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1951
1951 - 1713.PDF
FLIGHT, 7 September 1951 CIVIL AVIATION... BREVITIES A CIVIL air agreement was signed in Beirut last week by theBritish Minister to the Lebanon and the Lebanese Minister of Foreign Affairs on behalf of their respective governments. Each country has granted the other permission to operate scheduled air services to and through its territory. The agreement is on the liberal (or "Bermuda") pattern and it is intended to establish a firm basis for the further development of communications between British territories and the Lebanon. * * * B.E.A. was due to make an inaugural Ambassador flight on the London-Paris route last Saturday. It has been announced that the Corporation expects to take delivery of the first five Ambassadors by September 21st. Known as Elizabethans, the type will progressively replace Vikings on several European routes. * * * Canadair, Ltd., has received a $3,400,000 order from the Canadian Department of Defence for the repair and reconditioning of DC-3 and Canadair aircraft used by the R.C.A.F. Another large contract recently issued by the same department was awarded to the Bristol Aeroplane Company of Montreal (formerly Canadian Wright, Ltd.) for the repair of Rolls-Royce engines. * * * Using a new type of "cattle pen" in a Bristol Freighter, Australian National Airways recently flew several loads of pedigree cattle to the Brisbane Show. One consignment was described by A.N.A. as "an Australian record for livestock load lifted by one aircraft." It comprised nine Shorthorn bulls, each weighing nearly half a ton. Another 7,600-lb consignment of Hereford cattle was also flown to the same destination. * * * With six Bristol Freighters in service, Silver City Airways had by mid-August carried more vehicles on their cross-Channel ferry service than in the whole of last season's operations. On July 28th a new record of 42 round trips in one day was established. Services are now being operated on a year-round basis. * * * It has been announced by the Argentine Air Ministry that all private aircraft have been banned from flying over greater Buenos Aires or from approaching the nearby coasts unless prior per- mission has been obtained. They will apparently be shot down if they disobey orders to land from Air Force patrol aircraft. A "restricted zone" has been established over Buenos Aires running parallel to the Uruguayan coast, from the estuary of the Parana River in the north to La Plata in the south. Regular commercial airline flights, however, are not affected, as they already follow established routes in and out of the metropolitan area. * * * The inauguration of the Christchurch-Melbourne air service last month elevated Harewood to the position of New Zealand's third international terminal. Harewood is considered the best location in the island close to a centre of population which is suitable for a trans-Tasman terminal. * * * Mr. J. Baldwin, chairman of the Canadian Air Transport Board, has appointed the Canadian Commercial Air Attache in London, Mr. J. H. Tudhope, and a member of the Board's engineering staff, to represent the Board's views on the commercial use of jet aircraft at the Commonwealth Conference, to be held in London from September 25th to October 5th. * * * Lord Douglas of Kirtleside, chairman of B.E.A., intimated during a recent visit to the Shetlands that two aircraft might be brought into daily operation between the Shetlands and the Scottish mainland next year. He suggested that one of these might provide a direct service between Aberdeen and Sumburgh without an intermediate call at Kirkwall; 20-seat Marathons would be used. * * * The first transport aircraft in the world to use mixed power units made its maiden flight on August 23rd. It was the Fouga CM.101 R, a 14-passenger transport which is actually fitted with rwo Snecma 12SO engines, delivering 1,160 h.p. each, and two Turbomdca turbojets, each of 220 kg static thrust. The flight lasted 50 min and the pilot was Le"on Bourrieau, who, it will be remembered, was also responsible for the prototype tests of the Fouga series of jet-powered sailplanes. * * * At a meeting held in Dublin recently, the Irish Airline Pilots' Association decided to accept, as a basis for negotiation, an Aer Lingus proposal to reduce flying hours to a maximum of 100 hr during any one month and to 285 hr for any three-month period during the summer schedules. It is understood that this proposal was agreed to because the company has undertaken to start negotiations immediately on grievances concerned with flying times, salaries and general working conditions. The Association had previously decided to call upon pilots to cease flying. GLIDING REVIVAL IN GERMANY The recent lifting of the ban on gliding in Germany was the signal for a show of activity which suggests that, even if actual construction and gliding were banned, designers at least must have been hard at work behind locked doors and shuttered windows. In a miraculously short space of time some extremely interesting craft have appeared. It is claimed that the tailless prototype shown in the left-hand photograph was built for as little as £35. On the right, a German-built Grunau Baby is seen under starter's orders during the first gliding contest to be held in Germany since the war. It was held at the Wasserkuppe—now feared to be too near the Soviet zone to continue safely in use.
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