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Sir Geoffrey Wallinger, British ambassador in Brazil (third from left), visited A. V. Roe at Manchester on May 29 to discuss the Brazilian Government's order for six 748 series 2s. From left to right: Mr T. L Carnasciaii, Avro agent in Brazil; Mr H. P. Wills, regional executive in South America; Sir Geoffrey Wallinger; Sir Harry Broadhurst, managing director; Mr E. Galitzine, sales manager AIR COMMERCE. . . WAS CONTINENTAL'S 707 SABOTAGED? IT is now known that the crash of Continental's 707 over Center- ville, Iowa, on May 22 was not caused by extremely heavy turbu lence as was at first suspected, but by what the CAB describe as "an explosive force of unknown origin" which occurred within the aft portion of the fuselage and caused the aircraft to break up. The explosion apparently occurred in the starboard lavatory, which is situated directly behind the coat rack and the galley. Mr John Pahl, chief of the engineering division of the CAB Bureau of Safety, said that a mock-up of the rear 18ft of the fuselage revealed that a "high-velocity explosive" had torn off the entire tail unit. Mr Alan Boyd, chairman of the CAB, has told a Senate aviation sub-committee that there is no indication that the crash was caused by any structural defects or by anything relating to the aircraft. Cuts in Boeing 707 Orders? The American and Eastern orders for Boeing 727s might be cut by six following a merger, according to Mr G. M. Sadler of American Airlines. Ten Boeing 720s would be redundant also. 707s for Nordair of Denmark? It is reported that the Danish charter company Nordair has bought two Boeing 707s from Am erican Airlines for about SI.5m, for delivery in early 1964. The company at present operates five DC-6s, having just bought a fifth aircraft for about £123,000. Eastern's Air Shuttle Profit According to the president of Eastern Air Lines, Mr Malcolm Maclntyre, the company's no-reservations Air Shuttle services made a profit of $650,000 during the first quar ter of 1962. He considers that the services could be profitable even with aircraft that are not, like the Constellations actually used, fully depreciated. Summer 1963 IT Applications should reach the Air Transport Licensing Board by June 15 in the case of France, Spain and the Balearic Islands; by June 29 in the case of Italy, Yugoslavia, Austria, Germany and Switzerland; and by July 13 in the case of all other destinations. The Board hopes to announce decisions on all applications received in due time by the end of October. Two More CL-44s for Seaboard A few days after Slick placed a repeat order for two Canadair CL-44s, Seaboard World Air lines ordered two more to bring their total fleet to seven. Deliveries will be made in June and July. Seaboard have operated CL-44s for eleven months over the Atlantic and have obtained a MATS performance reliability rating of 90 per cent. About 55 round trips a month are being operated between the USA and European cities. It is not known whether the Seaboard order was placed before or after the recent 5.4 per cent increase in the price of the CL-44, now about $4.2m. (CL-44s For BOAC?—page 885.) 888 FLIGHT International, 7 June 1962 Indian DC-3 Crash The crew of four were killed when a cargo DC-3 of Darbhanga Aviation crashed on a charter flight from Bagdogra to Calcutta on May 27. BUA Viscounts for LOT? According to a report in Interavia, on ' which the British Aircraft Corporation can make no comment as this issue goes to press, BAC are to buy BUA's three Viscount 804s and resell them to the Polish airline LOT. Helicopter Floats Decision The Ministry of Aviation has decided that single-engined helicopters flying over the Thames must be fitted with flotation gear as from January 1, 1964. Requests for exemption will in the meantime be given "sympathetic con sideration." Herald 200 Weight Increase Improved payload-range performance of the Herald 200 results from an increase in the all-up weight from 40,0001b to 43,0001b. Examples of the improvements: on London - Rome in standard conditions payload is increased from 7,9211b (38 passengers) to 10,6711b (50 passengers); on Madras- Calcutta (ISA +15), payload goes up from 8,3961b (40 passengers) to 11,0461b (50 passengers and 6001b freight). BALPA Protest Members of BALPA have been told by the Association to "protest vigorously to their MPs" over increased charges for licence examinations. The pilots feel that they are being forced "possibly to subsidize other sections of the Ministry." [Fees were increased as a deterrent to the growing number of inadequately prepared candidates, according to the recent Govern ment White Paper on safety.] All Ex-Overseas North Stars Sold Keegan Aviation have sold six ex-TCA North Stars to SAM Airlines of Colombia. This com pletes the sale of all eleven ex-Overseas Aviation DC-4Ms, the other sales being as follows: Lineas Expresa Bolivar of Venezuela, three; T. W. Smith Aircraft of Cincinnati, one; Reynolds Transport of Beirut, one. No prices are disclosed. In the last six months Keegan have sold 14 transport aircraft, all for export. Capitol to Operate Argosies Hawker Siddeley could not last week confirm reports (May 31 issue, page 852) that Capitol Airlines of Nashville will take over the seven Riddle Airlines Argosies bought back by HSA. According to Mr Arthur Norden, Whitworth Gloster US representative, the ground-training of Capitol's air and ground crews has already begun. Confirmation of the transfer presumably depends on the USAF acceptance of Capitol's tender of Argosies for "Logair" work. Ferry Integration Much closer integration of the car-ferry and cargo operations of the two BUA subsidiaries, Channel Air Bridge and Silver City, perhaps under a new name, is likely in the near future. Air Bridge's services to Basle and Geneva have been highly successful in their first two months of operation, and last Thursday the company inaugurated its third "deep-penetration" route. Carvair G-ANYB taking five cars and 19 passengers from Southend to Strasbourg in the scheduled 2hr 20min. FAA Supersonic Airliner Research Contracts totalling $500,992 have been awarded to (1) the Coordinating Research Council cf New York to test and evaluate the comparative suitability of dif ferent types of fuel; (2) Hughes Aircraft to investigate the optimum use of fuel in a supersonic airliner throughout the entire flight regime; (3) the Southwest Research Institute to establish design parameters and requirements for an SST crash-fire prevention system. These are the first awards from the $llm approved by Congress last year for supersonic airliner research. Paris Tragedy As this issue goes to press a team of French Government and Air France officials were investigating the accident at Paris Orly last Sunday, June 3, in which Boeing 707-320 F-BHSM crashed and caught fire at the east end of runway 08/26 (12,320ft with stop-way) while taking off on a charter flight to Houston via Atlanta. Of the 133 people on board—122 members of the Atlanta Art Association, an Air France official and crew of ten—only two stewardesses (believed to have been sitting in the rear of the aircraft) survived. It was the worst disaster involving a single aircraft to date.
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