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1968
1968 - 2301.PDF
599 FLIGHT International. 1968 Windward Island Airway's DHC Twin Otter (PJ-WIA) at Saba, Netherlands An- tilles. STOL performance is a necessity for services into this rocky island; the usable runway length is approximately 1,000ft and most landings are made in the downhill direction. Saba's only other connec- tion with the larger Carib- bean islands is a monthly service by schooner, which has to be loaded and unloaded by longboat be- cause there is no permanent jetty available announcement of this merger in June (see Flight for June 13, page 885) a decision was taken to close down BUA (CI) on October 31 because of an industrial dispute. BUI A will start operations on November 1, 1968, as a wholly owned subsidiary of BUA (Holdings), but will trade quite independently of BUA. The operational centre will be at Gatwick, although the company and its subsidiaries will maintain engineering and traffic bases at Southampton and Blackpool and major traffic stations at Jersey, Exeter and the Isle of Man. The new airline will operate a fleet of seven HP Heralds, four Herons and four DC-3 freighters—plus, later, four HP Jetstreams, the acquisition of which is now under negotiation. BUIA will operate over a network of scheduled short-haul routes throughout the British Isles, serving mainly the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, with links to Ireland and northern France. During the coming winter period these services will be operated at the same overall frequency as before, but in certain cases with improved equipment. The board members are: the Hon Anthony Cayzer (chair- man); Mr J. A. Thomson (deputy chairman); Mr Alan Bristow (managing director); Mr W. A. Richardson (technical director); and Major J. R. Riley. Mr L. B. Elwin has been appointed general manager, with Mr Bernard Bedford as assistant general manager. Other appointments include Mr H. Fost (company secretary); Captain B. Gardiner (operations manager); Mr W. Kerr (engineering manager); and Mr R. Wyles (sales manager). Captain G. Thomas, who was formerly general manager of BUA (CI), will be taking up a new senior executive position within the group. AUSTRALIA REPORTS THE unique annual report produced by the Minister of Civil Aviation each September for the Australian Federal Parlia- ment is now in its eighth (1967-68) edition and displays no sign of any weakening of the official policy of telling all—or nearly all- As usual the appendices, of which there are 38, tell the more interesting and useful stories. For instance, under the two-airline policy (in accordance with Section 12 of the Airlines Equipment Act 1958) the Minister issues Determinations—in other words, he sets the maximum capacity the airlines may provide in the six months concerned. No 18 (Appendix 9) covers the six months endingon December 31 this year. In it the Minister calculates the growth rates as 9 per cent for passengers, 10 per cent for cargo °? mixed configuration aircraft and 20 per cent on all-freight aircraft, on the "mainland competitive routes." These are the trunk routes, such as Sydney-Melbourne, served together by Ansett-ANA and TAA. Growth on the non-competitive routes is estimated as 4 per cent for passengers and 5 per cent for cargo. The estimated total traffic on all mainland competitive routes was assessed at about 129 million ton-miles. Of this total— after allowances had been made for revenue weight factors— about 118 million ton-miles were for mixed-configuration air- craft and about 9.9 million for all-cargo aircraft. Assuming a 65 per cent load factor on passenger-cargo services, the esti- mated capacity required was thus 181.5 million ton-miles, divided equally between TAA and Ansett-ANA. The equivalent all-cargo load factor was assumed to be 55 per cent, so nearly 9 million ton-miles wer& thus allocated to each of the two airlines. Tu-154 Tests Start The new Russian 160-220-seat trijet, the Tu-154, was test flown for the first time on October 4 by Nikolai Goryainov, who did much of the flying of the Tu-134 —including deep-stall recovery tests (see Flight for August 22, pages 288-290). Caruda Orders DC-9s Two 102-passenger DC-9-30s have been ordered by Garuda Indonesian Airways for short/medium domestic and international routes. The value of the order totals about $10.4 million (£4.3 million) including spares and crew training services. McDonnell Douglas has sold a total of 556 DC-9s to date, of which 382 have been delivered. Concorde Flight Date Still in Doubt The first flight date for Concorde 001 remains uncertain. It will not, according to reports from France, be before December 10, but should not be later than next April. No reason for the delay has been given, but the prototype is known to be scheduled to undergo another series of ground tests at the beginning of December. WG.13s for Bristow? If the intention of Bristow Helicopters to buy 15 Westland WG.13 general-purpose helicopters comes to fruition, the cost to the company could be of the order £2.5 million. Bristows are, it was stated during the Farn- borough Show, to be the first buyers and are co-operating with Westlands to ensure that the specification for this twin-engined 11-passenger helicopter will meet the widest possible com- mercial market. The WG.13 is a Westland/Sud-Aviation project for which Westland have design leadership.
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