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1954
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FLIGHT, 18 June 1954 805 CIVIL AVIATION DELTA'S LATEST DOUGLAS: One of the ten DC-7s now being delivered to Delta C. and S. Airlines, of Atlanta, Georgia. C.A.A. VISCOUNT DECISION SOON THE technical group of the American Civil Aeronautics •*• Administration which spent two weeks in this country discussing standards of certification for the Vickers Viscount with the Air Registration Board, and obtaining data on the machine's design and performance, returned to the U.S.A. last week. Before leaving, the group's spokesman made the following statement: "Officials of the Air Registration Board and representatives of Vickers, Rolls-Royce and Rotol have been most co-operative in giving our group the fullest possible information. The informa tion we have obtained will be examined by the Administrator of the C.A.A. and his staff in Washington in considering the pending application of a U.S. validation of the British Certificate of Air worthiness of the Vickers Viscount. Results of this study will be transmitted as soon as possible to the Air Registration Board." In Washington, Mr. Fred Lee (C.A.A. Administrator) stated after the return of the group that he could foresee no particular problems which might block certification of the Viscount for operation in the U.S.A. The group had been impressed by their study of the machine's characteristics, he added; the flight tests appeared to be satisfactory, and the engineering and other data would now be studied. Mr. Lee said that a decision would be reached in four to six weeks' time. ELECTIONS AT I.C.A.O. T HE eighth session of the assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization recently elected Mr. Walter J. Binaghi of Argentina as its president. Vice-presidents elected were: Mr. E. A. Gibson, Director of Civil Aviation in New Zealand; G/C. I. H. Gazarine, Director-General of Civil Aviation in Egypt; K. T. B. Koskenkyla, Director of Civil Aviation in Finland; and Col. J. Tellez, Director of Civil Aviation in Columbia. Mr. C. W. Evans, Under-Secretary to the Minister of Trans port and Civil Aviation in the U.K., was chosen as chairman of the administrative commission. The newly elected president, whose term of office will continue during the assembly session now being held at I.C.A.O. headquarters in Montreal, has been chair man of the organization's air navigation commission since 1949. —AND AT I.A.T.A. 'T'HE technical committee of the International Air Transport •*• Association, which directs the joint technical activities of I.A.T.A.'s 70 airline members, has recently elected M. Raymond Dupre, technical director, Air France, as chairman. He will succeed Mr. Paul Goldsborough, general manager communica tions, Trans-World Airlines, at the close of the Association's tenth general meeting that takes place in Paris this September. Mr. A. A. Priester, chairman of the technical committee, Pan American World Airways, and M. Anselme Verniuewe, Sabena's vice-president operations, were elected respectively first and second vice-chairman of the I.A.T.A. technical committee. NEWS FROM SOUTH AFRICA TN less than 12 months the new £4m airport at Belleville, Cape A Town, is expected to be completed. A few weeks ago the main runway was finished, and work is continuing on the second run way, two taxiways and the control and terminal buildings. The airport is situated in a fog-free area, and on completion will become the main air terminal for all air services in the Cape. The original decision to develop Belleville was made nine years ago, but an alternative plan to improve the existing airport at Wingfield was rejected only two years ago. It was thought initially that the total cost would be £2,100,000; this estimate has now risen to £4m. When speaking recently in the House of Assembly before the Committee of Supply, the South African Minister of Transport outlined the Union Government's policy towards foreign airlines operating in the Union. He said he had told the Southern African Air Transport Conference that the Government had no desire to drive out of the air any airline at present operating to the Union. This statement was made to elucidate the Union's policy in grant ing certificates for foreign air services. The fact was that the capacity of aircraft operating to the Union had increased more than the freight available, and as a result all the airlines had begun to suffer. The Government's policy was firstly to give reasonable protec tion to the Union's own airlines operating from South Africa to Europe, and secondly to protect all airlines operating to the Union from excessive competition. It was therefore decided to lay down a number of rules by which the frequencies of existing services and applications for new services would be governed. Among the main considerations were: (1) the protection of the Union from the point of view of defence and strategic considerations; (2) the protection of South African Airways (the Minister said he did not wish to wrap S.A.A. up in cotton wool, but only to give it such protection as was reasonably justified); (3) the maintenance and improvement of the Union's relations with British territories in the north, especially the Central African Federation and East Africa: and (4) the maintenance and improvement of the Union's relations with European powers which had interests in Africa, particularly Britain, France, Portugal and Belgium (the Minister said he felt that more rights should be granted to these countries than to those countries which had no territorial interests in Soudi Africa). Discussions on the matter were continuing with the Department of Commerce and Industries. As soon as the available traffic justified it, the frequency of services would be allowed to increase again. HUNTING-CLAN TO STAVANGER FROM Wednesday last, June 16th, Hunting-Clan's scheduled service from Newcastle to Oslo was amended to include an intermediate stop at Stavanger. Flying time to Stavanger is 2 hr 40 min from Newcastle; 4 hr 25 min from Manchester; and 4 hr 40 min from Glasgow. With the introduction of this new stop in the company's northern network, the Oslo-Stockholm sector of the route has been discontinued, since the time taken from Newcastle to Stock holm would be too great to permit an attractive schedule at the special tourist-rate fares. Through connections to Stockholm are still available via Oslo. The twice-weekly schedule remains as before, i.e., outward flights to Norway on Wednesdays and Saturdays, with return flights on Thursdays and Sundays. INTERNATIONAL ELECTIONS: Appointed at I.C.A.O.'s eighth session m Montreal (see news item above), (left to right); GjC. I. H. Gazarine, Col. J. Tellez, W.J. Binaghi (president), E. A. Gibson, and K. T. 8. Koskenkyla.
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