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1954
1954 - 1982.PDF
miGHT, 2 July 1954 29 £NAL BOX: This neat contrgt,- \sk is installed at Ferryfieid.the |w Silver City airfieftdescribed \ewberelTrthi«4ssue. It was built Racal, Ltd* who installed all radio and communications \i vices at Ferry field, including \uipment provided bytheM.T. C.A. :iVIL AVIATION . . . iscontinental services, extends the time limit to 10 hours, pro- ied that flights are conducted in pressurized aircraft crewed by . least two pilots and a flight engineer. In adopting the new regulation, the Board noted that for nine ars overseas flights of up to 12 hours had been conducted by ree-man crews (including two pilots) without any decrease in ifety standards. It was also noted that, in the C.A.B.'s experi- Kice, the probability of an accident was more closely related to fte number of flights, i.e., the number of take-offs and landings, Kan to the duration of flight. J The special regulation was passed by the chairman, vice-chair- an and one member of the Board. Two members dissented. was also opposed by the Air Line Pilots Association, although ^e Board was advised that pilots preferred the non-stop opera- on—which made it possible for maximum monthly flight time to logged in 10 days instead of 15. HW SERVICES APPROVED ^PPROVAL of the following new services is announced by the • Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation: — elusive Tour Services (i) Between Lympne and Basle; Air Kruise (Kent), Ltd., until October 31st, 1954. j(ii) Between Southend and Calvi via a technical stop at Lyons; Dan- Air Services, Ltd., until September 26th, 1954. ii) Between Bovingdon and Basle; Hunting-Clan Air Transport, Ltd., until August 22nd, 1954. [iv) Between Bovingdon and Munich; Hunting-Clan Air Transport, Ltd., until August 29th, 1954. I(v) Between London (Croydon or Gatwick) and Nice; Transair, Ltd., until September 9th, 1954. formal Scheduled Services fvi) London - Frankfurt and/or Dusseldorf and/or Rome-Cairo or Beirut - Khartoum - Entebbe or Nairobi - Salisbury (Kentucky Farm) - Johannesburg; British Overseas Airways Corpora tion, until March 31st, 1961. (Operations into Salisbury are dependent upon the availability and suitability of Kentucky Farm aerodrome for operation by the Corporation's aircraft.) Colonial Coach Class Services (vii) London (Blackbushe) - Bathurst - Freetown - Accra; Airwork, Ltd., until March 31st, 1957. (viii) London (Bovingdon) - Bathurst - Freetown - Accra; Hunting-Clan Air Transport, Ltd., until March 31st, 1957. Helicopter Service (ix) Between London Airport and Southampton (Eastieigh); British European Airways Corporation, until June 13th, 1955. The Minister, after considering the recommendations of the Air Transport Advisory Council has also approved the following applications for amendments to air services: — (a) The inclusion of Stavanger as an optional traffic stop on the Normal Scheduled services operated by Hunting-Clan Air Trans port, Ltd., on the route Newcastle - Oslo - Stockholm. (b) An extension to the period of approval of the Internal Service operated between London (Croydon) and Birmingham (Castle Bromwich) by Olley Air Service, Ltd., to permit operation during the period of the British Industries Fair each year up to and including 1960. (c) The operation of an Internal service in place of an Inclusive Tour service by B.K.S. Air Transport, Ltd., between Newcastle and/or West Hartlepool - Bembridge (I.O.W.). BREVITIES A BUDGET for 1955 of $2,745,260 (Canadian) was approved at the eighth annual assembly of I.C.A.O., which ended in Montreal on June 14th. The sum, most of which will be obtained in contributions from the 63 member nations, shows a $15,000 increase on the current year's budget. * * * One of Pan American's DC-6Bs is being fitted with Bendix RDR-1 cloud-collision warning radar for a three-month period of service trials throughout the company's routes. The equipment weighs 200 lb and cost approximately £8,900 installed. * * * Registrations for Hunting-Clan's Viscount 732s are given as G-ANNR-T inclusive in the current issue of the Register of British Civil Aircraft. * * * Selfridge's, the London store, claim That a consignment of pres sure cookers flown to the South Baffle on their behalf on June 21st was the first helicopter freigjirto reach central London. The cargo was brought from Derbysnire by an S-51 of Autair, Ltd. * * * Mr. Byron H. Rogers has beea appointed European sales manager for American Airline*,"with headquarters in the Time and Life Building, London^'He succeeds Mr. W. G. Conrad, who is returning to the UniiecT States. * * * Works inspector at the B.O.A.G repair factories, Treforest, since November 1944, Mr. S. W. S. Cockram, B.E.M., has just retired from the Corporation. Mr. Cockram joined Imperial Air ways at Croydon in 1937. * * * The Eagle Airways scheduled services to Aalborg and Gothen burg ceased to operate on July 1st; the weekly return service to Belgrade is being continued. * * * The new Lockheed Service International hangar at Idlewild, opened on June 17th, is the largest independent maintenance base on America's eastern seaboard. Built at a total cost of £1.4m, it will house seven large four-engined transports and has apron space for a further 15. AtfSTRAUA'S FIRST Viscount is partly shown in this new photograph from Vickers' Hum factory. The three Trans-Australian Airlines engineers .-stonditig by the newly painted nose are (left to right) Messrs. S. Berrie, P. Henry end J. Taylor.
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