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jctober 1957 631 FAIR'S EQUIPMENT STUDIES ^ Finnish airline, Aero O/Y-Finnair, is one of the most lecent European operators to study the offerings of the liujn-range jet and turboprop market at first hand. The Eaging director, Mr. L. Grandell, and the technical director, IB Aulin, have visited France to study the Caravelle. Another Inical team has visited de Havilland and a third has visited fll.S.A. Finnair were expecting a visit from Lockheed fier this month. There is, however, no prospect of an kediate order being placed. IT DC-6B? DR several years now Douglas have been studying possible bays of extending DC-6/7-series production by offering turbo- > power. The best-known project is the DC-7D cargo aircraft, Rolls-Royce Tynes, which has been officially announced by glas but for which, as yet, there have been no takers, .he latest news is that Douglas are re-examining the possibility |-engining the DC-6B with Rolls-Royce Darts. This becomes ible now that the Dan, in its RDa.10 form—giving 2,350 T>. is in sight (Rolls-Royce reckon on 1959 for this Dart nt to be available). Clearly, installation of Darts in the DC-6B, _ace of the Pratt and Whitney R.2800 piston engines (2,400 b.) will confer many improvements, notably in basic weight, ugh no Douglas figures are yet available, it appears that pay- , not to mention speed, should be considerably increased. XEAR TRANSPORT iOM the information we have in hand, it appears that we an design a logistics airplane which incorporates a nuclear rplant—and that it will work." This was stated in a paper ented by Robert W. Middlewood (Lockheed's chief engineer) | Robert B. Ormsby, Jr., at a National Aeronautic Meeting of Society of Automotive Engineers in Los Angeles on October 2. : paper discussed some of the results of Lockheed's studies Dtp nuclear-powered aircraft since preliminary work began in '"" . It would be possible, the lecturers said, to design a large |sport using a nuclear reactor as an energy source to carry Dgistical payload" of 50 tons or more for distances of over •)0 miles. Since the amount of energy released from a reactor, lized in a turboprop engine, will produce over three times as ti thrust for take-off as it will in a turbojet, the nuclear- ered logistic transport would most likely be a turboprop, and fid resemble the C-130 Hercules. It would probably have one [tor as the basic power source, though there is some possibility NO reactors. Shielding would be on the divided principle— 5 of it around the reactor and some of it around the crew partment or other sensitive radiation areas—in order to : weight. sign features of this type of aircraft would include easy ng and ability to use existing airfields and to carry all types go; and no extensive ground handling facilities or large would be needed. One of the major problems to be ved, Mr. Middlewood concluded, was in the weight of the "ag that would be required. 4GAROO TALKS days of aviation talks in London between Britain and iustralia were successfully concluded on October 4, with repre- fintatives on both sides of the table agreeing that air communica- ions between the two countries should be maintained on an Qcreasing scale. The majority of the business was concerned with the terms of comprehensive agreement between Australia and the U.K. overing an exchange of routes for the countries' international tirbr.es, B.O.A.C. and Qantas. The well-established "Kangaroo" oute between London and Australia via the Middle East has ieen "confirmed and amplified," and Qantas' hard-won new Southern Cross" route across the Atlantic, North America and he Pacific is to be opened, the airline hopes, on December 6. there are to be two flights a week via New Caledonia, Fiji, unencan Samoa, Canton, Honolulu, San Francisco, New York, he Azores, Eire, the U.K. and beyond. Seven Qantas pilots are 'eing sent to the U.S.A. to be trained for the San Francisco-New iork sector. Under the terms of the new agreement, Australian nrkbes will be able to operate into London across the Pacific m North and Central America and across the Atlantic (including ' jf^ route), or an Atlantic route via South America and the >outh Pacific. Provision has also been made for services across ti °U *nc^an Ocean and between Australia and Hong Kong. New arrangements have also been made to add Perth, Mel-H 'ouaic and Brisbane to the airports of Darwin and Sydney served O.A.C. in Australia. Herons are at work on Aviaeo's Spanish network, the average tag&length of which h 250 miles. Here, EC-ANX is serviced at Madrid ~*'! operation which generally takes less than twenty minutes. A recent visitor to Filton was the Hon. J. H. Whitney (right), U.S. Ambassador to the U.K. During a flight to LA.P. in a Britannia 313, he dis- cussed the aircraft with Mr. R. S. Brown (left), works director of Bristol Aircraft. BREVITIES TQ.E.A.'s services to Prague were renewed on October 7 when a ** Viscount 701 left London Airport for Ruzyne Airport at Prague. This was the first service since flights to Czechoslo- vakia were discontinued in 1951. B.E.A. Viscount flights to Tel Aviv were inaugurated on the same day. * * + Luxembourg has placed a £50,000 order with Cossor Radar and Electronics, Ltd., for CR21 surveillance and approach- control radar. * * * The maintenance and flying training activities of the Airwork group of companies have been brought under the control of a new company, Airwork Services, Ltd. General manager is Mr. R. W. Cantello. * * * Mr. W. B. Lewis, M.A., B.Sc, A.M.I.Mech.E., A.F.R.Ae.S., has been appointed Assistant Director, Directorate of Civil Air- craft Research and Development, M.o.S. He was previously at R.A.E., Farnborough. * * * New offices for Sabena were opened at 36/37 Piccadilly, Lon- don, by Baron Moens de Fernig on October 11. At the share- holders' meeting in Brussels, it was announced that the airline had made a net profit of £553,000 in 1956-57. * * * Speaking at a luncheon in London, Mr. Harold Mansfield, Boeing public relations officer, said that "it would be interesting to see if the Russians could sell any of their jets or turboprops on a competitive basis ... I don't think they could." * * * Indian Airlines Corporation inaugurated their first Viscount services on October 10 with a flight from Delhi to Rangoon via Calcutta. This service will be operated daily. Next year the Cor- poration will introduce Viscounts on trunk routes to Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Hyderabad and Bangalore as well as Karachi, Colombo and possibly Kashmir.
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