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FLIGHT, 3 August 1950 • 153 of up to 2,ooolb will be required to pay only2S 6d and those weighing up to 4,ooolb will pay 5s instead of 10s and £1 respectively.These concessions should be valuable to the private owner. There is a further concession in themethod of calculating the all-up-weight: an aircraft weighing 2,4991b is classed as oneof 2,ooolb, while a machine in the 2,500- 4,4991b category is charged at 4,ooolb. If the owner does not pay on the spot,but wishes an account to be sent in, he will be charged the full fee of 5s for each i.ooolball-up-weight. The full charge will be made for any aircraft being used for hire orreward. BREVITIES QTARTING yesterday, August 2nd, two O extra flights are being added to B.O.A.C.'s direct transatlantic service, an additional Stratocruiser leaving London on Wednesdays and another leaving New York on Thursdays. The contract for the conversion of B.O.A.C.'s 28 DC-3S—some details of which were given on p. 131 last week—has been placed with Scottish Aviation, Ltd. The work is to begin at Prestwick in Novem- ber and will take about five months; the value of the order —which was secured, it is understood, in competition with other tenders—is about ^150,000. * * * Under an associate agreement with B.E.A., a scheduled ser- vice between Lympne and Le Touquet is now being operated by Air Kruise (Kent), Ltd. Frequency is three times daily and D.H. Rapides are being used. • • •At Clerkenwell Magistrates Court on July 20th, fines total- ling £325, with ^42 costs, were imposed on three individuals and an airline company as a result of failure to notify change of ownership of a Tiger Moth. It was alleged that in order to obtain a C. of A. one of the defendants falsely claimed that the company owned the aircraft. • * • The M.C.A. has provisionally approved an Associate Agree- ment between B.E.A. and Fingland's Airways, Ltd., for opera- tion of a scheduled service between Manchester (Ringway) and Newquay (St. Mawgan). Starting next Saturday, August 5th,, a southbound and a northbound flight will be made each Saturday, with a journey time of two hours and return fare COMPETITORS' PARK : A striking aerial view of sailplanes and their trailers, secured during the International Gliding Contests at Orebro, Sweden. of £9 16s. Fingland's (whose H.Q. is at Rusholme, Manches-ter) sent an Anson to participate in the official opening of St. Mawgan as Newquay's airport on June 24th. * * * As mentioned in Flight of May 25th, an S.O.30 Bretagne hasrecently been undergoing operational trials with the Aero- Cargo company. This machine has now flown 238 hr, 192of which have been on commercial services. The fuel con- sumption of the cargo version has been found to be equivalentto 1.45 m.pyg. • * * A DC-4 purchased by Hellenic Airlines from A.O.A. is now being reconditioned by the Texas Engineering and Manufac- turing Co., Ltd., of Dallas. When ready, it will be ferried to Britain by a crew from Scottish Aviation, Ltd., and checked over at Prestwick before going into service on Hellenic's London-Paris-Athens-Cairo route. • » • Three passengers were killed, and a number wounded, when a Lebanese Dakota was fired on by a fighter—alleged to have been an Israeli Spitfire—near the Northern Israel border on July 17th. The Dakota, owned by the Compagnie des Trans- ports, an Air France subsidiary, was successfully landed at Beirut by its French pilot. FROM THE CLUBS ORGANIZED by l'Aero-Club les Ailes Basques, the Biarritz ^ International Rally and concours d'iUgance is to be held from September 8th to nth. Details and entry forms are obtainable from the Royal Aero Club. * * *A VERY full programme of competition and exhibition flying, gliding and parachute jumping has been arranged for the meeting at Cowes Airport next Sunday, August 6th. The display starts at 3 p.m., and admission for the public is is 6d. * * •T HE South Coast Flying Club is holding a Bank Holiday dance at Shoreham next Monday, August 7th, beginning at 9 p.m. There will be a buffet, and a bar extension until 1 a.m. Tickets are 4s each. * * *T HE first rally to be organized by the Cognac Aero Club and the Bureau National du Cognac appears to have been thoroughly successful. In spite of unfavourable weather on the morning of July 14th, of the 44 aircraft which started out, 42 had landed on Cognac airfield before the control closed. Two others, experiencing slight hitches on the way, arrived later, one in the evening and the other next morning. The British contingent numbered 15 aircraft, carrying 36 people. Aircrews were agreeably surprised to find that an imposing number of private cars had been placed at their disposal for the duration of the rally. Numerous receptions were organized for their benefit. The banquet given on the airfield on the evening of the 15th was followed by a ball in the officers' mess of the 33rd Air Force Group, and it was broad daylight by the time all had returned to their rooms. It would seem that the world-famous local liqueur, which was lavishly offered to all competitors in the course of the different receptions during the rally, had no unfavourable effect on their capabilities as pilots, since the only incident reported when they left was the bursting of the tyre of an Auster. Needless to say, the English Customs coffers were in due course enriched to a considerable extent. The principal rally competition was won by a French pilot, Jean Fournel, in a Nor&rrin, with 2,289.4 points. A young Italian woman pilot, Maria Teresa Cassiui, was second in a Macchi with 2,201.6, and Colonel Guyot (Sokol) third with 2,004.3. • * • *C ASH prizes for a number of competitive events are to be a feature of the Skegness Airport Rally at Ingoldmells on Sunday, August 20th. Thus, the winner of the arrival com- petition (n a.m.-noon) will be able to pocket /5, and similar sums are offered in a fly-past concours d'elegance and for a bombing competition; finally, the most polished piece o\ demonstration flying by a club or private pilot will bring £\o. There will be parachute jumps and other display items, but as R.A.F. support is uncertain it is hoped that civil pilots will turn up in force. Overnight accommodation can be arranged at Butlin's holiday camp. Further details from W. P. Bushby, Skegness Airport, Ltd., Ingoldmells, Lines.
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