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Aviation History
1951
1951 - 1883.PDF
370 FLIGHT CIVIL AVIATION... According to informed sources, the Allies themselves have notyet been able to reach agreement on the actual date on which the security ban on flying is to be lifted. Meanwhile, Germangliding activity is already in full swing (see Flight, September 7th) and, no doubt, designers are already at work on plans for a numberof powered light aircraft. It is doubtful whether, in her present economic position, Germany would be able to carry out the construction of any largeor competitive civil machines (except under licence from foreign manufacturers); but there is believed to be enough moneyinitiative and interest in flying in Western Germany to bring lorth several interesting sporting prototypes in the immediate futureIn that event, and if the rapid progress made by the German gliding movement since the lifting of the ban on its active existenceis any criterion, European air-racing enthusiasts may in due course be faced with strong German competition comparable with that ofthe years just before the war. BREVITIES DENMARK has accepted an invitation from the BritishGovernment to send a delegation to London to discuss Anglo-Scandinavian aviation problems. * * * Following a year's trial with the American type of "flight progress" board used in control towers, the Australian Department of Civil Aviation has decided that this system will now be brought into full-scale use throughout the Commonwealth. Similar equipment is in service at London and Northolt Airports. * * * The Ceylon Government has decided to grant commercial rights to K.L.M. as soon as a new runway has been completed at Ratmalana airport, ten miles from Colombo. The agreement will probably be signed when Ceylon's Minister of Transport, Sir John Kotelawala, visits Holland shortly. * * * An "eternal triangle" problem has been posed for the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board, which has to decide whether Northeast Airlines are to merge with Delta Airlines or National Airlines. National has strongly opposed the Northeast/Delta merger plan as it considers that a National/Northeast combination would be a more logical solution. * * * Canadian-Pacific Airlines has become the twenty-second opera- tor to select DC-6Bs as replacements for existing equipment. The company has ordered three 50-passenger versions, each equipped with a private stateroom in the forward section. The main cabin will have 42 sleeperette seats, a buffet, cloakroom, lounge and small cocktail bar. The company will use the machines on its trans-Pacific routes; delivery is scheduled for late 1952. * * * It has been stated in Sydney by A.V-M. Sir Leonard Isitt, on behalf of B.C.P.A., that his company could maintain adequate temporary passenger schedules if B.O.A.C. and Qantas services have* to be cut because of oil shortages in India and Pakistan. If necessary, he said, B.C.P.A. could fly an additional return service weekly to the U.S. and Canada from Australia, as well as other Pacific and Atlantic schedules. * * * After several years of negotiation in the post-war period, it now appears that K.L.M. may resume its service between Amsterdam and Sydney. The leader of the Dutch delegation which has just visited Australia for talks on the subject expressed the hope that the first weekly service might start in November. Formal conclu- sion of the agreement reached between the two governments is expected to follow shortly. Q.E.A. have added two 30-passenger ex-B.O.A.C. ShortPlymouth flying-boats to their fleet; they will be used on the Noumea, Fiji and New Hebrides services. Plymouths have a ;normal range of 2,000 miles and cruise at 150 m.p.h. * * * American airlines taking part in the Korea airlift have been toilthat although the U.S. Military Air Transport Service will continue to use 60 of their airliners, several companies may have some oftheir aircraft returned to them to help in meeting the summer traffic peaks. * * * Trans-Canada Air Lines announce the appointment of Mr. W. Gordon Wood to be vice-president in charge of traffic. He will be responsible for development of the company's passenger, carjo and air express traffic and will also present T.C.A.'s viewpoint |t: I.A.T.A. conferences. , * * * Next month Sabena will open a new service between Coster- mansville (Belgian Congo) and Dar-es-Salaam (Tanganyika). Flights will be made weekly with DC-3S via Albertville and Tabora. Sabena's operations in the Belgian Congo, incidentally, already constitute the largest colonial network in the world (12,500 miles). * * * K.L.M. have announced that sales in the first half cf this year were 26 per cent higher, and productivity 22 per cent higher, than in the corresponding period of 1950. Apart from the cancellation of special flights to the Far East and Australia which have followed the P.ersian oil shortage, prospects for the second half of the year are said to be favourable. The number of emigrant flights to Canada was recently increased to a frequency of ten flights a month. * * * For the part which it played in re-establishing vital radio services at Palisadoes Airport, Jamaica, following the recent hurricane, International Aeradio (Caribbean), Ltd., has been officially thanked by the Governor of the island and by the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Although the terminal building and the control tower were completely destroyed, two tower frequencies and four air-to-ground and seven point-to-point circuits were working within two days of the disaster. California Central Airlines has purchased five Martinlinertransports to replace the DC-3 and DC-4 equipment which the company has used for the past few years. The acquisition of thenew machines will make CCA. the first American scheduled inter-state operator to be equipped with 300-m.p.h. aircraft. Theprovision of fast, high-capacity equipment is of particular import- ance to CCA. as the company is dependent entirely on itspassenger revenue, having no mail or ofeer subsidies to supplement its income. * * * Speaking in Edinburgh at the recent congress of the BritishAssociation for the Advancement of Science, the Director-General of I.C.A.O., Dr. Edward Warner, expressed the opinion that thecost of air travel would have to be reduced to id. or less per passenger-mile if aircraft were to be used in future to extend thesuburban radius of metropolitan communities up to 100 miles or more from Britain's larger cities. If the cost of travel were 4<iper mile (somewhat below present European air-travel rates) the cost of a 100-mile journey from home to office would be somethingover £3 per day. ON PARADE : These three variants of well-known Miles products were spotted together by "Flight's" cameraman on the airfield at Redt:•" recently. They are (left to right) the Mk II Gemini (125 h.i- Continentals), Mk VI Aerovan (195 h.p. 0-435A Lycomings) and V<e Aries (155 h.p. Cirrus Majors). The last-named machine, incidental •>, is reported to have a single-engine climb of 300ftjmin with four i">-
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