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1955
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FLIGHT, 3 June 1955 775 CIVIL AVIATION CYPRUS DEVELOPMENTSD ETAILS of the £500,000 plan for development of NicosiaAirport, Cyprus, during the period 1954-56 arc given in the annual report of Mr. D. K. Forsdyke, the colony's civil aviationofficer. The plan, most of which has yet to be completed, pro- vides for extension of the main runway from 5,932 to 8,000ft,and of the subsidiary runway from 4,500 to 6,700ft; a new taxi track and hardstanding; improved airfield lighting; and anincrease of some 300 per cent in the capacity of the passenger terminal building. Air traffic to and from Cyprus has increased considerably inrecent years (67 per cent of passengers entering or leaving Cyprus do so by air), and this is reflected in statistics for Nicosia Airport.The number of passengers handled there increased from 51,877 in 1952 to 70,602 the following year and to 94,542 in 1954. Civilaircraft movements last year totalled 7,351, scheduled flights increasing by 1\ per cent and non-scheduled by 38 per cent.Military movements exceeded 40,000. Types of civil aircraft most frequently seen at Nicosia included DC-3s (3,495 move-ments), Yorks (666), Argonauts (486), Viscounts (436), Com- mandos (371), Hermes (280) and DC-6/6Bs (198). WINGS FOR WHEELS BELIEVED to be the largest long-distance air lift of motorcycles is that recently organized by the Uganda Company in conjunction with the B.S.A. Co., Ltd. The lift—to Entebbe andSalisbury—is the result of lengthy delays in shipping services to East Africa. The airlines concerned are Airwork, Ltd., whoseVikings recently flew three consignments of 25 machines each to Entebbe and Hunting-Clan Air Transport, Ltd., who despatcheda Viking-load of 125 c.C. Bantams and 150 c,c. Bantam Majors to Salisbury. Further consignments may exceed the 200 mark. Themotor cycles, which were delivered within about 24 hours, were destined for sale to Africans and Indians. TEN YEARS OF ACHIEVEMENT TPO mark the tenth anniversary of their respective foundations,•*• I.C.A.O. and I.A.T.A. have jointly published an attractive brochure outlining in popular terms the achievements of post-warcivil aviation. The title, Every Five Seconds . . ., refers to the world-wide, day-and-night frequency of scheduled air servicestoday. The brochure observes that the "typical" pre-war airliner hadtwo engines generating 2,400 h.p. and carried 21 passengers over a range of 1,000 miles at 170 m.p.h.; its counterpart of today hasfour engines generating six times more power, can carry as many as 100 passengers and cruises twice as far at 300 m.p.h. Com-pared with its pre-war production, civil aviation annually carries "23 times as many passengers, performs 36 times as manypassenger-miles, 70 times as much cargo transport and 13 times as much mail carriage.""The sheer physical accomplishment of the past ten years," is illustrated by the following examples: "324,000,000 passengersin 10 years equals twice the population of the United States; 180,000,000,000 passenger-miles performed represents the amountof transport needed to carry the whole of the populations of the Philippines to New York, or the whole population of Swedenonce round the world; 4,240,000,000 ton-miles of cargo transport could transfer all the coffee in Brazil across the South Atlantic,or carry the whole tea crop of Ceylon to Alaska—and back; 1,400.000,000 ton-miles of air mail service would suffice to carry15,000,000 letters around the world at the equator each week of the ten-year period; 8,500,000,000 aircraft miles flown represents18,000 round trips to the moon; and to accomplish the 47,000,000 aircraft hours operated in the decade, a single aircraft would havehad to start flying 5,365 years ago—in 3410 B.C." K.L.M. MODIFY SUPER CONNIES TV/CODIFICATION of airscrew blades on K-L.M.'s L.1049C•*• Super Constellations is expected to increase the cruising speed of these aircraft