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1959
1959 - 1376.PDF
15 May 665 New Zealand's newest airport, on the Miramar peninsula five miles from Wellington, is to be opened on October 24. Nearly 200 houses had to be re-sited during construction of the single 5J50H runway and a hill levelled to reclaim land near the water's edge similar period last year and is attributed to the business lost aftercompletion of the evacuation from Indonesia in January and March 1958. Mr. E. H. Van de Beugel, at present special adviser to the DutchMinister of Foreign Affairs, has been elected to the board of K.L.M. as member for management, and in January next year hewill be made deputy president. CATCH AS CABLE CAN 'T'ESTS are to begin shortly at the U.S. National AviationA Facilities Experimental Centre at Atlantic City, New Jersey, with an emergency cable-and-hook arrester system for jet trans-ports. If successful results are forthcoming from a six months' trial the F.A.A. may require the installation of the device at majorU.S. airfields, and it might be possible (they say) to reduce recommended runway lengths for jet transports. Various methods are to be tried, all of them adaptations of suc-cessful aircraft-carrier techniques (though tail arrester-hooks will not be used) and tests will be carried out with a full-scale mock-upof a jet transport undercarriage. It has already been proved pos- sible to arrest aircraft travelling at about 115 m.p.h., but hookingsteel cables around the mainwheels without catching the nose- wheel poses some problems. One idea is to use the nosewheel totrip a pneumatic device that will throw a cable against the main- wheels, or a light cable might be used to catch the nosewheel andpull up the main cable in time to-engage the main undercarriage. In either case the cables will stretch to the side of the runwayand momentum will be reduced by forcing pistons through long cylinders of water. BREVITIES B.O.A.C.'s tenth Comet 4 was delivered on May 6, two monthsahead of contract. * * * The VIVA Shield, Gold Medal and citation are to be awardedto the de Havilland Comet by the Worshipful Company of Carmen at their July Court. * * * PanAm made a profit last year of £1,821,430 (5s lOd pershare) on an operating revenue of £111,857,150. Profit for the previous year was £2,928,600. * * * The F.A.A. have approved the Allison 501s in Eastern Air Lines' Electra fleet for 1,000 hr overhaul periods. This is the longest time yet authorized for a U.S. civil gas turbine. * * * Silver City's scheduled service between Blackpool and Dublinstarts today, May 15. Travel agents will be carried on the inaugural flight. * * * Mr. H. Worrall and Mr. C. W. Labette, respectively deputychairman and engineering superintendent of N.Z.N.A.C., are to make an overseas tour this month to advise on a replacement forthe airline's 26 DC-3s. It is reported that at least 11 aircraft will be needed. * * * Two West German aircraft firms have submitted designs tothe German Economics Ministry upon which the aircraft manu- facturing industry could be rebuilt. Hamburger Flugzeugbauhave designed a 60-70 passenger medium-range jet and Heinkel a 20-25 passenger turboprop feederliner. * * * Panair, Loide Aero and Real, who carry 65 per cent of Brazil'sdomestic traffic, have announced fare reductions of 20 to 40 per cent to take effect over the next three months. The newfares apply only to domestic routes not subject to agreements with I.A.T.A. members and frequencies are being reduced by15 per cent to fill seats. The aim is to recover passenger traffic lost as a result of recent big fare increases largely caused by avariation in the dollar exchange rate which affected equipment and fuel. •••;... Under construction in Poland is the MD-12 feeder- liner (four 340 h.p. WN-3 piston engines) designed by the Aeronautical Institute in Worscv/ for opera- tion on domestic and international short-haul routes The United Arab Republic has allocated £400,000 of its sterlingbalances for the purchase of a new Viscount for Misrair. * * * On May 6 an Alitalia DC-6B was required to land at BaghdadAirport while on a flight from Teheran to Rome via Beirut and Athens. The aircraft was later allowed to take off.* * * Air France are to operate direct polar services from Hamburgto Tokyo as from today, May 15. Super Constellations will be used until Boeing 707s are available in 1960. The outwardjourney will take 28 hr 20 min. * * * United Air Lines will supply Japan Air Lines with flight crewsfor J.A.L.'s trans-Pacific services from Tokyo. Services to Los Angeles will start on May 29 and a Great Circle route to Seattle on June 27. * * * An airport is to be built at Madeira and the seaplane basescrapped. The Portuguese Ministry of Communications gives as its reasons for these decisions the rough seas during the touristseason and the fact that flying-boats are going out of fashion. * * * Air Ceylon will inaugurate its new service to Canton "on theanniversary of China's October revolution" in the first week of that month. The airline now considers that an Electra wouldbest suit its needs on this route and that if one were bought a second weekly service could be contemplated between Colombo and London. * * * Prepared under the auspices of the Royal Institute of PublicAdministration is the seventh volume in the New Whitehall series The Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation. Written by SirGilmour Jenkins, permanent secretary to the Ministry, it is pub- lished by George Allen and Unwin Ltd. and costs 21s. There are231 pages. Discussions are in progress between M.A.T.S. and certain U.S.airline presidents about the design of a new freighter, to be jointly financed by the civil airlines and M.A.T.S. The member of theSenate Aviation Sub-committee who is urging the project, Mr. Mike Monroney, says that he is "seriously concerned" aboutAmerica's ability to support a limited war in Europe, whether by M.A.T.S. or by the civil air reserve. He would like to see, accord-ing to Aviation Daily, a fleet of 400 turbine-powered long-range air freighters capable of carrying a 70,000 lb payload nonstopacross the Atlantic at a direct operating cost of less than five cents per ton mile. ••'"•.
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