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1962 - 0472.PDF
470 AIR COMMERCE... than 2,500m." A Russian reports states: "To make the piloting easier when the 11-181 takes off at the weight of 64 tons it is recom mended to begin lifting the nosewheel at the speed of 200km/hr, calculating to lift the aircraft off the runway at the speed of 210- 215km/hr. There is no provision for emergency dumping of the fuel on the 11-181 and therefore, when the necessity to make a landing with a large flight weight arises, touchdown of the aircraft at higher landing speed must be accomplished gently." ANY COMPLAINTS? VERY few air travellers who may have occasion to feel disgruntled with a British air service know that Section 4 of the Civil Aviation Licensing Act enables them to make a representation to the Air Transport Licensing Board. This right has actually been exercised —by certain passengers who were dissatisfied with North-South Airlines' services from Leeds/Bradford to Exeter, Bournemouth and the Isle of Wight. The result of their complaints was that the ATLB decided "that the company was no longer fit and proper to hold licences." and its existing licences were revoked. Last November a group of businessmen in London lodged a representation with the Air Transport Licensing Board concerning the alleged inadequacy of BEA's domestic trunk route services. It all began with an advertisement in the personal columns of The Times last October Flight, October 19, 1961, page 637). Four months have now gone by, but the ATLB has not yet decided how to deal with the representation. Asked whether a public hearing would be held, an Air Transport Licensing Board spokesman last week said: "A decision has not yet been made and will not be made until the reactions of the British Independent Air Transport Association have been received." It is not quite clear why BIATA should be holding up the repre sentation; but, with the BEA appeal coming up, these businessmen have now issued a statement. In this they describe themselves as "a group of responsible businessmen who have kept careful records of their experiences." They feel that their evidence is "only a tiny fragment of that which might become available if the rights of the travelling public were widely known." British United Hovercraft Services It was stated last week by Hoy lake (Cheshire) authorities that the British United-Vickers VA.3 hovercraft services between Hoylake and Rhyl are expected to start on July 20 and to run until mid-September with six return trips daily six days a week. TEAL's Jet Plans Sir Leonard Isitt, chairman of TEAL, tells Flight International concerning our recent report that TEAL have decided in principle to buy Boeing 707-120Bs that "no decision has yet been made." FLIGHT International, 29 March 19g2 £20m Nigeria Airways Investment Over the next ten years Nigeria is to invest £20m in Nigeria Airways, which will have all- Nigerian personnel after ten years. BUA's VClOs Contrary to a report published in last week's issue, British United's two VC10 passenger/freight transports will have a gross weight almost exactly the same as that of the short- fuselage BOAC machine, i.e., 299,0001b. Maximum payload will be 48,3001b and the engines RCo.42/ls. The 322,0001b aircraft, with 64,0001b payload and RCo.42/3 engines, is a paper proposal. Daily Swiss Carvairs The Air Transport Licensing Board has granted Channel Air Bridge their application to increase Carvair frequencies to Basle and Geneva. Services to both places will, from early May, be on a daily basis to each point, instead of five and four times weekly respectively. After five weeks of accepting reservations, both routes were fully booked until the end of September. Euravia in Business The new Luton-based airline Euravia (Flight International, February 15 and March 8) has been granted all but one of the ten B-licence applications heard by the ATLB in February. The first of three Constellations 049s is due to be delivered on April 5, and the other two before Easter. Operations will start on April 19. Licences have, in broad terms, been granted as applied for except that their period is 1962 season only. British United's Herald The executive Herald ordered by British United Airways will be a Series 200 for delivery in the late summer. British United will furnish the aircraft themselves with a luxury executive interior. Meanwhile, in the course of next week or so, one of Handley Page's Series 100 demonstrators with an executive interior will be delivered to British United for use pending delivery of the Series 200. Flying Tiger Disaster No trace has been found of the Flying Tiger Super Constellation, one of the airline's 12 L.1049Hs, lost on March 15 on a MATS flight from Guam to Manila. On board were 93 US soldiers, three South Vietnam military personnel and a crew of eleven, including four stewardesses. The last report was received from the pilot lhr 20min after take-off. The aircraft was cruising at 18,000ft. A Liberian tanker reported seeing a bright light in the sky in the vicinity of the route. German Landing Fees Raised As from April 1 West Germany is to increase landing fees by 39 per cent (internal) and 34 per cent (external) at Munich, Bremen, Cologne-Bonn, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Nuremberg and Stuttgart. IATA has protested strongly, particularly as the 38 airlines affected are said to have been given only 15 days' notice. An intercontinental 707 landing will now cost about £94 compared with £242 in the UK. A continental Viscount landing will cost about £19 compared with about £22 in the UK. Present German landing fees were tabulated in Flight for April 13 last, page 515. fwo 28-seat Sikorsky S-61 s (two CT58-110 turbines of 1,050 h.p.) are now in operation with Los Angeles Airways on routes from LA International to Disneyland, Pomona and San Bernardino. Two more S-6ls are on order, one for delivery next month and the fourth later this year. Six S-55s continue in service
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