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1960
1960 - 0667.PDF
For their first Boeing 707-320 (with new fin and rudder) South African Airways have designed this new livery, with orange tail. Roll-out was on May 3 and delivery should be in July, prior to the start of services in October. The name of the first aircraft is "Kaapstad" AIR COMMERCE IATA LOOKS AT JP.4 •T ARGEST IATA meeting yet held" was the description applied-L'to the 13th Annual Technical Conference at its opening by chairman Knut Hagrup, SAS vice-president of operations,engineering and maintenance. Delegates from over 90 airlines attended; and by May 10, when the sessions closed, more than500 people were expected to have been present. Emphasis this year was on analysis of jet operations; and agendasubjects carried such titles as "Review of problems encountered in turbine-powered operations in respect of ATC and associatedservices in the upper air space and in terminal areas," and "Exchange of views and experience on jet aircraft training forflight crews." But one way and another practically every operational problemcurrently affecting air transport came under review. The first agenda item was a look at the application of Doppler in the lightof more than a year's experience by a number of airlines; another concerned flight information in the cockpit and cockpit design andlayout—a subject which, it might be thought, would alone occupy every member of the conference for the whole ten days; a thirdwas take-off and flight planning in the light of current experience; while others dealt with turbine aircraft on the apron; maintenanceaspects of turbine aircraft; recorders for operational performance analysis and aircraft noise. Certainly, IATA does not shrink from the big issues. Withinthe space of a few days the conference also hoped to discuss the engineering and maintenance problems involved in aircraft poolingand interchange agreements, and to review aircraft turbine fuel requirements. "As JP.4 tends to come cheaper than kerosine,"said the conference chairman, "we may unfortunately be forced to go over to it. Kerosine is IATA's recommended standardspecification but the finance people want us to tank the aircraft with kerosine in one place and JP.4 in another." He added thataircraft range, payload and fuel gauges and other meters would be affected, but he did not mention a greater risk of fire. SIR GEORGE CRIBBETT RETIRES ' I 'HE retirement, for reasons of health, of Sir George Cribbett,•*• BOAC's deputy chairman, took place last week. He is to con- tinue his association with the corporation as a board member ofBOAC Associated Companies Ltd. Sir George assumed the post on May 1, 1956, after a dis-tinguished career in British and international civil aviation. He was a pilot and flying instructor in the First World War, servedin the Exchequer and Audit Department in Whitehall between the wars and was a principal in the Air Ministry at the start of theSecond World War in 1939. One of his great tasks was the This Caravelle tail-chase illus- trates three recent deliveries from Sud Aviation's factory at Toulouse. Royal Air Maroc (left) were on the verge of receiving their aircraft when this photograph was taken, Alitalia (centre) took delivery on April 29 and Swissair on ^ay 3. News of a faster Cara- vsl/e with a new wing is given on page 670 formulation of Britain's post-war international air policy, includ-ing the adoption of the Five Freedoms of the Air and the system of international exchange and traffic rights based upon thosefreedoms. He was knighted in 1948. PRESS ON SANS REGARD CJWISSAIR is now advertising in its timetables and accepting^ reservations for Caravelle movements from London within the "banned" jet night-flying period of 2300hr to 0700hr. So far BEA are the only jet operators to have received permissionfrom the Ministry for night jet schedules. This airline also took approval for granted by advertising night schedules in its time-tables and accepting bookings before the Minister's approval. It will be recalled that BEA were required to carry out Comet 4Bnoise tests before approval was given: details of these tests are not available for inspection. Will the Caravelle, which is generally considered to be a noisieiairport neighbour than the Comet, be required to go through the pantomime of tests? If the Minister is to be consistent, yes; butthey need only to be of a token nature, since he is again unlikely to publish the results. In any case, the conclusion is foregone.The Minister, though far from powerless, is unwilling to interfere with the rights of air transport, or to drive airline customers awayfrom London Airport. Meanwhile the local residents, who feel their reasonable rightsare being ignored, are not in an apathetic mood. Details of the Swissair Caravelle movements at LAP afterMay 24, and advertised as subject to Government approval, are: Departures, 1130, 1905, 0130; arrivals, 1035, 1815, 2325. INTERNAL SERVICES BOARD "' I 'HE United Kingdom has made less progress than was to be*- desired in building up an effective network of internal ser- vices." This was the suggestion made by a deputation from theWelsh Advisory Council for Civil Aviation who went to see Geoffrey Rippon, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Avia-tion, last week. The leader of the Welsh deputation, which included Raymond Gower (Conservative MP for Barry), S. Kenneth Da vies(past chairman of the Royal Aero Club) and Vernon Lawrence (secretary to the Welsh Advisory Council for Civil Aviation), saidthat a new organization should be set up to consider how to build up a more effective network of internal services. They allegedthat the situation in Wales had been completely neglected by BEA, but they also made it plain that they did not hold much brieffor the situation in Scotland either. Scottish civil aviation, they said, was in effect partly subsidized and many of BEA internalservices were still supported out of the commercial profits of its European routes.
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