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192 FLIGHT, 15 August 1952 CIVIL AVIATION . . . inclusive, its 13 routes carried 9,000 passengers. This figure exceeds the total number of passengers carried by the company in the first three years of its existence—from 1936 to 1939, when the total was 7,600. On the London route alone 2,930 people were carried—848 on "Starflights"; 3,100 passengers used the com pany's provincial routes, while just 2,000 travelled to and from Glasgow and Edinburgh. The grand total shows an increase of 37 per cent over the last August Bank Holiday figure, which itself was a record. Saturday, August 2nd, was the busiest day in the history of Aer Lingus; 2,741 passengers were carried—four and a half times the total num ber carried in the first year of operation. B.O.A.C. AIRCREW EXPERIENCE ONE-THIRD of B.O.A.C.'s operational aircrews—pilots, navi gators, radio and engineer officers—have now flown more than 1,000,000 miles each. The joint total reached by these 458 aircrew members is well over 500 million miles. Of the 296 captains flying with B.O.A.C., 234 are now "mileage millionaires"; among them are 11 who have made more than 300 crossings of the North Atlantic and 11 others who have made more than 200 crossings. U.K. AIRPORTS IN JUNE MOVEMENTS at U.K. airports during June, 1952, totalled 20,368—2.2 per cent less than in June, 1951. The number of passengers handled, 314,162, represented an increase of 10.3 per cent, but freight loadings and unloadings went down by 15.2 per cent—the total for the month being 3,912 short tons. Airports at which passenger traffic increased (percentage increases in brackets) during June include : London (4.4), Northolt (2.1), Ronaldsway (17.4), Prestwick (37.7), Ringway (35.5), Renfrew (6.7), Belfast (4.5), Jersey (43.8), and Guernsey (39-3)- TURKISH CHARTER COMPANY ONLY recently has permission been granted for private com panies in Turkey to own and operate aircraft.. It is now learned from Field Aircraft Services, Ltd., that a new independent Turkish operator called Gok-Tur, meaning sky tourism, has ordered from them the initial equipment of a charter fleet. The directors of the company are Mehmet Altonbey, a former pilot of Turkish State Airlines who has served some time in the Russian Air Force (and has written a book on the subject); Suha Dagdeviren, a pilot; Benik Odoglo, a merchant; and Faruk Fenik, a prominent Turkish journalist. A Consul and two new Proctor Vs (the former registrations G-AJLM, G-AMTJ and G-AMTI) have been supplied, to date, by W. S. Shackleton, Ltd., in conjunction with Field Aircraft Services, Ltd. The Consul was flown by Shackleton's test pilot, Miss R. M. Sharp, M.B.E., and the Proctors were ferried by Miss D. Hutchinson-Smith and Mr. M. Altunbay; their route was Croydon, Lyons, Nice, Rome, Brindisi, Athens and Istanbul. RADIO REGULATIONS REFERENCE is made to general and restricted-class flight R/T. operators' licences in M.C.A. Information Circular No. 69/1952, which says that licences granted by the Postmaster-General in respect of aircraft radio-stations are being amended. Concerning present regulations, the circular points out that persons undergoing training in flight-crew duties, including members of flying or gliding clubs under instruction (but no others) need not possess «3f# TURKISH EXPORT: Powered by two 135 h.p. D.H. Gipsy Majors, the 124 m.p.h. T.H.K.S light ambulance Is a product of the Turkish Air League factory at Ankara. The example shown was bought by a Danish air ambulance service and is seen on arrival at Kastrup. Nine exam ples of the passenger-carrying T.H.K.SA on Turkish domestic services. a flight R/T. licence in order to operate radio in aircraft for the purpose of sending spoken messages. Under the heading "Conditions" it is stated that the radio transmitter shall only be used for sending spoken messages for instructional purposes or in connection with the safety or naviga tion of the aircraft, and that the transmitter shall be pre-set on one or more of the frequencies assigned for the purpose. BREVITIES AIRLINES using London Airport are reported to have pro tested that the reception buildings are not large enough to handle the increasing number of passengers. An M.C.A. official is quoted as saying that the Ministry realized the inadequacy of the present reception buildings and had submitted plans for extending them. These plans, however, had been turned down "because the Minister has decided to concentrate on getting the central buildings ready as soon as possible." * * * As reported recently in Flight, Civil Air Transport, Inc., have taken full possession of 40 airliners at Kai Tak, Hongkong, following their successful appeal against a decision by the Supreme Court of Hongkong awarding the ownership of the aircraft to the Chinese Government. The Peking Foreign Minister has protested that the Hongkong Government had absolutely no right to transfer the aircraft and that this action was "the most serious expression of hostility shown by the British to the Chinese Government." ¥ ¥ ¥ During the first five months of 1952, Pan American World Airways flew 14 per cent more passenger-miles and 15 per cent more cargo ton-miles than in the corresponding period last year. Their transatlantic services during June showed a 35 per cent increase, compared with passenger-miles flown in June 1951. Trans World Airlines also report excellent results on the North Atlantic as a direct result of the introduction of cut-rate fares ; their eastbound transatlantic traffic during May and June was 30 per cent higher than in the same period last year. * * * Seaboard and Western Airlines' fleet of DC-4S achieved an average daily utilization of 13.6 hr during June. On military and commercial operations over the Pacific during the month, the company logged 3,073 hours and flew 602,248 revenue miles—an eight per cent increase over activities in June, 1951. * ¥ ¥ T.W.A.'s tourist flights carried 209,000 passengers ' in the first seven months of 1952—nearly 30,000 more than in the whole of last year. Of the January- July, 1952, total most of the extra passengers were carried on domestic coach services in America, but T.W.A. transatlantic low-fare services, inaugurated on May rst, carried some 15,000 up to the end of July. FRENCH FEEDER: At Rordeaux-Merignac the Marcel Dassault concern has now almost completed work on the prototype A1D.316—a civil version of the Flamant armed light transport; 300 of the latter type have been built or ordered. Powered by two S.N.E.C.M.A. Super-Mars engines, the M.D.316 will carry eight to ten passengers.
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