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170 FLIGHT, 3 August 196 ATR COMMERCE . . . Seen here taking off at San Diego is the one and only Convair 880 Model 22M ordered by Alaska Airlines, which will begin daily services between Seattle, Fairbanks and Anchorage on August 20. This version of the 880 has just been certificated by the FAA ONE-ELEVENS FOR CAA? THE BAC One-Eleven has already aroused widespread interest asa Viscount replacement, especially among US local service carriers. Sales prospects in Africa should be good too, as is testified by a recent statement by Mr Max Stuart-Shaw, general manager of Central African Airways Corp, to the Rhodesia Herald. "'We think the BAC One-Eleven is the nearest thing produced yet within the price range that CAA can afford"' said Mr Stuart-Shaw. "We want to see if they can get just that much more power out of the Mark 1 engine in the first production model. If they do, we shall be inter- ested. At the same time we have to consider what our partners— South African Airways and East African Airways—will be doing. Obviously we shall keep in step with them as they are confronted with almost identical problems in coming to decisions. There is a lot of sense in the three airlines using the same aircraft. . ." The Spey is only at the beginning of its development potential, and there seems no reason why it should not follow the Rolls-Royce tradition of successive power increases over a long period, thus overcoming temperature/altitude problems which operators like CAA have to consider. CAA has six Viscounts, SAA seven. QUESTIONS IN THE HOUSE FIRST part of Heathrow's new long-haul terminal should becompleted during October and the remainder next spring. This information was given by Mr Thorneycroft in answer to "a question by Sir Arthur Vere Harvey, who wanted to know whether all motor traffic would be able to drop passengers at the door of the building instead of leaving them across the road, as was the case at the central terminal. Mr Thorneycroft was non-committal on this point, but more informative on the subject of Gatwick. In answer to Sir Arthur, Mr. Thomeycroft revealed that he had increased the distance available for take-off at the western end of the existing runway and had asked consulting engineers to survey and make an estimate of the cost and time required for the construction of a second runway. Mr Gourlay wanted to know if the Minister's attention had been drawn to Recommendation No 25 of the Select Committee Report (for a runway at Gatwick suitable for big jets to take off fully loaded). Mr Thorneycroft: "T will consider very carefully what is, I am sure, an admirable report. I do not wish to give an answer now, but I should like to make it clear beyond peradventure that Gatwick is not an alternative to Heathrow." BREVITIES In our issue of July 20. in reporting applications by Starways for newhovercraft services, we inadvertently named the applicant as Skyways. Sir Arnold Overton, KCB, KCMG, MC, has been appointed to the Boardof BEA for a further period to January 8. 1963. According to Aviation Daily. Aerolineas Argentinas is negotiating forthree Caravelles. If a firm order were placed. Aerolineas would be the only airline to operate both Caravelles and Comets. Mr Robert A. Peach, president of Mohawk Airlines, is to discuss the BAC One-Eleven and the Caravelle Junior with the manufacturers, according to an American source. BALPA has awarded Capt P. E. Bressey of BEA its Gold Medal"'for outstanding services to the pilot profession." Capt Bressey has represented IFALPA at 17 ICAO meetings and was the first pilotchairman of an ICAO committee. A new manual entitled "Airport Design" has been published by theFAA and can be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents. US Government Printing Office, Washington 25. DC. for S2.5O includingfuture supplements. An Air France Boeing 707 taking off at Hamburg for a flight toTokyo on July 27 veered off the runway and ran into a building site. Nine of the 43 people on board were slightly injured, and the 707'sfuselage was split in two places ahead of the wings. IATA passenger traffic over the North Atlantic increased approxi-mately 5.6 per cent during June over the same month in I960. The airlines carried about 226,000 passengers both ways, compared with214,000 in June 1960. Due to increased capacities of the airlines' new jet fleets June load factors for all carriers averaged 53.4 per cent thisyear as compared with 72.2 per cent last year. During the last week of June average load factors were about 62 per cent. The June increaserepresents a resumption of traffic growth after a faltering month in May when traffic declined slightly from the previous year's level. SAS has taken up an option on one more Caravelle, making a total of23 ordered, of which eight are or will be leased to Swissair. An Alaska Airlines DC-6C on a MATS charter flight crashed atShemya in the Aleutians on July 21 killing all six of the crew. The Dutch charter operator Fairways of Rotterdam (originallyknown as Transaero Rotterdam) has just purchased another DC-3. and now has two of this type. BEA has sold its last Pionair, G-ALXK, to North-South Airlinesthrough Travelair Ltd. North-South will operate the aircraft in its BEA configuration with an extra row of seats. We regret to record the death on July 23 of Mr J. A. Connel. vice-chairman of Unilever and a part-time member of the board of BOAC since June 20, 1960. Qantas will launch their trans-Tasman services with Electras inconjunction with TEAL on October 3. Services will link Sydney with Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, and Melbourne with Aucklandand Christchurch. As from August 16, subject to CAB approval. TWA. United andAmerican are to introduce special promotional transcontinental 13/30- day excursion fares for weekday travel. The jet fare would be S198.piston fare SI 78. Qantas will take delivery of its four turbofan-powered Boeing707-138Bs in August and September. It is reported from Seattle tha: fuel consumption is 15 per cent better than the standard jet, instead ofthe expected 10, and 18 per cent less runway is needed for take-off. An Eastern Air Lines Electra on a flight from Miami to Tampa wa>>seized in mid-air by a Cuban on July 24 and its pilot forced at gunpoim to fly to Havana. It was followed by a US jet fighter to within threemiles of the Cuban coast. The crew of five and 33 passengers on boani escaped injury.
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