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1955
1955 - 0498.PDF
498 FLIGHT, 15 April 195 CIVIL AVIATION Slipper-tanked for additional range, T.A.A.'s sixth Viscount is seen on test before leaving for Melbourne on April 3rd. Thus equipped, two of the Australian Viscounts will be used to replace DC-4s on the Melbourne-Adelaide-Perth route, carrying 34 passengers in sleeper chairs. K.L.M. CHOOSE THE DC-7C TEN Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas have been ordered by K.L.M.,national airline of the Netherlands, for delivery in the spring of 1957. The contract for these aircraft, which are intendedmainly for non-stop operation between Amsterdam and New York, is valued at over £10m, including spares. Announcingthe order, the Douglas Aircraft Co., recall that K.L.M. have pur- chased and operated every type of commercial aircraft producedby Douglas since the introduction of the DC-2 in 1934. Seven airlines, including six transatlantic carriers, have now ordered atotal of 48 Seven Seas. ...•••..-. QANTAS TO WITHDRAW R/Os AS facilities for pilot-to-ground R/T communications are setup along their routes, Qantas Empire Airways will dispense with radio officers. The airline has announced that, as a firststep towards implementation of this policy, radio officers were withdrawn from crews operating the Pacific routes early inMarch. Displaced radio officers will be offered other appoint- ments in the airline; seven of the men formerly employed as radiooperators on the Pacific routes have, in fact, already been remustered in other positions—two as pilots, two as navigators,two as operations officers and one as a ground radio officer. Voice communication by R/T rather than W/T has beenstandard practice on Q.E.A.'s Pacific services to North America since Qantas took the route over in May 1954. Radio officerswere carried "in an advisory capacity" and pilots were specially instructed in long distance communications techniques, operationof the equipment and fault-finding. The system was evaluated by the Australian Department of Civil Aviation during this trialperiod, and the Director General of Civil Aviation has now given his approval for withdrawal of specialist radio operators. The Super Constellations which operate the majority of the Australian carrier's international services are equipped with twoCollins 618S HF transmitter-receiver units, which incorporate automatic tuning and loading of the transmitter to the aircraftaerial, and are claimed to be the most modern equipment of their type. In addition, the aircraft are to be equipped with cockpitloudspeakers and Selcal, which enables a ground station to call any aircraft within a radius of 1,500 miles by operating a lighton the pilot's panel and a bell or buzzer. The device makes it unnecessary for a pilot to wear headphones continuously. T.W.A.'s INDIA-JAPAN APPLICATION TN a petition to the Civil Aeronautics Board T.W.A. have asked-•• for a re-hearing of their application to operate a route between India and Tokyo. The application was denied by three votes totwo when heard by the C.A.B. on December 15th last. When allocation of overseas routes to the American flag carrierstook place in 1946, T.W.A. were awarded a route from India to Shanghai. The present application requests permission to serveTokyo as an alternative terminal until it becomes possible to operate to Shanghai. CORPORATION APPOINTMENTS C?EVERAL staff appointments have recendy been announced by^ the two Airways Corporations. In order to strengthen B.O.A.C.'s engineering group, and as part of a policv to advancethe training of staff for managerial positions, Mr. J. L. Uncles has been appointed assistant on the staff of Mr. C. Abell, deputyoperations director (engineering) and Mr. M. W. Anderson takes up a similar post on the staff of the chief development engineer.Now in America, where he is directing the work of conversion of B.O.A.C. Stratocruisers, Mr. Uncles was formerly deputydesign superintendent. Mr. Anderson, who served with the R.A.F. as a pilot during the war, has been project engineer,Britannias, at Bristols since 1949. This latter appointment now goes to Mr.W. Spencer, who has been assisting with the development of B.O.A.C.'s Argonauts,Hermes and Comets and more recently of the Viscounts ordered by Iraqi Airways,a B.O.A.C. associate. The new B.E.A. appointments are asfollows: Mr. R. C. Pinfield, station superintendent at Rome for the pasttwo years, becomes responsible for all passenger traffic and cargo handling atLondon Airport, Waterloo Air Terminal and Gatwick. Mr. H. N. Murray, trafficmanager (London) since 1952, has been appointed cargo service manager. TheB.E.A. manager in Norway since 1951, Mr. W. O. Lloyd, has now been appointedmanager for Malta and North Africa. His Norwegian appointment is now filled by Mr.L. H. G. Kent, formerly deputy station superintendent at Northolt. Mr. W. A.Caro,who has been B.E.A.'s manager in Sweden since 1951, has taken up the equivalent Competing with the Viscount-equipped State airline T.A.A. are Australian National Air- ways, who have lately taken delivery of two new 58-seat DC-6Bs. These aircraft, one of which is shown (left) are used on the Melbourne-Adelaide-Perth route.
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