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1957
1957 - 1542.PDF
630 FLIGHT CIVILAVIATION At the request of Mr. Aristotle Onassis (right), seen here with the French Deputy Minister of Commercial Aviation, the Caravelle was re- cently demonstrated to Olympic Airways in Athens. It is reported that Olympic are con- sidering the purchase of a "considerable number" of Sud-Est Caravelles. EXTRACTS FROM MILAN TIELD in Milan towards the end of last month was the third-"• Franco-Italian "Leonardo da Vinci" Symposium on Aero- nautics, organized jointly by the Institut du Transport Aerien,the Association Franchise des Ingdnieurs et Techniciens de l'Aeronautique, the Associazione Italiana di Aerotecnica andthe Centro per lo Sviluppo dei Trasporti Aerei. These sym- posiums take place every second year, alternately in France andin Italy. This year two papers were read, The Problems Facing a Major Airline Through the Advent of Jet Aircraft, by M. LouisLesieux, and Air Traffic Control and Co-ordination in Europe in the Jet Transport Age, by Don. Ing. Publio Magini. In the first lecture the speaker reviewed his subject from thepoint of view of operating, industrial and economic problems, the future use of present equipment, and co-operation betweencarriers. Some salient points from his lecture were:— "If timetables are to be kept as convenient as they commonly are atpresent, a reduction in aircraft utilization will have to be expected. In exchange for the shorter stage-times and greater comfort of four-jettransports, passengers will have to be willing to accept certain timetable requirements. It will be for the operators to work out a compromisebetween what they would like and what the passenger is prepared to accept." "On long-distance routes lower flight time and additional comfortwill weigh heavily in the balance against today's aircraft. The seat-mile cost of four-jet equipment, including depreciation, is likely to be aboutthe same as that for amortized four-engine conventional aircraft. A differentiation of fares of the order required to be effective would leadto losses. As for the idea of making up such losses by raising fares on jets, it would amount to letting arbitrary considerations decide farelevels. It is my belief that as soon as four-jet aircraft are in sufficient numbers to cope with normal volume of traffic, piston-engined aircraftwill be eliminated." "Too much attention has been given to collective organization ofintra-European transport in the vague hope that somehow or other this would lead to active co-operation over long-haul routes."Quoting Stuart R. Tipton of the American A.T.A.—"We have almost run out of a precious natural resource, the air spaceitself"—Dott. Ing. Magini reviewed the inherent shortcomings of the European airways system and explained the plan put for-ward by the NATO Committee for European Air Space Co-ordination: "extension of the upper-limit of the existing air-ways network, or, creation above the existing airways network of a second one, the vertical separation between the two networks Opening the West London Air Terminal on October 8 by unveiling a plaque commemorating the occasion is Mr. Harold Watkinson, the Minister of Trans- port and Civil Avia- tion. A new car park —urgently needed — is to be opened soon and passengers' pub- lic-transport needs, he said, "can now be assessed." depending on the Operational characteristics of piston-engine andturbine-powered aircraft. Vertical separation between aircraft flying within the upper airways could be 2,000ft and new quad-rantal separation rules would have to be devised." Sig. Magini also enumerated a number of other A.T.C. solu-tions, such as the reduction in lateral separation made possible by Decca and the three-co-ordinate high-power radar/televisionunit to be installed at the Melsbrook Area Control Centre by the Regie des Voies Aeriennes Beiges. '. MALAYAN AID WHEN the Federation of Malaya became a sovereign Statewithin the Commonwealth, Sir George Cribbett, deputy j chairman of B.O.A.C., suggested that young Malayans should :compete for a scholarship that would enable them to train abroad in air transport subjects for about three years. The Corporation(which is to increase its holding in the airline) has a close ; interest in the development of air transport in Malaya and wouldlike to see a nucleus of Malayans fully equipped with technical * and management knowledge. Following a discussion between the Prime Minister of Malayaand Mr. D. E. Crum, B.O.A.C. sales manager for South East Asia, it has been agreed that the selection of the first two candi-dates will probably be made early in 1958 and that further selec- tions, of two candidates at a time, would be made every subsequentsecond year for a period yet to be determined. After successful completion of the course, candidates will be offered permanentposts with either B.O.A.C. or Malayan Airways. AIR FRANCE POLAR PLANS SINCE T.W.A. inaugurated their trans-polar services betweenParis and the U.S. West Coast with their L.1649A Jet- streams, Air France (who operate similar equipment) have fre-quently been asked why they did not follow suit. They do in fact intend to do so, and hope to add a trans-polar route to LosAngeles and San Francisco to their services in the near future. Beforehand, however (as M. Max Hymans, chairman of AirFrance, explained recently), the 1946 agreement between France and the U.S.A. must be differently interpreted. When it wasformulated, polar flights between the Pacific coast and France were not envisaged and only specific cities in the U.S.A. were madeavailable to Air France. Negotiations for reciprocity are now pro- ceeding and—as M. Hymans added—"we have every reason tobelieve that they will be successful." T.W.A.-NORTHWEST ROUND THE WORLDr ' has been announced that a new round-the-world service byNorthwest Airlines and T.W.A. is due to start on January 1 next. This follows the C.A.B. award to T.W.A. extending theairline's foreign routes beyond India and Ceylon to Bangkok and Manila, where connection with Northwest is effected.Starting points for round-the-world travel will be any of the cities along the North American transcontinental routes of North-west and T.W.A.; the two networks combine at Chicago. Schedules will provide daily flights from New York; DC-7Cs andSuper-G Constellations will be used. Westbound, Northwest's daily service goes to Seattle and across the Pacific to Tokyo, andfrom Tokyo three times weekly to Manila. T.W.A.'s daily services- eastward from the U.S.A. provides flights to Rome and Athens'-'and, twice-weekly, beyond Athens to Bombay, Colombo, Bangkok and Manila. Starting from Los Angeles or San Francisco, thereis the Polar route alternative to Paris. CROYDON FIGHTS ON THE Croydon Chamber of Commerce, who have shoulderedthe responsibility of attempting to keep Croydon Airport open, have replied to a letter from the Ministry of Civil Avia-tion which set out their reasons for closing the airport. Remind- ing the Ministry of the terms of the Civil Aviation Act, 1945("It shall be lawful for His Majesty to appoint a Minister of Civil Aviation who shall be charged with the general duty of organizing,carrying out and encouraging measures for the development of civil aviation, for the designing, development and production ofcivil aviation, for the promotion of safety and efficiency in the use thereof, and to research into questions relating to air navigation."),the president of the Chamber, Mr. L. Halpern, said: "I do not think that there is any statutory authority to exclude private orcharter aviation from the direction to the Minister to 'encourage' measures for the development of civil aviation." The Chamber also put forward the extended free lane plan(Flight, September 27, 1957) as one possible solution to the air traffic control problem. The Court of the Guild of Air TrafficControl Officers, the reply adds, have said that it would take a considerable time to make a new plan to include Croydon. "Thisdoes not suggest that it is impossible, and if such a plan is to be prepared it is obviously essential to keep Croydon open whilstit is being done." Croydon Council have appointed an ad hoc committee ofinvestigation, with a view to asking the Minister to keep the airport open.
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