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mernatianal, 2 )anuary 1964 c OF A FOR THE 727 THE Boeing 727 has been awarded its United States FAA certificate and is n°w ^ul'y aPProyed for passenger service. The certification las been awarded just three years after Boeing decided to go ahead with the project, and less than a year since the first flight. Certified performance of the 727 is as much as ten per cent above original Boeing guarantees. Cruising speed is higher than predicted, field length requirements less, and air miles per pound of fuel greater. Take-off weight is 152,0001b and maximum landing weight 135.0001b. At normal weights the 727 will operate from a 5,000ft runway. Boeing has delivered six 727s under an earlier, provisional, certificate for crew training, and 20 have been flown to date. Sales figures stand at 147 to nine airlines. In the certification pro- gramme four test 727s flew 1,100 hours since February 9, 1963, when the first aircraft made its initial flight. Tests include maximum- speed shallow dives at more than .95 Mach, take-offs at 160,0001b, numerous two-engine take-offs and maximum-energy landings in less than 900ft. IFALPA's 19th Annual Conference will be held at Manila from March 10-17. Can Lightning be Lethal? Next Wednesday, January 8, the health and safety sub-committee of the US House of Representa- tives is due to review the state of knowledge about the effects of lightning and turbulence on transport aircraft. Nigerians to Train in Israel Under the terms of an Israeli-Nigeria technical assistance agreement, some Nigeria Airways staff are to be trained in aeronautical engineering in Israel, the Israeli Ambassador in Lagos announced recently. The first trainees will leave for Israel next month. SUPERSONIC AMERICANS TEN United States airlines have notified the Federal Aviation Agency of their intention to evaluate manufacturers' proposals for the supersonic transport. Three airframe and three engine manu- facturers are preparing initial design proposals for submission to the FAA and airlines for evaluation. Deadline for submission of these design proposals is January 15. The ten are: American Airlines, Braniff Airways, Continental Air Lines, Delta Air Lines, Eastern Air Lines, National Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Pan American World Airways, Trans World Airlines, and United Air Lines. Each of these airlines will conduct a separate evaluation of the manufacturers' proposals. The government evaluation will be conducted by a group made up of technical experts from five government agencies under the overall management of FAA. The agencies will be NASA, the Department of Defense, the CAB, and the Department of Commerce. At the head of this group will be the FAA deputy administrator for supersonic transport development, Gordon M. Bain. Government and airline evaluation will be formally reviewed in joint government- airline discussions scheduled for March 25 and 26,1964. in Washing- ton. FAA Administrator N. E. Halaby will announce selection of contractors to proceed with development of the United States SST, or to continue through a year-long phase of detailed design com- petition, by May 1. The three airframe manufacturers preparing SST initial design proposals are Lockheed, Boeing, and North American. The three engine builders are General Electric, Curtiss-Wright, and Pratt & Whitney. THE TRUTH ABOUT CORBETT LORD LINDGREN, in the House of Lords debate on BOAC just before Christmas, said of the Corbett report: "My working-class decency would never get me to ask another person to rat on his chief." While it is not quite clear why class should be dragged in to the Amery-Corbett business, the reply made by Lord Chesham was astonishing. Justifying the confidential nature of the Corbett report, he said: "I do not know how the Government could have gone behind anyone's back when it makes an announcement to Parliament. An announcement was made to Parliament before Mr Corbett went to work." The truth is that Mr Amery, Minister of Aviation, commissioned Mr Corbett in July 1962, and did not tell Parliament until Novem- ber 1962, a full three months after Mr Corbett had started work. THE LONGEST FLIGHT A LITTLE friendly controversy has broken out over what is the world's longest scheduled air service. As already reported in these pages Pan American are now operating a non-stop service between New York and Buenos Aires with Boeing 707-320Bs. This is a 5,445 st miles flight, and is the longest on an all-the-year-round basis. It still does not beat El Al's seasonal (April-October) non-stop flight eastbound from New York to Tel Aviv, a distance of 5,760 st miles. El Al uses Boeing 707-420s. SIR BASIL WAS WINNING IN his last message to staff in BOAC News, the outgoing managing director, Sir Basil Smallpeice, expresses his appreciation of all the efforts which have enabled him and his chairman, Sir Matthew Slattery, "to hand over the corporation in such a healthy shipshape condition." During the first 32 weeks of the current financial year (starting A DH-operated Trident at Nice on one of its pre-C of A proving fights. On December 19 at Hatfield BEA took delivery of their first Trident, G-ARPF, on which they will complete crew-training in time for first services next April
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