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1963 - 0047.PDF
FLIGHT International, 10 January 1963 43 seems no prospect of a significant improvement in the European situation unless the airline reorganizes its schedules to push up load factors to the 60 mark and keeps a much tighter control over its expenditure than it has in the past. In 1961, for instance, the workforce was allowed to rise by as much as 25 per cent to the rela tively high level of 12,000 employees. During the same year, the airline acquired two more Convair 440s and an additional Viscount 814 at a total cost of £lm. In simple terms, it does appear that the root of DLH's trouble of late has been a tendency to spend its money too soon. MANCHESTER UNITED v. BEA THE action brought by Manchester United Football Club Ltd against BEA arising out of the Munich air crash in February 1958 is due to be heard before a judge of the Queen's Bench division of the High Court on January 21. If the action is contested it will be keenly followed because it involves a number of problems on the law of international air transport. Notable amongst these is the fact that English courts have never ruled what, in a case involving death or injury, constitutes wilful misconduct. Under the 1929 Warsaw Convention (made effective under the Carriage by Air Act, 1932) the carrier is not entitled to a limited liability of Frl25,000 (approximately £3,0C<>) per person "if the damage is caused by his wilful misconduct." BEA APPEAL SIR RALPH HONE is the commissioner appointed by the Minister of Aviation to hear BEA's appeal against the decision of the Air Transport Licensing Board to extend Jersey Airlines* rights to carry traffic between Manchester and the Channel Islands. The appeal will be heard at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Thursday, January 31, starting at 10.30 a.m. Sir Ralph Hone was the com missioner who heard the appeal by British Railways in September 1961 against a Swansea-Birmingham licence awarded to Morton Air Services. "SAFETY HEIGHT": AN AMENDMENT IN the article entitled "Safety Height" in last week's issue, a manu script error appeared in item 2 of the paragraph (on page 14) en titled Twenty-mile MSA. This should have read: "when the actual or forecast wind is not more than 40kt." Terminal Extension A contract worth about £l£m has been awarded to Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons to erect an eight-storey extension to BOAC's London Victoria terminal. Crash in Central Corsica A Boeing Stratoliner belonging to Airnautic crashed in the area of Mt Renoso, Corsica, on December 29. The aircraft was en route from Bastia to Ajaccio. There were no survivors from the 22 passengers and crew of three. Hawaiian Wants One-Elevens Latest operator to show more than passing interest in the BAC One-Eleven is Hawaiian Airlines. The company has announced plans to buy three of the aircraft for introduction on its intra-Hawaiian island route system in 1965. Final signing of a contract may be delayed pending an investiga tion ordered by the CAB six months ago into the affairs of both Hawaiian airlines. The CAB is concerned at the increasing subsidy required by Hawaiian and Aloha Airlines. FULL TREATMENT CORONADO FOR THE This series of photographs shows the final results ofConvair's extensive programme of testing to bring 990 performance up to something like the original estimate. The first Swissair 990 Coronado to receive the 990A treatment is depicted in the right-hand series of pictures, whilst the pictures on the left show some of the same parts of the 990 before modification. At right the almost-full-span leading-edge Kreuger flap can be seen fully extended; this flap and modified leading-edge contour replace a simple slat. The pair of pictures below shows how the cowlings have been extended over the I6,000lb-thrust GE aft-fan engines to improve airflow to the rear over the reverser eyelids. As reverse thrust is selected, the fairings slide back along runners out of the way of the eyelids. The final pair of photographs shows how the shape of the wing- root fairing has been revised WI5,SAI f=9
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