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31 May 1957 731 At Schiphol, Amsterdam, has been built one of the largest hangars in West- ern Europe. Called the Albert Plesman, it is 660ft long by 70ft high, and it will be used by K.L.M. The cost was £660,000. FIFTEEN VISCOUNTS OFF THE SHELF ""THE opportunity for U.S. airlines to take the 15 Viscounts which•*• Capital Airlines decided to defer is being brought home to them by the manufacturer. Vickers have flown one of the completedCapital aircraft (repainted as a demonstrator) to the U.S.A., with the company's chief test pilot, Mr. Jock Bryce, in command.The Wall Street Journal has reported that Mr. Howard Hughes was "dickering" with Vickers for the possible acquisition of the15 Viscounts by T.W.A. Officials of the airline declined to comment on the report but agreed, in answer to a reporter'squestion, that they "might not necessarily know about Mr. Hughes' activities." SIR WILLIAM CRITICIZES THE MINISTER AT the luncheon held in London to celebrate the first ten years• of the I.A.T.A. Clearing House (Flight, April 19) we reported a "lighthearied" interchange between Sir William Hildred andMr. Harold Watkinson, Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, on the subject of landing charges. Sir William has obviously not forgotten that interchange, nordoes he seem to have regarded it as "lighthearted." At a luncheon in Washington earlier this month given by the Aero Club he said."About three weeks ago there was sitting on my right at a luncheon the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation in the United King-dom. I mentioned, more in sorrow than in anger, what the British Government had just done with landing charges. They had shovedthem up by a cruel percentage, and he hadn't the grace even to apologize. In fact, when I said he had put them up thirty per cent,he interjected, 'in some cases fifty,' and was absolutely shameless about this. That is another thing we have to deal with." I.C.A.O.'s EUROPEAN CONFERENCE THE new president of the I.C.A.O. Council, Mr. Walter Binaghi,was present during the second European Civil Aviation Confer- ence which took place in Madrid earlier this month.Fourteen recommendations were adopted dealing with the fol- lowing problems: Abolition of visas; acceptance of identity cardsor expired passports for visits of short duration; freedom for airport health control within Europe; airport facilities for handling transitcargo; provision of bonded stores facilities; exemption of children from governmental documentary requirements; clearance ofoutbound baggage; clearance of inbound baggage; handling of unaccompanied baggage; elimination of passenger manifests; traf-fic flow and/or installation arrangements at international airports; temporary importation of non-scheduled aircraft; use of clearancedocuments for statistical purposes; adequate facilities of hotels within Europe for the jet age.There were eighteen European countries represented at Madrid, and observers attended from eight other countries, including theU.S.A. On the wall behind Mr. Edwin Whitfield, traffic director of B.E.A., is the gold "winged wheel award" of the Airline Ground Transporta- tion Association of North America. It yias presented to him by the Association's president at London Airport on May 12 "in recognition of outstanding contribu- tion to the aviation industry as a whole and . . . to the air- line ground industry." SKYWAYS' "LIVESTOCK" SPECIAL SUBJECT to Government approval, a new service is to be^* pioneered by the British private airline Skyways. The com- pany has applied to the Air Transport Advisory Council for per-mission to operate a scheduled freight service for livestock and "associated passengers" (i.e., grooms, trainers, etc.). The applica-tion requests rights of operation between Stansted and Beauvais, with an optional traffic stop at Blackbushe, near Ascot. The service, if approved, will use York freighter aircraft (ofwhich Skyways has a fleet of eighteen) specially fitted with adjust- able horse boxes or other equipment suitable to the freight carried.If needed, six or seven horses, with fodder and their grooms, can be uplifted on each flight. The proposed service will leave Stanstedat mid-day, with a flight time of one hour to Beauvais, the return service leaving France within two hours. BREVITIES '"THE possibility that B.O.A.C. services to Cairo may soon be-*- resumed arises from the Egyptian Government's reported decision "to grant the request of British airline companies toresume their flights to Egyptian territory." * * * It is reported from India that Air Ceylon will purchase Lock- heed Electras for operation on international services in 1961. * * *T.W.A. will start operations to London, Paris, Frankfurt and Rome with their Constellation L.1649A "Jetstream Starliner" fleettomorrow, June 1. This is a month earlier than originally planned. * * * Mr. Stanislav Krejcik, formerly head of I.A.T.A.'s Europeantechnical office in London, has been transferred to the head office in Montreal. His place has been taken by Mr. J. L. Gilmore. * * * An extension to the terminal building at Turnhouse Airport,Edinburgh, was opened on May 16. A much larger extension is under consideration by the M.T.C.A. * * * Blackbushe Airport may be bought from the local authoritiesby the M.T.C.A. The present requisition order, under which it is held, expires in December 1959. * * *Qantas are to start a weekly mixed-class Super Constellation service from Sydney to Manila early in June. A thrice-weekly ser-vice between Sydney and Athens will begin on June 10. * * * Martin have developed a portable jet-noise suppressor for useon airports. It will cost between £180 and £3,500, depending upon the aircraft for which it is required. * * * Published by the Leicester University Press, the Journal ofTransport History for May 1957 contains a history of London's airports by Mr. Peter W. Brooks of B.E.A. * * *Career Opportunities with the Airlines, an illustrated booklet, has been published by the Air Transport Association of America,1107 16th Street, N.W., Washington 6, D.C. * * * A DC-7C of K.L.M. made a special flight from San Diego toParis on May 23 to commemorate Col. Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris. The airliner took 21 hr 52 min and*followedLindbergh's route from New York. * * * Yeadon Airport has now been derequisitioned. Protractedpurchase negotiations between the Air Ministry and Leeds and Bradford councils preceded a request for derequisitioning lastNovember. Plans are in hand for re-surfacing the runways. * * * An informative and attractive booklet on London Airport, andthe aircraft which are to be seen there, has been added to the ABC series, price 2s 6d. The publishers are Ian Allan, Ltd., of HamptonCourt, Surrey. Another booklet, published at 5 s by Travellers Guides, of 111 Baker Street, London, W.I, provides a completeguide to travel from all London's airports.
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