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620 FLIGHT International, 20 April AIR TRANSPORT... estimated at some Dfl215 million (£21 million). Of this sum a total of Dfll45 million (£14.7 million) will be supplied from Dutch sources—50 per cent of it by the Netherlands Aircraft Development Institute (NIV), which is actually a Government subsidy, and the remaining 50 per cent by Fokker from loans under Government guarantee. The balance, some Dfl70 million (£6.8 million), comes from Fokker's German and British partners and is partly supplied by their governments. Fairchild Hiller's share (the F-228 development costs) is not included in this total. On the first 25 aircraft Fokker will not pay any refunds to the Government; the funds from NIV for the development will be repaid from the sale of aircraft numbers 26-215. The interest on the Government-guaranteed loans will be paid from revenues from the sale of aircraft 126 and onwards. The F.28 is scheduled to appear at the Paris Air Show, but probably only during the last two days, when it will take part in the flying programme. SOVIET HELICOPTERS FOR BRITAIN? A PLAN to operate a daily inter-town service in the south of England using Soviet-built Kamov Ka-26 twin-engined six- seat helicopters is to be proposed to the ATLB. In anticipation of approval, Mr Maurice Posgate, managing director of the operating company Posgate Aviation Services of Gatwick, has ordered six Ka-26s from Aviaexport (at a price of £30,000 each) for delivery beginning next December with the remainder due during the first eight months of 1968. Mr Posgate also has an interest in Tradeplane (Gatwick)—the British representatives for the Soviet Aviaexport organisation. Even if the inter-town service does not develop quite as planned there should still be ample opportunities of work for the Kamov machines. There is no comparable western helicopter offering twin-engine safety standards on so small an aircraft which is also available at a remarkably low purchase price. North Sea oil-rig support operations are a natural for this aircraft—BEA Helicopters are known to be looking for a twin of this size (see Sensor in the issue of March 2). The actual definition of the network planned by Posgate Aviation Services for their application to the ATLB is not being announced just yet for "reasons of commercial security. . . ." Mr Posgate has said only that "we plan a new type of service, hopping from town to town across the country, capable of carrying either cargo or passengers quickly and very cheaply. Our aim is to provide a service that anyone can afford and which is faster yet as cheap as ground transport . . ." A significant feature of the Ka-26 for the planned service is the detachable payload pod by which the aircraft may be quickly converted from all-passenger to cargo and to agricul- tural operations. Postgate Aviation visualise that freight containers would be distributed at points on the network for a door-to-door service. As an example of the price of their service, Posgate claim that it would be feasible, for instance, to carry cargo from Gatwick to Southampton at a cost of 6d per pound weight. THE GIBRALTAR BAN INITIAL fears that the proposed ban by Spain on flying by foreign aircraft over the so-called Algeciras Zone will prevent landings and take-offs at Gibraltar may prove to be at least partly unfounded. The runway (09/27) lies across the north- south isthmus leading to the Rock at the southern end, and the approach and take-off patterns are over the sea to the east and over Algeciras Bay to the west. Undoubtedly, however it will make things difficult for the crews and clearly, if Spain presses the restriction really hard, the approach and take-off: patterns will be considered to be an infringement. The ban (if applied despite British representations to ICAO) will come into force on May 12. 747 PACIFIC PLANS AT the Trans-Pacific Route Investigation applications now before the CAB Pan American proposes 24 weekly services from Sydney and Auckland to the US mainland when Boeing 747s come into service in 1970. The frequencies are based on traffic forecasts for that year. This is the first statement of 747 policy for the Pacific issued by any airline yet. Qantas has not so far ordered the Boeing 747. A seventh weekly service on the Calif ornia - Sydney route will be added by Pan American from June 17. This follows the renewal of services into Noumea, which has not been served by PAA since 1950. What's in a Name? The Boeing 747 is to be known by BOAC simply as the "Seven Forty Seven." More 32OBs for Pan American An order for seven more Boeing 707-320Bs has been placed by Pan American for delivery in 1968, bringing to 54 the total of this variant on order by, or delivered to, the airline. Another 727 for PSA A Boeing 727-100 has been ordered by Pacific Southwest Airlines—the eighth of this type to be ordered by the carrier. PSA has seven of the long bodied 727-100s on order, plus two 737s. The latest 727 order is for delivery in late July or early August this year. Third in Series 60 Airborne The DC-8-63 made its first flight, of 4|hr, from Long Beach on April 10. This long-range, fully fuselage-stretched version in the 60 Series has been bought by 13 airlines with a total of 42 on order, including ten for Flying Tiger. The test crew were led by Mr Clifford L. Stout, with Mr Harry E. Terrell as co-pilot, the gross weight for the flight was 245,0001b (against the maximum of 350,0001b) and it was landed after the test at Edwards AFB. Lufthansa One-Eleven Lease On Aprl 1—the day on which the 13-month lease of a BAC One-Eleven by Eagle to Swiss- air started—another One-Eleven lease arrangement began in Europe. This is a three-month arrangement by which Bavaria Flug Gesellschaft of Munich leases a One-Eleven to Lufthansa for services from Munich through Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Ham- burg and Vienna; BAC pilots and service engineers are giving support to the operation. The BAC One-Eleven All for Lanica, the Nicaraguan airline, lands after its first test flight at Hum, Bournemouth, on April 8
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