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1957
1957 - 1666.PDF
CIVIL AVIATION BREVITIES T TNITED AIR LINES' interest in the Convair 880 now seems*•' very strong. The airline, according to the U.S. Aviation Daily, wants "a slightly different version"—possibly having a stretchedfuselage. If U.A.L. order 880s, it seems likely that Northwest Airlines will too. * * * As from November 1, Eagle Aviation were represented on theBaltic Exchange by Lambert Brothers, Ltd. * * * PanAm flight engineers will be paid about 20 per cent more for service on the airline's DC-8s and Boeing 707s. * * * Sir George Edwards, managing director of Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft), Ltd., has forecast a market for the Vanguard of about 250 aircraft. * * * Rumours that S.A.S. are ordering 14 more Caravelles (seeFlight, July 5, 1957) are prevalent. The airline, which placed a firm order for six last June, also took an option on 19.* * * The Australian Prime Minister, Mr. R. G. Menzies, openedQantas House, Sydney, on October 28. The airline's new head- quarters, on the corner of Hunter Street and Elizabeth Street, cost£1.3m. * * * Mr. F. W. Hancock, until recently Deputy Director of Over- seas Navigational Services at M.T.C.A. headquarters and prior to that chief of the I.C.A.O. Secretariat's A.G.A. Section, has been appointed Assistant Commandant at London Airport. * * * Aer Lingus have forecast a deficit of about £100,000 for thecurrent financial year, due to end on March 31, 1958. Passenger traffic has decreased, "due partly to the participation of B.E.A.in certain cross-Channel routes, formerly operated by Aer Lingus alone." * * * The Britannia 312 G-AOVB, which had been delayed at Miamipending the correction of the Proteus 755's compressor trouble, returned to London from New York on November 2. B.O.A.C.'sprogramme of transatlantic Britannia proving flights will now be resumed. * * * Air France will receive their first Caravelles in October nextyear, according to M. Georges Hereil, president of Sud-Aviation. He says that arrangements are in hand to produce an initial batchof 50 Caravelles (20 are ordered, and 34 are on option) and that existing facilities—which already include a sub-contracting systeminvolving nine factories—can produce Caravelles at the rate of seven aircraft a month by 1960. 754 FLIGHTWl Eagle Aircraft Services, Ltd., were responsible for this ingenious freight- door modification to a Viking belonging to the German independent Deutsche Flugdienst. When the aircraft is being used for purely passenger work, only the original small door need be used. Eagle are modifying a second Viking for Flugdienst. This is the first official three-view drawing of the Canadair CL-44C Britannia development. Immediately apparent is the striking increase in length—736ft 9in compared with 124ft 3in of the Britannia 310. Maximum seating capacity is 154 compared with 130. Aeroflot will introduce Tu-104s on the Moscow-Copenhagen route on December 7. * * * Lockheed's sales backlog stood at £360m on September 29, a 19 per cent decrease on the figure for a year ago. * * * The Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators announce the award of the Master Air Pilot certificate to Mr, Ronald Clear. He is a test pilot for de Havilland's Airspeed Division. * * * A DC-4 of the German independent Herfurtner crashed aftertaking off for New York from Dusseldorf on November 3. Of the ten people on board, five members of the crew and a woman passenger were killed. * * * Talks between France and the U.S.A., no doubt on the subject of Californian traffic rights for Air France, are to start in Washing- ton on December 10. It will be recalled that last September the French threatened to refuse to allow PanAm's transpolar service to terminate in Paris on the ground that the bilateral agreement between the two countries needed renewing. * * * B.O.A.C have appointed Capt. T. H. Farnsworth as deputy toCapt. J. N. Weir, chief of Flight Operations. Two new appoint- ments have also been made on the staff of the Technical Manager(Flight Operations), Capt. M. J. R. Alderson. They are Capt. A. P. W. Cane, formerly in charge of the Comet 2E Flight, andCapt. H. J. Field, also formerly of the Comet 2E Flight. They will be responsible to Capt. Alderson for "special duties in connectionwith future projects." The new manager of the Comet Flight is Capt. T. B. Stoney. CLUB AND GLIDING NEWS (continued from page 750) ABOUT 110 people gathered last Friday at the Green Man,**• Kingsbury, London, for the annual dinner of Elstree Flying Club. They heard W/C. Eustace Miles, chairman of the A.B.A.C.,speak of the work of the Association and some of its needs. For its member-organizations, the A.B.A.C. has concentrated on the"essential standardization by which the clubs may live," but, said W/C. Miles, they were puzzled by the lack of sustained interestby club pilots after they had obtained their P.P.L.s. Was it, he asked, a more advanced syllabus that was needed, or more oppor-tunities to go touring? He appealed to club members to write and tell the A.B.A.C. their views. Compliments and funny stories are the stock-in-trade of after-dinner speakers, but the members present could appreciate W/C. Miles' sincerity when he spoke of the high standard of trainingin which Elstree specialized, and an oblique reference to a successful forced landing made the previous week by a pupilwho experienced a crankshaft failure was very well received. ANOTHER annual dinner and dance, which guests attended• from as far afield as Exeter and Baginton, was that of the Surrey Flying Club at the Greyhound Hotel, Croydon, also heldon Friday last. A total of over 200 people attended the function, at which the guests of honour were the Czechoslovak Military andAir Attache, Lt-Col. O. Pribyl, and Mrs. Pribyl. While for most of the evening the problem of the future of Croydon Airport, theSurrey club's base, was forgotten in favour of more pleasant topics of discussion, the hope that "someone in authority will have theelementary intelligence not to close down Croydon" was voiced- Club trophies awarded during the evening comorised the HamsTrophy for the most outstanding flight, to Geoff Pearce, who par- ticipated in the 1957 aerial Tour de France; the Thurston Trophyfor the best student pilot to obtain his P.P.L., to Ray Moore; and the G/C. Grece Trophy, for good performance in an emergency)to Neal Wates, who had landed his Tiger Moth safely after the throttle-linkage had broken.
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