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1952
1952 - 1976.PDF
8o FLIGHT, 18 July 1952 CIVIL AVIATION SAFETY IN THE STATES T HE National Safety Council of America has named no fewer than 42 scheduled U.S. flag airlines as winners of its safety award for 1951. All operations covered are domestic flights in the U.S.A. and Alaska. Fifteen of the carriers are trunk and international carriers, 10 are territorial airlines, 16 are feeder-line operators and one is a scheduled cruise line. All qualified for the award in one of the three following ways: completing the calendar year 1951 without passenger or crew fatality j flying 2,000,000,000 or more consecutive passenger-miles without fatality even though an accident terminated its safety record in 1951; completed five or more consecutive years of safe operation even though a fatality terminated its record in 1951. Twenty-eight of the companies had had no fatal accident since they began operations, in some cases as early as 1930. The greatest amount of fatality-free operations by any airline was 4,675,379,000 passenger-miles. The passenger-fatality rate for U.S. domestic operations during 1951 was 1.3 per 100,000,000 passenger miles. This was slightly higher than the rate of 1.1 for 1950. In the year covered by these awards there was an average of 12,464 daily take-offs and landings and the percentage of fatal crashes in total daily operations was roughly .0001 per cent. UNIVERSAL AIR-TRAVEL CREDIT "VTEARLY half a million airline customers are using the "charge -L^l it" system of the Universal Air Travel Plan to buy travel over the routes of 71 of the world's certificated airlines. The plan is sponsored jointly by I.A.T.A. and the Air Traffic Conference of the Air Transport Association of America, and is administered by C. C. Hubbard of the latter organization. More than 38,000 new cards have been issued during the past year to enable more travellers to take advantage of the only world-wide credit plan now in operation by the air-transport industry. Under the plan, the traveller is able to secure a credit card honoured by all of the 71 A.T.A. and I.A.T.A. member-airlines flying domestic and international routes. In addition, the credit cards are honoured by a large number of hotels in the United States who are members of the American Hotel Association, as well as by automobile rental services. Of the total of 476,921 air fine credit cards now in use, 345,944 have been issued for transport within North America and 130,877 for world-wide international transport, 80 have been issued for use in connection with controlled currencies, and 20 for use in Germany. HEAVYWEIGHT: Unusual aspect of the S.E.2010 Armagnac, which, with a wing-span of 160ft 7in and a gross weight of some 165,000 lb, is the largest civil transport aircraft in airline service—in this case with T.A.I. (Cie de Transports Aeriens Intercontinentaux). Power-units are four 3,500 h.p. Wasp Majors and up to 107 seats can be fitted. CO-ORDINATING MEDITERRANEAN TRAFFIC AN I.C.A.O. announcement states that an investigation will be **- made into the possibility of I.C.A.O. direction of an air-traffic co-ordination centre in the Eastern Mediterranean flight informa tion region. At present no single unit exists in the region for the provision of flight-information services. Present procedures permit an aircraft in the region to obtain flight-information services from Beyrouth (Lebanon), Cairo (Egypt) or Lydda (Israel) as the pilot may choose. This does not prove satisfactory as, for non-technical reasons, there is no exchange of information between Beyrouth or Cairo on the one hand and Lydda on the other. Consequently, none of the centres has knowledge of all aircraft movements in the region and cannot supply an aircraft with reliable information on the location of other aircraft in its vicinity. There is also no exchange of important meteorological information. The purpose of the proposed co-ordinating facility is to receive information affecting the safety of aircraft in the region and to ensure that this information is passed on to all units needing it. The action taken by the I.C.A.O. Council was the result of recommendation made by its Air Navigation Commission, which has also instructed the Secretariat to prepare, in collaboration with the states concerned, a plan covering the establishment, staffing and operation of the proposed facility. It is based upon a proposal adopted at an I.C.A.O. Regional Air Navigation meeting held in Paris this spring. This recommendation asked that the FREIGHTERS OF A.N.A.—the company operates three—are used mainly in connection with the famous Air Reef scheme. The prize shorthorns on the left, however, have been led aboard the Freighter for carriage to a Brisbane cattle show, instead of a slaughter station. The aircraft are also in demand for transporting horses to inter-state race meetings, as illustrated on the right.
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