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fUGHT International, 14 May 1964 803 fir LOT Polish Airlines operate two Viscount 804s on services linking Warsaw with London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Rome via Prague, and Stockholm via Copenhagen. Colour-scheme is light blue with a red stripe and 35-year-old LOT's emblem on the fm STUCK IN THE MINISTRY THE report on Eagle's Tangier appeal was fairly unremarkable run-of-the-mill stuff—except for one thing. Whilst the commissioner, Sir Ralph Hone, took no more than six days to complete and present his report to the Ministry of Aviation, it lay on Mr Julian Amery's desk for more than four months. Although Sir Ralph heard Eagle and BEA talk briefly about traffic rights in secret session, this could not have been the reason for the Minister's delay in clearing the appeal, since the commis- sioner did not make a recommendation that would require the Minister to seek traffic rights. In fact, from the Ministry's point of view this appeal commissioner's report was plain sailing; Sir Ralph Hone upheld an ATLB decision, which was to refuse Eagle's wish to serve Tangier in competition with BEA. BEA objected that their own services in partnership with Gibraltar Airways were sufficient to meet the UK - Tangier demand. BUA, who operate to Gibraltar, were also objecting; and both BEA and BUA argued at the appeal that Eagle's "new evidence" was not, to quote Sir Ralph, "in truth new in the sense that it did not estab- lish any facts that were not in the knowledge of the Board when they reached their decision." Sir Ralph, giving his reasons for upholding the ATLB's decision, says that despite the able manner in which Eagle presented their case, their four travel-agent witnesses "did not greatly advance their case." Most of the evidence, says Sir Ralph, related to "a re-statement of issues that were very clearly before the Board." In his view "there was not one matter of significance that emerged in the appeal that was not before the Board." This is as near as any commissioner has got to saying that an appellant was trying it on a little. He concludes: "I am entirely satisfied that the Board exercised the discretion invested in them in a proper manner and reached conclusions that were fully justified on the evidence before them and having regard to the special experience and A Viking of Air Ferry prepares to leave Manston for Moscow with a cargo of 618 live chickens and turkeys for the British Agricultural Exhibition which opens in Moscow on May 18 knowledge that the individual members of the Board possess of the problems relating to this case." Sir Ralph's report is the sort that a Minister should be delighted to endorse in four minutes flat. Why he took four months over it is a mystery. PIA's Third S-61N was shipped from Sikorsky to Karachi on April 27, to complete PIA's initial helicopter order. BUA's VC10 Inaugural BUA's first VC10 service from London to East and Central Africa is scheduled for September 5. Nord 262 Hours amount to nearly 800, three production aircraft now having logged more than 500hr in addition to nearly 300 by the prototype. More than 550 flights have been made to date. Two Tu-124s for CSA have been bought from Soviet organization Aviaexport by the Czech Ministry of Foreign Trade. The Czechs have also bought 35 Mi-4 helicopters. Total value of the two deals is 9im roubles, or about £3fm. Pluna Buys DC-3s The Uruguayan airline Pluna has bought two DC-3s, ex-Itavia, from Keegan. This aircraft dealer has also sold a Dove 2B for executive use to the British company Piper Products Ltd, and a Dove 5 to the Icelandic operator Pallson. 16,400ft Milan Runway? According to Interavia, Milan Airport has decided to extend Malpensa's main runway from the current 12,845ft to 16,400ft by 1968 to handle SST operations. If confirmed this would make it the world's longest civil airport runway. Seat Design Criteria In Flight Safety Foundation's news letter of March 1964 is a note on a new film summarizing information obtained from a series of full-scale crash tests on seats designed to offer crash protection. Air-India's Second Fan Jet A second Boeing 707-320B (Pratt & Whitney JT3D-ls) has been ordered by Air-India for delivery in the spring of 1965. The airline's first Boeing 7O7-32OB is due to arrive in Bombay before the end of May, and is to go into service on August 1. Air-India's present fleet comprises six Boeing 707-420s. A Comprehensive Guide to facilities at 64 British airports, of use to passengers as well as to private pilots, is British Airports and Air Traveller edited by Allen Rowley, air correspondent of the York- shire Evening Post. It is published at 5s (or 7s 6d by post) by Manor Publishing Co (Bradford) Ltd, 85a Bridge Street, Bradford 1. Flying Enterprise Management is now as follows: Mr Orla D. Andersen, director of daily management; Mr Knud-Ole Larsen, consultant director, internal co-ordination; Mr Hans O. Christian- sen, director of financial and legal matters. The company's address is Copenhagen Airport, telephone (01)531700. Bookstall Timetable Now on the bookstalls is an new 8£in by 5£in airline timetable. Priced 2s 6d and entitled Airport Times, it provides a quick reference to all passenger, cargo and air ferry flights to and from points in the British Isles. It is published by the Airways Publishing Co Ltd, 9-15 Neal Street, London WC2, telephone COV 2393.
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