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1958
1958 - 0055.PDF
A pleasing air-to-air study of the first Viscount 807, "City of Wellington," destined tor the New Zealand National Airways Corporation and due to go into service in February. It was photographed on a test flight over England immediately prior to delivery to Christchurch, New Zealand.I CIVIL AVIATION EEPING OUT THE ICE BRISTOL'S unremitting research into Proteus icing problemshas achieved a sufficient measure of success for a modification jrogramme to be undertaken on B.O.A.C.'s Britannia 100s. Air-xaft will be progressively taken out of service at checks 3 and 4 for lir-intake modifications to be incorporated at the Corporation'snaintenance base at London Airport. For a period of six weeks J.O.A.C. are reducing certain services so that the modificationsan be incorporated throughout the fleet as soon as possible. Ser- ices to Singapore via Bombay and Colombo will be reduced towo a week, although there will still be a total of five Britannia ervices a week into Singapore; the Calcutta route is not affected,long Kong will be served once a week during this period and, luring January, Argonauts will replace Britannias on the weekly^ondon-Aden service. The modification to the Proteus 705s of the Britannia 100s doesiot, as might have been expected, include the air-blowing modifica- ion which Bristols have tested recently (these are known to5.O.A.C. as "B-skin jets," from the location of the nozzles on the >uter wall of the intake) but is concerned mostly with fitting a ducttetween the top engine-mounting tubes and cleaning-up the sides f the intake wall. All the Proteus 755 engines are being modified>y Bristol (including those of the five 312s already delivered) and /ill incorporate air blowing. Production engines are being built 0 this modification standard.One of B.O.A.C.'s Britannia 100s, converted with a V.I .P. •interior, is to be used during January and February to take thePrime Minister, Mr. Harold Macmillan, on his Commonwealth our. With 15 passengers on board, the aircraft was expected toave L.A.P. last Tuesday, and to fly to Williamstown or Sydney t Bahrein, Delhi, Karachi, Colombo, Singapore and Darwin. Therime Minister and his party will fly on to Auckland, New Zealand, a January 20. A return flight over the same route will be made 1 the Britannia, which should reach London again on February 14. .BANIAN INTERCEPTION • A DC-4 of the British non-scheduled operator, Independent Air*• Travel, was forced by two jet fighters to land at Valona in Ibania on December 31. The aircraft, G-APID, was being flown' the managing director of the airline, Capt. M. K. Kozubski, and as on its way from Dusseldorf to Singapore with a cargo ofachinery and aircraft spares. Other members of the crew were Eapt. A. Nicoll (another director); Capt. D. Bamber; Mr. P. Hardy,light engineer; Miss M. Clancy, stewardess; and Mr. F. Shackell, Reward. The Skymaster was expected to make intermediate stops atDamascus, Karachi and Bangkok and to return with refugees from Djakarta. It had left Dusseldorf at 0518 G.M.T. and at 0935adioed on an emergency frequency that it was being intercepted by jet fighters. The Skymaster had previously left Brindisi controland was trying unsuccessfully to contact Athens; Brindisi reported that it was on its correct course at the time of its last transmission,but the radar stations at Brindisi and Otranto, which were plotting its track, later saw it turn off towards Albanian territory and twofighters take off to intercept it. A broadcast from Tirana, the Albanian capital, claimed that theaircraft had violated Albanian air.space in the area of Seman, and had continued to fly inland for 30 minutes. The aircraft wasforced down at 0940—a time established by the radar stations—but nothing further was heard from its radio. The Albanian authorities released the aircraft on January 3, andit arrived back at its base at Hum, near Bournemouth, the follow- ing day. Capt. Kozubski told how he was intercepted by twoMig fighters which positioned themselves at each wing-tip. One fired its guns straight ahead and lowered its undercarriage toindicate that he should land. The Albanian authorities appeared to be satisfied that the aircraft was inadvertently slightly off course,and Capt. Kozubski and his crew were given the best possible treatment.Independent Air Travel, who are based at Hum and operate from there and Blackbushe, own two DC-4s and seven Vikings,and have been operating one DC-4 (India Delta only became available in December) and four Vikings on charter and inclusive-tour work during the summer and autumn. The company is con- sidering the purchase of a DC-6 and has applied to the AirTransport Advisory Council for a second-class coach service via Lisbon and the Azores to Trinidad and Georgetown, Bermuda.The directors are Captains Kozubski, Nicoll (operations), Langton, and Ibbott (technical). The operations manager is Capt. Lloydand the chief pilot is Capt. Souster. ROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY HOURS IT is almost 100 years since Phineas Fogg set out to encircle theworld in eighty days. Despite Howard Hughes's early efforts to emulate Fogg's worthy example it was not his airline, T.W.A.,but Juan Trippe's Pan American Airways which was first in a position to advertise round-world services. It is now five yearssince PanAm extended their Atlantic and Pacific services to meet in South-East Asia. But this new service could not strictly bedescribed as "round-world." PanAm have never been able to secure the right to fly across the U.S. More significant is the factthat this service is limited to the Northern Hemisphere. The hour of inaugurating a true point-to-point round-worldservice is about to be enjoyed by Qantas Empire Airways when, on January 14, their Super Constellations close the gap in the Austra-lian airline's network at present existing between California and London. Aircraft leaving Sydney on this new service will cover25,000 miles before returning home five and a half days later. (PanAm's service covers less than 20,000 miles, taking four days.)The possibilities of offering round-world facilities have been explored by airlines other than PanAm and Q.E.A. Trans WorldAirlines have just extended their Atlantic route eastward to Manila where an interline arrangement with Northwest Airlinesallows connection through to both Atlantic and Pacific seaboards of the U.S. Two French airlines have been planning a similar interlineagreement. Air France wishes to open a polar service between Paris and California which would connect with an extension of 57 FLIGHT,10 January 1958 Sister ship to the Independent Air Travel aircraft forced down in Albania is the DC-4, G-APCW, pictured here. It left for Singapore last Friday to bring back the refugees from Djakarta who would have been collected by G-APID.
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