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Aviation History
1952
1952 - 0306.PDF
I38 FLIGHT CIVIL AVIATION CAR-CONTAINER: This picture of one of Silver City's Airways' Bristol Freighters was secured during a recent cross- Channel flight. Further reference to these ferry services is wade on the preceding page. BREVITIES ENGAGED on a proving flight to South Africa, the D.H. Comet on loan to B.O.A.C. arrived at Johannesburg on January 23rd; it had previously been forced to return to Entebbe on January 19th because of engine trouble, which necessitated flying out spares from England. The aircraft was due to visit Livingstone Airport before returning to London. * * * An American accessory manufacturer, the Scott Aviation Cor poration, has produced a compact set of oxygen equipment for aircraft of the small private-owner type. Known as the Aviox, it is designed in the shape of a suitcase for easy portability, weighs only 29 lb and provides a 2j-hr supply for four people. * * * T.W.A. has announced the appointment of Mr. Glen Craydon to the position of London district sales manager. His appointment releases Mr. Charles L. Yates, who will be returning to the United States. * * * The M.C.A. has appointed Mr. S. L. Hulme, O.B.E., to be Northern Divisional Controller at the Ministry's Liverpool headquarters. He succeeds Capt. B. L. Huskisson, D.S.C., who now becomes chairman of the Air Traffic Control Development staff at Ariel House. * * * S.A.S. is hoping to fly one of its new DC-6Bs this year from Santa Monica to Stockholm, via Edmonton and Greenland. The company is considering the idea of regular services between the West Coast of the United States by a Polar route, and may eventually fly to Tokyo on a similar routeing. Some idea of the diversity of loads now being carried by freighters of A.N.A. can be obtained from this extract from one week's load-sheets : "Six tractors, 1,200 sprigs of heather, a 5-ton truck, 32 pigs . . ." In Australia the growth of air-cargo traffic is proving particularly rapid, while the airliner as a means of public transport has achieved notable popularity with all sections of the community. * * * The Mexican national airline, Compania Mexicana Aviacion, is yet another of the world's airlines to have reported a striking increase in traffic on last year's operations. C.M.A. handled more than 410,000 passengers and over 21,000,000 kg of freight. Aircraft kilometres flown, about 18,000,000, represented a total of 64,056 flying hours. * * * With seasonal traffic in the Caribbean area nearing its peak, British West Indian Airways, a subsidiary of B.O.A.C., have stepped-up the frequency of their services on two routes. The first, increased from once to twice weekly, is that between San Juan (Puerto Rico) and Trinidad, via Antigua and Barbados. Secondly, an extra flight each fortnight has been added to the existing weekly service between Kingston and San Juan. B.W.I.A. now operate to some 15 island points in the Caribbean and to three centres on the Central and South American mainland. The "pre-clearance" process which has been adopted by Canada and the U.S. to ease border-crossing formalities for airline passengers has been hailed by I.C.A.O. and I.A.T.A. as an out standing example of the way in which co-operation between governments can shorten time-consuming red-tape on inters national flights. Under the new procedure passengers from Canada to the U.S. are cleared for American Customs and immigration before embarking at Toronto. The American Government hopes shortly to introduce a reciprocal process at other Canadian and Mexican border points. I.A.T.A. is urging that a similar system should be instituted at such major traffic centres as London and Paris. * - * * In a recently published report on tourist traffic to this country in 1951 the chairman of the British Travel and Holidays Associa tion disclosed that a record proportion (31 per cent) of our foreign visitors arrived by air. The proportion of American visitors travelling in this way (42 per cent) was also a record. The intro duction of excursion fares is said to have proved a popular and travel-stimulating measure. The total dollar earnings from North SWISS-MADE : A locally developed power-driven conveyer is now used by Swissair for loading and unloading aircraft at Kloten, Zurich. As this photograph shows, the loader can handle items of considerable bulk.
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