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1951 - 1882.PDF
INTO SERVICE: Rffl.A. "Elizabethan," flagship of B.E.A.'s new Ambassador fleet, has already started its career as a Corporation breadwinner. For an initial period of six weeks it is replacing a scheduled Viking on ordinary services between London and Paris. We publish here two informal photographs taken during the final proving flight on September 1st, when the "Elizabethan" carried a number of leading personalities in British civil aviation. (Left) B.E.A.'s chairman. Lord Douglas of Kirtleside, enjoys a brief interlude in the cockpit with Capt. "Bill" Baillie, who is in charge of the Corporation's Elizabethan Flight. (Right) A general view of passengers disembarking on arrival at Le Bourget. CIVIL AVIATION. . . British Commonwealth, and of the implicit changes in airportorganization, can be obtained from the table below, which has been designed to show at a glance the comparative journey timesfor flights between major cities. The first figure in each space shows the shortest airport-to-airport travel time in hours between various points, with the general direction of the quickest route indicated by arrows.Figures in bold type are the estimated journey-times which would be taken by the Comet. It should be noted that, as a large propor-tion of time is at present occupied by waiting or sleeping at inter- mediate airports, the corresponding Comet times (based on anestimated cruising speed of 430 m.p.h.) will effect the greatest savings—nearly 50 per cent—over the shorter distances. On thelonger journeys the saving will be about 30 per cent. The compiler of the table has admitted, however, that his estimates are on theconservative side because he has ignored the fact that the increased > To § I jz o oo zo 1 5 z52 o £2 i I 8 5 5 14 7 36 18 87 59 70 44 Si 21 73 43 68 47 40 30 56 28 13 7 16 6 67 47 50 31 31 16 53 30 75 52 64 46 74 44 29 17 12 6 48 36 30 19 12 7 34 21 61 43 80 53 78 52 99 78 83 67 48 38 4 2 59 49 90 71 105 78 142 95 153 115 81 61 63 49 28 21 4 2 39 31 71 53 86 66 123 77 134 98 55 34 33 22 II 6 51 42 37 27 21 12 36 25 74 36 84 53 73 57 52 35 31 20 81 64 64 47 17 11 8 4 45 33 56 41 64 41 70 60 48 34 89 -69? 72 53 26 16 9 4 22 13 34 22 40 26 64 42 83 63 127 99 110 82 63 46 45 34 22 14 7 3 39 24 74 40 84 53 I5C 121 133 103 86 69 68 57 45fr- 33 7 3 from VANCOUVER MONTREAL LONDON CAPE TOWN JO'BURG CAIRO CALCUTTA SINGAPORE SYDNEY AUCKLAND Comparative journey times (hours) between major cities on the air routes of the British Commonwealth are shown for existing airline schedules (in ordinary type) and for estimated schedules when D.H. Comets are brought into service (bold type below arrows). The arrows f'fe an indication rftb? (\it'r\"nt •rf/rnrfian ttffrjvrf (east or west). Orawn by Mr. F. 8. ysBotley, B.A., F.R.G.S., thetaBw^s^produced from New Commonwealth ". flying speeds will almost certainly enable one night stop to be cut out on most of the longer journeys. The first two companies to introduce the Comet will be B.O.A.C., who will use them on their London-Australia and London-Johannesburg routes, and Canadian Pacific Air Lines, who will fly them on the Canada-Tokyo service. T.E.A.L.'SjANNUAI/iRESULTS ^ IN announcing the operational results of Tasman EmpireAirways, Ltd., for the year 1950-51, the chairman, A.V-M. Sir Leonard Isirt, discloses the fact that, despite a substantial risein costs last year, the company showed a profit of £16,591. After taking into account interest on loan capital there remained a netprofit of £781. Recent increases in fares, the greater volume of traffic whichhas followed the Korean emergency, and an expansion of the company's services in the Pacific area, should show up T.E.A.L.'sfinances in an even better light at the end of the present financial year. It is worthy of note that the passenger-rate for the trans-Tasman flight is one of the lowest in relation to comparable inter- national services. On nine trans-Tasman services weekly, as well as a number ofschedules to various Pacific islands, the company now has a turn- over of over one million pounds. A fifth aircraft will shortlyaugment the fleet and Pacific routes will then be opened, stretching east to Tahiti. The unduplicated mileage of the company's net-work will total 8,549 miles. Operations have now been carried out for over eleven years without a major mishap of any kind. AIRLINE LIABILITY I C.A.O.'s Legal Committee will meet in Madrid this mpnth• in an attempt to revise existing international laws which limit the liability of airlines for damage caused by accidents in which their aircraft are involved. The main purpose of the meeting will be to discuss the liability laws as laid down by the Warsaw Convention of 1929. Several member-nations are under- stood to favour doubling the present limit, which has been set at $8,291 (£2,961). GEMEAUX RESEARCH PROGRAMME THE Fouga Gemeaux III, which is the flying test-bed for theTurbomeca Marbore Mk II gas turbine (of 780 lb static thrust), made its first flight at Aire-sur-1'Adour on August 24th. The pilotwas Leon Bourrieau, who (as reported in Flight last week) made the initial flight in the CM.101.R "mixed-power" transport on theprevious day. There are actually five prototypes in the present Gemeaux series, the construction of which was undertaken toprovide means for airborne research on various wing profiles and to study radio-activity at high altitudes; they will also be used forrain-making experiments. The three Gemeaux machines which have flown to date, theMarks I, II and III, are powered, respectively, by two Pime'ne's, a Marbore I and a Marbore II. The Marks IV and V, which havenot yet flown, are to be powered by the double-flux Aspin I (of 530 lb static thrust) and Aspin II (730 lb). A PHOENIX ARISES AN announcement made in Germany on September 5th shows^ that the Western Powers are gradually handing over ground control of civil aviation to the local authorities. The West GermanGovernment has established a special section of its Ministry of Transport to take over the non-flying functions of the Allied CivilAviation Board. The Board will progressively hand over the running of departments concerned with air-traffic control, navi-gational aids, airport supervision, aeronautical information, accident investigation and telecommunications.
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