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1965
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GHT Official Organ of the Royal Aero Club First Aeronautical Weekly in 11a World Founded in 19 ) international THURSDAY 27 MAY 1965 Number 2933 Volume 87 Editor-in-Chief MAURICE A. SMITH DFC Editor J. M. RA M8DEN Assistant Editors MARK LAMBERT BA ~ KENNETH OWEN BSC DCAe AFRAeS Air Transport Editor H. A. TAYLOR Production Editor ROY CASEY Managing Director H. N. PRIAULX MBE In the issue World News 8 1 2 Parliament, Press 8 14 Behind the New Alliance 8 15 Air Transport 8 17 Special Feature: The Westland Way 823 McDonnell's Most 832 Letters 835 Sport and Business 836 "Air-Cushion Vehicles" World Gliding; Championships 1965 837 Defence 849 Spaceflght 85 0 Industry International 853 Straight and Level 854 Hiffe Transport Publications Ltd., DorsetHouse, Stamford Street, London, SE1; telephone Waterloo 3333 (STD.01).Telegrams/Telex: Flight Iliffepres, 25137 Ixmdon. Annual subscriptions: Home£5 7s6d. Overseas£55s. CanadaandUSA $15.00. Second Class MaU privilegesanthorizprt at New York, N.Y. Branch Offices: Coventry, 8-10 Corpora-tion Street; telephone Coventry 25210. Birmingham, King Edward House, NewStreet, Birmingham 2; telephone Mid- land 7191. Manchester, 260 Deansgate,Manchester 3; telephone Blackfriars 4412 or Deansgate 3595. Glasgow, 123 HopeStreet, Glasgow C2: telephone Central 12«5-6. Bristol, 11 Marsh Street, Bristol1; telephone Bristol 21491/2. New York, NY: Thomas Skinner & Co(Publishers) Ltd, 111 Broadway NY6; telephone Digby 9-1197.© Iliffe Transport Publications Ltd, 1865. Permission to reproduce illustra-tions and letterpress can be granted only under written agreement. Brief extractsor comments may be made with due acknowledgement. WelcomeT O the several hundred pilots and crew-members from 29 countries now visiting Gloucestershire for the World Gliding Championships we extend a sincere welcome, and hope that the weather will be worthy of their skill. This will be the biggest international gliding contest ever held, and the competition is tough at the top—but not too tough, we trust, for pilots to be able to enjoy their flying as flying and not simply as a maximum-score acquisition system., -^ .- :.; s ^ A New Restriction BRITAIN'S air transport industry suffered a reverse last week whenthe Minister of Aviation invoked a rarely used section of the Act that set up the Air Transport Licensing Board. This section enables the Minister to direct the ATLB to refuse a licence application if he thinks it will cause foreign traffic-rights problems. The Minister has used this section to put a stop to a bid by four independents to operate scheduled air freight services to the Far East and Australia. We have always urged that the management of Britain's traffic rights should be delegated to the administrative tribunal concerned with the economic regulation of the airlines, namely the ATLB. Otherwise the Minister is the effective licensing authority; and because of his vested interest in the State corporations eveiy kind of muddle can, and does, arise. Worse, BOAC and BEA become the licensing authority because their widespread pooling agreements have largely taken the negotiation of traffic rights out of the Minister's hands. In this case BOAC have evidently told the Minister that Qantas and Air-India will not like the idea of anybody else flying freight on their pooled routes. So the Minister has obligingly put a stop to the applica- tions, even though the ATLB would have had due regard for BOAC's position, and even though the applications represent the "genuinely new services" which only a few weeks ago the Minister said he would encourage. It is time that Britain's exporters were offered scheduled all-freight services from Britain to the Far East and Austialia. The Minister's action to prevent them, and to suppress once again the healthy stimulus of competition, seems an odd way of furthering the development of British civil aviation, and the export efforts of the nation. Here We Go Again? CONTROLLING the cost of advanced new military aeroplanes, andkeeping them to schedule, is difficult enough when only one government is involved. When two governments become joint partners the difficulties are at once compounded. Yet there was no evidence in the May 17 Anglo-French "Memorandum of Understanding" of any understanding on this rather basic point. It almost passes belief that after all that has happened to TSR.2, HS.681 and 1154, the cost information on page 813 should have been published in France but not in Britain. Full costs cannot be estimated yet; and so advanced is the v.g. project that its cost will not be known for years. But this is all the more reason why the two sides should agree in principle now on a proper, open system of cost control. We hope that it may be possible for any British or French MP or depute, citizen or citoyen, editor or redacteur, to know who is doing what and at what cost on all joint programmes, civil and military. This will be the only sure way of getting the aeroplanes built at the right price.
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