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1954
1954 - 0834.PDF
378 FLIGHT CIVIL AVIATION MORE VISCOUNT SERVICES X^URTHER details of their new summer schedules, due to come -*• into operation on April 11th, have been published by B.E.A. Increased use of Viscounts on overseas routes is the main feature of the programme: it is estimated that the fleet of 20 turboprop airliners will fly 200,000 miles weekly and that there will be a Viscount take-off or landing every nine minutes between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. With the exception of a new route to Biarritz, Vikings will be withdrawn from the Continental network, but Elizabethans are scheduled to operate ten round trips daily between London and Paris in addition to services to Holland, Belgium, Nice, Malta and Germany (including a through daily service to Berlin via Diisseldorf). The Viscount routes include: London-Manchester, London- Birmingham, London-Stockholm, London-Oslo, Oslo-Stockholm, London-Gibraltar (the first non-stop service to Gibraltar, taking a little over four hours, was inaugurated on March 3rd) and Manchester-Diisseldorf. The last-named route is flown via Amsterdam by Viscounts of both B.E.A. and Aer Lingus in pool with K.L.M. AVIATION INSURANCE A.G.M. SPEAKING at last month's annual general meeting of the Aviation Insurance Offices' Association, Captain A. G. Lamplugh said that previous chairmen had drawn attention to the demands of operators for the lowest possible rates for the insurance of their risks. In endeavouring to meet this demand the market had frequently been uncomfortably near the point at which writing business ceased to be profitable—"more especially bearing in mind the need for some margin of reserve in a business which deals with risks which are liable to sudden and catastrophic losses." Capt. Lamplugh thought that there was some sign of a slight hardening of the position, which might in part be due to the fact that there was little room for further reduction. Capt. Lamplugh, who is underwriter and chief surveyor of the British Aviation Insurance Co., Ltd., was re-elected as the Associa tion's chairman, and the appointment of Mr. E. G. Thomas (Royal Insurance Co., Ltd.) as deputy chairman was also renewed. Re appointed as assistant secretary and secretary were Mr. G. H. T. Humphreys (Eagle Star Insurance Co., Ltd.) and Mr. E. G. Clair (London and Lancashire Insurance Co., Ltd.). S.A.S. POLAR PROJECT TVTEGOTIATIONS are continuing in Washington on the subject *" of the proposed S.A.S. Arctic Circle service between Scandinavia and the United States. The original plan put forward by the Scandinavian airline envisaged four Western traffic centres —Edmonton (Canada), Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles. This proposal was rejected by the U.S. State Department, which offered a single American traffic centre at Seattle. It is reported that a modified S.A.S. plan, put forward in identical notes by the three Scandinavian Ambassadors to the United States, provides for traffic rights at Los Angeles but not at San Francisco or Seattle. In support of this application, the notes point out that B.O.A.C. and Air France have been granted traffic rights at Chicago; that S.A.S. has paid out over $19m for services in America during the past eight years of operation from New York; and, finally, that P.A.W.A. have traffic rights at three Scandinavian capitals, whereas S.A.S. have rights only at New York. BREVITIES C ABENA'S passenger traffic increased by 35.4 per cent last year. " Total number of passengers carried was 375,000, compared with 277,000 in 1952. Internal services in the Belgian Congo, which has a European population of 80,000, carried a total of 63,000 passengers. * * * In Information Circular No. 37/1954 the M.T.C.A. announces that during the course of the next two years a limited number of V.H.F. omni-range beacons will supplement the navigation facilities provided on the U.K. airways. Proposed sites for the V.O.R. beacons (in order of provisional dates of operation) are Windsor, Prestwick, Daventry, Manston and Dungeness. In addition, the U.S.A.F. will install a permanent beacon at Burton- wood later this year. At present the U.S.A.F. maintains a V.O.R. beacon at Manston, and will shortly install one at Prestwick. * * * Nicosia, Cyprus, has replaced Lydda, Israel, as a transit stop for S.A.S. services to the Far East. This move follows the reported Saudi Arabian warning that aircraft landing in Israel would be fired upon. It is also reported that the Iraqi government has asked T.W.A. not to make landings in Israel. * * * An interline agreement concluded by S.A.S. widi United Air Lines and American Air lines, effective from April 25th, will provide "throughfare" extensions to Chicago and Detroit of the Scandinavian airline's regular services to New York. At present the only companies flying through services between Chicago and Europe are T.W.A. and Air France, although B.O.A.C. has applied to operate a weekly London-Chicago Strato- cruiser flight; T.C.A.'s Chicago-Montreal services connect with their regular trans atlantic flights. WEATHER EYES: This I.C.A.O. chart shows the positions of the ten floating weather stations main tained in the North Atlantic by 14 frigates, cutters and corvettes, from July 1st, under an agreement recently concluded by the 15 nations who contribute ships, crews and cash towards the upkeep of this service, Station "H" (the vessel farthest west) will be withdrawn and the number of ships will be reduced to 11. Britain is at present responsible for the operation of Stations "/" and "J" For the period of the British Industries Fair (May 3rd to May 14th) OUey Air Service are to operate a daily flight between Croydon and Castle Bromwich, the site of the Fair. Departure times are 9.45 a.m. and 5 p.m. at Castle Bromwich and the flight is scheduled to take one hour in each direction. The day return fare will be £5 18s. and the service will be operated by Doves, Rapides or Consuls. * * * ^ The Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators of the British Empire will hold its 24th annual general meeting at 19 Park Lane, London, W.l, on April 22nd, at 6 p.m. At 4 p.m. on that day, at the same address, there will be separate meetings, of the Test Pilot, Associate and Service members, at which two members of each section will be nominated for the Court of the Guild.
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