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Aviation History
1959
1959 - 3364.PDF
Hands up all those who thought the aircraft in these two pictures were Douglas DC-8: Aviation, Claydon Aviation, Jersey Airlines and Orion Airways—have applied to operate services to Dublin from Anglesey, Derby, Coventry, Exeter and Luton. At present, only two British in-dependent carriers operate services into Dublin: B.K.S. Air Transport from Newcastle, using Airspeed Ambassadors(Elizabethans), and Leeds /Bradford, using DC-3s; and Silver City from Blackpool, in pool with Aer Lingus, using DC-3s. NEW AIRWAYS FOR EGYPT IN accordance with I.C.A.O.'s Mediterranean/South East Asiaregional air navigation plans, new airways are to be established in the Cairo and Bahrain Flight Information Regions, where onlyadvisory routes existed before. They will come into force at 0001 hr on January 1, and willextend the continuous run of the great airway Amber One. From Skipness in Kintyre,Argyle, Amber One passes through Prestwick,London, Paris, Nice and Elba to Cantanzaro in southern Italy. Here it becomes A.D.R. 314 for its passage through Greek nationalairspace and resumes again as Amber One when it enters the Cairo F.I.R. It then runs just south of Aqaba and becomes A.D.R. 433for the sector leading to the boundary of the Bahrain F.I.R. At this point it renews its existence again as Amber One and runsthrough Bahrain and Sharjah to Karachi. From here it will eventu- ally run through to the Far East. Similarly, Green Eight will be brought into force in the BahrainF.I.R. on the first day of next year and this airway will eventually run from Cantanzaro through Athens, Beirut, Bahrain, Sharjah and Bombay, and penetrating eventually into South-East Asia.In the new Bahrain scheme, for the first time reporting points will depend upon altitude. Aircraft flying below Flight Level 290*will have to report at every reporting point en route, whilst for those above this level reporting points will be fewer. Anotherinnovation is the requirement for filing a flight plan irrespective of weather conditions or time of day for every flight or part ofa flight above Flight Level 150. Control zones are also introduced at Sharjah and Doha for the first time. B.O.A.C. AND IRAQI AIRWAYS DOTH Britain and the Soviet Union have offered Iraqi Airways-^* modern aircraft and technical advisors to train Iraqis in their handling, it was reported last week from Baghdad. The Britishoffer to negotiate a new agreement with the Iraq Government was discussed with B.O.A.C. representatives in Baghdad, and a com-mittee has been formed to study both countries' offers. Under an agreement made in 1945, and due to expire onJanuary 31, 1960, B.O.A.C. have been giving technical advice and assistance to Iraqi Airways. Last February Iraq informedB.O.A.C. that it wanted to terminate the agreement. According to a Reuter message from Baghdad on November 29, Mr.Mohammed Ruf of Iraqi Airways said that the talks "were on Iraqi's proposals"; the British side would consult with theB.O.A.C. Board "before the projected agreement is signed." *29,000ft on an altimeter set to IS.A. standard pressure (1013.2 mb). CIVIL AVIATION IN AFGHANISTAN THE recent accident in Beirut to an Afghan Ariana Airlines-•• DC-3 brings to the public eye the mountain kingdom of Afghanistan and the emergence of the airline on internationaltraffic routes. Up to May 1957, Afghanistan, sandwiched between Russia and Pakistan, and tucked away on the roof of the world,had to rely upon Indian and Persian airlines to carry her passengers abroad. Following negotiations with Pan American, in 1957 an AfghanCivil Aviation Authority was established and domestic scheduled flights began with four DC-3s. During the latter pan of 1957two DC-4s were added and the DC-3s sent to England for modernization. Five Afghan pilots received primary flight train-ing at Old Kandahar (West Afghanistan) Airport and were later sent to Parks Air College, Missouri, for intensive instruction. Afurther class of five trainees and six maintenance technicians are now in the United States undergoing advanced training. It wasappreciated that an efficient air transport system must be backed up by continuous training and the Air Authority has set up aschool where 200 students receive instruction in every aspect of flying. In order that Afghanistan should have efficient landing facilitiesKandahar will bs the first Afghan airfield to be brought up to international standards. Jointly financed by the Afghan Govern-nient and the International Co-operation Administration of the Linitcd States, it has been planned and designed by the U.S.rederal Aviation Agency. The runway will be 10,500ft long with a 1,000ft overrun at eachend; 20 inches of carefully selected and blended materials under- lie a bitumenous concrete wearing surface and moisture seal. The runway, taxiway, international-flight terminal apron, hangarapron and runway lighting are now nearly complete. A modern feature of the runway-taxiway system is the high-speed turn-offs. Since Kandahar has been designed with intercontinental jets in mind a 30 degree turnoff with a second 60 degree turnoffinto the taxiway has been incorporated. The 150ft high non-directional beacon erected at Kandahar isduplicated in Herat, Kabul, Kunduz and Jelalabad which airfields, although at the moment not up to international standards, willsoon be modernized to accommodate the largest aircraft. Nearly half a million pounds' worth of communications and navigationalequipment has already been installed and 25 60ft high radio trans- mitting masts are nearing completion, so that a network of let-down facilities will eventually cover all major airports in the country. Afghanistan aims at replacing foreign technical staffs withnationals as soon as the latter are sufficiently trained. At the moment Ariana flies as far west as Frankfurt, north to Tashkent,and east to Bombay. It is hoped in the near future to equip the line with Constellations and eventually with Boeing 707s. The recent crash, first in Ariana's history, is a sad affair forAfghanistan but it will only make her more determined to plan well and establish an international airline in every sense. as?-1
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