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Aviation History
1955
1955 - 0952.PDF
62 FLIGHT CIVIL AVIATION . . . SWEDISH HELICOPTER SERVICES OCHEDULED helicopter services were introduced by Oster-^ mans Aero, of Sweden, on June 17th on a short route linking Denmark with Sweden. Services, operated twelve times daily ineach direction with an eight-seat S-55, are between Copenhagen and Malmo. Most of these flights operate directly to and fromheliports in the centre of each city, but connections to Kastrup Airport at Copenhagen are provided for fixed-wing passengers.The Ostermans service is being operated in co-operation with S.A.S., and no charge is made for transit passengers using thehelicopter to connect with the latter's European or international routes; local passengers are charged a single fare of about 28s. NEW SERVICES APPROVED THE M.T.C.A. announce Ministerial approval, after considera-tion of the Air Transport Advisory Council's recommendation, of the following scheduled air services: —Air Kruise (Kent), Ltd.—An inclusive tour between Lydd and Geneva via optional technical stops at Paris (Le Bourget) andBasle until October 31st, 1955. Airlines (Jersey), Ltd.—Normal scheduled service betweenBournemouth (Hum) and Dinard until March 31st, 1963. Eagle Aviation, Ltd.—Inclusive tour between London (Black-bushe) and Klagenfurt via a technical stop at Luxemburg (Findal) until September 30th, 1955.Dragon Airways, Ltd.—Internal service between Stoke-on- Trent (Meir) - Birmingham (technical stop only) - Guernsey and/or Jersey until April 7th, 1962. Hunting-Clan Air Transport, Ltd.—Internal service betweenNewcastle and Belfast via an optional stop at Glasgow (until 31st March, 1960): inclusive tours between Glasgow (Renfrew) andMunich (until September 11th, 1955); London Airport and Zurich (until mid-September 1955). The very smart Heron 7 pictured here at Speke Airport, Liverpool, is G-ANCI, first of a fleet ordered by Dragon Airways. The occasion was the inaugural departure, on June 28th, of the company's scheduled service to Renfrew, Glasgow, which operates four days weekly in each direction. The service was formerly flown with Rapides. Starways, Ltd.—Inclusive tour between Liverpool (Speke) and the Isle of Wight (Bembridge) until October 31st, 1956 (May to October). HUNTING-CLAN'S "AFRICARGO" NETWORK INAUGURATION of all-freight services between the UnitedKingdom and Africa by Hunting-Clan Air Transport is scheduled to take place on July 23rd with the departure fromManchester and London of an East Africa-bound York freighter. The decision to operate these services—the first scheduled all-cargo flights ever made between Britain and Africa—follows several years of research by Hunting-Clan. It is the company's intention ultimately to serve most parts ofAfrica. It holds the necessary traffic rights to operate between the United Kingdom and East Africa, the Central AfricanFederation and the British territories in West Africa, though negotiations with the South African Government for rights inthe Union have not yet been concluded. From the commercial viewpoint, Hunting-Clan's African pro-ject is an extremely interesting one, as it promises to break new ground in several respects. Initially, the East African service willoperate weekly, though the airline is free to vary frequencies, operate weekly, though the airline is free to vary frequencies,services will be confined to cabotage routes, which are free from I.A.T.A. jurisdiction, it will also be possible to experiment withtariffs. Hunting-Clan say that the object of their "Africargo" project is to develop new business and not to divert existing trafficfrom other airlines' scheduled passenger-plus-freight services. Services will be operated in co-operation with B.O.A.C.; thesetting-up of a joint working group, with discussion of tariff experiments as one of its main purposes, represents a furtherimprovement in relations between State and independent; operators. Hunting-Clan will also have an inter-line agreementwith Airwork for transfer of loads between the former's African and the latter's Atlantic services. With the object of developing local freight traffic in CentralAfrica, HCA have established a subsidiary Hunting-Clan African Airways. This company will shortly provide a connection betweenEast Africa and the Central African territories—Nyasaland and Northern and Southern Rhodesia. TRANSAIR NEWSPAPER FLIGHTS \UE learn from Transair, Ltd., that the article "Newspaper" Run" (Flight, June 17th) did not give a completely up-to- date picture of the company's early-morning delivery service toGermany. No problem is involved in finding return loads for the aircraft on this route, since the company operates a regularFrankfurt-Paris-London service under contract to the U.S. Army. The outward flight to Dusseldorf and Hanover is made undercontract to the Newspaper Proprietors' Association, and it is Not a "replacement" but a promising new feeder-and-outback airliner in its own right is the Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer (two 570-h.p. Alvis Leonides), which made its first flight at Prestwick on June 24th. In charge of flight tridls is J. H. Capper (right). t
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