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1964
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80 FLIGHT International, 16 January 1964 This BEA S-6IN is not off course between Land's End and the Scillies, but over New York's East River on pre-delivery trials from NYA's Manhattan heliports. The pilot is Capt J. A. Cameron, general manager of &EA Helicopters Ltd, which will be introducing two S-6/s into service between Land's End and the Scillies in May. Summer weekend day return fare is £4 6s, or 6s more than the Rapide fare AIR COMMERCE... Ministers—Mr Michael distance and Mrs Alison Munro—have both left, taking with them all the expertise and continuity that they brought to the administration. Both Michael Custance and Alison Munro were, in a quiet way, responsible for much of the creative thinking and initiative on their side of the Ministry. Succeeding Mr Custance as Deputy Secretary B, and warmly welcomed by the industry, is Mr R. Burns, CB, CMG. Mr Burns, who has already been in action discussing the Anglo-Scandinavian bilateral air agreement (see below), was born in 1912 and educated at Hamilton Academy and Glasgow University. He has had a very varied career in the Civil Service, which he entered in 1936. He served first in the Dominions Office (now Commonwealth Relations Office) and the Colonial Office. During the war he was first in the Ministry of Supply, where for a time he was Lord Beaverbrook's private secretary, and then in the Ministry of Pro- duction before moving to the Board of Trade in 1945. Apart from three years when he was Counsellor in the Embassy in Washington, he served as an Assistant Secretary in the Board of Trade until 1953, gaining a wide experience of international trade, particularly in relation to Europe and the Commonwealth. He then became an Under Secretary at the Ministry of Supply and later at the Ministry of Aviation handling in succession the financial and policy aspects of the Royal Ordnance Factories and of the guided weapons and electronics programmes. Before his present appointment he was the Principal Establishment Officer. Mr Burns is married and lives in Highgate where his family of four children has kept him from premature solemnity. He finds time to play badminton in the winter. He sees less of Scotland than he wouJd like but finds Exmoor a good substitute and travels abroad as often as he can. SA8 AND GLASGOW NEGOTIATIONS on the Anglo-Scandinavian bilateral air agree- ment moved from Glasgow to Stockholm on January 6. Mr Robert Burns, successor to Mr Michael Custance at the Ministry of Avia- tion, led the British delegation. The Scandinavian delegation included Mr Henrik Winburg of Sweden, Mr Hans Jensen of the Danish Civil Aviation Board, and Mr Alf Heum of the Norwegian Civil Airways Board. Trie talks ended, apparently inconclusively, on January 9. Differences have been mainly concerned with landing rights for SAS at Prestwick. Officially the bilateral is up for its five-year review but recently BOAC have been exerting pressure on the Ministry to end SAS's fifth freedom rights at Prestwick on the Scandinavia-North America transatlantic service. BOAC are said to have pointed to the note in the recent White Paper which mentioned that it may soon be necessary to make adjustments to the traffic rights enjoyed by foreign airlines whose countries do not or cannot provide comparable benefits for British airlines. But powerful Scottish bodies view the BOAC move as a serious threat to Prestwick and indirectly to Scandinavian-Scottish interests —interests which Mr Burns, a Scot, has no doubt considered. STARWAYS SUMMONSES A NUMBER of summonses served on Starways for alleged infringements of the Air Navigation Order, and which were due to be heard on February 4, have been withdrawn by the Director of Public Prosecutions. Since the summonses were served the company has been taken over by British Eagle. A spokesman for the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions was last week unable to give any details of the nature of the summonses. AMERICAN SST EVALUATION BEGUN MORE than 200 technical personnel from four civilian agencies and two military services comprising the, Federal Aviation Agency's Supersonic Transport Evaluation Group, met in Washington on January 6 to begin the process of selecting designs for the United States SST. Final date for manufacturers to submit design studies was January 15. Mr Gordon M. Bain, FAA deputy administrator for SST development and chairman of the group, said in announcing this stage of the SST programme: "The evaluation group has before it a demanding task, one that is worthy of the notable past exper- ience of its broad membership. This task will be to conduct an objective, skilled, painstaking evaluation of competitive proposals to determine which, if any, can result in a safe and economically sound United States supersonic transport. "On the basis of the multiple analyses to be performed by these evaluators, we will be able to select manufacturers to go forward with construction of the SST. Or, on the other hand, it may be that we will find wisdom directs us to modify the programme to a significant extent. Our purpose is to be certain, whatever the decision is, that it is the right one, based upon the most comprehen-
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