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892 AIR COMMERCE . . . FLIGHT, 2 December 1960 DUTCH "COLONIALISM" IN AIR CEYLON IT is "common knowledge" that Air Ceylon is a colony ofHolland and that Air Ceylon [in which KLM has an interest] has been refused traffic rights in many countries in \j-iew of this fact. Furthermore the present administration of Air Ceylon is "controlled by Dutch imperialist methods." These accusations are made by the Airline Pilots Association of Ceylon in a letter to the Ministry of Transport, requesting that one of the KLM directors of Air Ceylon should be removed. "In view of the fact that there is a colour bar and Dutch colonialism prevailing in Air Ceylon," the Ceylon pilots write, "ihereby under- mining the national airline and causing suppression of the aspirations of the working people such as the pilots and the technical qualified staff of Air Ceylon, we would earnestly request you to remove immediately at least one of the Dutch directors of the board of Air Ceylon and replace him with a representative of the Airline Pilots Association of Ceylon as there is no qualified Ceylonese technical officer to represent the national aviation interests in Air Ceylon." . -•.-•.. - ; ITALY AND EUROCONTROL > CIVIL and military authorities in Italy appear to disagree aboutItaly's attitude to Eurocontrol—the international ATC agency for the control of upper air space in Europe, proposed by the six members of the European Common Market (West Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland, Italy and France), and approved in draft form by Britain at a meeting in Rome last June. The A 9ft by 5ft door has been cut in this Aer Lingus DC-3 by Scottish Aviation to enable the Irish airline to transport trolley-mounted P & vV JT3C-7 jet engines of its 720 fleet. The conversion was done in ten weeks Minister of Aviation said last week that he hopes to sign the Eurocontrol Convention this month. At a recent meeting of the Centro per lo Sviluppo dei Trasporti Aerei, the president and secretary-general and three Alitalia crew members were reported to have declared themselves in favour of Italy's participation in Eurocontrol, and members of the Ministry of Defence (Air) against it. Italy is not yet, it is said, prepared to sign the convention, and will not take part until "present doubts" regarding Eurocontrol "are no longer justified." In a press statement last week an Italian Air Force officer, Brig-Gen Giovannozzi, said that there was no real operational need for Italy to join Eurocontrol. It would cost a great deal of money and would affect the efficiency of the traffic control service in Italy. The need for additional funds for Italian internal ATC was agreed by both civil and military alike. It has been previously reported (November 18 issue, page 777) that the Dutch also want to postpone signing of the Eurocontrol Convention "until the first quarter of next year." BREVITIES The Republic of the Ivory Coast has become the 80th member of ICAO. Mr Clarence N. Sayen is re-elected president of the American AirlinePilots Association for a further four-year term. Mr W. G. Franklin has been appointed joint managing director ofSilver City Airways in place of Mr Hugh C. Kennard who has resigned from the company. Tomorrow, December 3, the recently delivered Boeing 720 of IrishInternational Airlines is due to visit London Airport on a proving flight. The aircraft was delivered to the Irish airline on November 18. Japan Air Lines are using a Bendix G-15D digital computer to assistin the flight planning of their DC-8s. Wind velocity at various altitudes, temperatures, barometric pressures, passenger and fuel weights are fedto the computer and the necessary information to compile a flight plan is produced in less than 70sec. The resignation is announced, on the grounds of ill-health, of MrF. G. Jeans, managing director of Western Airways Ltd, Weston Airport. Before joining the Straight Corporation as chief engineer in 1937, MrJeans was chief aircraft maintenance engineer of British Airways. His private address is Upper Weare, Axbridge, Somerset. The chairman of Central African Airways, Mr A. E. P. Robinson, hasbeen appointed High Commissioner in London for the Federation of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland. He was a member of the MoncktonCommission which recently inquired into the future of the Federation. His successor as chairman of CAA, whose general manager is Mr MaxStuart-Shaw, is not yet announced. A