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1951
1951 - 1640.PDF
FLIGHT, 24 August 1951 235 KEEPING COMPANY: type VY: "Elizabethan," the first Ambassador to go into service with B.E.A., poses on the tarmac at Northolt alongside the proto- de Havilland Heron which is at present being used experimentally on week-end services to the Channel Isles. CIVIL AVIATION . . . H- which still left some 400 gallons in reserve. A refuelling stop of two hours was made at Rome and the aircraft left at 0058 hr for El Adem. From this point it flew direct to Khartoum, with Wadi Haifa designated as a possible refuelling stop if conditions were unfavourable. The pilot in charge of the tropical trials programme is Mr. Ron Clear, with Mr. B. A. Powell, also of Airspeed's, acting as co-pilot. The Golden Hind carried—including a flight-crew of four— a complement of 21 aircrew, technicians, inspectors and observers. The take-off weight on the departure from Hum was within a few pounds of the maximum a.u.w. of 52,500 lb. BREVITIES AUTO-P/LOT IN is obviously the order of the day as Capt. W. Baillie Waxes at the controls of B.E.A.'s "Elizabethan" during one of the acceptance trial flights described in the news-item above. THE British Independent Air Transport Association has nowformally confirmed the appointment of Mrs. E. Whittaker as its secretary. * * * A new fortnightly service linking Nicosia, Beirut and Kuwaitwas introduced by Cyprus Airways on August 1st. The company, which is based on Nicosia, operates a fleet of Dakotas. * * * The Columbian airline, Avianca, has been ordered by the CivilAeronautics Board of Ecuador to cease operations in that country with effect from September 1st. Services were actually curtailedfrom August 1st. * * * Trans-Oceanic Airways, who operate Solents, have announcedplans for a daily direct flight between Sydney and Hobart. The company hopes that the service will begin this month. There isalso a further plan to operate an inter-state service in Tasmania with smaller flying boats. * •* * Extensive improvements are now under way at Dorval, the air-port for Montreal. The north-east and south-west runways have now been extended from 5,000 to 7,000ft and are being resurfacedwith macadam and asphalt; I.L.S. will be provided on the two longest runways. * * * At present B.O.A.C. has no fewer than 333 aircrew memberswho have flown more than 1,000,000 miles. Of this total 29 are double mileage-millionaires, and one pilot, Capt. O. P. Jones, haseven exceeded the three-million-mile mark. For the statistically minded, the 333 have spent 273 years in the air. * * * Mr. Misha Black, a director of the Design Research Unit, willadvise B.O.A.C. on the design of equipment to be used in the Corporation's new maintenance base, now under construction atLondon Airport. He will supervise the design of such units as instrument repair benches and will assist in the visual co-ordina-tion of test equipment. * * * Civil aviation officials from Ceylon, India, Indonesia, Pakistanand Siam have been invited to visit Australia with the object of determining to what degree Australia may assist in the trairingof civil aviation personnel from the south-east Asiatic countries. The visits are the result of the Commonwealth technical co-opera-tion programme which was the outcome of the Colonial conference held at Colombo last year. * * * Representatives of all international and national airlines operat-ing through India agreed at a conference in New Delhi on August 14th to reduce by one third the amount of aviation fuel tobe supplied to their aircraft at landing grounds in India. This action is designed to alleviate to some extent the oil shortagecaused by the closing of the Abadan oil refineries; the arrangement was effective on August 20th.
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