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1951
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122 FLIGHT, 27 July 1951 CIVIL AVIATION . . . BREVITIES THE Indian Government has cancelled all charter and non-scheduled flights by Indian airlines. This action is said to have become necessary in order to conserve petrol in view of thePersian oil situation. * * * Mr. H. H. "George" Harman, general manager of QantasEmpire Airways, retired from his post last month; he will be succeeded by Mr. C. O. Turner. * * * Three of Sabena's DC-4S which the Belgian Government sent toassist in the Pacific airlift have just completed their 100th return flight between San Francisco and Japin. * * * The Israeli airline, El Al, which operates a route linking Johan-nesburg and New York, via Lydda, has opened a company branch office in London, in conjunction with the firm of Shoham (Mari-time Services) Ltd. * * * Having completed a year of duty on the Korean airlift, <P.A.A.announce that their aircraft have carried, in all, 30,000 passengers and 11 million pounds of cargo on 968 round trips across thePacific. At the height of the airlift some 24 aircraft were operating under Pan American's direction on this route. - . ; ••. . * * * Because of the heavy demand for bookings on its dollar-earningroute between New York and Bermuda, B.O.A.C. has added a fourth round trip to its present schedule of three per week. The"Bermudian" service was re-established on June 1st, and traffic figures for the first month showed a load factor of 74.4 per cent. * * * The Australian Government has approved an expenditure of£27,000 for the provision of a passenger terminal for Norfolk Island. A new terminal is also to be erected at Port Lincolnairfield, in South Australia, and a further £30,000 will be spent on runway improvements at Port Moresby. * * * On behalf of Eastern Air Lines, Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, the company's president, has signed a 100,000,000-dollar re-equipment order involving some 90 replacement aircraft. Thirty of them will be L-1049 Constellations (to cost 55 million dollars) while the remaining 60 will be the new Martin 4-0-4S. The company will retain the 20 L-749 Constellations which are now in service. * * * Trans-Australia Airlines have requested Government approvalfor the purchase of six Vickers Viscounts, for use on the company's internal routes. The cost of the aircraft is estimated at £1,520,000and it has been stipulated that they will be bought only if a guarantee is given that supplies of paraffin will be available free ofcustoms duty. * * * :- -;:'- The first aircraft ever designed exclusively for agricultural work—a single-engined high-wing monoplane designated the AG-i— was demonstrated recently in America. It has exceptionally goodlow-speed characteristics and is able to land in approximately three times its own length. With its high-lift wing, full span flaps androbust undercarriage, it is particularly suitable for rough-field operation. Developed specifically for crop dusting duties to therequirements of American farmers, the AG-i will be priced at about 8,000 dollars (approximately £2,850). *•« LEARNING THE ROPES: Taking a professional interest in the workings of Montreal Airport's control tower are two members of the fourth I.C.A.O. Trainee Programme, Mr. A. Paoletti, of Italy, and Mr. D. Abdul-Hak, of the Lebanon. On completing their studies they will return to their home countries to help maintain a close liaison between their own administrations and I.C.A.O. The C.A.B. has authorized the operation of America's first helicopter taxi service. It will be run by Los Angeles Airways and will serve towns within 50 miles of that city. L.A.A., of course, have been running cargo and mail services in the area since 1947. The new scheme has been approved for a period of five years. * * * Mr. Dhan Mukerji, a son of the celebrated Indian author and philosopher, Mr. Dhan Gopal Mukerji, has been appointed traffic and sales manager to the Atlantic Division of P.A.A. He has been with Pan American since 1941 and in recent years was responsible for line offices along the company's Pacific routes. * * * B.O.A.C. have just completed the longest charter flight the Corporation has ever been called upon to make. It entailed a round trip of 25,000 miles from London to Melbourne to relieve a British ship's crew whose contracts had expired. A 40-seat York completed the journey in 15 days. * * * " . , •"'" • ;- •: ••*,#:'•'.:< The M.C.A. has announced a number of new appointments inits Scottish Division. Mr. W. F. Rimmer has been appointed Scottish Divisional Operations Officer, in succession to G/C.G. F. K. Donaldson, who is now to command the M.C.A. Flying Unit at Stansted. Mr. Crawford Halley, D.S.O., has taken overthe Scottish Eastern Group of civil airports from Cdr. G. A. Nunnery, O.B.E., R.N.(Retd.), who is now to be airport comman-dant at Castel Benito, North Africa. Mr. Edward Wright will shortly become commandant of the Northern Group of airports,in succession to Mr. J. H. de P. Rennick, who is taking up a post at the Ministry's headquarters in London. THE NATIONAL GLIDING CONTEST 'T'HIS year's British National Gliding Championships—now in-•- progress at the Derbyshire and Lancashire Gliding Club's site at Great Hucknall—hold high promise of some exciting contestsand are likely to see the establishment of several new records. A complete list of participants is given in the accompanying table. Twelve different types of aircraft have been entered, the mostcommon being the British Eon Olympia, which, it will be re- membered, is only basically of German design. There is also oneoriginal German Olympia which is being flown by Lt. Cdr. H. C. N. Goodhart of the Royal Naval Gliding and SoaringAssociation. Entries are in either Team or Individual classes. In the latterclass there are seven competitors, all of them top-rank gliding pilots. They include Philip Wills, C.B.E. (chairman of the B.G.A., winner of four recent championships, holder of the BritanniaTrophy for 1950 and also of two national records), Mr. Lome Welch (now chief instructor at the Surrey Gliding Club, and amember of last year's international team), Mr. G. H. Stephensoa (placed third in the 1950 championships, and the first glider pilotto cross the Channel); and F/L. A. W. Bedford, of the R.A.E., Farnborough, who now holds four national records. There are two women entrants—Mrs. Ann Douglas (chairmanof the Surrey Gliding Club), and Miss M. Gilbert, who also flew in the last year's contests. The Services are represented by 24 pilots,of whom 20 are serving with the R.A.F., two with the Navy and the remaining two with the Army. Two Sedbergh T.21 Bs havebeen entered by the A.T.C.; the team captains are S/L. J. C Ward and F/L. Neubroch, and during the contest flights, the
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