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1957
1957 - 0156.PDF
158 FLIGHT CIVIL AVIATION . . .• IMPACT OF THE JETS—AT STOCKHOLM C! WEDEN has long been plagued by the problem of where to^ put the new international airport for Stockholm. Soon after the war it became clear that Bromma would become inadequate,and it was decided to build a new airport at Halmsjon, some 30 miles to the north. But the result was disappointing: the finishedrunway is of inferior quality and, because it is built over a hill and is bumpy, it has been declared unsuitable. When S.A.S. ordered DC-8s the problem became pressing.Without good runways, Sweden would be unable to handle DC-8 traffic and Copenhagen's Kastrup would become the undis-puted hub of all S.A.S. lines. But a committee, including Mr. Thorne-Holst of Scandinavian Airlines System and GeneralWestring of the Swedish Air Force, has announced a plan to replace Bromma with a new airport 17 miles west of Stockholmat SkS-Edeby. The new airport is planned to have an 8,000ft main runwayready in 1960 but it is intended that this would later be increased to 11,000ft: a second runway of 6,500ft is also planned. Sub-sequently, the main runway could be extended to 13,000ft. The cost of the Ska-Edeby scheme would be about £12.5m—£1.75mmore than the cost of continuation at Halmsjon. The Ska-Edeby airport would have strategic advantages over Halmsjon, or toyet another scheme for an airport at Jordbro. Cost to S.A.S. of new administration buildings, technical facilities and mainten-ance hangars would be £9m. —AT COPENHAGEN T7"ASTRUP Airport, Copenhagen, is soon to be considerably-"• enlarged. It is to be rebuilt to accommodate "the largest types of jet airliners" (i.e. S.A.S.'s DC-8s,and the 707s and DC-8sof other operators into Scandinavia). The cost will be about Kr 180,000,000 (£9,350,000). It has recently been reported,incidentally, that Aerofiot wish to extend their Tu-104 services into Kastrup in order to connect with services into Denmark fromthe West. —AND'AT SCHIPHOL SINCE 1945, when reconstruction began.on the ruins of SchipholAirport, much planning has been done by the Amsterdamauthorities to ensure that adequate runways would be available. To cater for the heavy runway lengths and passenger nandlingdemands of the transatlantic jets the airport will be considerably increased in size. A drawing of the extensions appears below. Around a quinquangular central area—opposite the presentarea on the edge of the Haarlemmermeer dyke—it is proposed to build four more or less tangential new runways and most of thepresent ones will go out of use. The new runway on the other side of the new terminal buildings will be a duplicate of the existing(01-19) runway. It will be identified as 01 left-19 right and the present runway will be 01 right-19 left. The aim has been toprovide parallel runways which can be used simultaneously, one for take-off and the other for landing. On the far side of the newterminal area—the present terminal buildings will be expanded into a large technical centre—two other additional runways(12-30 and 03-21) have been planned. The town council of Amsterdam have set aside six millionguilders (£565,000) for runway 07-25, the first to be constructed. It will be 10,000ft long and should be completed in 1959. Thelength of the other new runways will vary from 7,500 to 9,000ft, but they can all be extended if necessary. This expansion atSchiphol will increase the area occupied from 1,730 acres to 3,330 and the total cost—including the new terminal building whichwill not be complete until 1963—will be about £30m. THE ITALIAN MERGER ANEW vice-president of the Italian airline L.A.I., Dr. FrancoPalma, was elected at a meeting of the airline's council on January 12. He will succeed Sig. Richard Mazzarini, who willremain a member of the administrative council. The meeting was also concerned with the formation of opera-tional regulations when L.A.I.'s Viscounts are introduced on con- tinental and Mediterranean services, and their L. 1649As onflights between Italy and the U.S.A. L.A.I, and Alitalia, the background to whose proposed mergerappeared in Flight of January 11, have agreed to form a common board with the task of co-ordinating future action by the twocompanies, particularly with regard to the ordering of new air- craft. Opinion in Italy seems to be divided between support fora separate Minister for civil aviation and retention of the present system whereby the majority of ground and navigational servicesare operated by the Air Ministry. OPERATOR FINED 'THE pilot and owners of the Don Everall Rapide who were sum--•- monsed (see Flight, January 18) in connection with the accident near Elmdon were last week fined a total of £145. The pilot, Mr. John Da vies, was fined a total of £120 on fivesummonses: £30 for failing to ensure that there was sufficient fuel, £40 for incorrectly stating the payload; £30 for flying theaircraft at an excess weight; £10 for failing to comply with V.F.R.; and £10 for being in charge of a flight when he had notcarried out a night landing and take-off within the previous 90 days. The owners were fined £25 for operating an aircraft at a weightin excess of the maximum authorized, £2 for failing to produce duplicate copies of a load sheet, and £5 for failing to keep a recordof the training of a pilot. A summons for operating an aircraft in a control area on a flight not complying with V.F.R. was dismissed,as was another for operating an aircraft at night the pilot of which had not carried out night take-offs and landings within 90 days. The Prosecution stated that there was no criticism of the pilot'sbehaviour during and after the crash, but it was his duty to see that he had enough fuel; in a Rapide it could easily be checkedvisually. New runways planned for Schiphol airport are shown in black; the existing runways are shown in full lines and possible exten- sions are dotted. The runway marked A is already in existence. On January 17. on its flight to Australia, Twin Pioneer G-AOEP visited Teheran and was demonstrated to the Shah of Iran (fourth from left). Scottish Aviation were represented by (left to right) Capt. J. Blair (co-pilot). Capt. Roy Smith (pilot) and D. F. Mclntyre (managing director).
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