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1951
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178 CIVIL AVIATION . . . FLIGHT COMPACT CONDITIONER. The Godfrey air-conditioning trolley, here seen serving a Hermes IV, is now standardized by B.O.A.C. The Persian crisis is also said to have caused a reduction inservices. It has led to a serious shortage of aviation spirit in India and similar effects are likely to be felt in Pakistan very soon.The shortage will affect aircraft bound for Australia and the Far East. Stocks of petrol are now so low that many of the companiesoperating these routes have already had to restrict their flights. The situation is regarded as temporary, as normal services shouldbe resumed as soon as the stocks have been replenished from other sources. If the fuel shortage in India continues for much longer,however, it is thought that scheduled services to the Far East may break down completely. This is regarded as yet another reasonwhy the British government' should take steps to establish a close liaison between itself and the air transport operators so that every-one may derive the best possible advantages from the space and the fuel supplies which are available. In Europe, also, there are further troubles. The Russian refusalto grant transit visas for West Berlin manufacturers has led to an accumulation of goods worth nearly six million pounds. In orderto cope with this situation a second Berlin airlift has been started on a minor scale. Operating four nights daily from Tempelhof toHamburg, aircraft of P.A.A., Air France and B.E.A. are together carrying a total of 30 tons a day. To augment this unofficial airlift,a Tudor aircraft operated by Fairflight has also been positioned at Tempelhof. Berlin firms which said they were unable to pay theextra charges for air freight have been told that the difference in transport costs will be defrayed by arrangement between theBerlin municipality and the Allied High Commission. Although, to provide maximum space for freight, seats have been removedfrom passenger aircraft flying to Berlin, there is apparently no intention at the moment of using any Service machines for thispurpose. HERON ON CHANNEL ISLES SERVICE BRITISH European Airways were due to start operating, lastweek-end, the prototype D.H. Heron on services from London Airport to the Channel Islands for a period of five weeks. Theexperiment is designed to give the manufacturers operating experience with the Heron and also to provide additional capacityfor the Corporation at the peak traffic period. The aircraft is being used only at week-ends and all maintenance is being car-ried out by the manufacturers. A Heron flight to the Scilly Isles, from the co-pilot's viewpoint, was described in Flight last week. U.K. AIRFIELD ACTIVITY MORE than 213,000 passengers were handled at the UnitedKingdom airfields during May. This total was nearly 27,000 more than in the corresponding month of last year. Air- transport movements during the month amounted to 15,527, as compared with 17,341 in May 1950. This decrease of 10.5 per cent is mainly due to a reduction in the number of scheduled flights made by B.E.A. and its associates. The number of movements on international routes rose byabout 800 as compared with May 1950. Detailed figures for all reporting airfields are given in the adjacent table. U.K. AIR TRAFFIC IN Airfields Northolt Blackbushe Bovingdon ..• ... ••• Crovdon • .-• •-• StanstedLondon Area Totals ... 1951 1950 Provincial Aberdeen (Dyce) Belfast (Nutts Corner) BenbeculaBirmingham (Elmdon) Blackpool (Squires Gate) Bristol (Lulsgate Bottom)Bristol (Whitchurch) Cardiff Edinburgh (Turnhouse) Glasgow (Renfrew) Inverness (Dalcross) Islay (Port Ellen) Isle of Man (Ronaldsway) Kintyre (Machrihanish) Kirkwall Land's End (St. Just) Leeds (Yeadon) Liverpool (Speke) Manchester (Ringway) Nottingham (Tollerton) Prestwick Shoreham ... Scilly Isles (St. Marys) Southampton (Eastleigh) Southampton Water Southend (Rochford) Stornoway Sumburgh Weston-super-Mare Wick Alderney Guernsey Channel Islands Totals All reporting airfields 1951 1950 MAY Aircraft Movements Total 4,278 4,820 3,290 1,5351,794 312 696 16,725 14,931 1,430 820 120 1,039 1,942 4 1,462 4,292 1,824 862 1,940 478 126 124 620 168 302 422 639 2,166 1,0712,643 200 994 835 427 1,216 6 2,511 102 77 96 184 232 — — 48,099 47,064 Air Trans- port 3,023 3,860 125 52 433 31 4 7,528 7,335 207 730 108 310 133 98 143130 12 880 25 123 112 540 124 275 377 28 483 447940 9 5557 382 238 696 71 62 84 44 220 289 1,200 1,5483,037 15,527 17,341 Other Flight* 1,255 960 3,165 1,4831.361 281 692 9,197 7,596 1,22390 12 729 1,809 4 1,364 4,1491,694. 850 1,060 453 3 12 8044 27 45 611 1,683 6241,703 191 439 828 45 978 _2,415 31 15 12 140 12 — — 32,572 29,723 Passen- gers HandledTerminal and Transit) 71,463 66,472 1,941 692 835145 24 141,572 115,983 1,3699,856 665 2,917 504 —627 405 1^2 10,646 63 515 407 5,229 449 1,617 1,800 61 5,396 1,8319.011 75 9,37513 1,788 2,908 123464 674 582 14395 583 1,161 7,418 13,02221,601 213,012 186,152 Freight (Short Tons) 1,324.3 680.1 134.8 74.5 117.5 _ 2,331.2 1,923.2 12.3 163.2 1.7 28.1 — — 13.3 _ 4.0 46.8 1.23.9 24.4 -* 3.6 8.8 2-4 — 71.0 838.0 319.7 — 46.1 — 2.5 2.6 ' — 17.8 5.5 4.4 1.1— 0.9 29.3 68.4 53.0 150.7 3,954.3 2,755.3 BREVITIES TRANS-CANADA Airlines are known to be considering thepossibility of ordering either DC-6Bs or Super Constellations in the near future. * * * The first of the new Martin 4-0-4S made its initial flight onJuly 27th; it was one of the 41 machines destined for T.W.A. A further 60 have been ordered by Eastern Air Lines and twomore will go to the U.S. Coast Guard. * * * The last of the six Saab Scandias ordered by the Brazilian airline, V.A.S.P., was flown from Linkoping to Rio de Janeiro; it will be put into service on the Rio-Sao Paulo service. Six more of these Swedish-built twin-engined medium airliners are now being used by S.A.S. * * * W. S. Shackleton, Ltd., have sold the three remaining Dovesand a large quantity of engines and spares which were previously owned by the East African Airways Corporation. One machineis going to the Middle East; two have gone to Lae, New Guinea. In France, certification trials are still going ahead with two lightprototypes, the Marbore-powered Fouga Cyclope II and the Max Holste 152. The latter machine, incidentally, recently climbed to17,060ft in 30 min. Lack of oxygen, however, obliged the pilot to discontinue the ascent when his rate of climb was still 32oft/min. * * * Mr. K. G. Bakhle, B.Sc, M.I.E., M.Inst.T., has now takenup his appointment as managing director of Air India and Air India International, Ltd. Mr. Bakhle retired in April from theposition of Chief Commissioner of Indian Railways after 25 years of service. * * * At a cost of £20,000 each, three new control towers of standard design are to be built on the Australian airports of Essendon (Melbourne), Mascot (Sydney) and Eagle Farm (Brisbane). Special attention will be given to the siting of the new towers, which will be located near the thresholds of the instrument run- ways so that the interval for safety between landings can be reduced to a minimum.
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