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1950
1950 - 1876.PDF
FLIGHT, 12 October 1950 399 Civil Aviation Newse BREVITIES Officials of the CXBO are repor- ted to have discussed with the Canadian Air Transport Board the possibility of developing the airfield at Windsor, Ontario as an international airport. The Icelandic airline - Flugfelag Islands => has now been admitted to membership of I^A.T.Ao and will send a delegate to the organisation^ Annual General Meeting to be held in San Francisco from October 16th to 20th. Sixty-six airlines are now full members of the Associationo A giant hangar, which is actually four hangars under one roof, has been completed for .^bena at Melsbroek, ;.• - the airport for Brusselso Each of the four areas is 221^ ft wide, mak- ing a total width for the hangar of about 885 ft. Each section is specially equipped for the mainten- ance of one particular type of air= craft «= DC=-6g DC«=4» Convairliner or DC-3c Aspiring big-game hunters will be interested in the news that S«A°S# .; is chartering aircraft to take part c in an unusual "safari" to Abyssinia, where a number of hunters are intending to visit almost unexplored tracts on the border of the Danakil Desert, to the west of French Somalilando For the individual • :- hunting trips small aircraft will ^ be used in conjunction with station- wagons. Several seats are still - available and the price for partici- pation is about £400 per heado ^ ; Captain 0oPc Jones, a well-known figure to thousands of European travellers in pre-war days and the only B^OoAcCo "treble mileage- millionaire" still on operations, completed his first trans=Atlan-= tic round trip in a Stratocruiser when he landed at London Airport ~ ~ from Montreal on September 30the At the time of going to press a further 1,400 Bo0.AXc engineers had joined the 1,000 men at London Air<= port who are taking part in a "work- to-rule" protest against the dismiss- al of 52 men at Langley airfield on grounds of redundancy. It was \ stated that representatives of all the Corporation*s bases were due to meet last Saturday and that a petition, asking for a guarantee that employment would be secured by an "efficiently organized" undertaking, had been signed by 2,000 employees,, Sir Miles Thomas, chairman of B.O.A.C* has given an assurance that men who were downgraded would be the first to be considered for promotion when vacancies occurred and appealed to the employees not to hold up the Corporation^ services at a time when heavy forward bookings were being received.. On the occasion of the company*s 3p000th flight across the North Atlantic, Air France began a daily service between Montreal and Paris. Constellations are being used and the flight is scheduled to take 15i hours, including an intermediate stop at Gandero , v v ; " • - The MoGoAo has requested ground crews handling aircraft arriving at Prestwick to wear a sash of their own family tartan on their berets «> The idea of adding a touch of local colour is said to have delighted tourists^ Fortunately none of the employees claims English, Welsh of Irish nationality. The first regular airmail between New Zealand and Australia began on October 4th when the Q.EoA. Solent "Ararangi" inaugurated the service by flying from Wellington to Sydney. Before the establishment of this route the only air link between the two countries was from Sydney to Auck- lando . ••-:•- ; £ -* : The magistrates at Burnham, Buckinghamshire, County Court have adjourned until November 1st the summons against Fairflight Ltd*, for the alleged contravention of conditions under which a C, of A. was issued for Tudor aircraft. It w&s said that the aircrafts in- volved in the Llandow disaster on March 12th was not so loaded that its Cog0 position was within the prescribed limitSo y / According to statistics published by the CoA»B«, Air France now leads the worldss airlines with an undu- plicated route network of 76,760 mileso This figure was based on routes flown at April 30th and should by now have been considerably increased with the introduction of new routes to Montreal, in Germany and in the Far Kaste Air France, incidentally, has just announced that*, with effect from October 22nd, all Constellations used on North Atlantic services will be fitted with 34 sleeperette-type seats, instead of the 44 ordinary seats previously used.
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