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PLIGHT, 19 July 1957 CIVIL AVIATION ... A NEW WEST GERMAN TURBOPROP FROM West Germany comes news of the HFB-209, a turbo-prop transport project which appears to be similar to the Spanish CASA-209 design previously described. The HFB-209falls into the Viscount or turboprop Convair class, and is the work of the Hamburger Flugzeugbau Company, which descendsfrom the Blohm and Voss concern. Two Napier Eland NE1.6 engines of 3,500 e.h.p. will be fitted, but the alternative installa-tion of either Allison 501D-13s (the Electra's engine) or Rolls- Royce Tynes is offered. Seating capacity is 48 to 54. Provisionaldata for the Eland version of the HFB-209 are as follows:— Span, 93ft 8in; length, 76ft 6in; height, 29ft 8in; wing area, 963 sq ft;aspect ratio, 9.12; take-off weight, 45,080 lb; typical payload, 9,520 lb; empty weight, 24,050 lb; single-engine take-off distance to 50ft, 3,880ft;both engines, 1,850ft; rate of climb at max take-off weight, s.l., 2,260ft per min; cruising speed at 20,000ft, 277 kt; stage-length with 48 pas-sengers and reserves, 1,025 n.m.; landing distance from 50ft with reverse thrust, 1,260ft. FAIRCHILD FRIENDSHIP FINANCING THAT all is not well with the American local-service airlines isan understatement: they nearly all need replacements for their DC-3s, but just cannot afford to finance them. Nevertheless,orders have been placed for a total of 25 Fairchild Friendships by such operators as West Coast, Mackey, Frontier, Bonanza andPiedmont. But it seems that of these 25 only nine, and possibly fewer, have been completely financed. This has been revealed, according to the American journalAviation Daily, by Mr. G. R. Henry, Bonanza's executive vice- president, testifying before a Senate aviation sub-committee.According to Mr. Henry, Faircbild have taken orders "largely on good faith", and he emphasized that the local-service carriersneed government-guaranteed loans to re-equip. The financial problems of U.S. local-service airlines seem toapply to similar carriers elsewhere in the world. The market for short-haul branchline transports is huge; but it is alsofinancially depressed. NEW RUSSIAN TRANSPORTS /~\NLY scanty information is available about five new types of ^ Russian transport, three jets and two turboprops, which were on show or announced at the Vnukovo airport (Moscow) air dis- play on July 10. Admission to this show was refused to foreign observers. A piecing-together of reports from various sources, including Moscow Radio and Pravda, yields the following information: — Tu-104A: A development of the Tu-104, seating 70 instead of 50passengers. Cruising speed is approximately 500 m.p.h. (about the same as that of the Tu-104) and not 620 m.p.h. as quoted in somereports. Tu-110: A larger-capacity (78 to 100 passengers), longer-range(2,160 St. miles), four-turboprop airliner. The engines are ascribed to A. M. Lyulka. Tupolev Rossiya: A four-jet, 180-passenger transport, due to fly inOctober. It will be capable of 4,300-mile stages at a cruising speed of over 550 m.p.h. Antonov Ukraina: An 84-passenger, four-turboprop, 370 m.p.h. trans-port, now on test. (Described in Flight of March 29.) Ilyushin 11-18 Moskva: Also being test-flown, the Moskva is poweredby four 4,000 h.p. turboprops, and has a gross weight of about 120,000 lb. Cruising speed is given as 405 m.p.h., and range 3,100 st. miles. Seating-capacity is said to be 70 to 100. All these new aircraft, says Moscow Radio, "will be in use bySoviet civil aviation within the next few months." 93 Hamburger Flugzeugbau HFB-209 project (two Napier Elands). OLYMPIC AIRWAYS BUY DC-8s 'THE new Greek airline Olympic Airways has, as forecast,A ordered two Douglas DC-8s for delivery in 1960, with an option on a third. The order emphasizes the big internationalambitions of Mr. Aristotle Onassis's new company, which recently took over the operations of T.A.E. National Greek Airlines.DC-6Bs are being used on international services in the meantime. Olympic's order brings to 122 the number of DC-8s sold to14 airlines. This compares with a score of 122 for the Boeing 707, ordered by 12 airlines. It is noteworthy that new customers forboth aircraft are still being offered 1960 delivery. EAGLE AND SKYWAYS JOIN I.A.T.A. TWO more private British airlines, Eagle Airways and Skyways,have been admitted to membership of the International Air Transport Association. Two others, Hunting-Clan and Airwork,have been members since 1953 and 1954 respectively. The fact that the two companies have joined I.A.T.A. does notnecessarily suggest that they are planning on immediate inter- national expansions. Both airlines are, of course, already operatorsof scheduled international services; Eagle fly to France, Spain, Luxembourg, Austria, Scandinavia and Germany, and Skywaysoperate to France. Such routes, in common with those of other independents, are operated at I.A.T.A.-rate fares approved by thegovernments concerned, and in competition (direct or indirect) with I.A.T.A. carriers. The anomaly of operating at fare-ratesrecommended by other airlines, and of having no say in rate- making, must have been increasingly strongly felt. Both companiesevidently feel that they will be in a stronger position to consolidate and expand their share of international business if their voices canbe heard inside, rather than outside, I.A.T.A. ELECTRA PROGRESS FROM Lockheed comes a new pictorial printed report on pro-gress with the Electra. It is subtitled Electra . . . Perfect Partner to the Jet in the Turbine Age. Components of the air conditioning system, report Lockheed,are being installed in a special 40ft mock-up of the fuselage, and are being tested in simulated flight conditions. Testing of generalair conditioning system behaviour—floor temperature, circulation and temperature "stratification"—has been completed. Another fuselage mock-up, a 26ft section, is being acousticallytested to determine the sound-deadening effect of various insula- tion materials. A loudspeaker out-side the mock-up transmits "all types and volumes of sounds." The now-famous interior mock-uphas received 950 improvements as a result of continual evaluation. Thefull-size metal engineering mock-up is being equipped with completesystems, and is making it possible for the C.A.A. to give preliminaryapproval to the "new engineering concepts" in the Electra. First flight of the first Electra (aphotograph of its nearly completed fuselage appeared last week) is stillscheduled for February 1, 1958. The first Britannia for export, one of three 313s for El Al Israel Airlines, nears completion at Bristol. Beyond is the second of eighteen 312s for B.O.A.C, G-AOVB, which flew on July 5. Both aircraft are due on the North Atlantic route later this year.
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