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1953
1953 - 1670.PDF
824 FLIGHT BREVITIES NIGHT SCENE at Southend Airport: a'consignment of shoes from Basle is off-loaded from a Dakota of B.K.S. Air Transport, one of five operated by this growing independent company. CIVIL AVIATION ... one town to another. About 75 per cent of the transit passengers are business men, most of whom used the helicopter service to save time. Despite the S-55's relatively high operating costs, fares are kept down to approximately the same level as for normal tourist-class air travel, and only 8 per cent of the passengers complained on this score. The only general complaint was on the sub,ect of cabin noise-level, and the overall reaction to this new type of travel was very favourable. AT the invitation of the Council of Europe, I.C.A.O. is con-' vening a conference to discuss ways of co-ordinating Euro pean air transport. A provisional agenda has been prepared and the conference will be held next spring at Strasbourg. * * * The committee formed by the Indonesian Government to examine plans for the complete nationalization of Garuda Indonesian Airways is expected to reach a decision soon. At present half the share capital of just under £3m is held by K.L.M. * * * Representatives of the Corporations and of Aer Lingus, U.A.T. and Panair do Brasil were principal guests at a party held at London Airport on December 10th by Smiths Aircraft Instruments, Ltd. * * * C.A.A. certification for the Douglas DC-7 was awarded on November 30th, 22 months after the initial design drawings were begun. During the C.A.A. flight-testing programme, which began on July 22nd, three examples of the type made a total of 204 flights. * * * It is reported that S.A.S. hope to inaugurate their northern route between Scandinavia and the United States next summer, but that the American military authorities have refused per mission for the airfield at Thule, Greenland, to be used as a staging post. The airline's DC-6Bs are now expected to fly via Bluie West 8, initially to Seattle and later to Los Angeles. * * * At a recent meeting of the Joint Air Transport Committee of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce, the Federa tion of British Industries and the London Chamber of Com merce, Mr. J. S. Wills was elected chairman for the ensuing year in succession to Mr. Leslie Gamage, M.C. Sir John Dodd was elected deputy chairman. FROM THE CLUBS SUITABLE Christmas gifts for club enthusiasts are among the large range of items of pilots' equipment available to flying club members and Royal Aero Club members and associate members from the air touring department at the R.Ae.C. Aviation Centre (Londonderry House, Park Lane, London, W.l). The articles range in price from Douglas protractors at 5s 6d to the Swissair Navigator at £4 9s, and include Dalton computors, Perspex rulers, Maclean protractors, the Reed Navigraph and the Goudime course-and-speed plotter. Publications include the Air Touring Guide to Europe, Student and Private Pilots' Handbook by H. H. Edwards, and pilots' log-books. THE Goudime course-and-speed plotter, mentioned in the above paragraph, has been designed for use with 1:500,000 scale maps, and is made by the aeronautical division of Electronic Equipments, Ltd., of Richmond, Surrey. While possessing the useful features of the Douglas protractor, it enables, in addition, ground speed, drift, and times and distances along route to be read off directly from the map without any calculation. Reports from private pilots who have used the device have been favour able, and the plotter itself appears both simple and useful. Measuring 8iin x 5jin, the Goudime plotter costs 30s. SOCIAL activities of the Yorkshire Aeroplane Club during November included the annual ball, a bonfire party and a film show. There is to be a New Year's party on December 31st, and Father Christmas is likely to arrive by air at the children's Christmas party to be held on January 2nd. Bad weather pre vented a large total of flying hours for the month, which amounted to 35. A new activity at Sherburn next year may be parachuting. Peter Rayner, a member of the Yorkshire club who has for some years been instructing individual pupils, intends to start a parachuting school there in the spring of next year. A FILM entitled How an Aeroplane Flies was shown at Fair Oaks recently, but since bad weather prevented a large audience attending, it is likely that it will be shown again early in the New Year. It is hoped that a film on elementary meteorology also will be obtained in the near future. For those members who are interested in night flying, or who wish to obtain a night rating on their licence, the club is prepared to arrange night flying each Wednesday evening between 5 p.m. and 7.30 p.m., weather permitting. The cost will be £5 per hour. Weather at Fair Oaks was more co-operative than else where, and a total of 105 flying hours was recorded for November. TOTAL flying hours and membership of the Derby Aero Club had both increased, it was reported at the annual general meeting on November 29th. During the 12-month period reviewed, the club's aircraft had flown 1,288 hours and there were now 208 members, compared with the 899 hours and 186 members of the previous year. Eighteen A.T.C. cadets had learned to fly under the flying scholarship scheme, and 62 mem bers held P.P.L.s. Two Magisters, one Auster and one Gemini made up the club's fleet. Burnaston House is being taken over by the club, following the closure of the R.A.F. Flying Schools at the airport. REPRESENTATIVES of travel organizations and others from the motoring and flying worlds met at the Waldorf Hotel, London, recently to hear from Mr. Freddy ("Any Questions?") Grisewood about a new tourists' map of Great Britain. Most aviation people are also drivers, and light aircraft and glider pilots probably take an even greater interest in the countryside than those travelling on four wheels. Thus the information provided by this new Foldex map, which includes the location of airfields and historic landmarks in addition to all the usual information, carries a double interest for the airman. Skilful use of eight different colours permits the inclusion of a great deal of detail information in a four-miles-to-the-inch map without confusion of presentation. Some points mentioned by Mr. Grisewood regarding the preparation of this new map are of general interest. For example, it took four years to complete the production of the twelve sections (which can be provided separately, in various combinations, or as a whole). Printing, after deducting lost time, amounted to six months. The finished product contains 18,500 sq in of map surface, about 4,700ft of hand-drawn lines, 42,250 hand-drawn names, and 40,000 numbers and symbols. With Christmas so near, it may be mentioned that the complete map—in a single folder in leather- cloth, leather or pigskin—costs between 57s 6d and 105s. Single sheets are 3 s 6d. On the occasion of the introduction of this map by Foldex, Ltd., of 45 Mitchell Street, London, E.C.I, reference was made to the excellent varnished wartime flying-maps (1:500,000) and it was learned that, partly as a result of American interest, the possibility of again preparing pure flying-maps is being examined. R.Ae.C No. 28,545 28,546 28,547 28,548 28,549 28.550 28,551 28.552 28,553 28.554 28,555 . PILOTS' CERTIFICATES AWARDED- Namt E. N. Cooper R. J. G. Fairrie C. J. L'Estrange Malone ... J. B. Shaw J. R. Davie R. J. Riches Miss J. I. Grimaldi ... J. G. East L. N. Monnickendam L. Richards A. G. Head -NOVEMBER 1953 Class 2 4 1 3 2 2 3 2 4 4 1 Date 3.11.53 3.11.53 5.11.53 5.11.53 10.11.53 10.11.53 16.11.53 18.11.53 19.11.53 21.11.53 30.11.53
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