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FLIGHT, 8 July 1960 41 2jOOO cro q 5 z 1.000 3Z LU > UJ IT soo ySb ybO YEAR hard standing to cope with additional arrivals and departures. A similar extension for up to 20 aircraft is being made at Ostend and the terminal buildings are being extended and re-organized to include a car handling unit similar to that at Southend and Calais. It will handle about 10,000 cars in the first year. The new airport The beginning of October to the end of May are the traditional lean months of the car ferry business, but the rising slope of the curve indicates recent big improvements in winter traffic at Rotterdam has expanded considerably since the opening cere- mony 2\ years ago and here again expansion plans are already in hand. Air traffic via Holland provides fewer cars and passengers for the Air Bridge than into France and Belgium but the route produces a considerable quantity of freight—5,000 tons last year. The importance of the three Continental airports will not diminish when deeper penetration routes are well established because branches of the Continental first-class road system are being extended to the Channel airports. The three between them are handling vehicle traffic that over the past year has expanded by some 38.5 per cent, vehicle passenger traffic at 46 per cent and freight at 63 per cent. Supplementary passengers have increased by 71 per cent. But the high frequency that is made possible by selling the carriage of these commodities is offered equally to each. The operation of longer routes should continuously narrow the gap in fares betwen surface and air on short hauls. Within the last two years, the Air Bridge claims to have swung over from an annual loss to a small yearly profit. An adventurous future appears to lie ahead for the younger of the two British car-cargo operators. It is this, and the special nature of their task, that has established them as an autonomous company within the new British airline. A. T. P. BREVITIES More Caravelle repeat-orders are announced: Air France haveincreased their order from 24 to 27; Alitalia from 4 to 8; and Air Algerie from 4 to 6. To date 91 Caravelles have been ordered by ten operators. The Vertol 107 is being offered to NZNAC as a DC-3 replacementfor the airline's secondary routes. It has been estimated by Vertol that the 107s would cost less to operate than the Avro 748, Friendship, DartHerald or other DC-3 replacements, offering 25-28 seats (about the maximum required) at a cost of about 15s per n.m. It is reported that the Convair 60 short-range jet project could beflown in the autumn of 1961. Some new details are available: fuselage (basically 880) is shortened to 112ft 7in; gross weight, 145,5001b;max landing weight, 140,0001b; fuel tankage, 44,0001b (5,430 Imp gal); max seating, 95. The Colombian airline Avianca announces the purchase of twoBoeing 72OBs (JT-<D turbofans) for delivery in the autumn of 1961. They will be used on the Bogota - Jamaica - New York run. In themeantime leased jets, presumably 707s, will operate between Colombia and Europe and on the Colombia - Ecuador - Peru route. The shareholding in British United, which officially came intooperation on July 1 (see Flight last week) is as follows: Blue Star, 20 per cent; Furness Withy, 20 per cent; Clan Line, 16 per cent;British and Commonwealth, 16 per cent; Hunting, 8 per cent; Mr T. L. E. B. Guinness, 10 per cent; Whitehall Securities, 10 per cent. The FAA have given American Airlines and TWA a 200hr overhaul-life extension to l,200hr for the JT3C engines of their Boeing 707s. This is the first time a US commercial jet engine has exceeded thelJJOOhr overhaul standard. American have just overhauled their 200th JT3C. Meanwhile the FAA have authorized a l,000hr life for TWA'sJT4s. Shannon's new runway 06/24 (10,000ft x 150ft) was opened forrestricted use on July 3. Capital have been allowed until July 11 to answer the Vickers suitfor repayment of $33,800,000 Viscount debts. This is the fourth extension. The latest Aircraft Exchange Market Report includes an offer to sell aDC-3 cargo-passenger model for $37,000 (£13,200). For the first time the Canadair CL-44D appears in the Report: it is quoted at a priceof $3.8m. Stockholm's new airport at Arlanda received its first scheduled flighton June 23 when an SAS DC-8 from New York landed on the 11,000ft runway. Since the airport was first used on December 14—when anSAS Caravelle landed there—it has been used by SAS for jet crew training. Aeroflot demonstrated an Ilyushin 11-18 and a Mil Mi-4 to NorwegianAir Force officers and civil aviation representatives at Oslo Airport (Fornebu) on June 25, according to Moscow Radio. The broadcastadded that Aeroflot would soon be starting a sales tour in other West European countries. Air-India's technical director, A. C. Gazdar, says that his airline is"very interested" in the VC10, which "seems to suit Air-India's route pattern." A team would be sent to the UK to evaluate the aircraft beforethe end of 1960. "We are particularly concerned with delivery dates," says Mr Gazdar, who adds that Air-India is also studying Americanaircraft as well as other British types. Six of TWA's fleet of 29 L.1649A Jetstreams are to be converted intotransatlantic freighters. Principal modification will be the embodiment of 106.5in by 74in cargo door opening upwards, a 56.5in by 72inforward cargo entrance and a strengthened floor. The first aircraft should enter service about August 15. Total cost of the programmewill be about $1.5 million. As we go to press Vickers an-nounce that Vanguard flight tests, suspended since May 23because of a fault in the Rolls- Royce Tyne, is now airborneagain. It is expected that engines for both BEA and TCA will bedelivered from mid-September, and hoped that certificated air-craft will be delivered "before the end of the year." Originalfirst delivery dates were June for BEA and August for TCA. Briefcases for "outstanding ser- vice in providing weather reports" were awarded last week by the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators to two BOAC captains, G. P. Lace (left) and D. F. Redrup. Making the pre- sentation is B. C. V. Oddie, deputy director of outstertions at the Meteorological Office, Master of the Guild, Dr. K. G. Bergin, looks on
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