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1963 - 0344.PDF
328 FLIGHT International, 7 March 1963 AIR COMMERCE.. . TRIDENT TO SWEDEN ONE of the main requirements of the BEA specification for a short-haul jet airliner that eventually materialized as the Trident was that its cruising speed should not be less than that of the Convair 990—the fastest airliner project at that time. In fact, the Trident cruises even faster, and will probably remain the fastest airliner in service until the 1970s. In their sales campaign de Havilland have been unaccountably modest in emphasizing this feature; however, it will no doubt exercise a strong pull on traffic when the Trident enters BEA service early next year. On all their trips abroad Tridents have made faster-than-ever times for commercial airliners, and during the return from a recent day trip to Scandinavia a Trident covered nearly 1,000 miles, from Stockholm to Hatfield, in lhr 43min. The aircraft concerned, G-ARPB, the second of four Tridents which have so far flown 550hr on test, had been to Stockholm for a demonstration to Direktor Karl Nilsson, the president of Scandinavian Airlines System, and many SAS officials. Sir John Coulson, British Ambassador to Sweden, accompanied the SAS president as guests of Sir Aubrey Burke, chairman of de Havilland and deputy managing director of the Hawker Siddley Group, on one of the three demonstration flights made from the relatively short runways of Stockholm's domestic airport, Bromma. CAB AND THE ONE-ELEVEN WHY has the Civil Aeronautics Board refused to allow Bonanza Airlines a Government guaranteed loan to buy three BAC One- Elevens? The board's official decision, which it is reported was passed on a vote of three to two, is on the grounds that the airline's traffic forecasting is too optimistic. In other words, the CAB has decided that the One-Eleven is too large for Bonanza's probable requirements. Contrary to the opinions of some people there is no suggestion that the decision would have been any different if the aircraft involved had been the Douglas 2086. Although all the US local-service airlines, particularly Bonanza, have been making great strides towards solvency, they are still heavily dependent on Federal subsidy. Whilst Bonanza's net earnings after interest and tax payments quadrupled last year to $400,000 on total revenues up 12 per cent to $9.2m, the built-in Federal subsidy remained constant at $3.3m. By operating One- Elevens non-stop between Los Angeles and Las Vegas in competi tion with Western, Bonanza would to all intents and purposes become a junior trunk-line carrier. DC-8F DEMONSTRATED AT LONDON HEATHROW LAST week Trans-Canada Air Lines introduced the DC-8F Jet Trader to commercial service by putting it to work on their Montreal - Prestwick - London route. Prior to this introduction of the first civil jet cargo aircraft TCA held a number of demonstra tions for the benefit of shippers and cargo agents to show how quickly palleted loads can be transferred from truck to cabin and "Flight International" photograph Four pallets can be loaded aboard the DC-8F in less than I Imin. A note on the DCSF's first visit to London appears below vice versa. In a demonstration at London Heathrow Airport, four pallets loaded with 20,0001b of freight were put on board from two lorries in just over llmin, including backing-up the vehicles and opening and closing the doors. Pallets are raised from truck-bed height to cabin-floor level by a heavy-duty lift truck fitted with a roller pad. A compensating factor for loading systems that need a lifting device is that they can automatically compensate for variation in floor levels with different loads. Once the pallet has been raised to the cabin level it is pushed through the enormous side door that, because it opens almost on to the fuselage centre line, allows the pallets to be loaded in such a way as to almost fill the cabin cross-section. A number of caged balls in the floor by the entrance allow the pallets to be pushed down the cabin. Initially TCA's DC-8Fs will be used in a mixed layout with 117 tourist-class seats and space for four pallets loaded with 20,0001b, plus another 8,0001b in the lower holds. TCA expect to operate the DC-8Fs as pure freighters when traffic builds up. MR MILWARD IN "THE TIMES" IN a main article in The Times on February 28, entitled "Facts of Domestic Air Services," Mr A. H. Milward, BEA's chief executive, describes as "quite remarkably illfounded" the proposition that "with BEA's monopoly, equivalent revenue rate and load factor an American operator would be making a fortune." This proposition, which Mr Milward ascribes to a British aero nautical magazine, appeared in Flight International for December 6. 1962. A review of Mr Milward's article will appear in an early issue of this journal. Like all Austrian Airlines' aircraft, this recently delivered Caravelle 6R bears the combined Olympic Games symbol and the Innsbruck coat of arms to commemorate the winter Olympics due to be held near Innsbruck in a year's time
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