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1950
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412 FLIGHT, 9 November 1950 CIVIL AVIATION NEWS . . . was that operating costs throughout the world were increasingand that fares would probably rise with them. B.O.A.C. has already announced increases on transatlantic routes, which wereeffective on November 1st, and in Australia passenger and freight rates have been increased by 10 and 11J per cent respectively. Some statistical evidence of the growth of theairline industry in 1949 is referred to in our leading article this week. At the conclusion of the assembly came the welcomeannouncement that next year the meeting will take place in Great Britain. It was decided also that I.A.T.A's next presi-dent is to be Sir Miles Thomas, chairman of B.O.A.C. He will succeed Mr. Warren Lee Pierson, now in office BREVITIES M. STEPHANE THOUVENOT, formerly Deputy Secretary-General of the French Civil Aviation Department, has been appointed Deputy Director-General of I.A.T.A. He will assist Sir William Hildred and act for him during his absences from the Association's head office in Montreal. * * * The Parliamentary Secretary to the M.C.A., Mr. FrankBeswick, M.P., has appointed Mr. J. R. Madge to be his private secretary * * * According to latest information, the first production version of the Breguet 761 Deux Ponts will be delivered to the Air Alg6rie company at the end of this month. * * * Pan American has now acquired the prototype Boeing Strato- cruiser which made its first flight in July, 1947. This brings the total of the company's Stratocruiser fleet to 29, including the eight machines which were recently taken over with the assets of A.O.A. * •» * K.L.M. announces new excursion fares to New York which will make air travel actually cheaper than it was before devalua- tion. For journeys completed within 15 days in the period January 1st to March 31st, 1951, the fares will be £147 7s from London via Prestwick, and £139 12s direct from Prestwick. This will effect a saving of £103 18s on the normal return fare from London and £88 16s from Prestwick. * * • In September B.O.A.C. broke all previous records for NorthAtlantic services with a total of 3,678 passengers carried in both directions. This represents an increase of 172 per centover the total for the same route in September, 1949. The number of scheduled flights was more than double last year'sfigure; cargo traffic also showed a very sharp increase * * * Strip-type maps for airline passengers, showing points of interest on given routes, with informative comment in appro- priate languages, are being designed by Francis Chichester, the well-known air navigator and map publisher. Mr. -Chichester, whose address is 9, St. James's Place, London, S.W.I, has so far produced these maps for B.O.A.C., B.EA., Aquila Airways and Air India, * * # Having completed 500 hours of flight trials as a freighter, the SO.30 Bretagne, the French medium-twin airliner, whose progress is being followed with interest by several European operators, has now received a passenger C. of A. Air France has ordered a number of these machines for use on Continental routes, and they will shortly be put into service. A gross weight of 40,700 lb is authorized, which, with reserves, gives AIRSPEED FREIGHTER : As readers of our newsletter will already have learned, Airspeed Ltd., has announced the AS-67 freighter project. Retaining much of the appearance and many of the components of the passenger-carrying Ambassador, it will be powered by two Centaurus 661s. At an over'oad weight of 60,000 Ib a payload of 10,000 Ib would be carried for 3,500 miles. a payload of 8,420 lb on 250-mile stages. A further version of trie aircraft, powered by Pratt and Whitney CA-18s will, when certified, have a maximum a.u.w. of 43.000 Ib. * * * To ensure that overseas passengers find accommodation onarrival in Sydney, Q.E.A. has purchased for £257,000 the shares of the capacious Wentworth Hotel. P.A.A. has opened a new link between the United States andthe Middle East with the inauguration, on October 27th, of a weekly express Stratocruiser service from New York toBeirut via London. Elapsed time for the flight is 21 hr. * * * With the financial assistance of E.C.A., seven representativesof Aer Lingus are shortly to visit the United States to study the methods of American airlines whose size, organization androute systems are comparable with those of the Irish company. * * # Work is now in progress on the Fouga Gemeaux two-seat twin-jet-powered light aircraft, which actually takes the form of two coupled Sylphe powered gliders. It is reported that the prototype may make its first flight within the next few days. Los Angeles Airways have evolved, and circulated for con- sideration by constructors, plans and specifications for a 16- passenger helicopter. The type will have a gross weight "of 16,000 lb, cruise at 125 m.p.h., and cost about $200,000 per aircraft. * * * Six joint owners of a racehorse are sueing Seaboard and Western Airlines, Inc., for a sum of $250,000 in damages; it is claimed that the barking of dogs carried in the same aircraft caused the horse to injure itself fatally on a flight from New York to Paris. * * * Several American airlines fear that they may shortly befaced with httig delays in the delivery of aircraft now on order, and possibly with an acute spares problem. It is thought thatunless "defence priority" is granted, some 161 aircraft, worth $143,000,000, will not meet their delivery dates. The latestorders to be announced are tiiose for 14 more DC-6Bs for United Airlines and for three all-cargo DC-6As—the first timethat an American company has ordered all-freight machines. * * *• Avro Canada, Ltd., has announced that the Jetliner will shortly be put into service as a freighter on several commercial routes in North America. Test flights are now in progress to obtain a C. of A. Results of recent performance trials are said to have shown that the Jetliner's direct operating cost per air- craft mile is considerably less than that of a comparable conventional airliner for a given range, and that there was also little difference between the figures foi the two types when calculated on a seat-mileage basis. A new route between Great Britain andSouth Africa was opened on November 7th when B.O.A.C. flew the first of thethrice-weekly Hermes services from Lon- don to Johannesburg via Tripoli, Kano,Brazzaville and Livingstone. The service is being operated in conjunction withS.A.A.'s Constellation flights, which are being made three times weekly in eachdirection between the same terminal points via Rome, Khartoum and Nairobi.Both the Hermes and Constellation fly between London and Johannesburg,without night stops, in less than 1^ days. With the withdrawal of the Solents fromSouth African routes the whole of B.O.A.C.'s fleet will operate from LondonAirport for the first time.
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