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FLIGHT International, 1 March 1962 315 AIR CO E R C E TRIDENT IS "THE LAST WORD" BEA's future hopes lie with the Trident, in the same way as ten years ago the corporation's future lay in the equally revolutionary Viscount. All BEA and de Havilland employees can be justifiably proud of this magnificent new aeroplane, which is the very last word in subsonic jet transports. This is said in the current issue of the BEA Magazine by Lord Douglas, the chairman. He points out that BEA has to date invested £130m in the British aircraft industry. The fact that all the corporation's major competitors now use jets on their intra-European services, he says, shows the "absurdity of the claim still made in some uninformed quarters that we are in a monopoly business, and that BEA faces no competition... It was BEA's determination to maintain its leading position in the face of this fiercely competitive situation which led to our decision to acquire a jet of our own, specifically designed to our particular network." NEW HERALD ORDER TWO Handley Page Herald 200s have been ordered by Eastern Provincial Airways of St John's, Newfoundland. They will be delivered early in 1963 and will be operated on the airline's routes from St John's to Wabush in Labrador. Eastern Provincial's main operating base is at Gander, and the fleet comprises eight Beavers, an Otter, a Piaggio P.136L and two Bell 47J helicopters. This is the third Canadian order for the Herald, which is already in service with Nordair, and it brings to 19 the Herald order book, which is now as follows: BEA/MoA, three Series 100; Jersey Airlines, six Series 200; Nordair, two Series 200; Maritime Central, two Series 200; North South, one Series 200; Itavia, two Series 200; Cambrian Airways, one Series 200; Eastern Provincial, two Series 200. Eastern Provincial's Heralds were ordered, says the president, Mr C. A. Crosbie, after "a full examination of all prop-jet aircraft available throughout the world." His airline's operations demanded an aircraft which could land and take off with ease from a chain of small airfields; it had to be economic to run, simple to maintain, and it must provide a very high standard of comfort. In the Herald, says Mr Crosbie, "we shall have an up-to-the-minute aircraft which adequately satisfies all these requirements." Meanwhile a Dart Herald arrived in Canada earlier this week, and was due to begin demonstrations in Ottawa on Tuesday, February 27. Due to last several days, these demonstrations will be witnessed by representatives from the Canadian Department of Transport and from most of Canada's domestic airlines. The military rear-loading version of the Herald, the HP. 124, will be discussed with the Government and Services. Handley Page say that the Herald's superiority as a close support transport is "acknowledged by most Service opinion in Britain." CALEDONIAN'S NEW ZEALAND BID FAILS THE recent application by Caledonian Airways, the new Scottish independent based at Gatwick, to operate flights to New Zealand on behalf of the Overseas Visitors Club, has been refused by the Air Transport Licensing Board. The hearings were reported in Flight International for February 8, page 201. In its reasons for refusal the Board says that a group charter service must conform to the conditions specified in the Civil Aviation Licensing Regula tions. The Board says that these conditions, which prohibit the advertising of such services, were not complied with. "We are of the view," it says, "that the advertisement by the Overseas Visitors Club, under the heading 'Going to London ?', and the record of an interview with an officer of the club, under the heading 'The Answer is so Simple' in The Evening Post (of New Zealand) of December 8, 1961, are a breach [of the Regulations] and we have accordingly refused the application." Significantly, the Board expresses no opinion as to whether the OVC is or is not a bona fide group. What it does suggest is that even bona fide groups will not get licences if they engage in any advertising. SKYVANS FOR TAA? KEEN interest in the Short Skyvan 2 (Turbomeca Astazou turbo- props) is being shown by TAA, reports a correspondent in Austra lia. A Short team led by Mr D. Scoffham apparently made a good impression with the thoroughness of its investigations during a recent visit, when some time was spent in Papua-New Guinea flying with TAA's Otters into the worst possible strips. A TAA market for ten Skyvans, for operation in New Guinea and to replace DC-3s on Channel Country and Gulf of Carpentaria runs, is considered possible. These pictures show the new high-lift hardware fitted to the Boeing 707-320B, which made its initial flight a month ago. New leading edge flaps (right) extend for about two-thirds of the span; and the trailing-edge flaps (left) include a new double-slotted inboard "fillet flap" in place of the earlier split type ^yWSMLVCK*
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