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1955
1955 - 1489.PDF
7 October 1955 Cairo will cease to be a stop for B.O.A.C. first-class SouthAfrican services, which will fly via Rome - Khartoum - Nairobi - Lmngstone and Johannesburg. South African Airways,B.O.A C. s partner on the Springbok route, will continue to serve Cairo. The nine first-class Stratocruiser flights a week between Londonand New York, operated during the summer, will be retained but there will be fewer tourist flights. On other Atlantic routes therewill be an increase in the number of flights compared with last winter. There will be four first-class and three tourist flightsbetween London and Montreal a week; two first-class and four tourist services a week between Prestwick and New York-and three flights weekly of each class between Prestwick and Montreal. An extra stop—at Montreal—will be included, subject toGovernment approval, in the route of the weekly first- and tourist- class Stratocruiser to the Caribbean. The new route will be:London, Montreal, Bermuda, Barbados, Port of Spain. The number of B.O.A.C. services between New York and theCaribbean will be increased during the winter months. From mid-December a twice-weekly first-class Stratocruiser servicebetween New York and Nassau will be introduced and in January it will become a daily operation. On November 12th, B.O.A.C. and their Caribbean subsidiaryB.W.I.A. will jointly inaugurate twice-weekly Viscount services between New York and Bermuda. These will be first-class ser-vices. Tourist flights over the same route will be operated daily by Super Constellations chartered from Seaboard and WesternAirlines. MORE SUPER CONNIE FREIGHTERS AN order from the Flying Tiger Line for ten L.1049H Super**• Constellations was announced on September 30th by the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. The Flying Tigers are the lastof America's three major all-freight airlines to buy the model H version of the Super Constellation; orders have already been placedby Slick Airways and by Seaboard and Western Airlines. In addition, it has been ordered for passenger-freight service on theroutes of Qantas. The Flying Tiger contract, valued at £7.2m, calls for deliveryof the aircraft in 1957. With a full payload of 42,600 lb, the L.1049H is credited with a cruising speed of 335 m.p.h. and arange of 2,200 miles. Provision is made for fitting up to 109 seats when the aircraft is required for passenger work. U.S. TRAFFIC TEN YEARS HENCE " AIR transport's share of the U.S. carrier market will rise from** its current 29 per cent to more than 50 per cent by 1965," predicts a study issued by the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Administra-tion. The report, Civil Air Traffic Forecasts, 1960-1965, estimates that in 1965 U.S. airlines will carry on international services sixmillion revenue passengers, compared with 2.8 million in 1954. The equivalent domestic total is calculated to be 70 million, morethan double the 1954 total. Freight and mail will increase to 800 million ton-miles, three times the 1954 level, mainly due tomore economical cargo aircraft and improved equipment. Accord- ing to the report, U.S. aircraft manufacturers in 1965 will deliver400 large civil transports valued at $660 million. BOEING 707 ECONOMICS SOME new performance estimates for the Boeing 707 are givenby Mr. Ralph Bell, Boeing's director of sales, in the current issue of his company's magazine. The civil version of the 707,the Stratoliner, is claimed to have a decided economic advantage over present long-range equipment on both domestic and overseasroutes. Its range and speed, Mr. Bell observes, would make possible non-stop services with single rather than double crews,and the working capacity of the aircraft, he claims, is about three and a half times that of a DC-7 or Super Constellation. Accordingto Boeing, "Nine 707s will provide the same seat-miles as 25 On the trans-continental route between New York and SanFrancisco, the Stratoliner should be capable of achieving times of five hours eastbound and 5 hr 37 min westbound. According toBoeing's figures, its direct operating costs for the non-stop run would be 27 per cent less than for the DC-7, and even with stopsat Denver, Chicago and Cleveland en route the jet transport should have a 22 per cent advantage.A sales point emphasized in the article is that the standard ot seating provided by a 103-rassenger Stratolmer would be com-parable to that in a 60-seat DC-7 or 67-seat Super Constellation. RUSSIANS TOUR B.E.A. BASE THE Soviet delegates who came to Britain to study buildingconstruction visited the B.E.A. Engineering Base at LondonAirport on September 24th. The delegation was headed by toe Sov£t Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. V. A. Kucherenko, who is 599 Capt. John Criwdson, of Helicopter Services, Ltd., is here seen bringing in one of that company's Agusta-Bell helicopters to the Willesden Heliport referred to on p. 598. also Chairman of the State Committee for Construction Affairs,and including Mr. Cushchin, Deputy Minister of Construction. Mr. N. P. Dudorov, Chief Designer of State Committee for Con-struction Affairs, Mr. I. I. Loveikov, Chief Architect of Moscow, and Professor Gvozdev, Professor of Concrete. Members madea two-hour tour of the hangars and workshops and also inspected the staff canteen, which B.E.A. believe to be one of the mostup-to-date in the country. The Soviet delegates were shown round the B.E.A. base byMr. H. A. Smith, personal assistant to the works manager. Mr. Kucherenko said mat the delegation were most interested andimpressed by what they saw, but they were amused by the staff's ten-minute break for tea—"We don't have that in Russia,"he said. A CARRIER'S LIABILITY TO ITS PASSENGER AN amendment to the 26-year-old Warsaw Convention was- signed at The Hague on September 29th by 26 nations. It concerns the presumed liability of an air carrier for a passengerkilled or injured on an international flight, and the protocol to amend the Convention to bring it more in line with present-daymoney values was sponsored by I.C.A.O. Liability is increased to a maximum of U.S. $16,582 (or 250,000 Poincare gold francs),double the amount at present provided. This liability limit, which also covers air cargo and baggage, does not apply in thecase of "wilful misconduct" on the part of the carrier. The conference lasted three weeks and was attended by 136air lawyers from 44 countries presided over by Professor D. Goedhuis of the Netherlands. The new rate wil! come into forcewhen it has been signed by 30 countries. "Bluebird," Mr. Donald Campbell's record-breaking speedboat, is soon to be used in a new attempt on the record at Lake Mead, Nevada. It is seen going aboard Airwork Atlantic's DC-6A for New York at London Airport last Saturday.
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