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1956
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402 FLIGHT, 6 April 1956 Delegates from the U.S.A. to the traffic talks held recently in London flew in a Viscount during a visit to Vickers-Armstrongs at Hum. They are seen here with their Vickers hosts in front of the 100th Viscount. The London talks are recorded in an item on p. 401. CIVIL AVIATION . . . UP-TO-DATE WITH THE HERONO NE of the most significant recent Heron deliveries was that ofa demonstrator aircraft for de Havilland, Inc., of New York. This aircraft will be the first Heron with feathering airscrewsto be seen in the U.S.A., and the interest it creates likely to be lively. The success of the Heron's predecessor, the Dove (morethan 80 of which are in use with executive owners in the U.S.A.), is certain to favour the four-engined machine in its forthcomingdemonstration tour. A total of 106 of all Heron types has now been ordered, 93 ofwhich have been delivered. Recent deliveries include the fourth aircraft for Braathens S.A.F.E. Airtransport of Norway, andacceptance of the first two of three aircraft ordered by Cambrian Airways is imminent. New customers include Rolls-Royce, Ltd.,who have ordered an executive model, and Vestlandske Luft- farselskap, Norway, who are to have a fifteen-seat airliner version. BREVITIES "/ expect PanAm will order the odd 50." AUSTRIA'S NEW AIRLINET HE creation of a new airline, to be known as Austrian Air-ways, was announced in Vienna on March 23rd. The new operator is backed by the Scandinavian Airlines System, who areto own 40 per cent of the shares, and who will provide training personnel and flying crews as well as aircraft. Services will startin the summer using DC-6Bs and Convair Metropolitans on routes from Vienna to London, Rome, Zurich, Frankfurt, Copen-hagen and Oslo. By the summer of 1957 the network will be extended to include Belgrade, Paris, Stockholm, Warsaw,Moscow, Budapest, Athens and Teheran. It will be recalled that another Austrian airline, Air-Austria, was recently formed withK.L.M.'s backing (Flight, February 10th). TO E.A. has reduced the return ticket from London to Paris from"' £12 to £10—the first of a series of cuts in night fares being made this spring by the Corporation. The £10 Paris tickets willbe available for Elizabethan flights leaving London and Le Bourget simultaneously at 11 p.m. and 8 a.m. * * * Delegates from the governments of Denmark, Sweden and Norway are in Moscow discussing air traffic agreements with the U.S.S.R. * * * Mrs. Ruth Jewison, a Canadian, has been appointed district manager in the United Kingdom for Pakistan International Airlines. * * * A new division devoted to operational planning has been formed by American Airlines. It will be headed by Mr. MarvinJ. Whitlock. * * * Bovingdon Aerodrome, Hertfordshire, will cease to be a civilairport as from April 1st, when its control will be transferred to the Air Ministry. It will continue to be available in emergencyto civil aircraft. * * * Gatwick Airport was closed on April 1st to enable constructionwork to be started. Site clearance is well advanced, work on the road diversion has begun, and tenders for runway construc-tion are being invited. * * * Capt. E. R. Watts, captain of the B.E.A. Viscount which landed safely on one engine at the French military airfield of Caseaux last January, has presented gifts to the twelve French air traffic con- trollers on duty at the time. * * * The annual diploma of the Federation Aeronautique Inter- nationale—the F.A.I.'s highest award—has gone to Capt. Len Inggs, South African Airways' oldest pilot, who is due to retire in September on his 60th birthday. * * * The Bell Aircraft Corporation are to build a 25-passengerturbine helicopter for New York Airways. The machine, to be known as the Bell D216, will have twin tip-jet rotors, and issaid to be capable of reducing costs to 10 cents per seat-mile. * * * A B.E.A. Elizabethan en route from Belfast on March 27th had to take violent evasive action to avoid collision with a Vampire over Daventry. First reports stated that a number of passengers were injured as a result of being thrown about, but that both aircraft were undamaged. Prospects of an Eland sales agency in the U.S.A. ("Flight," March 23rd) make topical this picture of the Eland - Convair, taken after dark al Napier's test centre at Luton Airport.
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