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Aviation History
1957
1957 - 0058.PDF
OUTWARD BOUND FROM PRESTWICK ' I 'HE photographs on this page illustrate a recent busy week-end-•- at the Scottish Aviation works at Prestwick. Between January 4 and January 6 three Twin Pioneers left to scatter across the globealmost as far from one another as it is possible to travel—one to the Far East and Australia, one to North and South America andone to make a Continental tour before delivery to Switzerland. First away, to the accompaniment of good wishes from themanaging director (Mr. D. F. Mclntyre), the staff and the relatives of the crew—and with an 18,000-mile itinerary before it wasG-AOEP, a brand new aircraft in Scottish Aviation's blue and white and bearing the company's crest of a lion and heart on thenose and outer fins. The long journey to Australia was to be flown via Lyons, Nice, Milan, Rome, Athens, Ankara, Baghdad, Teheran,Kuwait, Karachi, and so to India and Malaya through Delhi Rangoon, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore; the TwinPioneer will then fly to Kuching (Sarawak), North Borneo, Manila, New Guinea and on to Hobart, Australia. The pilot, Mr. Roy Smith, expects to give demonstrations to theK.A.F. at Kuala Lumpur (who are to be equipped with Twin 1 loneers) on the way out; and the tour is a sales tour in the exact CIVIL AVIATION ... Assembled at Prestwick alongside the Twin Pioneer prototype G-ANTP, before "going foreign," are G-AOEO for Swissair and G-AOEN, the American demonstrator (also seen climbing away on the left). The crew of the third Twin Pioneer to seek new frontiers last week-end line up in front of their aircraft before departure for Australia. sense: the aircraft will be sold wherever—be it Sydney or Singapore—or whenever the opportunity occurs. The companyjudge that, apart from the requirements of the R.A.F. in still-troubled Malaya, themost likely prospects on this flight are to be found in Australia, where the Pioneer'sversatility can be turned to good advantage. The versions that are being offered includepassenger transport; freighter; air ambu- lance for nine stretcher cases, two walkingcasualties and two attendants; a crop duster and sprayer; and a survey variant. Thecompany are also hoping to produce a sea- plane Twin Pioneer; negotiations are pro-ceeding with the Edo company for the manufacture of floats. The arrangements for this simultaneous exodus of three demon-strators from Prestwick have been in the hands of Noel Capper, Scottish Aviation's chief test pilot. The aircraft to be used on theAmerican tour, G-AOEN, is being flown out to him in Montreal by Capt. Clyde Pangborn, an American free-lance ferry pilot. Allthe demonstration aircraft are the long-range version with addi- tional 30-gal tanks in each wing; but EN is also equipped witha long-range tank mounted in the fuselage for the North Atlantic crossing. Mr. Capper will start the demonstration tour at Montrealand fly via Ottawa, Washington and the Bahamas to South America, where the Twin Pioneer will be extensively demon-strated. Afterwards the aircraft—if not sold for outback service en route—will be demonstrated in the West Indies. The second pilot on these flights will be Mr. T. Holiday, who,although he has only recently joined Scottish Aviation, has gleaned much previous valuable Pioneer experience in R.A.F. operationsfrom Malayan jungle airstrips—work in which a 104yd run to unstick becomes of more than academic interest. By the time the Australian and American tours are completed,Scottish Aviation will have accumulated some valuable experience of operations under the varied climatic conditions offered byMontreal in mid-winter or tropical Borneo; experience that will be backed-up by fully instrumented tropical trials with anotheraircraft, G-ANTP, in about three months' time. The third departure from Prestwick last week-end was G-AOEO,flown by Capt. Tommy Hope. This aircraft is to make a Con- tinental tour before being delivered to Swissair at Zurich, whereMr. Bob Daley, group inspector of Twin Pioneers at Prestwick, will remain behind to familiarize the airline personnel with theroutine of maintenance and inspection. THE STERN FACE OF C.A.B. A U.S. Court of Appeals decision last month upheld a C.A.B.•**• action which put four American "non-scheds" out of business. The four companies—20th Century Air Lines, Trans NationalAirlines, Trans American Airways and Hemisphere Air Transport —were members of the "North American Combine" which wasaccused by C.A.B. of constituting themselves as a single airline in order to evade Board regulations. The court said that there was evidence that the combine hadpresented itself to the public as "regularly or frequently operating one or more aircraft between designated points." They also agreedthat flight announcements and advertising were in the name of "North American" and that practically all the aircraft used thisname exclusively on the fuselage sides.
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