by 5 m.p.h., and to improve cooling of theTurbo-Compound engines both on the ground and in the air. The modification, which is being incorporated at K.L.M.'sSchiphol base, has the effect of extending the width of the air- screw blade down to the hub; this is achieved by the addition ofa foam-plastic fillet on the trailing edge of each blade. After heating of the blade, the plastic is applied and oven-hardened;protection against atmosphere is provided by a layer of sheet rubber and, finally, a coat of paint. ANOTHER BELL FOR ROTORFILMS a few weeks after taking delivery of his Agusta-builtBell 47G, Capt. John Crewdson has signed an order for another of these three-seat helicopters. The order is announcedby Hordern-Richmond (Sales), Ltd., Bell distributors for Great Britain and Ireland. A director of Rotorfilms (London), Ltd., Capt. Crewdson isoperating his first helicopter on a variety of assignments, ranging from publicity contracts to an airborne trapeze act over theThames. To publicize the product of a well-known brandy firm, the Bell sometimes carries outsize "hoardings," of appropriatebottle shape. These appendages have remarkably little effect on the performance of the helicopter, and can be detached in 10minutes; the "bottles" are of light-alloy sheeting, and were fabricated by W. A. Rollason, Ltd., of Croydon Airport. NEW SERVICES APPROVED 'THE M.T.C.A. announce Ministerial approval, after considera-*• tion of the Air Transport Advisory Council's recommenda- tions, of the following scheduled air services: — Air Kruise (Kent) Ltd.—Inclusive tours until October 31st, 1955,between Lydd and Basle; Lydd and Turin via technical stop at Nice; Lydd and Venice; Lydd and Salzburg; Manchester and Geneva; Lyddand/or Lympne and Lyons (Bron); and Manchester and Ostend; opera- tion of Dakotas on scheduled services between Lydd and Ostend. Airlines (Jersey), Ltd.—Normal scheduled services between Jersey,Guernsey and/or Alderney and Cherbourg until March 31st, 1963. Airwork, Ltd.—Inclusive tour between London (Blackbushe) andBiarritz until September 17th, 1955. B.E.A.—Normal scheduled services between London and Salzburgvia an optional stop at Frankfurt (until March 31st, 1962); Manchester (Ringway) and London (optional) and Milan (until May 31st, 1962);and London and Ajaccio and Malta (until September 30th, 1961). B.K.S. Air Transport, Ltd.—Inclusion of a traffic stop at Leedsand a Customs stop at Bournemouth (Hum) on one return flight per day on their internal service on the route Newcastle and /or WestHartlepool - Guernsey (optional) - Jersey until March 31st, 1957; normal scheduled services "from Newcastle to Knocke-le-Zoute and/or Ostendvia an optional stop at Leeds until April 30th, 1961 (April to October); inclusive tour between Newcastle and/or West Hartlepool and/orLeeds and Lourdes until September 30th, 1956 (April to September); internal sendees between Leeds and Southend and Leeds and Belfastuntil April 30th, 1962 (April to October). Cambrian Air Services, Ltd.—The operation of Dakota aircraft onthe route Cardiff and/or Bristol - Southampton - Paris; normal scheduled services between Cardiff and/or Bristol and/or Southampton and Niceuntil March 31st, 1963 (May to September). Dragon Airways, Ltd.—Internal services between Liverpool - Prest-wick (optional) - Glasgow until February 28th, 1962. Silver City Airways, Ltd.—Vehicle ferry services between Birming-ham and Le Touquet until October 31st, 1961 (May to October). Starways, Ltd.—Internal services between Liverpool and Londonuntil October 31st, 1961. Transair, Ltd.—Inclusive tours between Manchester and Ostend(until October 31st, 1955); London (Croydon or Gatwick) and Perpignan, Toulouse, Klagenfurt, Turin and Basle (until September30th, 1955). DC-3s of Starways, Ltd., the Liverpool-based independent operator, now feature an attrac- tive new colour-schei.ie. This example was photo- graphed recently on the apron at Renfrew.
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