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1953
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18 September 1953 419 CIVIL AVIATION PUSHER PROJECT: an powered by two Napier features PROFIT AND LOSS PROVISIONAL operating results for *• both the Corporations are disclosed by their respective chairmen in the air trans port supplement published last week by the Financial Times. Sir Miles Thomas states that B.O.A.C.'s accounts will show an operating profit of "slightly more than £ K)0,000 before payment of interest on issued capital." In the financial year 1951/ 52 the corresponding figure was almost £Hm, leaving a surplus after payment of interest on capital of £274,999. The other Corporation's chairman, Lord Douglas of Kirtleside, reveals mat B.E.A.'s deficit rose from £1,423,000 in 1951/52 to £1,459,000 in 1952/53. This figure, however, repre sents 10 per cent of revenue compared with 11.6 in 1951/52. Various reasons are given for these twin set-backs of which the fuel shortage last year was one of the most important. In the same publication Mr. Peter Masefield contributes a stimulating article on the future of helicopters. He observes that there are now under construction in the United States two helicopters which may be available for passenger services there after about 1956: the twin-rotor Piasecki H.16 50-seater, and the single-rotor Sikorsky S.56, only slightly smaller, both of which will be twin-engined. Today's problem, said Mr. Mase field, is how to fill in the gap between the present experimental and uneconomical services with small single-engined helicopters and the future scheduled commercial operations with the large new British aircraft. On to that question, he adds, "there comes the problem of whether orders for the large American helicopters should be contemplated so as to get economic British helicopter services established three or more years before they would be possible with British machines." MORE INDEPENDENT SERVICES APPROVED ""THREE proposed new air services were approved recently -*- by the Minister of Civil Aviation, acting on the recommenda tions of the Air Transpon Advisory Council. The new services are: A "colonial coach" service between London and Cyprus, by MMM:««.«.: *: :;--TfeSia«> *5» artist's impression of the Percival P.87, a Dakota replacement to be turboprops. Carrying 36 passengers or 10,500 lb freight, the machine rear-ramp entry. A model was displayed at Farnborough. Skyways, Ltd., until October 26th, 1955; a vehicle ferry between Lympne and Calais, by Silver City Airways, Ltd., until October 11th, 1961; and an all-freight service on the route Birmingham- Dusseldorf, or Frankfurt-Copenhagen-Stavanger-Oslo-Stock- holm-Gothenburg-Copenhagen-Dusseldorf, or Frankfurt-Birm ingham, by Eagle Aviation, Ltd., until August 31st, 1960. SHEEP AIRLIFT YORK freighters on B.O.A.C.'s Far East run are estimated to carry a yearly average of 130,000 animals, birds, fish and reptiles. The first large consignment of sheep was flown last week, when a York flew 150 from Singapore to Lod, Israel. NEW U.S. COMET VIEW? AMERICAN diplomatic officials in Washington report that the British Air Registration Board is expected to invite the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Administration to send a jet evaluation mission to Britain in November to speed up possible U.S. certifi cation of Comet airliners. According to an agency message from the American capital, an official who recently returned from Britain has reported favourably on what he has seen of the Comets, and was impressed by the amount of the research work being performed at the de Havilland Company. The officials said also that Civil Aeronautics Administration VENEZUELAN VIEWS taken at Marquatia Airport. On the left, the stylish terminal building and control tower; on the right, a Viking of British West Indian Airways is seen being refuelled. The airline, which is owned by B.O.A.C., at present operates a fleet of six Vikings and two Dakotas—to be supplemented later by three Viscounts. Nearly 60,000 passengers were carried last year over the 7,C00-mile B.W.I.A. network, which links various Caribbean islands with North and South America.
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