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1962
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FLIGHT International, 16 August 1962 227 Swissair's Final Convair 990, bringing the fleet up to seven (includ ing two leased to SAS), arrived at Kloten Airport, Zurich, on August 5. BOAC Comet Incident Comet G-APDM of BOAC suffered an undercarriage collapse on landing at Stansted on August 3 on a iraining flight. The aircraft was not badly damaged. Civil Aircraft Recognition A new edition of the Ian Allan publica tion Civil Aircraft Recognition, by John W. R. Taylor, has been published, price 2s 6d. International Aeradio are to train 24 Jamaican air traffic control officers at the IAL School of Air Traffic Control at Southall, Middlesex. Three ten-week courses have been arranged under a contract with the Jamaican Government. Skydrol Fire-resistant Hydraulic Fluid, marketed in Britain by Monsanto Chemicals Ltd, has been specified for use in the Vickers VC10, DH Trident, Sud-Aviation Caravelle 10, BAC One-Eleven, Boeing 727 and Douglas 2086, according to a Monsanto statement. New Italian Medium-range Transport? A report in the Financial Times states that a consortium of Italian aircraft companies includ ing Fiat, Piaggio, Aerfer, Agusta, Ciai Marchetti and Macchi are planning to produce a medium-range transport aircraft. Airline for Sir Bernard Docker? Sir Bernard Docker is proposing to finance a new company. Southern Counties Aerial Contracts, who have applied to the ATLB for permission to operate Staverton - Scilly Island services with a DH Rapide. SCAC are proposing inclusive holidays in the Scillies at £29 10s per week. American Electra Incident An Electra of American Airlines, en route from Dallas to New York with 66 passengers and a crew of five, crashed on final approach at the edge of the municipal airport at Knoxville, Tennessee, during a storm on August 7. The aircraft was badly damaged, but no one on board was hurt. Tridents and One-Elevens for Australia? Ansett-ANA and TAA may decide on their choice of new jets for delivery in 1964 before the end of this year, according to the Australian Aviation Minister, Senator Paltridge. The aircraft figuring most prominently in the two airlines' plans are the DH Trident, Boeing 727, BAC One- Eleven, Douglas 2086 and Sud-Aviation Caravelle. Austrian Caravelle Deliveries February and April next year are the dates set for the delivery to Austrian Airlines of the two Sud- Aviation Caravelle 6Rs recently ordered. Meanwhile Austrian Airlines are negotiating an arrangement with SAS whereby the Scandinavian airline will operate a Caravelle service for AUA between Vienna and the Middle East before the end of this yea Middle East Jet Trends ONLY a few months ago Sheikh Najib Alamuddin of MEA was in London shopping, he said, for three more Comets, and possibly a further three. The deal depended on "the right financial terms," and the successful outcome of MEA's moves to sponsor pan-Arab airtransport (Flight International, March 22, page 425, and March 29, page 468). Now comes the surprising news that MEA, a staunch champion of the Comet, have ordered two Caravelle 6Ns from Sud- Aviation, for delivery next spring. How this order affects MEA's interest in additional Comet 4Cs (of which they have four in service) and in the BAC One-Eleven, for which MEA were last March discussing a possible order for six, is now a subject for interesting speculation. It might very well be that the Sheikh's order for Caravelles is the string attached to a possible forthcoming merger with the other main Lebanese carrier, Air Liban. This airline has close associa tions with Air France and the French aircraft industry, having bought two Caravelles, and having initiated Caravelle operations in December 1960 with an aircraft chartered from Air France. It is believed also that the other Lebanese airline, Lebanese Inter national Airways, a DC-6B operator, is involved in the Sheikh's moves to integrate Lebanese air transport. So far, with the exception of equipment arrangements with Jor- danair and Kuwait Airways, MEA's pan-Arab movement has not spread beyond the borders of the Lebanon. Kuwait Airways, as previously recorded in these pages, will become independent of BOAC next May, and this company's order for one DH Comet AC, two DH Tridents and three BAC One-Elevens is the subject of a note on pages 221-2. The Egyptians are believed likely to purchase another Comet 4C. No final contract has been signed, according to a de Havilland spokesman, but it is believed that an aircraft can be made available for fairly early delivery to replace the one lost by UAA last month, restoring fleet strength to seven. Further up the Nile, meanwhile, the Sudanese are preparing for the delivery on May 2 of the two Comet 4Cs ordered this autumn. It is understood that Sudan Airways will operate these aircraft themselves; Sudan Airways crews are being trained by de Havilland already, and BEA will carry out maintenance. British United Airways have made no arrangement with the Sudanese to include the operation of Comets in their existing close technical and com mercial association with the airline. The "Blue Nile" Viscount services operated between London and the Sudan by British United on behalf of Sudan Airways will presumably cease when the Comets are in operation next year. Despite the MEA Caravelle order, the Middle East Comet bloc continues to extend; another customer. King Saud of Saudi Arabia, took delivery of his personal Comet 4C (see photograph) last week. As reported on pages 221-222 Kuwait Airways have placed orders for Comets, Tridents and BAC One-Elevens. Kuwait Airways' vice-chairman, Mr Abdul Salam Shuaib (left in each picture) and the chairman, Mr Nisf Al YusufAl Nisf, sign contracts (left-hand picture) for two DH Tridents and one DH Comet 4C with Sir Aubrey Burke, deputy managing director of the Hawker Siddeley Croup Ltd and de Havilland chairman; and sign a contract for three BAC One-Elevens with Sir George Edwards, managing director of the British Aircraft Corporation (right-hand picture) 11 ' p [ Jbi* fH? r - •<b " *>» " **^g**'"*' iiiegls 17 ff ' 4 #i , >1 Hfe^B I i *fc ^tCT i "•"" ^M fd '• •^.t^^^^Lm TPPsFf |
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