Philippine Air Lines DC-3 carrying 29 passengers and four crewon a flight from Iloilo to Manila was reported missing on November 23. It left Iloilo City, 300 miles south-east of Manila, in the lateafternoon and was last reported at 6,000ft 100 miles south-east of Manila. At the time of going to press no trace of the aircraft had beenfound. Following a visit to Rolls-Royce recently, Mr Charles Abell, BOAC'schief engineer, was able to report that "a major effort" has been, and still is, being put into the Conway development and production pro-gramme, and that these are beginning to show results. The corporation is confident that next summer's Conway requirements for its 707 fleet"will be met in accordance with plans." El Al has leased a Boeing 707-420 from Varig and is due to startoperations during the first week of January on a once-weekly service from Lydda to New York via London or Paris, increasing to twice-weekly on February 19. Starting in June, El Al will operate their own 707-420, enabling the frequency to be increased to four times weekly.The Varig aircraft will be pardy crewed by Israelis, and will have 120 economy-class and 20 first-class seats. El Al Britannias will be usedfor the shorter European routes and for charter flights. The Ministry of Aviation announces the appointment of Mr HenryHardman, CB, at present a deputy secretary in the Ministry, to be permanent secretary in succession to Sir William Strath, KCB, who isretiring from public service at the end of the year to become managing director of the British Aluminium Co, and a number of the board ofTube Investments Ltd. From 1955 until last May, Mr Henry Hardman was a deputy secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries andFood. During the war he served in the Ministry of Food. From 1946-48 he was with the British Food Commission in North America. In 1953-54he was Minister to the UK delegates to NATO and OEEC in Paris. The new base of Flying Enterprise, the Danish independent Argonautoperator, is Hangar 117, Copenhagen Airport, telephone DRagor 1700. A Caravelle airframe which has successfully completed 150,000hr hasbeen subjected to 3,600 cycles of unspecified "exaggerated loads" before failure. Mr F. E. McGinnety has been appointed director general of inspectionby the Ministry of Aviation. He took up his duties at the beginning of November. The Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators has awarded the MasterAir Pilot's Certificate to Capt N. A. Lewis of TAA and Capt R. C. Griffin of British International Airlines, Kuwait. Use of American Airlines' Airchecks, a system in which passengersmake their reservations and write their own tickets, has increased by 40 per cent in the last six months. It is now being used at the rate of7,000 a month. Following flight-test measurements, take-off and landing requirementsfor the swing-tail Canadair CL-44D4 have been reduced by about 11 per cent. Balanced take-off field length at max weight (205,0001b), previously7,660ft, is now 6,800ft. Landing field length at max landing weight (165,0001b), previously 6,780ft, is now 5,980ft. An Italian inquiry has found that the TWA Super Constellation crashat Milan, Italy, on June 28, 1959, was probably caused by a fuel explosion touched off by static electricity. The accident occurred 15minafter the aircraft took off on a flight from Paris; 68 people were killed. Investigation of the wreckage showed that one of the seven fuel tanksexploded. An Indian delegation led by Dr D. S. Kothari, scientific adviser tothe Indian Ministry of Defence, has returned from Moscow without concluding the purchase of a fleet of Russian helicopters which Indiahad agreed in principle to buy However, the delegation is reported to have bought eight An-12 transports. The An-12 is believed to be theaft-loading variant of the An-lOA passenger transport. The last chapter in the mystery of the Southern Cloud, which crashedin the Snowy Mountains on a flight between Sydney and Melbourne on March 21, 1931, will be written on December 10. On that date theremains of the two pilots and six passengers will be buried in a common grave. Since thewreckage was found on October 26, 1958,the remains of the victims have been inthe hands of local police; it was believedthat when the aircraft disappeared it wascarrying gold bullion. This unusual view of the Caravelle'spower- plant shows to good effect the sound-sup- pressor/reverser of the Rolls-Royce Avon
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