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284 FLIGHT, 19 August I960 AIR , COMMERCE . . . One of the first Fair child-built F-27s to visit the United Kingdom or Europe: three THY aircraft called at Prestwick on August 12 on a delivery flight to Turkey. Next stop was Amsterdam, and they were flown by Fairchild pilots with Turkish pilots assisting. Two more will be delivered next year. THY hove five Friendships on order from Fokker also TEAL'S BIG ASPIRATIONS AUSTRALIAN reaction to the Greater-TEAL announcement-^ by Mr Walter Nash, the New Zealand Prime Minister, has not been markedly enthusiastic. Mr Nash said in part, "Thenew agreement with France and the subsequent arrangements which should follow are expected to provide the framework forthe profitable and dynamic work of TEAL and the improvement of New Zealand's transport links with the rest of the world."He also said, "The new agreement with France will provide TEAL with the opportunity not only to maintain its Coral Route Serviceto Tahiti, but also to develop trans-Pacific services on Tahiti, including Hawaii and California." First Australian reaction is that it appears New Zealand wantsAustralia to subsidize a competitor. TEAL could not exist without Australian participation nor could it have bought its three Electraswithout Australian financial backing. The airline did not like the idea of Electras, but now admits it is making more moneywith them than it has made with any other aeroplane. Secondly, TEAL has said it intends keeping Electras until the late 1960s.What, then, will it use to Hawaii and California? Electras just could not operate against DC-8s and 707s, and by 1969 there couldbe supersonic airliners on the Pacific. Who will pay for new equipment? Thirdly, how could TEAL sell tickets for its trans-pacific services when it has no overseas offices? Does it expect Qantas-BOAC to do it? That would mean Qantas selling seatsfor a competitor, for it cannot be imagined that Australia would agree to a pool system with TEAL on a New Zealand - Californiarun that is tantamount to a parallel Sydney - California service. Fourthly, does die TAI-Air France-TEAL agreement mean thatthe Tasman will at last be opened up? It is hard to peer through Mr Nash's muddy prose, but apparently the French are to beallowed eventually on the Tasman run. "The agreement will also permit the operation of a French airline into and through NewZealand," says the press announcement. If the French can operate on the Tasman, why cannot Pan American, CPAL and any otherPacific operator? Pan American, for one, are not likely to permit the French alone to parallel the trans-Tasman service, which hasbeen a New Zealand monopoly throughout. Mr Nash says, "New Zealand must have long-distance air services under its controlcontributing to the planned development of the country." But where is the money coming from? New Zealand? Or fromAustralia? CUNARD EAGLE AIRWAYS COON to be seen on Eagle Airways' aircraft, starting with the^ Britannia and DC-6C equipment, is the airline's new name —Cunard Eagle Airways. At one time, before the merger intoCunard last May, there was speculation that British Eagle would be the corporate name, following a move to change the nameof the holding company, Harold Bamberg Holdings Ltd, to British Eagle International Airways. This proposed change of namewas subsequently dropped, and it is now Cunard Eagle Airways (Holdings) Ltd. It is expected that the name Cunard will be pre-fixed also to Eagle Airways (Bermuda) Ltd and Eagle Airways (Bahamas) Ltd. Eagle Aviation will continue to operate under itsexisting name. BREVITIES The latest edition of Aircraft Exchange's Market Report includes theoffer of a DC-7F (DC-7 all-freight conversion by Douglas) for £308,000. New appointments to THY, Turkish State Air Lines, are Col HalitElgin, general manager, and Mr Nizamettin Norman, assistant general manager. It is reported that Israel is to construct a new international airport amile or two north-west of Lod (Lydda) for completion by 1964-65 at a cost of I£35m. El Al's Boeing 707s are due to enter commercialservice in July 1961, delivery of the two aircraft being scheduled for May and June 1961. South African Airways' thirdBoeing 707 is to have full-length leading edge flaps and 17,5001bthrust Pratt and Whitney JT4A-11 engines (the first two707s are equipped with 16,8001b JT4A-9s). Delivery will bedelayed from September until the new year. The modificationsare being made to enable an additional 7,0001b payload to belifted at Nairobi where there will be take-off restrictions untilthe runway is extended. Mobile maintenance dock might be the best description to apply to Mercury Airfield Equipment's multi-level platform. It is ad- justed by means of battery operated electric pumps with fingertip control. Airlines who have placed orders for it include BE A, BOAC, Eagle Aircraft Ser- vices and EAAC. Units are also being built for the MoA East Anglian Flying Services' interest in the Handley Page Herald is apparent from their application to the ATAC later to use this aircraft on the route Birmingham and/or Southend - Lyons - Albenga. Mr John Brancker has resigned as traffic director of IATA, a postwhich he has held since 1953 when he moved from BOAC. It is reported by Aviation Week that Mr Brancker resigned at the behest ofthe Director-General, Sir William Hildred. Rome's new Leonardo da Vind airport at Fiumicino is to be officiallyopened tomorrow, August 20, in the presence of the Italian president, Sr Giovanni Gronchi. For the time being Leonardo da Vinci will beused only for charters and Alitalia will transfer operations there in the autumn. The FAA has ordered all main rotor lifting blades of Sikorsky S-58sto be removed after l,000hr. The previous (Sikorsky) life of 2,400hr was cut to l,400hr by the FAA when preliminary CAB findingssuggested that fatigue failure of a rotor blade may have caused the Chicago Helicopter Airways S-58 fatal crash at Chicago on July 28. The Austrian charter operators Aero Transport and AustriaFlugdienst may be merged into a new company which would take over Austrian domestic operations. Austrian Airlines would probably havea 30 per cent holding in the capital and their Viscounts would be freed for international traffic. The new merged company, it is reported, isconsidering the purchase of either two Heralds or two Friendships, or it may buy two second-hand Viscount 700s to supplement AeroTransport's two Vikings and the two DC-3s of Austria Flugdienst. From now on anyone applying for an assistant instructor's ratingmust, in addition to the requirements laid down in the Air Navigation Regulations, produce evidence that he has completed not less than150 hours as pilot in command, including not less than 30 on the relevant type; not less than 10 hours night flying, of which 5 mayhave been under instruction in a dual-controlled aircraft. An appl^an* for an instructor's rating must have completed not less than 400 h™'sas pilot in command, with not less than 30 in the relevant type, ant,L,j)e must have completed at least 200 hours as an assistant instructor, [-penew requirements are summarized in Civil Aviation Injorma'.ion Circular No 78.
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