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1955
1955 - 0466.PDF
466 FLIGHT CIVIL AVIATION . . . BREVITIES TATEST airline to adopt a credit travel plan is Sabena, from*-^ whom air tickets are now available on a ten per cent down payment, with the balance spread over 6, 12 or 21 months. Thisscheme is operated in conjunction with United Dominions Trust, Ltd. * * * An automatic Zero Reader has been fitted to one of K.L.M.'s link trainers at Schiphol Airport. Two further such installations are planned. * * * During the forthcoming summer season Aer Lingus will operatefor the first time to Biarritz and Barcelona. Both points will be served by extending the seasonal Dublin-Lourdes route. * * * The Portuguese civil aviation authorities have purchased fromInternational Aeradio, Ltd., the basic units of an air traffic control trainer, capable of being used for aerodrome approach and airwaystraining. The equipment will be installed later this year at Portela Airport, Lisbon. * * * Recent M.T.C.A. Information Circulars include No. 31/1955(instrument landing systems frequency assignment), No. 32/1955 (opening of London Airport Central for operational use (see pages446-8 and 464), and No. 33/1955 (aeronautical charts for civil aviation). * * * An illustrated route-map booklet has been designed and pro-duced for Air-India International by Francis Chichester, 9 St. James's Palace, London, S.W.I. Printed in colour, it includesa two-page summary of the principles of navigation. * * * A technical advisory panel on Consol has been formed byI.C.A.O. to advise the Air Navigation Commission and member States on technical aspects of siting, installation, operation andmaintenance of Consol stations. The U.K. representative on the panel is Mr. J. C. Farmer, deputy director of telecommunicationsin the M.T.C.A., which operates the British Consol station at Bushmills, Northern Ireland. Consol is one of the I.C.A.O.interim standard long-range navigational aids which provide bearings for both aircraft and ships. * • • - On the occasion of the 21st anniversary of the founding of SouthAfrican Airways, an illustrated booklet has been prepared by South African Railways Headquarters, Johannesburg. Thisdescribes the history and present activities of S.A.A., and con- tains route-maps, and messages from the South African PrimeMinister and Minister of Transport, the director-general of I.A.T.A., chairman of B.O.A.C., general manager of S. AfricanRailways and the chief airways manager of S.A.A. Two light aircraft making long journeys are this Czech Aero 45 (top) and Piper Apache. The Aero 45, a gift to Mr. Nehru, is shown at Nice en route from Prague to India; the Apache is being flown from Pennsylvania to Pretoria. Piloted by William T. Piper, Jr., and Howard Piper, sons of the manufacturer, the Apache made the 1,860-mile South Atlantic crossing from Natal to Monrovia, Liberia, in 76 hr. The pleasing lines of Renfrew's new terminal are well defined in this night view. B.E.A. Viscount and Pionair ser- vices connect Renfrew, domestic airport tor Glasgow, with London, Manchester, Birmingham and Belfast. Periscopic sextants of KelvinHughes manufacture will be fitted in the three Douglas DC-7Bs orderedby South African Airways for ser- vice on their London-Johannesburgroute. * * * B.O.A.C. report good results withan experimental system which began last month, of permitting passengersto select their own seats in aircraft. The system at present applies onlyto the London-Sydney route. A Cinerama-type film showinglandings at and approaches to La Guardia Airport, as seen from anairliner cockpit, was demonstrated recently to B.O.A.C.; the Corpora-tion is reported to be discussing the use of such films as training aids with the M.T.C.A. The film, made by PanAm last spring,is intended to give better training at lower cost than is entailed by the use of aircraft. * * * Increased transatlantic frequencies are announced by Pan American Airways. In addition to two extra all-sleeper Strato- cruiser services weekly in each direction, the airline has increased its all-freight frequency to three round trips weekly—two by DC-6As and one DC-4 flight. From June 1st PanAm will be operating five return flights daily across the North Atlantic, in- cluding a daily service from London to Detroit and Chicago. * * * A cargo record of 163J tons in one day between the North andSouth Islands of New Zealand was flown on March 1st by Straits Air Freight Express, a subsidiary of Airwork, Ltd., using twoBristol Freighters. The use of "cargons"—wheeled platforms enabling the loads to be pre-stowed and trimmed—made possiblethis achievement. * * * Address of the Society of Licensed Aircraft Engineers has beenchanged from Finsbury Circus House, London, E.C.2, to 1 Bell Street, Maidenhead, Berks (Maidenhead 2774). This transferdoes not affect the S.L.A.E. publications office, nor the library/ committee rooms, which remain respectively at Effingham House,London, W.C.2, and at London Airport.
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