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1967
1967 - 0554.PDF
FLIGHT International, 13 April 1967 AIR TRANSPORT . . . The British Eagle bAC One-Eleven G-ATVH, leased to Swissair for a 13-month period, in its new livery (complete with reference to Eagle) at Kloten Airport, Zurich. As already recorded, it is being flown by Eagle crews but will carry Swissair cabin staff HEART-ATTACK CRASH CAUSE THE CAB has given the probable cause of the accident to the Electra of American Flyers Airline at Ardmore, Oklahoma, on April 22, 1966. as incapacitation of the captain following a heart attack. The Electra, on a military charter flight, was overshooting after an instrument approach when it entered a steep bank and crashed with the loss of the six crew and 77 of the 92 servicemen passengers. The captain, Reed Pigman, aged 59 and president of the airline, had an 18-year history of heart disease, but had concealed the fact. VARIG ORDERS 748s AN order for ten HS.748s was confirmed last week by Varig, the Brazilian airline, whose president, the late Mr Rubem Berta, signed a letter of intent last September. When announcing the order last week, Hawker Siddeley made a point of mentioning the help given by the Government in arranging export credit for the purchase, and described the order as of "key" importance so far as Latin-American sales are concerned. A total of 155 748s have now been sold, 103 of them for export (see tabulation below), representing business worth about £40 million. The company considers that there are many years of prospective sales for the 748. The contract, which was signed by Mr Erik de Carvalho, now Varig's president, on April 4, follows intensive evaluation, including a month of operation on the routes by G-ARAY, the demonstration air- craft. The 748s will replace DC-3s and C-46s, more than 60 of which are in service with Varig, which is the biggest airline in Latin America. These are the 748 orders to date (April 7): Skyways Coach Air --. 3 Aerolineas Argentinas --------12 BKS Air Transport 3 Indian Air Force and Indian Airlines - - - 31 Thai Airways ----------- 3 Air Ceylon 1 Linea Aerqpostal Venezolana 6 Channel Airways 4 Leeward Islands Air Transport 2 Autair International 2Austrian Airlines ---------- ? COPA, Panama 1AerO Maya 2 Bahamas Airways 4LAN-Chile 8 Fiji Airways ------------ 1 Varig 10 Non-airline: Brazilian Air Force 6Smithb Aviation ---------- ] RAF Queen's Flight 2RAF Transport Command ------- 4 RAF (freighters) 31Royal Thai Air Force ........ 1 Venezuelan Ministry of Defence ----- 1Royal Australian Air Force ------10 Argentine Department of Presidency - - - 1Zambia Air Force 1 BoT Civil Aviation Flying Unit 2 Total 155 DUTY-FREE AUSTRALIAN DC-9s THE Australian domestic trunk airlines will be allowed to import their 12 DC-9s from the US duty free, and the British Government has been informed of the decision under the Australia-Britain trade agreement. The decision will cost the Australian Government $4 million (£1.6 million) in duty (see last week's issue, page 501). Australia's Minister for Customs made the announcement on April 3, immediately after the expiration of the stipulated 15 days' notice under the Anglo- Australian agreement. The announcement had not been expected quite so soon, though under the agreement the Austra- lian Government has the final say regardless of any protests from the British Board of Trade. Most officials expected the duty to be automatically applied following the decision in the Boeing 727 case in 1965 when duty was imposed. At that time the Minister for Trade and Industry, Mr J. McEwan, is believed to have led the fight which produced the reversal of previous Cabinet policy which favoured duty-free entry of those US aircraft. He was reported to have said at the time that the British-Australian trade agreement was worthless unless honoured by both countries. However, Mr McEwan is understood now to have swung in behind the forces in Cabinet favouring admission of the aircraft. Under the Anglo-Australian trade agreement it is required that Australian airline operators pay 1\ per cent duty unless "suitably equivalent UK goods are not reasonably available." The change of policy is understood to have the result of pressure from the Australian Federal Department of Trade. Bo Lundberg Resigns With effect from July 1, Mr Bo Lundberg has resigned from his position as director general of the Aeronautical Research Institute of Sweden. The reason, Mr Lundberg says, is that the severe reductions in orders for military research and development have not been compensated for by corresponding increases in the funds for research in civil aeronautics. PAL in Europe Mr Clair M. Waterbury has been appointed assistant vice-president, Europe, for Philippine Air Lines. He was previously European representative and regional sales manager, based in London. BAC Sales Appointments Changes have been made in the BAC Weybridge sales team, under Mr Derek J. Lambert, sales and service director, so as to increase its strength. Mr Derek J. John, formerly technical sales manager of Bristol Siddeley Engines, has been appointed to a new post of general sales manager. Three new regional sales managers have also been appointed: Mr R. E. Thomas, formerly chief sales engineer at Weybridge, Mr M. B. Kelly, previously with Hawker Sid- deley, and Mr Cyril Hughes, formerly with Short Bros. The place of Mr Thomas in the sales engineering team (which 's led by Mr John Prothero Thomas, with Mr R. E. Bailey as deputy technical sales manager and Mr Roy Proctor as assistan technical sales manager) has been taken by Mr John M. Lupson-
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