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1952
1952 - 0918.PDF
430 CIVIL AVIATION . . . A GERMAN AIRLINE? THERE have for some time been persistent rumours that a German airline will soon be formed. A recent report from Bonn suggests that a West German airline will begin operations in the spring of 1953. The report says that plans for the re-establishment of a German airline are now being prepared in Cologne by former officials of Deutsche Lufthansa. A private company is being formed to operate the airline and Wilhelm Bongers, last director general of D.L.H., has been named as head of the new company. German Government officials are quoted as saying that the new airline will operate services to North and South America as well as within Western Europe. A fleet of about 30 four-engined and twin-engined aircraft has been forecast and as Germany is forbidden to construct aircraft the airline will have to purchase foreign equipment. No mention of specific types has been made. It is also understood that Germany wishes to become a member of I.C.A.O. The old Deutsche Lufthansa was founded in 1926 by the amalgamation of Junkers Luftverkehr and Deutsche 'Aero-Lloyd. D.L.H. operated an extensive network which included a regular South Atlantic mail route; the company was dissolved at the end of the war. MORE IN MANY PI keeping with the present trend in increasing passenger accommodation in existing transport aircraft, the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board has circulated, in a proposed amendment to the Civil Air Regulations, new standards for maximum seating. The figures quoted (which include crew) are: Boeing 307 Stratoliner (61), 377 Stratocruiser (96), Convair-Liner (51), Curtiss C-46 Commando (67), Douglas DC-3 (31), Super DC-3 (35), DC-4 (83), DC-6 and DC-6B (87), Lockheed Constellation L-049 (87), L-649 and L-749 (69), L-1049 Super-Constelhtion (94), Martin 2-0-2 (53) and Martin 4-0-4 (45). It should be noted that the L-049, L-649 and L-749 Constellations can carry 87 occupants when there are six exits and one door in the passenger section or 69 when there are only four exits and one door in the passenger section. The figures have been arrived at on the basis of the provision of emergency exits, and evacuation tests under emergency condi tions are to be undertaken under C.A.A. supervision. "Passen gers" taking part in the tests will be divided into age groups com prising 60 per cent between 27 and 45 and 20 per cent each of 15-26 and 46-65. There will be 20 per cent of women in each group. In Britain the B.E.A. Pionair class DC-3S are carrying up to 32 passengers and three crew and the Corporation's Vikings are being converted to carry up to 38 passengers and four crew. AIRPORT CHANGES THE Ministry of Civil Aviation has purchased two airfields under the Civil Aviation Act and a further three are in process of legal conveyance. Those concerned are Islay, Hum, Land's End (St. Just), Southampton (Eastleigh) and Stansted. Of these, Islay, Land's End and Southampton are used by regular scheduled services of B.E.A. At Aberdeen, Dyce Airport is to have a new 2,000-yd runway; good progress is now being made and it is hoped that work will be completed by August. Further south, airport construction has been the subject of dis cussion by the Newcastle City Council. A plan for the construc tion of a "utility" runway at Newcastle's airport had been pre pared whereby the cost would be only £6,500. It was proposed that 46,000 tons of spoil from a pit heap near Newcastle should be used and 26,000 tons would have been supplied free. Following criticism from Councillor Hutton, who said this runway would be above the level of the surroundings fields, and would be dangerous for heavy aircraft, Alderman Mould-Graham, chairman of the Airport Committee, agreed to take back the scheme for further examination. A B.I.A.T.A. GATHERING AT an informal gathering of the British Independent Air Transport Association's members and guests in London last week we learned that a fair number of Associate Agreements have now been approved for 1952 scheduled operations by British independent operators. These include five international route operations, 12 to the Channel Islands, one to the Isle of Wight, seven to the Isle of Man and four cross-country routes. There are also a number of provisionally approved inter national and domestic route operations. Two provisionally approved agreements have been withdrawn by the companies concerned. Not included inihe approved list to date is the application of FLIGHT WITH A SHAMROCK ON ITS NOSE: This Bristol 170 Mk. 31 has recently been delivered to Aer Lingus and it will be one of a number of this type to be used by the Irish Air Lines this year. Silver City Airways for a Southampton to Isle of Wight ferry ser vice for the carriage of passengers, cars, motor cycles and pedal cycles. It is hoped that this service will be in operation by Easter. Proposed single fares are £4 6s for a small car, £5 7s 6d for a medium-sized car and £6 9s for a large one. Motor cycles will be carried for 32s 6d, cycles for 13s 6d and passengers for 13s 9d. Return fares will be double the single fare. Bristol Freighters will be used and they will be able to carry two cars, a number of motor cycles and cycles and, in a separate cabin, 12 passengers. Scottish Aviation was well represented at the B.I.A.T.A. gathering and we learned that this company has in the project stage a twin-engined development of the Prestwick Pioneer. It is designed for two Alvis Leonides engines and it would carry about 12 people. The present membership of B.I.A.T.A. is 11, plus six associate and 34 affiliate members. I.CA.O. AND THE UPPER AIR TWELVE member-nations of the International Civil Aviation Organization are engaged in a series of experiments designed to show whether an increase in upper-air weather observations will provide enough benefit to air navigation to justify the additional cost. The experiments, which are due to end in a week's time, consist of doubling the frequency of most of the upper air observations taken at weather posts in and around the North Atlantic. Over part of the research-period radio and radar wind-observations have been taken every six hours. March and April have been chosen for these experiments as frequent large-scale weather changes occur at this time. The main purpose of the research is to improve the upper-air weather forecasts upon which the technique of pressure pattern flying depends. Taking part in the trials are land stations in the Azores, Belgium, Bermuda, Canada, France, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the U.S.A. The ten Atlantic weather-ships are also participating. RISING SUN AND AIR PI November, 1945, General MacArthur, then Supreme Allied Commander, directed the Japanese Government to enforce legislation forbidding the Japanese to engage in aviation. A cabinet ordinance based on this directive has remained intact except for recent amendments permitting certain persons in Japan to take part in commercial aviation enterprises with chartered foreign aircraft. Under the terms of these amendments, Nippon Koku Kabushiki Kaisha (Japan Air Lines Co., Ltd.) began operating dom stic services last October. At present J.A.L. is flying Tokyo-Osaka four times each way on weekdays with one service continuing to Fukuoka; a weekly Sapporo-Misawa-Tokyo service, and a six times weekly Sapporo-Tokyo nonstop service. J.A.L.'s survey and proving flights were made with a DC-3 chartered from Philippine Air Lines which was painted with Japanese markings—the first aircraft to wear them since 1945.
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