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1955
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790 FLIGHT, 18 November 1955 CIVIL AVIATION . . . TI ^ Lawton, commercial director of B.E.A. Lord Douglas said thatthe purpose of his visit was to discuss the terms of a proposed interline agreement with Aeroflot, with possible connections atHelsinki and Berlin. REPLACING T.A.A.'s DC-3s "DURCHASE and successful adoption of the Viscount by Trans-•*• Australia Airlines has not reduced the company's interest in the DC-3 replacement problem. This is made clear in T.A.A.'slatest annual report, which emphasizes that "the low density of population in many of the areas served by T.A.A. will for manyyears to come require aircraft with a load capacity similar to that of the DC-3, if a reasonably high frequency of service is to beoperated at an economically acceptable payload." The report mentions T.A.A.'s interest in the Handley PageHerald and Fokker Friendship, adding that intensive flight-test- ing of both types during the coming year would enable a morepositive assessment to be made of their relative merits as DC-3 replacements. At the end of the 1954-55 financial year T.A.A.were operating 22 DC-3s. BREVITIES A REWARD of $25,000 (£9,000) has been offered by United **• Air Lines for "information leading to the arrest and con- viction of the person or persons responsible" for the loss of one of the company's DC-6Bs on November 2nd. An explosives expert was called in to investigate the accident, which, according to reports, followed an explosion in the air. All 44 persons aboard the aircraft were killed. • •••,*.. * * * ,-•:,.„.....:'••. In the financial year ended June 30th 1955, Australian NationalAirways carried 700,000 passengers and 43,000 tons of cargo. The proportion of freight traffic carried by A.N.A. is unusuallyhigh, as further emphasized by the report that the airline's Melbourne freight terminal handles 100 tons daily, and thatthe corresponding figure for Sydney is 60 tons. * * * Flying hours logged by the Boeing 707 stood at 319 hr 12 minon November 9th; since it was first airborne on July 15th last year, the aircraft has made a total of 231 flights. In recent weeksthe 707 has made demonstration flights for 71 executives of 12 A DC-3 of Dan-Air Services, Ltd., was the first British aircraft to use the new airport, opened last month, at Flesland, Bergen. Its crew—(left to right) Ist/Off. Sutton, Capt Watson, Rad/Off. Shirmer, Stewardess Fraser and F/Eng. Diamond—are seen with Mr. N. G jest land (right), whose company chartered the flight on behalf of a shipping firm. different airlines. Fifty of these airline representatives havesampled the controls in flight or on take-offs and landings. * * * K.L.M. have decided to use the Smiths S.E.P.2 autopilot intheir fleet of nine Viscount 803s, following "an extensive technical evaluation." This is the first time, say Smiths, that the Dutchairline has specified a British autopilot for its aircraft. * * * - Mr. Robert L. Baer has been appointed senior technicalrepresentative of the United Aircraft Export Corporation, with headquarters in London. He was formerly assistant chief of air-line engineering, United Aircraft Service Corporation. * * * Mr. D. Koeleman, general manager of K.L.M., stated in New York last week that "informal discussions on the question of land- ing rights in Moscow and chief cities of the Balkans and Poland" had been in progress between K.L.M. and the Russian govern- ment since the opening of the Geneva conference. . . * * * ...... The appointment of Mr. Thomas J. Harris as director of cargosales is announced by American Airlines. Mr. Harris, who will be remembered in London as European cargo sales manager forA.O.A., succeeds Mr. Joseph D. Boylan, who has resigned. * * * A bilateral air-services agreement was signed between Burmaand Communist China on November 8th, providing for two ser- vices weekly between Rangoon and Kunming by both theBurmese and the Chinese airlines. Signatories to the agreement, which was concluded in Rangoon, were U Win Maung, BurmeseTransport Minister, and Wu Fah Sien, leader of the Chinese delegation. * * •* • There are 349,729 active pilots in the United States, according to a recent C.A.A. survey. The survey breaks down the total into percentages represented by 10 different age groups, as follows: 16-19 years (2.91 per cent); 20-24 (11.31); 25-29 (21.06); 30-34 (25.59); 35-39 (17.16); 40-44 (10.21); 45-49 (6.28); 50-54 (3.24); 55-59 (1.48); 60 and above (0.76). * * * The operations group of B.O.A.C. is to publish a magazineproviding technical information for the Corporation's flying staff. It will be edited by Mr. Derek D. Dempster, a R.Aux.A.F. pilotand former air correspondent of the Daily Express. * * * 1 The Merchant Air Service was represented at the Westminster Abbey Remembrance Service on November 6th by an indepen-dent-airline pilot—Capt. A. N. Marshall, of Skyways, Ltd. * * * : Canadian Pacific Airlines announce the appointment of Air.Hugh B. Main as executive assistant to the president. His post of general traffic manager is taken over by Mr. H. Bryan Renwick,who joined the company last April as assistant to the president. Another C.P.A.L. announcement says that the airline last weekinaugurated a weekly DC-6B service between Toronto and Lima, Peru, which is already served by a weekly C.P.A.L. service fromVancouver. (Left) G. W. McConachie, president of Canadian Pacific, is seen at Vancouver signing his company's recent order for three Britannia 300 L.R.s. Looking on is the sales man- ager of Bristol's aircraft divi- sion, Mr. W. R. Fames (left). Mr. Stanislaw Krzyczkawski (right), technical director of I.A.T.A., has recently been awarded the Flight Safety Foundation Award for "out- standing contributions to the safety of civil air operations throughout the world." A former technical director of the Polish airline LOT. he joined I.A.T.A. in 1945.
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