthur's Knights and the elderly DC-3S could com-memmorate the names of aviation pioneers such as Cody, Charles Rolls and T. O. M. Sopwith. U.K. TRAFFIC IN FEBRUARY TOTAL movements at British civil airfields in Februaryamounted to some 25,000, more than 9,000 of which were transport flights. The number of passengers using these air-fields was 95,000, of which 9,000 were in transit. London Airport and Northolt reported 24,000 and 34,000 respectively,which together represents 60 per cent of the total for the United Kingdom. Even though the month was shorter, theamount of freight handled showed an increase of almost 60 tons over January's figures, London handling almost 700 tonsand Northolt some 450 tons. Renfrew was February's third busiest terminal, with 5,700passengers and over 7,000 air-transport movements. Detailed figures are given in the table below. 1 AiWislil Aberdeen (Dyce) Belfast (Nutts Corner) Birmingham (Elmdon) Blackbushe Blackpool (Squire Gate) Bovingdon Bristol (Whitcnurch) Cardiff (Pengam Moors) Croydon Edinburgh (Turnhouse) GatwkkGlasgow (Renfrew) Hurn . Isle of Man (Ronaldsway) Inverness (Dalcross) ... KirkwallLeeds (Yeadon) Liverpool (Speke) London ...Lympne .. Manchester Ringway) Northolt Nottingham (Tollerton) Prestwiek Shoreham Southampton (Easttetgh) Southampton Water Weston-super-Mare WickOther Aerodromes All reporting Airfields February 1950 February 1949 Aircraft Movements Air Trans-port 153 408 154 80 152 43 28 174 173 12716 6 378 145 24319 371 1.4717 SSI 2,612 — 390 185 50 9 279637 9,446 8,614 Other Flights 742 61 573 1,697 380 773 1.036 547 422 1,198 50450 1 69189 74 19441 482 396 181 850 684 460 196 204 1,434 61 200 43200 15,634 14,855 Total 895 469 727 1,777 532 816 1,036 575 596 1,371 6?1,166 1 697467 219 262460 853 1,867188 1,401 3,2% 460 586 704 1,619 III 209 322837 25,080 23,469 Pas- sengers(ter- minal andtransit) 1,155 4,898 905 1,252 301 457 — 62 123 1,037 575,611 352,057 S52 1,19322 3,004 23,53117 3,266 33,970 — 5,673 _ 1,255 1.120 1 6002,832 94,986 76,177 Freight (tons) 10.8 117.6 14.3 19.2 15.9 54.0 53.6 1.5 28.2 | 25.0 1.7 8.64.9 59.7 696.3 162.2 446.6 — 27.8 1.7 26.8 420.6 1,797.6 1,315.3 SPEEDY SPARES HPO ensure regular and speedy supply of spare parts for British J- cars purchased by Americans, B.O.A.C. has introduced a quick-delivery scheme for flying components to New York. Announcing the new arrangements, the chairman of B.O.A.C., Sir Miles Thomas, stated that the Corporation was co-operating with the industry so that the owner of a British car in America could obtain a spare part the day after it had been ordered. Exporters would deliver the component to B.O.A.C. in the morning and it could reach New York the next day by .one of the daily Stratocruiser services. Speedy inland distribution would be assured by an agreement with American operators. A special "commodity" rate has been instituted for this type of traffic, 8s 3d per kg being charged for a minimum of 227 kg "SAtD!"S.A.I.D.E.: Weekly services are being flown between Cairo and Milan by a new Egyptian airline, S.A...D.E., which com- menced operations on April 6th. The com- pany is using SM.95s, one of which is shown at Forlanni Airport.
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