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1957
1957 - 0958.PDF
58 FLIGHT CIVIL AVIATION ... traffic, particularly since a Northwest link-up with T.W.A.'sEastern services could be made in Manila, giving the Americans a round-the-world route.The deadlock may prove soluble with time, and indeed even more difficult concessions may have to be discussed by both sidesduring the next few years of expanding traffic and operation of large-capacity, high-speed jet transports. ETHIOPIAN IMPASSE A GREEMENT with Ethiopia over traffic rights between that**- country and British possessions in Africa has for many years been on a temporary basis. Recently Ethiopia Air Lines, Inc., acompany backed by T.W.A., have been planning on large expan- sions in business. A Constellation 749 is now in service, and threeDC-6Bs are on order for delivery next year. Last November Ethiopia asked for enlarged traffic rights, declin-ing to continue the temporary permit system. Negotiations began in Addis Ababa in April, while Aden Airways and Ethiopian AirLines continued in the meantime to operate under the temporary system. It appears that the Ethiopians want to exchange an equal numberof third, fourth and fifth freedom rights, while the United Kingdom maintain that such rights must be of equal value. A British officialhas pointed out that "one does not accept pennies for half-crowns on the ground that both are coins." Certainly there does not appearto be enough traffic originating in or destined for Ethiopia to warrant the number of airline seats which Ethiopian Air Lineswish to provide. For example, few passengers brought by E.A.L. into Nairobi begin their journey in Ethiopia, and in fact the flow Delivery of the iflOOth Cony air from San Diego recently was cele- brated with due publicity. The recipient was Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, Eastern's chairman (left). Mr. J. V. Naish, Qonvair's executive vice- president, is in the centre, with Mr.CharlesC.Dail, Mayor of San Diego. of traffic into Nairobi would not be greatly decreased by thecessation of E.A.L.'s Addis Ababa-Nairobi service. Shortly after negotiations began, the Ethiopians unilaterallyabolished the agreed fares-structure for operations into Aden, and on May 31 they announced their intention of increasing the fre-quency of service between Addis Ababa and Nairobi from two to three. When the British refused permission for this increase, theEthiopians stopped British airlines from carrying fifth-freedom traffic into and out of Ethiopia. This step was countered by aBritish ban on all E.A.L. services to Nairobi and, a few days later, on E.A.L. services between Djibouti and Aden. There matters appear to stand at the moment. However, aBritish spokesman has said that the United Kingdom remains willing to exchange rights with Ethiopia, on an equitable basisof value for value. AIR FRANCE DE-ANGLICIZES A CAMPAIGN to remove Anglicisms and Americanisms from**• the French aeronautical language has been opened by Air France, reported the Paris correspondent of The Times last week."More than in any other field, except perhaps that of sport . . . the vocabulary of the French airman is a mass of half-digestedEnglish and American terms." Now all this is to go, continues the report, and words like "charter," "taxiway," "airways,""cockpit" and "checklist" are to be replaced by their French equivalents. TOO MANY SPARE DARTS R. J. B. FRANKLIN, vice-president of operations and main-tenance of Capital Airlines, has said that the overhaul life of the Dart in Capital Viscount service is likely to reach 2,000 hrwithin a year. Only 12 of Capital's 300 Darts, he states, remain to be converted to 510 standard (1,600 s.h.p.), and Capital findthat they have too many spares. Up to 15 Darts are to be dis- posed of—an unusual, if not unprecedented, decision for anairline. ( THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE ON July 1, a new step in the plan for positive separation inU.S. airspaces was implemented in the area bounded by Washington, Chicago and New York. This region, known as the"Golden Triangle," has one of the heaviest concentrations of air traffic control facilities in the world and now has positive separa-tion applied to all aircraft flying above 9,000ft. This altitude will be progressively lowered and extended to the whole United Statesas soon as air traffic control capacity permits. Positive separation above 18,000ft is already in force over the continental limits ofthe U.S.A. C.A.A. AND BRITANNIA'S UNDERCARRIAGE WE referred last week to the American Civil AeronauticsAuthority's refusal to permit Northeast's Britannias to enter service with the standard main undercarriage gear. Aviation Weeknow reports that the Civil Aeronautics Board, the U.S. airline regulating authority, has ruled that Northeast "must comply withtype-certificate provisions requiring aircraft to 'pivot about on one side of the main gear, the brakes on that side being locked' beforethe Britannias are placed into service. Bristol had said," Aviation Week continues, "that the substantial modifications necessary fullyto meet the pivot load requirements would delay certification of the Britannia on Northeast's route beyond the coming winter season."The report goes on: "Northeast asked for a 90-day waiver in order to get the first three of five Britannias on order into serviceas originally planned." As reported last week, this request was refused by the C.A.B. ; - ^ ^> U.S.A.F. COLLISION-AVOIDANCE PLANS— 'THE Bendix Radio Company has a U.S.A.F. contract to develop-*- a collision avoidance system for aircraft which is roughly parallel to that specified by C.A.A. for civil users. The militaryrequirements are for warning and avoidance at closing speeds up to Mach 6 in any direction relative to the protected aircraft, witha warning device giving clear avoidance instructions, either to the human or automatic pilot. Weight and volume should not exceed50 lb and 2,500 cu in; and the equipment should stand up to environmental conditions of Mach 3 at 100,000ft and to allweathers. Pulse or Doppler continuous wave radar systems, beacons or The first Electro fuselage is hoisted to the final assembly department at Lockheed, Burbank. First flight target-date is February 1 next.
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