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1953
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2 January 1953 Span ... Length Wing Area 95ft 65.Sft .. 754sqft COMPETITORS in the Dakota-replacement field are the Fokker F.27 Friendship (left) and the Canadair CL-21, whose remarkable similarity is brought out by these new three-view drawings. Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops will power the 31,950 lb, 28-seater Dutch machine; the Canadair contender, powered by Wright Cyclones and designed to carry 32 passengers, will have an all-up weight of 32,500 lb. bination of speed, capacity, passenger appeal and convertibility. The machine cruises at 350 m.p.h., and has sufficient structural strength to use the more powerful turboprops, should they eventu ally replace the existing compound engines. A list of airlines which have ordered Super Constellations appears on page 7. ICELANDIC A.C.M. AT the annual general meeting of Flugfelag Islands H.F. - (Icelandic Airways), on November 28th, general manager Orn O. Johnson was again able to report an increase in all types of traffic during 1951-52. Compared with the previous year, passenger, freight and mail traffic were up by 10 per cent, 165 per cent and 31 per cent respectively. Revenue earned by the com pany during 1951 amounted to Kr.13,310,000 (£291,250)—an increase of more than 40 per cent on the previous year's receipts. After deductions, the company showed a net profit of Kr.30,179 (£660). Flugfelag's aircraft carried a total of 26,443 passengers during the year, over a total distance of 609,550 revenue-miles. Revenue ton-miles totalled 842,140. The company's chairman, Mr. Gud- mundur Vilhjalmsson, and the board of directors were re-elected. Their most urgent problem is to decide on replacements for Flugfelag's domestic and international aircraft fleet. BREVITIES THREE employees of Airwork Ltd., Mr. McDonald Fraser, Mr. B. A. Martyn and Mr. Bazyl Chmaruk, are claimed to be the only men in the country who now hold both the M.C.A.'s 1st Class Flight Radio Officer's Licence and Class A Radio Maintenance Licence. * * * Salary increases of up to £25 a year, back-dated to December 1st, 1952, have been awarded to radio mechanics employed by the Ministry of Civil Aviation. * * * Compiled from details published by I.C.A.O. and in other nations' Notams, a list of four-letter place name abbreviations has been published by the M.C.A. in the form of an Information Circular (No. 122/1952). * * * Lockheed Aircraft Service Inc. report that they now hold contracts to a total value of $2m (£714,300) for the conversion of 22 first-class Constellations and DC-6s into high density tourist and coach versions for both international and domestic operations. B.O.A.C. are among the operators concerned. * * * Tenders have been invited for construction of the new £150,000 terminal building at Renfrew which, it is claimed, will be one of the most modern in the world. It is hoped that work will begin within a few weeks and that the building will be completed by the autumn. The "gate" system, as widely employed in America, will be incorporated. * * * The board of directors of Central African Airways have accepted "with reluctance and regret" the resignation of Mr. R. G. McCoy, formerly general manager. The loss of his services, writes a South African correspondent, will be a heavy blow to the corporation—especially in view of the expansion scheme to be carried out this year in anticipation of the Rhodes Centenary Festival. * * * Details of operations carried out during the week ended 21st December by Starways Ltd., who operate Dakotas and are based at Liverpool, were received too late for publication. Fifty-seven hours were flown and the figures for passenger miles and ton/miles were, respectively, 122,832 and 3,748. Naafi personnel were AT MESTERS VIG, new Iceland airport opened last September, is pictured Catalina "Skyfaxi" of Iceland Airways. As reported above, the company carried over 26,000 passengers and made a small profit last year. carried in both directions between Blackbushe and Nicosia, and there were freight trips—between Nice and Gothenburg and Stavanger and Amsterdam. * * * Capt. Stuart Scott became the first B.O.A.C. pilot to complete 400 transatlantic crossings when he brought a Stratocruiser into London Airport on December 23rd. It is believed that only four other transatlantic pilots (all with P.A.W.A.) have passed the 400 mark—Capt. Charles Blair who will shortly make his 500th crossing, and Captains L. Emerson, C. Titus and J. Mattis. Another B.O.A.C. pilot, Capt. "Buddy" Messenger, had completed 395 crossings at the time of writing. * * * Difficulty in securing a sufficient number of experienced pilots was responsible for a slight drop in the number of miles flown by Swissair during the third quarter of 1952 compared with the corresponding period last year. The introduction of DC-6Bs, how ever, effected an improvement in the figure for ton-miles. Statistics for the three-month period (figures for the third quarter of 1951 in parentheses) were : miles flown, 2,108,117 (2,212,432); ton-miles, 7,747,450 (7,292,910); passengers carried, 102,317 (102,661); freight, 1,035 tons (955 tons). • •• •..•'' •• •. . • • •• •••••• •...,..:....
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