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1961
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yJGHT, 14 December 1961 / rborne Aviation Service riatwick) Ltd are operating this I gh-lift aircraft-loading truck, t Commer Cargo-Lift supplied I ! Rootes Ltd. It is seen beside a i-C-4 of Trans Atlantic Airlines at ' atwick. The special bodywork mounted on a scissors-action activated hydraulically BREGUET 941 PERFORMANCET HE Breguet Br 941 unpressurised STOL transport prototypehas, in recent landing tests at Toulouse-Blagnac, given a fore- taste of the possibilities of this military transport's commercialdevelopment, the pressurised Br 942. At a total weight of 16 tons, landing distance from 50ft was only688ft, of which 311ft were for taxying. This remarkable perform- ance, which was bettered by over 30ft at a weight of 17 tons, comeswell within the guaranteed contractual distance of 787ft and was obtained, it is said, under far from ideal conditions. A take-offground run of 524ft has been achieved at a weight of around 17.5 tons, and a total take-off distance of 787ft to clear a height of 10m(32.8ft). This performance will be considerably improved with production aircraft, which will have a total of 6,000 s.h.p. availableat take-off from their four Turmo HID turboprops. BKS IN TROUBLE T^HE latest independent in financial distress, and to have beenJL placed in the hands of receivers, is BKS Air Transport, one of the largest and best established of the private UK operators. A BKSstatement says: "The purely financial difficulties correspond with the difficulties currently being experienced by the industry as awhole. But plans are being made to ensure that summer services are flown for 1962 and we look forward to a continued increasein traffic carried." Two chartered accountants, Mr J. B. Sweeney and Mr A. G. W. Scott, have been appointed joint receivers andmanagers by the airline's bankers and will act as agents of the com- pany in full co-operation with the existing management. BKS operated more passenger-miles on domestic routes than anyother independent this year and recently introduced a novel "Book Now-Schedule Later" scheme for the Leeds/Bradford - ChannelIslands route (see Flight, October 12). BKS recently withdrew its twice-weekly Leeds-Rotterdam-Diisseldorf service because it wasproving uneconomic, but is believed to have been planning on introducing its Avro 748s, of which it has five on order, into serviceon April 15, 1962. It is not known whether the Avro 748 order is in jeopardy, butthere is to be no change in the airline's flying programmes, which continue as before, and in a circular to creditors the receivers askthem to continue supplies and services on normal credit terms. There would be no alterations in existing maintenance, safety and insurance arrangements. It is believed that Cunard Eagle and BKShave discussed a possible link-up, but no comment is available on this. Certainly the difficulties of other independents in recentmonths, particularly the Overseas affair, have made it difficult for even independents as reputable as BKS to obtain credit and toplan their financial futures with confidence. AER LINGUS v. CUNARD EAGLEF IRST foreign reaction to the ATLB's award of route licences toBritish United, Cunard Eagle and Starways (see page 900) comes from Ireland. Mr J. F. Dempsey, general manager of Aer Lingus,says:— "The operations by Cunard Eagle Airways on the Dublin toLiverpool and London routes—Aer Lingus' most remunerative route—would have frightfully serious consequences to IrishAirlines. The relationship between two sovereign states in respect of traffic rights are reciprocal, so that airlines of each country couldhave 50 per cent of the traffic," Mr Dempsey said. "The arrangement in 1956 envisaged a rising traffic, with 50 percent opportunities for each state, but a third company coming into the route might call for a re-investigation of these arrangements. "If, by any chance, US airlines succeed in getting into Dublin,the position by 1963,'could show five lines operating on the Dublin - London route. Again, the over-competition would kill all com-panies, and there would be the situation you have in America itself, with mergers and take-overs." Talks on the revision of the Irish-US bilateral agreement, heldlast month, have been adjourned without even the "full and frank exchange of views" communique being issued. Pan Americanand TWA are pressing for rights into Dublin and for permission to carry fifth freedom traffic to Britain and Europe. The presentair agreement, in force for 15 years, allows the US carriers rights only at Shannon in which £12m has been invested by the Irishtaxpayer. MORE "TOP-OFF" PASSENGERS A NOTHER all-freight operator is seeking permission to carryl\ passengers at very low fares. Riddle Airlines of Miami, which last summer first asked the CAB to operate to New Yorkand other north-east cities a no-frills air bus operation, is now proposing to operate Argosies and DC-7Fs on mixed passenger-cargo flights on a "no reservations" basis. The proposed services would be between Miami and New York,Philadelphia, Washington and Boston. Orlando and Tampa would also be served. Argosies would be operated with 30 seats by dayand 54 seats by night and DC-7Fs with 40 and 50 seats respectively. Fares, taking the Miami-New York sector, would be little morethan £10 at night and less than £14 by day—considerably less than current fares, including those offered by surface carriers. Compara-tive surface rates (Miami - New York) are approximately £13 10s by bus, £15 10s by second-class train, £17 10s by propeller aircraftnight coach, and £33 10s first-class by jet. It is proposed by Riddle that baggage allowance be increasedfrom 401b (the present coach-class limit) to 1001b, with excess being carried at regular freight rates—which are about a third of therates at present applied to excess baggage. The services will be primarily freight operations with at leastone-half of the payload available for cargo. Return passenger fares will be double one-way fares. Structural test work on the V/ckers VCI0, the first of which is due to fly next year, is well ahead at Weybridge, and here a main wing torsion- box is seen being "slosh-sealed" to ensure integrity of the tanks
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