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1953
1953 - 0596.PDF
590 FLIGHT CIVIL AVIATION Edinburgh, would be formally installed in his office. Two new wardens, G/C. Cumming and Capt. J. C. Harrington, had been elected at the last Court meeting. After the installation ceremony, the three trophies which the Guild can award annually would be formally presented. The Johnston Memorial Trophy has been awarded to the captains and crew of the aircraft Aries, to be received on their behalf by G/C. McKinley, who was one of the captains. The Cumberbatch Trophy has been awarded to Professor Calvert for his contribution to airfield approach lighting. The Brackley Memorial Trophy has been awarded to Mr. Geoffrey Tyson in recognition of his work in connection with the Princess flying-boat. The Master then referred to a new annual award to be called the Derry and Richards Memorial Medal (as announced on page 569). It would commemorate two gallant gentlemen who lost their lives last year, and would be in the form of a medal to be retained by the recipients and to be awarded to the person who, in the view of the Guild, carried out the most meritorious experi mental flying each year. It had been made possible by the gener osity of the de Havilland company and of their employees. Before making his final important announcement, regarding the election of the new master, Mr. Lankester Parker referred to some generous donations to the Guild from the aircraft industry and from individuals—in particular, a Christmas present of £100 from Sir Francis McClean, Honorary Warden—and to the promise by Mr. Oswald Short, Honorary Warden, to present the Guild with the Grand Master's Badge of Office, "of the best materials and of the highest workmanship, befitting its Royal wearer." The Master concluded, "It gives me real pleasure to announce that your new master for the year 1953-54 is Senior Captain David Allen Brice, of the North Atlantic Flight, B.O.A.C." BREVITIES THE Minister of Civil Aviation, Mr. A. T. Lennox-Boyd, will officially open B.E.A.'s new Waterloo Air Terminal at 10.30 a.m. on Thursday, May 21st. * * * The French independent airline T.A.I, has taken delivery of the first of three DC-6Bs for service between Paris and Dakar, French Equatorial Africa, Madagascar and Saigon. * * * Development plans for Sutton Coldfield include a provisional site for a rotorstation, the site of which is reported to have been tentatively approved by B.E.A. * * * The value of transactions handled by the I.A.T.A. Clearing House during February was £5,513,000 compared with £5,333,000 during the corresponding month last year. * * * On behalf of the United Kingdom, Sir Frederick Tymms signed the 1952 Rome Convention at I.C.A.O. headquarters in Montreal on April 23rd. Nineteen states have now signed the convention, which specifies the rules and the limits of Lability in the case of an aircraft causing death or personal injury or damage to property in foreign territory. * * * An M.C.A. order has prohibited civil aircraft from flying under 11,000ft within five nautical miles of Buckingham Palace between the hours of 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. (B.S.T.) on Coronation Day, June 2nd. Civil aircraft flying outside this area but within the London Control Zone will be permitted to do so only under Instrument Flight Rules. * * * M.C.A. Information Circular No. 40/1953 announces that, for economy reasons, records of R/T. messages on U.K. control fre quencies will normally be retained for 30 days only. It is there fore requested that any complaint or report which might neces sitate the retention of records be lodged within 21 days of the incident concerned. * * * According to a report from Tokyo, Japan Air Lines, who have already ordered two Comets, are considering the purchase of Britannias for future long-range operations. * * * Mr. James A. Rockefeller, director of several American com panies, including the National City Bank of New York, the National City Safe Deposit Company and the International Banking Corporation, was recently appointed to the board of P.A.W.A. * * * The procedure for inspecting Fairey Reed fixed-pitch airscrews fitted to Cheetah engines is described in a new Notice to Licensed Engineers and to Owners of Civil Aircraft (Notice No. 13, issue No. 4), published by the A.R.B. * * * Pilots intending to fly helicopters either privately or com mercially are invited by the M.C.A. to apply to the following address for the latest information on licensing requirements: The Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation, T.L.i(a), Ariel House, Theobalds Road, London, W.C.i. * * * The M.C.A. announces that the May 19th examination for the Commercial Pilot's Licence and Instrument Rating will be held at the London Centre and at Perth Aerodrome, Scotland (Tel.: Scone 295). Candidates wishing to take the examination in Scotland should address their applications to the M.C.A. in the normal manner, but mark them "Scotland." * * * Transport movements at United Kingdom airports in March, 1953, were 5 per cent more than in the corresponding month of last year. The number of movements was 12,100 and the total of passengers handled was 189,600 (a 30 per cent increase); the freight figure went up by 33.5 per cent to 3,870 short tons, but mail decreased slightly to 1,110 tons. Fractional increases were reported in the number of movements at London and Northolt Airports, but passenger traffic expanded considerably—respec tively, by 19 per cent and 26 per cent. * * * Mr. Dennis Handover, who had been chairman of S.A.S., Ltd., since its formation in 1948, has resigned his chairmanship and is succeeded by Mr. Peter Lind. This step has been taken in conformity with the procedure followed by the main board of the S.A.S. Consortium in Scandinavia, by which the office of chair man is held in rotation by Swedish, Norwegian and Danish representatives (Mr. Kampmann, a Dane, is chairman of the main board, and Mr. Lind is the British director nominated by the Danish interests). Mr. Handover retains his seat on the board of S.A.S., Ltd. CONVERTED TO CARGO: (Left) High-power lighting equipment, urgently required in Kenya for use against Mau Mau terrorists, goes aboard a Tudor of William Dempster, Ltd., ot Stanstead; Lep Air Services arranged the charter. Large freight doors have been fitted to the Air France Languedoc, shown (right) being loaded with fruit. Such a modification would obviously be very useful, though expensive, in the case of the Tudor.
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