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JGHT International, 9 July 1964 47 LIGHT RECORDERS FOR BOAC Somewhere in the technical smoke there is a small, bright flame of tear comprehension and sure knowledge. 1964 may finally see it merge into the light of day." HIS comment on the flight recorder situation in Flight Inter- alional for February 20 seems to have been justified. In April BEA laced their order for flight recorders with S. Davall and Son and 'lessey (issue of March 26, page 453). Now BOAC announce the igning of a contract with Epsylon Industries Ltd, of Feltham, Middlesex, for the installation of flight recording systems in all the orporation's 707s and VClOs. The installation, complete with round read-out facilities, will cost more than £600,000. The system includes two recorders in each aircraft. One, carried l the tail, will meet the Ministry of Aviation requirement that all iritish airliners shall carry an indestructible recorder, monitoring t least five key functions in the aircraft. In fact, the recorder tOAC have chosen will be able to monitor up to 24 functions and scord them on a stainless steel wire, running for 200hr. The second recorder can monitor at least 96 different functions, scording them on a 1,800ft magnetic tape which will run for 125hr. "he impulses from this tape will be read out, i.e., converted into gures or graphs, in a special ground unit, and passed to the many I0AC departments who are making increasing use of flight record- lg in the search for greater efficiency and economy. The data will e used to show ways of improving maintenance methods, flying ;chniques, and so on. BOAC believe Flight International, February 0, pages 281-288) the system will more than pay for itself in saving irge sums every year in engineering costs, fuel consumption and i many other ways. A full recording system will be fitted to a BOAC 707-420 this utumn and all BOAC's Boeing 707 and VC10 aircraft will be quipped during the next two years. The Epsylon system was esigned to BOAC's own specification, and is based on nearly ten ears of flight recording experience by the airline. During that me BOAC has completed more than 100,000hr of flight recording n its aircraft, not only for its own use, but also on programmes ndertaken for the British and United States Governments. NO" TO EAGLE BERMUDA LS well as revoking British Eagle's A licence for a transatlantic eight service (issue of June 18, page 998) the ATLB has now evoked the airline's B licence for proposed IT flights on behalf of ir Henry Lunn to Bermuda and the Bahamas. The hearing took lace on April 29 and British Eagle were supported by the Govern- lent of Bermuda, who also opposed BOAC-Cunard's objection. British Eagle's contention that there is a need for these services, and that a special effort by Sir Henry Lunn would promote new traffic to a Colony in which Eagle already enjoyed much goodwill, does not sway the Board. Nor does the support of the Bermuda Government, which has already granted a licence for the proposed service. The Board concludes that the service would not result in a generation of "a significant amount of new traffic," and that to the extent that it might be successful it would result in material diversion of traffic from the existing services of BOAC-Cunard. British Eagle's licence is therefore revoked by the Board, and this seems to crush for good and all Eagle's aspirations to resume operations in the western hemisphere. It is a decision that will not be well received in Bermuda. END OF AN EXPERIMENT? UNITED, the airline that has been experimenting with a one-class service in the USA, is to suspend this type of operation, at least on transcontinental routes. Three-class services are to be introduced on August 9. Subject to CAB approval, transcontinental nonstop three-class jet services will be inaugurated by United linking San Francisco and Los Angeles, New York and Washington. The following other cities will also get three-class instead of one-class service: Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore, Omaha, Denver, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Oakland, Portland and Seattle. United have been experimenting with one-class service for the past 15 months on a number of routes besides the major trans- continental services in competition with TWA and AA, who have not followed suit. More than 2m passengers have been carried so far—about the same number carried by all 18 international carriers across the North Atlantic last year. But the experiment has without doubt brought down first-class fares. First-class busi- ness is now on the increase, it appears, and United are losing out on it. So they have decided to return to all those complexities of three-class services that it was the one-class operation's primary intention to avoid. Three classes of service will be provided in DC-8-5Os: first-class with four abreast seating and de luxe meal and beverage service; standard-class with five abreast seating; and coach class with six abreast seating. Complimentary meals and beverages will be served in standard and coach classes. CHANNEL ISLAND FARES UP AGAIN? SIMULTANEOUS BEA and independent applications for fare increases in Channel Island routes appear in the July 1 issue of ATLB Licensing Notices. The last general fare increase on these During a recent demonstration for Lufthansa and the W. German Transport Ministry at Cologne this BAC One-Eleven gave both a KLM Viscount and a Lufthansa Convair 440 a measure of the jet that was specifically designed to replace these two types nwmxmmsw&m!/ rani'llll V
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