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25 January 1957 123 AID FOR THE CLEARSIGHTED A FORTNIGHT of meetings in London by the Visual AidsPanel of I.C.A.O. ended in London last Saturday. Invited to London by the United Kingdom Government, the panel metto review the visual aid specifications for international aerodromes and to recommend amendments to the I.C.A.O. Annex 14 (Aero-dromes). The chairman was Mr. J. M. Lerew, Chief of the Aerodromes Air Routes and Ground Aids Section of I.C.A.O. andthe panel consisted of representatives from Austria, Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, the U.K., Uruguayand the U.S.A. Representatives of I.A.T.A., I.F.A.L.P.A. and the Commission Internationale de 1'Eclairage were also in attendance.Among the items discussed was the need to improve the integra- tion of visual and electronic non-visual approach and landing aids, and a representation that had earlier been made by I.A.T.A. for agreater improvement and standardization of the visual aids for runways not served by radio aids. SILVER CITY CHANGES FROM Silver City Airways comes news that the airline hasreorganized its commercial department into two new divisions. In the air ferry division, to be concerned with the company's airferry and "Silver Arrow" services, the principal executives are: Mr. E. Manley Walker, commercial manager (air ferry division);Mr. L. McCracken, reservations manager; and Mr. J. R. Hawkes, sales manager. In the freight and charter division, Mr. Leslie R.Pavey, commercial manager (freight and charter division) is the principal executive. BREVITIES ""THE Anglo-U.S. civil aviation conference at Bermuda "to under--'• take the complete review of the air service agreement concluded at Bermuda on February 11, 1946" (see Flight, November 16)will start on February 18. * * * Sabena's twice-daily helicopter service between Paris and Brussels will start on March 3. ' * * * Lower rates will be offered in 1957 on Air Charter's "ChannelAir Bridge." * * * The Australian Department of Civil Aviation has ordered aFokker Friendship for delivery in 1959. It will be used for the inspection and control of navigation aids all over Australia. * * * Southampton Borough Council have turned down an M.T.C.A.proposal that Eastleigh Airport should be returned to the town's ownership. * * * Representatives of the M.T.C.A. are going to Warsaw next month to negotiate an air route from London to Warsaw via Copenhagen. * * * Mr. R. Boyd Ferris has recently been appointed engineeringassistant to the technical director of the International Air Trans- port Association in Montreal. * * * Mr. Whitney Straight, vice-chairman of Rolls-Royce, Ltd., said in Johannesburg on January 15 that nuclear-powered aircraft may be flying between London and Johannesburg and London and New York "in about ten to twelve years' time." * * * The C.A.B. examiner's recommendations for direct trans-Pacific services from the U.S. West Coast (see Flight, January 4) have been strongly criticized by PanAm. The airline said that these would largely deprive the public and the Post Office of thebenefits of effective competition and that they would undermine their ability to remain free of subsidy. * * * British and French travellers may now land at Cairo in transitto other countries, but they may not leave the airport. * * *Skyways have ordered a Decca type 424 airfield control radar for installation at Lympne. * * *An 11-14 which arrived in Djakarta with a Russian crew on January 13 has been presented to President Sukarno of Indonesia.* * * K.L.M. is the first airline to order a Link Aviation flight simulator for the Lockheed Electra. * * * Mr. James T. Pyle has been sworn-in as U.S. Administratorof Civil Aeronautics following his appointment by President Eisenhower on December 20. He has been Acting Administratorsince September 5. * * * . A Capital Airlines Viscount flew the 602 miles from Birming-ham, Alabama, to Pittsburg in 1 hr 44 min, including take-off and landing time. This is believed to be a speed record for acommercial flight in the United States. * * * Morton Air Services have been refused permission to operate between Croydon and Dusseldorf, Hamburg and Frankfurt through Rotterdam; but they will increase their services to Rotterdam from two to three a day. * * * An Aerolineas Argentinas Viking crashed at Buenos Aires onJanuary 11. Twelve of the 28 passengers and six crew were killed. This was the first accident suffered by the airline in ten yearsof operation. CLUB AND GLIDING NEWS THE Popular Flying Association has begun 1957 with no fewerthan 70 affiliated groups and clubs. In the field of amateur construction, over fifty sets of working drawings of the Turbulentand Turbi have been sold, and the first completed machines are expected to fly this year. A new monthly bulletin, Popular Flying,is to be produced, with John Blake of the Royal Aero Club as editor. The next P.F.A. rally will be held at Sywell Aerodromeon May 25-26 (subject to final confirmation); it is hoped that the first postwar British-constructed ultra-light aircraft will bedemonstrated on this occasion. TPHE fifth annual dinner of the Channel Islands Aero Club was••• held in St. Helier last month, and was attended by 120 mem- bers and guests. Guests of honour included Mr. F. Le Boutillier(president, Harbours and Airports Committee), Mr. C. Roche (Jersey Airport commandant), and Mr. W. Griffiths (deputy air-port commandant). Both Mr. Le Boutillier and Mr. R. Spears, the Club president, spoke of the increasing need for official supportfor the Club in view of the difficulties of Club flying in a highly congested control zone, and also to assist the young people of theChannel Islands to learn to fly and to enter Civil Aviation professionally. At the dinner it was announced that an Airmanship Trophy had been presented to the Club by Mr, T. E. Kilfoy, vice-president (aircraft), to be awarded each year to the most outstanding private pilot in the Club. For 1956 Mr. Kilfoy made the initial award The presentation of the Kilfoy Airmanship Trophy to Mr. R. Spears of the Channel Islands Aero Club, reported above. , to Mr. R. Spears, die Club president, in recognition of his skilfulhandling of the Club Auster when force-landing at Le Touquet after experiencing an engine failure over the English Channelin April. This award, news of which was enthusiastically received by all present, was heartily endorsed by W/C. M. E. Pickford,the Club's recently appointed C.F.I. Proposing the toast of the guests, Mr. R. Jenkinson paid tributeto the co-operation of the Airport authorities and, in particular, to the Jersey air traffic control officers who, although attending to350 scheduled aircraft movements per day in mid-summer, never prevented local flying by the Club Auster. In conclusion
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