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1963 - 0230.PDF
220 FLIGHT Interna bmi 14 February ;%j Al R COMMERCE . Two ways of doing the same job: in the top picture a Chrysler- engined Sicard sweeper in action at London Airport. Snow is swept up by rotating brushes and loos ened snow is dispersed by an ait blower. Four of these sweepers art in use at London Heathrow and hove been clearing up to 40,000 cu yards of snow on each sweep. Below, at the East Berlin airport of Schoen- feld this device, employing an old Mig-IS (Nene-type) engine, has recently been seen at work BOAC AND THE VCIO ALTHOUGH the British Aircraft Corporation have issued no official statement, reports last week suggested that the company has told BOAC that later production Super VClOs can be delivered with the special 6,000 mile (London - Los Angeles) range-capability called for last year by the corporation. It is understood that BOAC will not now be reconsidering the size of their order for 12 standard and 30 super VC1 Os. Sir Matthew Slattery of BOAC said last week: "I am quite certain that when we get our first VCIO in December it will do everything claimed for it and that it will be one of our most successful aircraft. There are still many smaller airfields on our Commonwealth routes which the big American jets cannot use, where only the Comet or the VCIO can operate." HALABY AND BOYD IN TOWN BOTH Mr Najeeb Halaby, administrator of the FAA, and Mr Alan S. Boyd, chairman of the CAB, were in London last week for talks with the Minister of Aviation, Mr Julian Amery. Before they left Washington they found themselves the centre of a controversy arising out of a report that they were going to discuss with European governments the long awaited report on the future of US interna tional aviation policy—the report commissioned early last year by the President. This key study has been described by Aviation Daily as a "blueprint of US policy in international aviation for years to come"; and the US airline industry was apparently shocked and indignant that European governments were going to have a pri vileged preview of it. An FAA statement before their visit to London, Paris and other European capitals said that the purpose of Mr Halaby's and Mr Boyd's trip to Europe was to discuss with Europeans "such issues and problems as route capacity, standards to be used in establishing routes, regulations and rates," and so on. In the event, a joint statement released in London by the two delegations referred to "informal talks" on the "technical aspects of civil aviation." According to the statement the subjects discussed were air traffic control, airworthiness, accident investigation and all-weather landing. The "environmental aspects" of supersonic aircraft were also reviewed and the FAA expressed their willingness to "colla borate over airworthiness requirements and the environmental and system fields in which the supersonic aircraft would operate." Most important agreement was on an early effort to get other North Atlantic states to discuss a "systems planning approach" to ATC on the route. It was also agreed to seek "international acceptance of uniform standards of reliability and safety in all- weather landing." A further meeting in this regular series (of which this was the fourth) will be held in the USA in the autumn. A Ministry spokesman in London confirmed that technical matters only were discussed during the course of the meeting. It would be surprising, however, if, in their more relaxed moments, the two sides did not talk about the important political matters at issue. As is well known, the CAB two years ago took the contro versial step, which has become known as "Part 213," to require foreign carriers to file their schedules and traffic results with the Board as a condition of their permits. When BOAC and other airlines recently challenged this in the US courts, they lost, and it has recently come to light that BOAC and their fellow-plaintiffs (SAS, Sabena, KLM and BWIA) have decided not to appeal. Presumably they now prefer to let the matter, which raises questions of US foreign policy, rest with the President. As noted in a leading article in this issue he has already overruled the Board on another matter affecting British traffic rights on the grounds of "US national policy considerations." The report presented to the President was actually delivered to the White House as long ago as September 10 last. No part of it has been published and there seems little likelihood that the report will be released in full. It is reported to recommend a tough line in respect of foreign airline pooling agreements and restrictions on US airlines. It is likely that what the Americans would call a "sanitized" version will be made available in due course. UAA and Kuwait Airways are now operating in pool on the Cairo • Kuwait route. PIA to Kathmandu At the end of this month Pakistan Interna tional are planning to start a regular scheduled service between Dacca, capital of East Pakistan, and Kathmandu, capital of Nepal. No information on the type of aircraft to be used is yet available More Friendships for PAL Philippine Air Lines have ordered two more Fokker Friendships to increase their order to seven. Total Fokker/Fairchild order book is now 234 aircraft for 73 customers, with some 30 aircraft still to be delivered. Cairo - New York Agreement Talks in Cairo between Egyptian and US civil aviation delegations have reached "tentative agree ment" on the terms of UAA's proposed transatlantic route—for which Super VClOs may be ordered—from London to New York. Approach Crash in Fog A Slick Airways L.1049H Constellation crashed and burned whilst attempting to land in fog at San Fran cisco on February 3. The aircraft was on a cargo flight from New Mexico. Four of the eight Slick employees on board were killed although at least one of the crew is believed to have survived.
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