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Aviation History
1953
1953 - 1560.PDF
714 FLIGHT CIVIL AVIATION . . . 38,000 compared with 11,000 over the whole of last year. A. Cdre. Powell confirmed that Silver City had started to build their airfield, Ferryfield, on the tip of Dungeness. It wa% ex pected that from next June onwards the Le Touquet service would be flown from Ferryfield and that aircraft from Lympne would operate the new ferry service to Calais. BREVITIES THE President of K.L.M., Dr. Albert Plesman, forecast recendy *- that his company would have both pure jet and turboprop airliners within five years. No specific types were mentioned. * * * According to a statement issued by the Canadian Pacific Airlines, the cost of the three Comet 2s recently ordered by the company will be about £1,600,000. The option on a fourth Comet 2, if taken up, would involve an ouday of a further £360,000. * * * The Lockheed Aircraft Corporation reports that Luftag, fore runner of the revived Lufthansa, has signed a formal contract for the purchase of four Super Constellations, Orders for all other versions of the type now cover a total of just over 500, of which 132 are Super Constellations. * * * On test at London Airport by B.O.A.C., and later to be tried at airfields abroad, is a prototype 12-seater "crew car"—in effect, a miniature motor-coach. Incorporating Ford units, it is built by Thomas Harrington, Ltd., of Hove. Braathens S.A.F.E., the Norwegian independent company, have been refused permanent approval by the Norwegian Government for their Far East service, which has for over a year been operated on a temporary permit. A Norwegian Cabinet meeting, presided over by King Haakon, decided that the country's interests in the Far East routes would be more efficiendy met through the inter- Scandinavian national airline, S.A.S. The second regional air navigational meeting held to discuss technical plans for the African and Indian Ocean region of I.C.A.O. opened at Teneriffe on November 17th. The United Kingdom delegation, led by G. J. Warcup of the M.T.C.A., includes repre sentatives of the Rhodesias and of the British Colonies in the region. * * * The Bendix Aviation Corporation has received an Indian Government contract for surveillance and precision approach (G.C.A.) radar to be installed at Santa Cruz Airport, Bombay. Similar equipment will be installed at other Indian airports if the Santa Cruz radar proves sufficiendy useful. This initial contract is valued at between $500,000 and $lm. * * * Super Constellations were recently introduced on the North Atlantic services of Air France. In addition to the first-class flights to New York, Montreal and Chicago and Mexico, the new aircraft are being used on an ultra-luxury service, the Parisian Special, which flies weekly between Paris and New York. Passen gers using this service pay a supplement of £8 19s per single journey for the privilege; a further charge of £22 6s gives access to a self-contained "skyroom," a compartment which can be used as a private drawing room by day and a two-berth cabin at night. CLUB AND GLIDING NEWS DENHAM Flying Club invite the penetration of their defences in a lunch patrol this Sunday, November 29th, between noon and 12.30 p.m. The defended zone is from one to two miles from the airfield perimeter, between 1,200 and 3,200ft above sea level (Denham altitude, 250ft). During the afternoon a landing competi tion will be held, followed by what is termed an "obstacle race." As Denham is located within the London control zone, would- be attackers are requested to telephone the club (Denham 2161) to confirm V.F.R. conditions before take-off. FEW changes were made in the composition of the Vintage Aeroplane Club's committee at the annual general meeting elections on November 7th. Ron Gillman and David Ogilvy remain as chairman and secretary respectively, while Major W. L. Foster (treasurer) and Dennis Boode join the committee. Re- elections to the committee were ,those of Beverley Snook, Denys Stonebanks and R. P. Green (who has been in charge of the recently completed C. of A. overhaul on the Avro Cadet). AT Elstree, a works flying club has been formed by Handley k Page, Ltd., and should begin operations soon. Flying hours for die Elstree Club during October amounted to 225^, with six non-flying days, and several others on which activities were severely restricted by the weather. DURING October, the Strathtay Aero Club began to provide flying for A.T.C. cadets under the "air experience" scheme, using an Autocrat. Three A.T.C. Flying Scholarship cadets and Mr. W. Warden, from Soutii Africa, qualified for their Private Pilots' Licences, and flying time for the month was 78^ hours. ' I 'HE first anniversary of the Coventry Gliding Club was -•• recently celebrated. Operating from Baginton, the club's 50 flying members made a total of over 2,100 launches during this first year, and obtained 12 "A" Certificates, 12 "B"s and four "C"s. The club owns a T.21B two-seater, and has the use of a Grunau Baby and a Kirby Cadet belonging to the Leicester Gliding Club, whose members also fly from Baginton at present. The Lustraphone microphone, boom- fitted to an H.S.33 headset. Mr. George Thompson, previously with the Derby and Lanes Club, is now C.F.I. at Coventry. The club hopes to obtain its own winch (at present tiiat of the Leicester club and auto-tows are used) and a high- performance sail- plane in the coming year. A DESIRABLE luxury •**• for private pilots and clubs owning radio- equipped aircraft is the Lustraphone "Velodyne" microphone, illustrated right and manufactured by Lustraphone, Ltd., St. George's Works, Regents Park Road, London, N.W.I. The microphone can be supplied in a hand-held installation, or as part of a swivel ling boom attachment on the headset (as shown). Pilots' own headsets can be individually adapted by the company. The main advantages of the microphone are its lightness (2^ oz) and its ability to exclude background noise, due to the uni-directional field configuration and the steep decline in sensitivity with in creasing distance from the noise source. CINCE its formation at Newtownards in January of this year, ^ the Ulster Flying Club has made steady progress and now has more man 150 members, 14 of whom are apprentices of Short Bros, and Harland, Ltd. A total of 512 hours had been flown in the club's three Tiger Moths by the beginning of tiiis month, and five licences have been obtained. XXOURS flown by members of the London Aeroplane Club -*-*- during the six months from April 1st to September 30th amounted to 2,274, compared with 1,767 for the same period last year. Thirty-three P.P.L.s and five Commercial Licences were obtained, and 26 members made their first solos. A total of 110 new members joined the club, 78 of whom are from de Havillands. The change-over to the ex-Reserve School buildings on the opposite side of the aerodrome has resulted in improved main tenance facilities, and a pleasant club bar and lounge have been provided. GULL-WINGED. This syndicate-owned Kirby Gull, seen on launch at Dunstable this summer, still carries the registration letters previously required on all gliders. In the background is the soaring ridge.
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