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1960
1960 - 1592.PDF
FLIGHT 2 SEPTEMBEH i960 Holiday time is hmstle time at Jersey Airport: ~. EET THE RUSH WARM, fair, friendly, the Channel Islands have shared in the tourist boom of recent years. Transit time from Britain to Jersey has been reduced from ten hours by train and boat to one hour by plane. The airport is a principal staging place for cross-channel, Continental, and inter-island air traffic, yet even that does not fully explain one island's importance to the group as a whole. Operated by the States of Jersey through its Harbours and Airport Committee, the airport is equipped with modern radio and radar aids to aerial navigation. A 5,000-foot runway with variable-intensity runway and approach lights helps in hand- ling the spate of seasonal traffic. But the real importance of Jersey Airport to the neighbouring islands lies in the fact that the control tower handles air traffic not only in the immediate locality, but also serves as the co-ordinating centre for traffic movements throughout the Channel Islands control zone. New development needs new methods and new means. Fuels for the aircraft frequenting Jersey Airport have been conveyed from the mainland by tanker in the past. Aviation kerosine for the jet-engined airliners and military visitors could be towed across from Southampton Water in a Dracone. An experimental tow from Fawley refinery to Jersey in 1959 was successfully carried out. On arrival the fuels are pumped into bulk storage tanks at the St. Helier quayside. After tests for purity, gasoline and jet fuels are taken by road tankers on the short run to Jersey Airport. There they are transferred to smaller storage tanks. After further filtration and testing, they are pumped to the mobile refuellers which finally dispense them to aircraft after still further tests. A Dracone at La Folie, Jersey, during a trial shipment of aviationkerosine last August. Special care to maintain product quality on the way from refinery to consumer, is the natural sequel to the fact that Esso research has often originated the products that have made aviation progress possible in the fifteen years of post-war development. Sheltered basins where hundreds of private boats are moored adjointhe Esso bulk storage depot in St. Helier harbour. One range of these products — Esso Aviation Turbo Oils — was for more than 10 years the only range of lubricants on which all jet engines in the Western world could develop maximum power without any climatic or operational restriction whatsoever. E.A.T.O. 35, the original synthetic oil for jet engines, was originated, developed and perfected wholly within the Esso research organisation in Britain, with the enthusiastic co-operation of aircraft engine builders. From Esso's U.K. terminals it was exported to the world. Traffic at Jersey increases to a peak lasting from early June until late September. More than 360 aircraft movements took place in one day — admittedly the busiest — in 1959. Esso keeps pace with the fuel demands by advance planning and the calculated hustle that has earned Esso aviation service a reputation at more than 300 international airports throughout the world. Constant development and progress are vital to pre- eminence in aviation service. Esso research is unceasing in its anticipation of aviation trends. When air freights finally compete with rail, and when trans-sonic airliners become everyday facts, Esso will be able to claim an important share of the praise by reason of current research into aviation s future needs. J Esso Petroleum Co. Ltd. Aviation Department, 36 Queen Anne's Gate, London S.W.I Telephone: HYDe Park 7030
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