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846 AIR COMMERCE . . . FLIGHT, 15 June 1961 Affairs, besides acting as chairman of the Co-ordinating Committeefor the Common Market and Integration. In March, 1957, he headed the Dutch delegation during negotiations in Washingtonwhich resulted in KLM getting traffic rights at Houston, Texas. Of such rights KLM's new president says: "It has become asort of horse-trading, which is really no longer appropriate in a world that thinks and acts more and more multilaterally. The out-sider has no idea how many restrictions bar the way to freedom in the air." Mr van der Beugel's considerable diplomatic and econo-mic experience should be a great asset to KLM in this respect. AIR TRANSPORT AND THE RAE SPEAKING at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough,on June 8, the director, Mr M. J. Lighthill, FRS, said of theEstablishment's transport-aircraft work that a large number of advances were imminent. RAE had been working on supersonicaircraft for five years, recently with the British Aircraft Corpora- tion and previously with many companies, and were "very pleasedwith the way the design study is going." Such an aircraft should make three-hour transatlantic flights at a cost very near that of thepresent big jets. He said "we are interested in collaboration with the French.They are interested in a medium-range aircraft and we are inter- ested in a long-range machine. Many problems in developing thesetwo aircraft are common problems." It was hoped that the sharing would extend to markets as well as to design and development. Answering questions, Mr Lighthill said that it was not knownwhen the supersonic transport aircraft would be built, but it seemed that BAC could handle the project in its stride, and hewould expect it to be in service towards the end of the decade. Mr Lighthill said that the use of helicopters for city-centre tocity-centre operation seemed particularly promising. The MoA felt that the noise problem could be overcome, and had beenimpressed with recent Rotodyne tests into London (which "caused practically no public comment"). They were optimistic on the noiseproblem for helicopters and other VTOL aircraft because (a) operating techniques were being improved with this in mind and First scheduled flights by the three ex-Silver City Superfreighter operated by Compagnie Air Transport started on June 5 on routes Le Touquet and Calais to Lydd and from Cherbourg to Hum. The ai. are French-registered and flown by French crews, and operate ir with Silver City. Background to the partnership was given in "Fi for February 24. Majority shareholders in C/'e Air Transport are F Railways, Air France and French Lines. No further informatioi available last week about progress with the two-mile rail spur being by French Railways into Le Touquet Airport om aft :>ool •ht1' •nc/i •vas (b) "we have several things up our sleeve," such as engines «ithhigher by-pass ratios. He said that VTOL and STOL machines would be importantin both military and civil fields. On the civil side, they could not see the exact shape which the civil VTOL aircraft would take, butthey had an important future. Another important development was blind landing, and this wasan area where Britain had a clear lead over the rest of the world.j IMPROVING TURBOPROP CONVAIRS A IRESEARCH AVIATION have engineered and installed ini\ an Allegheny Airlines Convair 540 (Napier Elands) a gas turbine AP system which makes the aircraft independent of groundsupport. The rig provides pneumatic and electric power for start- ing, ground air-conditioning in the cabin and systems-checking, allof which reduces turnround time and ensures constant passenger comfort. The AiResearch gas turbine is mounted in the tail cone (nowdepressurized), and other modifications include new ducting, wiring and controls. Canadair have fitted this equipment, as an AiResearch kit, totwo 540s of Quebecair, and are making it standard on all their future Convair conversions. BREVITIES During May Sabena carried its 300,000th scheduled helicopter pas- senger since services began in 1953. Aerolineas Argentinas suspended its 5,600 employees on June 7 and grounded the entire fleet, as a result of a go-slow strike which had disrupted services since May 29. Operations began again on June 10. In the House of Commons last week the Attorney-General describedas "completely without foundation" an MP's allegations about Mr Frederick Beezley of Falcon Airways (Flight, last week). Japan Air Lines has ordered a DC-8-50 (P & W JT3D turbofans)to replace the aircraft, one of the fleet of five Series 30s, that was dam- aged beyond repair at Tokyo Airport on April 24 (Flight, May 4, page608). It is reported that Sud-Aviation is considering the possibility ofpartial public financing of the Super Caravelle. It may offer 5 per cent preference shares, guaranteed by the Government and called theCaravelle Loan. On July 17 Anglo-UAR talks will begin in Cairo. One of the subjectslikely to be raised is United Arab Airlines' bid for fifth-freedom rights between London and New York. It is thought likely, as this issue goes to press, that the Ministry ofAviation will shortly issue a statement about the near-miss between a UAA Comet 4 and a TCA DC-8 over London Heathrow on February 21. The ATLB has granted British United Airways" application for alicence to operate from London Gatwick to Guernsey or Jersey. The frequency is limited to two round trips on June 3 and June 10 andSeptember 23 and September 30. The original application was for six round trips a week from June to September each year until 1966. Anglo-American talks to discuss the future of traffic rights in theCaribbean opened in London on June 7. According to a source in Washington the forthcoming independence of the West Indies Federa-tion may mean that BOAC will not be able to continue to exercise its US - West Indies traffic rights as at present, and that these may have tobe allocated to BWIA. Left, Capt Jack Brannon has been awarded the Royal Aeronautical Society's Alan Marsh Medal for I960 for his "outstanding achieve- ments in piloting helicopters." Stationed in Abadan, he flies Whirl- winds for British United Airways Right, the Renault 4 c.v. seen here is not a Dinky toy, but any car would be dwarfed by this first prototype of the FAA's "mobile lounge." It is intended for use at the new Washington Dulles Airport, due to open in October 1962, the idea being to take the terminal to the aeroplane. The FAA is said to have spent $250,000 on this prototype, more than twice the original estimate
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