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PiJQHT, 22 April 1960 579 least a deputy chairman—"perhaps with a view to his taking overa chairman next year." The Minister replied that it was the right time, and that this was what he was doing. But, he said, the choiceof deputy chairman was "inevitably linked with other future aopointments and it is important to get them right." He hopedt*s House would forgive a little delay, "because it is better to go 5i wly and get the correct set-up." AVRO 748 FOR ADEN AIRWAYS— IT is understood that the British colonial operator Aden Airways,1 a wholly owned subsidiary of BOAC operating seven DC-3s and three Argonauts, will take delivery of three Avro 748s.'rhis is the first overseas airline order for Avro's new twin-Dart Berliner. Three have been bought by Skyways, two by BKS,and a large number—the majority of which are to be built under licence—by the Indian Air Force. Delivery will be in 1962. Aden Airways have been searching for a DC-3 replacement forsome years, having at one point been close to ordering the Herald. The company made a profit of about £30,000 in 1958-59. —AND THE AVRO 748 SERIES 2 A NNOUNCED on the eve of the Hanover Aircraft Show—to be•i*-held from tomorrow (April 23) to May 3—is the Avro 748 Series 2. Structurally and internally similar to the earlier aircraft,the Series 2 is fitted with Rolls-Royce Dart RDa.7 Mk 531s each providing 1,910 s.h.p. for take-off. Maximum take-off weight—previously 33,0001b—has now risen to 36,0001b, and continuous cruising speed and range with maximum payload have beenincreased. The payload represented by 40 passengers and their baggage can be carried 825 n.m. at a cruising altitude of 25,000ftand a cruising t.a.s. of 252kt. This is with reserve fuel for 200 n.m. with 45 minutes' holding at 5,000ft and with a 5 per centcontingency allowance. Installation of RDa.7s is being undertaken to provide for operators who are primarily interested in take-offfrom hot or high airfields; the Series 2 should achieve a take-off field length at sea level similar to the 3,500ft of the Series 1 but at3,0001b greater all-up weight. This additional all-up weight has only compromised landing weight very slightly. Series 1 take-offand landing weights are the same and in the Series 2 the landing weight is only 5001b less than take-off weight. Landing distancefrom 50ft at maximum landing weight—3,250ft—is slightly greater than for the Series 1. A MATTER OF NATIONAL URGENCY i CINCE the Westland heliport at Battersea was opened nearly a^* year ago, the volume of traffic has exceeded original expecta- tions. It has been decided to increase the daily hours of avail- "E" is for Eagle in this striking new Britannia colour scheme (red cheat line, red fin). This aircraft, a 318 leased from Cubana by the British independent, was overhauled and repainted by Bristol Aircraft. Eagle are the fourth UK Britannia operator ability and to reduce landing fees to frequent users. This wasstated by Wg Cdr R. A. C. Brie, of Westland, in a paper presented to the Rotorcraft Section of the Royal Aeronautical Society inLondon on April 8. Since April 10 the heliport has been open for twelve hours dailyexcept on Sundays, when it is open for five hours. The basic rate for a first landing in any one day will remain at 6s per 1,0001b, butsubsequent landing fees during the same day will be reduced by half—or by a greater amount by taking advantage of a "blockarrangement." "As a fact-finding experiment devoid of profit motive, butconforming otherwise to normal commercial practice," says Wg Cdr Brie, "the heliport is not only producing authentic answers tomany economic and technical problems concerning the operation of a city heliport, but has stimulated a more general officialappreciation and awareness of the rapid approach of the helicopter age."Wg Cdr Brie warns that the heliport is "a short-term, very temporary solution to the needs of London." But he still adheresto the policy which he has been advocating for twenty years that the River Thames "might still hold the key to a practical economicand operationally acceptable solution to London's central heliport problem." A solution to it, he says, "is a matter of nationalurgency," and he feels that the Westland Heliport—whatever the ultimate solution is—will have been instrumental in achieving themajor objective for which it was created. BREVITIES Cambrian Airways re-opened their Cardiff - Bristol - Southamptonservice on April 8. The Hamburger Flugzeugbau HFB-314, the firm have said, could beflying within 30 months of a definite development order. Handley Page recently confirmed to Flight that an initial productionbatch of 25 Heralds is in hand. The BKS car ferry service between Liverpool and Dublin will comeinto operation on April 25. A ferry terminal has been built at Dublin. East Anglian Flying Services have applied to operate ATL-98s ona car terry service between Bristol and Dublin and Bristol and Cork. An order has not yet been placed and initially Bristol 170s would be used. A further two Super-G Constellations have been converted to all-freight L.1049H standard for Qantas by Lockheed Aircraft Service. About 10,000 man-hr were required to strip the interior, fit a largerear door and add a cargo floor. SAA's fleet captain and chief training captain are to leave for Seattleto train on and collect South Africa's first 707. Delivery should be in June or July. Meanwhile, a simulator is being installed at Jan SmutsAirport. Helicopter services between Newcasde, Sydney, Wollongong andKatoomba are to be operated by a new Australian company, Copter Air Transport. Two S-58s have been ordered and these are to be followedby two 27-seat turbine-powered S-61s. The Council of the Air Registration Board announce the issue ofNonce to Licensed Aircraft Engineers and to Owners of Civil Aircraft No 58 Issue 1 on April 1, 1960. It concerns prohibition of the use ofvaletta spares in Vikings. Capt D. F. O'Sullivan is to be chairman of BALPA for the currentyear. He succeeds Capt R. T. Merrifield, who has held office since 1957. Vice-chairman will be Capt S. L. Arnold-Boakes, a Viscount trainingcaptain with BEA. Capt O'Sullivan is a Britannia training captain with BOAC. Clarence L. Sayen has been re-elected president of the InternationalFederation of Air Line Pilots Associations. First deliveries of Irish Air Lines' Boeing 720s will be made onNovember 1 and services to New York should start on December 15. PanAm's DC-8s will be the first jets to use Shannon's new 10,000ftrunway when they operate on North Atlantic routes from July 1. Officials of Iraqi Airways have been invited to fly in a Russian 11-18now in Iraq and three of the type have been offered to the airline. A new airport, costing about Elm, is to be constructed by Jordanin the Dead Sea area. Hunting-Clan is to withdraw its fleet from London Airport later thisyear. As part of British United Airways' fleet the Viscounts will operate from Gatwick and the Britannias from Stansted. BOAC flights to Cairo were resumed on April 11 after 3i years. Thecorporation are to pay £139,400 for dcsequestration, mainly in indemnities due to former BOAC local staff. TAA carried just short of a million passengers during the 1959calendar year, a record for an Australian domestic airline and 12 per cent more than in the previous year. Air-India's Boeing 707-420 left for New York on the first of a seriesof joint AII-BOAC proving flights on April 7. Boeing 707 services to India start on April 20. An investigation is to be held into the possibility that the accident to the KLM Super Constellation 100 miles off Shannon in August 1958 was caused by sabotage. A number of technical questions are also to be re-examined. The FAA is proposing a rule whereby all obstacles in an area two,four and six thousand feet from the end of the runway—depending upon weather conditions and other factors—would have to be considered inplanning a take off. The present rule requires 300ft horizontal clearance and a specified vertical clearance—a 600ft wide area about the centre-line of the aircraft's take-off path.
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