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FUGHT International, 2 April 1964 489 Straight and Level FROM the Ministry of Aviation reporton London's third airport, discuss-ing Shoeburyness as a possible site: "The War Office set up the range in the first half of the last century.... It still plays an essential part in experimental work on munitions and is considered by the War Office as irreplaceable because it is unique in possessing a large area of hard, flat sand which enables shells to be recovered intact for examination." Poor old Ministry of Aviation—always having to try to please everybody. Gad! Is Colonel Carruthers still combing the beach for that experimental Crimean 32-pounder? • How other countries must envy Britain's possession of two islands off the coast of the USA—Bermuda and the Bahamas—which are the playground of half a million or more American tourists every year. How astonished they must be that the British flag airline, BOAC, carries a mere 20 per cent of the Bermuda traffic, the bulk of which flies by Pan American, Eastern and TCA, and only a third of the Bahamas traffic. One reason why BOAC does not carry the British lion's share of this business is that its 707s are not based in the area, operating the routes as sectors of services to and from the UK. But the business is certainly there; if it were not, we could be sure that Eagle would not be wasting its time trying to re-open shop in Bermuda. If it is a question of locally-based aircraft, why not a combined BOAC operation with BEA? Crazy? I am not so sure that it is. The peak Are you all right?—No 36 Swimming pool adjoining Ezeiza International Airport, Buenos Aires. The aircraft is a C-46 of the Argentinian independent Austral, sans rudder holiday months for tourist travel between the USA and the islands of Bermuda and the Bahamas are from the autumn till the spring, the period when BEA's aircraft are under-utilized. BEA experience one of the worst seasonal traffic variations in the air- line business, carrying two or three times as much traffic in the summer than they do in the winter. A fleet of Tridents based in Bermuda or New York during these months, on charter to BOAC and backed by really massive selling in the USA, could It's Absolutely You—No 3 Mr Claude Grahame-White and Miss Dorothy Taylor, whom he married in June 1912, at Hendon with Farman biplane in May 1912 not only win more traffic for British Air- ways, but could also help to ease BEA's under-utilization problems. If BOAC and BEA think it is too diffi- cult, let them imagine two American sovereign island holiday paradises off the coast of Britain and let them consider whether Pan American would be allowing our airlines to carry most of the visitors. • I note that a 7in edible snail was found wandering in a Customs Hall at Heathrow a few days ago. It is presumed that the snail had escaped from a traveller who had brought it from Africa or Asia to eat. Only in the Heathrow Customs would a snail have such a speed advantage over a human captor that it could make a success- ful getaway. • "Cairo, March 18, 2130 GMT: Middle East News Agency has learned that in his speech on July 23, President Nasser will announce that the first Arab will be launched into space at 1900hr (Cairo time) on Friday, July 24, 1964." "Cairo, March 18, 2204 GMT: Please cancel report entitled 'The First Arab Man To Invade Space.' Thank you." Britain's Wonder New Jumping Jet • From a British Aircraft Corporation news release:— "The two VClOs training at Shannon have each exceeded 1,000 landings, averag- ing six landings per flight . . ." ROGER BACON
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