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1954
1954 - 2072.PDF
93 QUICK OFF THE MARCK DY the end of this year it is expected that Calais Chamber of ™ Commerce will have spent nearly £150,000 on their new airport at Marck, which was provided specifically for the car-ferry services of Silver City Airways. It„»wfis built with almost incredible speed: forty-two days ajter work began the airport was ready for use. On June lsi^'me first day of operation as a cross-Channel terminal, M*fek handled 100 movements by Bristol 170s. The two jarfiways are of compacted earth but will be completed in concj^lfe in October. The main runway (NE-SW) is 3,600ft long, ana the other (NW-SE) is of 2,950ft. Concrete taxi ways and' a marshalling apron will also be provided. Terminal buildings include a spacious restaurant. Silver City's new airport at Ferryfield, which came into operation at 8 a.m. on Tuesday last, handles all Le Touquet flights, but Lympne remains the base for services to and from Calais. CLEANED-UP CONNIES A CCORDING to Aviation Week, Lockheed 1049 Super Con-*»• stellations will gain approximately^^* m.p.h. under long range cruising conditions at 20,000ftias"a result of modifications requested by T.W.A. Detail§^ef*the modifications are as fol lows: extension of enging*4i£celles; elongation of wing-fuselage fillets; rearward extension of spinners and improvements to the shape of the cowling^; closing of one of the three wing intakes for cabin cooling air and reduction in size of a second intake; removal of "wing walkway paint." BREVITIES THE Tanganyika Government announces that the opening of the new Dar es S aidant-Airport will take place on October 16th. Qantas and K.L.M. have concluded^an agreement whereby the Dutch company's overhaul aod-«grvicing in the Far East will be handled by the new Qaritas workshops at Lae, Australian New Guinea. * * * Propellers Approved for Use on Qivil Aircraft is the title of a list isssed by the A.R.B. in rhe-^form of a Notice to Licensed Aircraft Engineers an^ttf'Owners of Civil Aircraft (No. 4, issue 15). * * * Mr. W. T. Denyer, publicity controller of Central African Airways, has recently been on asho»r^isit to the U.K. His departure for Salisbury last.jweeRon his company's Zambesi service was marked by -*" "sundowner" at Rhodesia House, London. * * * Official approval has been granted for an overhaul life of 1,000 hr kor Gipsy Queen 70-3 and 70-4, .engines installed in de Havilland Doves. The extension from 800 hr follows satisfactory test runs of 1,000 hr and a.build-up of experience amounting to some 360,000 engine-hours annually. Plans are in hand for a similar extension for^tfie Gipsy Queen 30-2 (the Heron's power unit), and there is sufficient experience with this engine to permit 1,000 hr trials. * * * On Sunday next, July 18th the Hermes will return to service with B.O.A.C.—a result of the present grounding of Series 1 Comets. Three of the four weekly tourist return flights between London and Nairobi will be operated by 56-seat Hermes instead of Argonauts until the first week of August, when the Hermes will take over completely on this route. From the end of July, tourist Argonauts operating weekly services between London and Dar es Salaam will also be replaced by Hermes. * * * According to a Johannesburg correspondent, South African Airways are likely to buy Super Constellations for their inter national routes, adding that the company had previously intended to buy three Comet 2s. This report has been denied, however, by a S.A.A. spokesman, who said that while the purchase of Comets was out of the question, pending the result of the present investigations, no final decision on re-equipment had yet been taken. * * *s The United Kingdom staff of T.W.A. is to be increased by 25 to a total of 87; the additional personnel will be engaged in load ing, cleaning and apron-servicmg T.W.A. aircraft calling at L.A.P. Previously this work" was performed under a ground handling agreement with JEO.A.C. Announcing that this agreement will be discontinued from November 1st, T.WjA. explain that since the airline is now handling 30 transatlantic arrivals and departures weekly (com pared with 12 when operations started in 1950) the new organiza tion will prove more economical and no less efficient.
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