FlightGlobal.com
Home
Premium
Archive
Video
Images
Forum
Atlas
Blogs
Jobs
Shop
RSS
Email Newsletters
You are in:
Home
Aviation History
1964
1964 - 0442.PDF
FLIGHT International, 20 February 1964 269 LABOUR'S CIVIL AVIATION POLICY MR FRED LEE, the Labour MP who specializes in aviation matters, has enunciated for the first time Labour's policy for civil aviation should his party be returned to power in the forthcoming election. Referring to BOAC-Cunard as "a monstrosity," he has said: "We will nationalize the lot. This is Labour Party policy." Mr Lee was speaking at a local Labour Party Meeting at Stanwell Village Hall on January 28. Other points made by Mr Lee (who is known as "Firebrand Fred" in some British private airline quarters) were as follows: (1) The 1960 Licensing Act will be repealed: there are other ways such as charters and ferry work, in which the independents can operate. (2) Jobs would be found with the corporations for independent airline workers who had been made redundant. (3) The fact that BOAC and BEA were not allowed trooping contracts was, he said, "a disgusting anomaly," and would be changed "as soon as we get into power." (4) In answer to a question Mr Lee said that BOAC and BEA apprentices were drifting to the private airlines perhaps because they found a lack of security in the corporations. (5) BOAC and BEA could form a subsidiary to do charter work, giving their old aircraft to the new company instead of selling them at knock-down prices to their private competitors. . Quite large pieces of BAC-Sud Concord art now taking shape. Roth French and United Kingdom production centres are building a complete airframe to be ready in 1966 for different aspects of the structural test programme CONTRACTS FOR LIGHTNING RESEARCH TWO contracts totalling $167,000 have been awarded by the Federal Aviation Agency for investigations into possible aircraft lightning protection measures. The work will be performed by Lightning and Transients Research Institute and Atlantic Research Corporation. The contracts are another step which the US Government and indus- try has taken to improve aircraft lightning protection following the crash of a jet airliner near Elkton, Maryland, on December 8 last year. Investigation of this accident is still under way, but the Civil Aeronautics Board reported on December 13 that evidence of lightning and an explosion had been found. LTRI will investigate potential hazards created by lightning striking aircraft wings, while Atlantic Research will evaluate ignition, flammability and explosive characteristics of fuels under these same conditions. The two will co-operate on various phases of their studies in order to develop remedial techniques and equipment. In the LTRI programme an outer wing section of a jet transport will be subjected to simulated lightning strikes of varying degrees to determine the possibility of internal arcing when the fuel tank is struck by lightning; and the possibility of fuel ignition through vent openings. Atlantic Research's initial task will be to determine whether ignition of fuel vapours outside the vent will produce flame-flow through the vent system and trigger an explosion in the tank. The firm will then evaluate various methods of stopping flame propa- gation, such as the case of labyrinth vent ducts, explosion suppres- sion systems, flame arrestors and high vent exit velocities. Each company will submit a final report of its findings to FAA by May 27. AVIACO's ORDER FOR CARVAIRS THE privately owned Spanish airline Aviaco has signed a contract with Aviation Traders to convert two of the airline's fleet of DC-4s into Carvairs. This follows the announcement that Aviaco intends to start a car ferry service next May 1 between the mainland cities of Barcelona and Valencia and the popular holiday island of Palma. The work of converting the first DC-4, to begin shortly, is due to be completed in time for the opening of services. A second Carvair will be leased to Aviaco for the first season's operations pending conversion of the airline's own second aircraft next winter. Conversion of an operator's own DC-4 to Carvair standard is understood to be currently offered for around £115,000. The value of the Aviaco contract has not been announced; nor has the kind of cabin arrangement. There is now widespread interest—especially in the Mediter- ranean area—in operations like this new one of Aviaco and the one begun last year by Alisud from Naples to Sicily and Sardinia. Aviaco has plans of extending its network based on Palma to connect with the main road and rail routes from Northern Europe at Nimes and Marseilles with the interesting prospect of linking "P with the proposed BUAF service from the UK to Nimes. If these plans materialize it could lead to the conversion of Aviaco's remaining five DC-4s. At the moment there are nine Carvairs in service: BUAF, 4; Aer Lingus, 2; Interocean, 2; Alisud, 1. A further eight are on order: BUAF, 5; Aer Lingus, 1; Aviaco, 2. Two more are on option, one each for Aer Lingus and Alisud. TEAL AND THE VC10 "WE in New Zealand did wish to buy British," said Sir Andrew McKec, TEAL's chairman, in a recent address to the Christchurch, New Zealand, Rotary Club. "I can disclose now," he said, "that we waited more than a year in order that the VC10 might be developed to our standards. The VC10 was bought by BOAC for use on the medium African routes of 2,500 and up to 3,000 miles. We have to do 3,500 miles in the Pacific and the VC10 would be a quite unheard of aircraft on that route." TEAL, it will be recalled, ordered three DC-8s for delivery in 1965 (Flight International, August 15, 1963). SUMMER NIGHT JET MOVEMENTS UP to 5,500 night jet flights will be permitted at London Heathrow Airport from April 1 to October 31 this year, compared with 4,800 such movements last year. Stating this in a Commons written answer to Sir Beresford Craddock, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Aviation, Mr Neil Marten, also said that the increase had been authorized subject to the number of movements of Super Constellations and DC-7s—the noisiest of the piston- engined types—being reduced by about 700 during the same period. To inform local inhabitants of the measures being taken to minimize noise disturbance the MoA is arranging for a mobile exhibition to visit the worst-affected areas during the summer PARIS-NORD AIRPORT A NEW airport to cost £70m is to be built on a 12,000-acre site 15 miles north-west of Paris. It is being designed with supersonic airliner operations in mind, and the intention is that when it opens in 1970 it will begin replacing Le Bourget, which will be closed down. The new airport will have two runways each more than 13,000ft long. Eastern Air Lines hove opened their first European sales office—in Pall Mall, London—under the direction of Mr Hans B. Thunell, the airline's European sales director
Sign up to
Flight Digital Magazine
Flight Print Magazine
Airline Business Magazine
E-newsletters
RSS
Events
