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100 FLIGHT, 15 July1960 Just out of the paintshop at Filton is the Britannia 305 ordered by Ghana Airways last March and now soon to be handed over. The cheat- , line is blue outlined in red; blue is used again on the fin chequerboard and the rudder is divided into red, yellow and green panels sf NSW, Air-~| I Airlines, 1; I E, 3: Helmut | hah of Iran, 1; I P1 irtson Miller, 1; f01 hip); Philippine I ietherlands Air I 83 AIR COMMERCE ... MORE FRIENDSHIP ORDERS SINCE Flight's Airline Shopping List was published onJanuary 8, 1960, Fokker orders for the F.27 have grown to 81 and Friendship orders to 83; the grand total is now 164. Thoughneither manufacturing organization has yet reached break-even point, Fokker at least are within striking distance; their target onpresent reckoning is about 100. Included in the list below for the first time are those operators who have specified the F.27 Freight-ship with the large forward cargo-loading door. Among them are KLM (both aircraft); Northern Consolidated (all three aircraftFreightships) and Pakistan International (one of five). The Royal Netherlands Air Force have ordered nine Troopships and threeFriendships for executive transport and a number of these now occupy positions on the Schiphol production line (see page 94). F.27 FRIENDSHIP ORDER LIST (Correct to July 8,1960) Fokker- Aer Lingus, 7; All Nippon, 3; Ansett-ANA, Airlines o built: lines of South Australia, Queensland, 7; Associated / " Australian Dept of Civil Aviation, 2; Braathens SAFE Horten, 1; Indian Airlines Corp, 5; HIM the Sha 1;l Iranian Oil, 2; KLM, 2 (2 Freiahtships); MacRobertso Dutch Govt, 1; NZNAC, 8; PIA, 5 (1 Fretghtship); Air Force, 1; Philippine Air Lines, 2; Royal Nether Force, 12 (9 Troopships); TAA, 9; THY, 5; East West Airlines, 1;) unannounced orders, 2. Fail-child- Abitibi Power & Paper Co, 1; Aerovias Equatorianas, 1; AVENSA,' built: 5; Aloha, 6; Banco de Mexico, 1; Bonanza, 10; Butler Aviation (Pepsi Cola), 1; Champion Spark Pluq Co, 1; Continental Can Corp, 1; General Tyre and Rubber, 1; Ideal Cement Co, 1; Johns- Manville Corp.1; Kimberly-Clark Corp, 1; Murray Co, 1; Noland Co, 1; Northern Consolidated, 3 (3 Freightships); Olin -. • , Mathieson. 1; Oxark, 3; Pacific, 6; Piedmont, 8; H. K. Porter Inc, 1; Quebecair, 3; Raytheon, 1; Reynolds Metals Co, 2; Reynolds Tobacco Co, 1; Trans Mar de Cortes, 1; THY, 5; Union Carbide, 3; US Steel, 1; West Coast, 6; Westinghouse Electric Corp, 2;, John Hay Whitney, 1; Wien Alaska, 2. BIG WIND AT DUM DUM A VIOLENT gale that swept Durn Dum airport, Calcutta, lastmonth left a trail of damaged aircraft and installations. No casualties were reported but about 20 aircraft were in collision ordamaged by the wind, part of the roof was stripped from the passenger lounge in the terminal building and glass was shatteredin the control tower. Among the aircraft damaged was an 11-14 owned by the king ofNepal, nine IAC DC-3s and a Skymaster, and two DC-3s of Airways (India). Four light aircraft, including a Bonanza and aRapide, were "caught in a spiralling current of air and dashed against each other." An abandoned Catalina was blown off therunway, and a gangway, driven by the rate, was dashed into the wing of a Thai Airways International DC-6. The gale swept anarea of about three miles around the airport. WHAT WAS THAT ? WARMLY recommended for those whose airliner recognitionis in need of a little brushing up is the 1960 edition of John W. R. Taylor's Civil Aircraft Recognition* A handy pocket-size volume, paper-backed, and splendid value at half-a-crown, it contains material on 88 civil aircraft and helicopters, 39 of themair transports. It is the section devoted to the latter which receives most prominence and descriptions of 36 commercial passenger andfreight aircraft are supplemented with three-view silhouettes pre- pared by Dennis Punnett, whose work will be well known toreaders of Flight. With the exception of the Convair 240, 340, 440 and 540 series,and the various marks of Viscount, which receive two pages apiece, each air transport type is allotted a 5in X 7in page to itself. Includedis a photograph, a brief table of data, silhouette and a well- condensed note about the development and service record of the * Ian Allan Ltd, London. 2s 6d. type. A number of elderly aircraft are included (Air Charter'sSupertrader conversion of the Avro Tudor, for example), some new ones (the Avro 748) and some that have yet to fly (VC10 andD.H.121). Under the heading of "Other Types" are published photographsand brief descriptions of smaller aircraft which may be seen from time to time in Britain—the qualification was that at least threeshould appear on the British Register of Civil Aircraft when the volume was compiled. This section also includes British heli-copters, two US ones (the Bell 47J and Hiller 360) and, in strange isolation, the Tu-114. Although alphabetical order by manufac-turer is adopted for each section, an index is omitted. Civil Aircraft Recognition should prove very useful. In par-ticular it provides ready clues to solving today's big air transport recognition problem: was that a DC-8 or a Boeing 707? FLASH POINT AN interesting follow-up to a paragraph on the dangers of radar• emissions which appeared in these pages recently ("Radar Has its Hazards," Flight, June 10) is contained in the June SafetyBulletin issued by the US Flight Safety Foundation. "What could have been a serious situation," quotes the Bulletin from a fleetoperator's report, "was averted through alertness. Baggage was being loaded . . . when smoke was observed coming from apackage awaiting stowage. Investigation revealed that it contained photo flash bulbs that had exploded and ignited packing material. "Radar beams operating at the airport were suspected and toconfirm this the engineering department conducted tests with and without the radar operating. They were able to flash the bulbssimply by holding them in their hands within range of the beams." A flash bulb explosion was, it may be recalled, one of thetheories advanced for the accident to Britannia G-ANCA near Filton on November 6, 1957. This hypothesis was given con-sideration in the report published on May 11, 1960, since glass particles were extracted from the cockpit and from the flyinghelmets of the crew members on board. The report also carried a photograph of a bulb bursting to illustrate "the consequentialhigh-velocity dispersal of glass particles and burning magnesium." Careful analysis by Pilkington Bros Ltd revealed that, in this case,none of the glass originated from the type of flash bulb used. The potential danger of bursting flash bulbs is commentedupon, quoting the Britannia accident report, in the Flight Safety Foundation Bulletin. Opening the fuel cock on the Shell-Mex and BP pipeline to London Air- port is BOAC's chairman, Sir Gerard d'Erlanger. The ceremony took place at Perry Oaks on the LAP boundary last week (see "Flight," July 8)
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