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- -I- L 1 6 H T International (URSDAY FEBRUARY 14, 1963 Number 2814 Volume 83 Editor-in-Chief IAURICEA. SMITH DFC Editor H. F. KING MBE Technical Editor W. T. GUNSTON Air Transport Editor J. M. RAMSDEN Production Editor ROY CASEY Managing Director H. N. PRIAULX MBE In this issue World News 214 That was Skybolt, that Was 217 Air Commerce 218 MEA and their Comets 223 Westland Helicopters 227 Force de Frappe 234 Letters 236 Straight and Level 23 7 Industry International 238 Sport and Business 240 Sliding Championship Entries 241 Missiles and Spaceflight 242 Service Aviation 246 llifle Transport Publications Ltd, Dorset House, Stamford Street, London, SE1; telephone Waterloo 3333 (Telex 25137). Telegrams Flightpres London Telex. Annual subscriptions: Home £4 15s. Overseas £5. Canada and USA $15.00. Second Class Mail privileges authorized at New York, NY. Branch Offices: Coventry, 8-10 Corpora tion Street; telephone Coventry 25210. Birmingham, King Edward House, New Street, Birmingham 2; telephone Mid land 7101. Manchester, 260 Deansgate, Manchester 3; telephone Blackfriars 4412 or Deansgate 3595. Glasgow, 62 Bucha nan Street, Glasgow CI; telephone Central 1265-6. New York, NY: Thomas 8klnner * Co (Publishers) Ltd, 111 Broadway 6; telephone Digby 9-1197. © Iliffe Transport Publications Ltd, 1963. Permission to reproduce illustra tions and letterpress can be granted only under written agreement. Brief extracts or comments may be made with due acknowledgement. Organ ol the Royal Aero Club First Aeronautical Weekly in the World Founded in 1909 Britain's Florida Gateway B EFORE BOAC-Cunard Ltd was formed last June there were three British jet services a week from London to Bermuda and the Bahamas. One went on to Jamaica, the other two terminated in Miami. They were operated by Cunard Eagle with Boeing 707s. BOAC's current timetable shows that only one of these three services, London - Bermuda - Bahamas - Miami, is still operating. The service to Jamaica has been absorbed into BOAC's existing services via New York; and the second service to Miami—which was becoming an increasingly important new British gateway in the USA—has been stopped altogether. There have been other cuts also. Before BOAC-Cunard there were six British-flag Viscount services a day between Nassau and Miami; two of these have been suspended. It is to be hoped that this cutting of British capacity, understandable though it is in BOAC's present circumstances, is no more than a case of reculer pour mieux sauter. Miami, though not as important as New York in the British western-hemisphere scheme of things, was being developed, as it had never been developed before, by a British independent. Its poten tial was promising—promising enough indeed to have been one important reason for the formation of BOAC-Cunard. British traffic rights in the USA are not, it seems, being exploited as vigorously as when there were two British flag airlines in the western hemis phere. Though of academic interest now (since Eagle has been eliminated from the scene), President Kennedy's veto of a CAB recommendation to suspend Eagle's licence for certain services between the Bahamas and Florida is nevertheless of significance. The President has vetoed the recom mendation "on the basis of foreign policy considerations." Thus we have the United States' President upholding British rights that Britain does not seem particularly keen to exploit. Bureau and Cigarette A BATTLE-CRY on behalf of business and private aircraft users throughout the world has sounded from Amsterdam. At a recent meeting there—an extraordinary session of the general aviation committee of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale—"plans were laid for a co-ordinated attack on laws and policies, or the lack of them, which now hamper the unrestricted passage of private and business aircraft throughout the world." This statement is not quite so blood-curdling as it sounds; but it gives a dramatic flourish to the setting-up by the meeting of an International Bureau for General Aviation (see page 1240). This is a permanent body, replacing one which existed experimentally for six months. It has behind it the veteran authority of the FAI; it represents aero clubs in 55 countries; and it will deal directly with ICAO on all general aviation matters. The Bureau replaces CIALTA (Commission Internationale pour Avia tion Leger et Tourisme Aerienne) and this extension of scope is significant, for "general aviation" comprehends business aircraft as well—that ever growing body of responsible users of the air. By an auspicious coincidence, a UK Notice to Airmen has just been issued stating that pilots of single- and twin-engined aircraft who cannot meet prescribed procedures may use London Heathrow on a special VFR clearance if they identify themselves by using the code-word "Cigarette" before their aircraft callsign. Here is further evidence, following the 1961 conditional opening of Heathrow to private aircraft, that UK official ice is melting. The Bureau could not have had a better initial augury.
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