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1964 - 1683.PDF
***!? 924 AIR COMMERCE . . . f LIGHT International, 4 junt 1964 A Third Boeing 720B has been bought by Avianca for delivery in April 1965. Air Cdre Nur Khan, managing director of PIA, has been promoted to the rank of Air Vice-Marshal. BOAC Comets for Turkey? THY is studying an offer by BOAC to sell a number of Comet 4s. The Turkish airline has also, it is reported, been approached by the Russians with a Tu-104 offer. More ll-I8s for China? According to a report filed by Reuter's Peking correspondent, the Chinese press on May 18 said that the CAAC intends to purchase more 11-18s under a new Sino-Soviet trade agreement signed recently. Derby Airways and the 748 A Hawker Siddeley 748 was demon- strated to Derby Airways officials including the chairman, Wg Cdr H. A. Roxburgh, at Burnaston airport near Derby last week. A decision on 748s or Viscounts is expected before September. Boeing 727 at La Paz First jet airliner to visit Bolivia's La Paz airport, one of the highest in the world (13,358ft), was a Boeing 727 on May 23. Flown by Boeing pilot Jack Waddell, the 727 took off in 7,400ft at a weight of 129,9001b and in a temperature of 44°F. A take-off with an engine cut at Vj was also demonstrated. SAS Landing Rights restrictions at Prestwick are, says Lord Polwarth, chairman of the executive committee of the Scottish Council, "harmful to Scottish industry and tourism." It is partic- ularly the reduction of services between Prestwick and Scandinavia which, he says, concerns the council. BOAC's Big Cargo Sales Effort A team of BOAC air cargo salesmen headed by Mr Bob Jones, the corporation's new UK air cargo sales manager, is conducting a detailed survey of industry and commerce in the north of England, with particular reference to the planning of BOAC cargo operations through Manchester. TCA DC-8 Salvage The TCA DC-8 which crashed while taking off from London Heathrow last November is expected to fly again next month after being rebuilt at an estimated cost of £1.4m. A team of 50 Douglas technicians has been working since January with 25 BOAC and TCA technicians to repair the aircraft, at an estimated saving of £750,000. The Ministry of Aviation's report on the accident has not yet been published. FAA's DC-3 Replacement Studies have reached the stage where, the FAA announces, a 50-man team has been chosen to consider "DC-3 replacement" proposals by seven US manufacturers and two French companies (Nord and Potez). The team will include representatives from the CAB and the Defence and Commerce departments. It will pick the best three designs and the FAA will award each a SI million (£357,000) contract for the preparation of detailed specifications to be submitted by November 1. SHARING THE SUPERSONIC RISK ALTHOUGH no decision on government-industry financial risk- sharing has been taken in the American SST programme, this being one of the thorniest political issues involved, the six-month study- contracts awarded to Boeing and Lockheed, GE and P&W (see last week's issue, page 879), are on a 75-25 basis. Each company is receiving between $5m and $6m. The FAA's responsibility for the programme has been somewhat relieved of late, the Department of Commerce having been given the task of studying the programme's economic feasibility, and the National Academy of Science having taken over the sonic boom studies. As already recorded, the President's SST advisory com- mittee is headed by the formidable Mr Robert McNamara, Secre- tary of Defense. At a recent news conference the FAA administrator, Mr Najeeb Halaby, said he thought that the supersonic transport would be able to stand a small fare surcharge, but if there was a need for a. high surcharge there was a real question whether the project would This coming weekend the Short Turbo Skyvan was due to complete a fortnight's engine development trials at Pau in the Midi of France. Tests have included engine-matching with Turbomeca, makers of the Turbo Skyvan's Astazou turboprops, high-temperature take-off measurements, and some engine control-run work. The Short crew, from left to right; C. McKee, flight development engineer: J. Sherburn and D. Wright, pilots; R. Barrett, production be sufficiently profitable to justify the enormous investment required of the US taxpayer. At the end of the further six-month study-contracts referred to above the manufacturers must, Mr Halaby said, convincingly demonstrate that the SST would be economically competitive with subsonic jets. POWER OF THE TRIDENT ON^June 1 the Daily Mail reported, under the heading "New jet needs more power," that although mechanical reliability of the Trident in BEA service has been "fantastically good for a new aircraft," performance has been "below expectations." The need for 10 per cent more thrust, and the re-engining of BEA"s Trident Is with 11,4001b Rolls-Royce Spey 25s in place of the current 9,8501b Spey Is, was referred to. It was said that payloads on London - Rome and London - Milan routes have had to be limited, and that Athens cannot be served non-stop by the Trident. There has also, it was stated, been "repeated trouble" with the centre engine, which has suffered from surging, causing a number of shutdowns. No statements were available from BEA or from Hawker Siddeley as this issue went to press. ATLANTIC SWELL ONLY a year ago transatlantic political tempers were high following the American CAB's veto of IATA's proposal to increase trans- atlantic roundtrip fares by 5 per cent. No government was more firmly resolved to put the CAB in its place than the British Govern- ment, whose Ministry of Aviation led the stand against the CAB. The higher fares were implemented last May, but only on the CAB's condition that IATA should negotiate substantially reduced fares for the 1964 season. After prolonged and difficult negotiations, IATA'S 1964 transatlantic tariffs showed "shoulder-month" reductions of 20 per cent in economy class. It was predicted that these reductions would mean very big increases in traffic, and they have certainly been forthcoming. During April BOAC recorded a 75 per cent increase in UK-USA/ Canada traffic, and a 46 per cent increase eastbound. BOACs May carryings between the USA and Britain were up 75 per cent, and for June bookings are nearly 100 per cent up. Pan American s transatlantic passenger traffic went up 55 per cent in April and it looks as though their May, June and July traffic will be at least 30 per cent up. From other airlines come reports of record traffic- Swissair up 37 per cent, Irish up 76 per cent. BOAC claim that their increases "reflect the success of the lower- fares policy which BOAC pioneered for the North Atlantic eai (ier this year." No doubt all the transatlantic IATA airlines *iH pat themselves on the back for what now seems likely to be the economic success of the fare reductions, though if it had not r-^en for the CAB—and for all that the Ministry of Aviation and other
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