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1969
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Left, there are now two Beechcraft Dukes in Europe—this one (N7204D) recently visited Germany; the other is on the Swiss register. Right, the 3,000th Cessna 310 was recently delivered to Holiday Inns of America Inc. Mr Del Roskam, Cessna president (left) is here seen presenting the aircraft to Mr C. William Carroll, Holiday Inns director of special promotions, and to Mr Forrest Truman, chief pilot for Holiday Inns AIR TRANSPORT. LIGHT COMMERCIAL & BUSINESS.. pulsory cover will be $100,000 (£41,500). The new rule will come into effect on March 7. The other rule, effective from January 6, will allow air-taxi companies to operate jet aircraft in excess of 12,5001b gross weight, but less than 27,0001b, provided that the passenger capacity of the aircraft does not exceed 12. This authorisation is additional to that already existing, which allows air-taxi companies to operate aircraft up to 12,5001b gross weight. The CAB has decided to restrict the operation of jet aircraft over 12,5001b to planeload charters; individually ticketed flights will be barred (except by special exemption) for fear of undue diversion of traffic from local-service carriers. The CAB was invited to extend the new rule to turboprop aircraft as well, but declined to do so on the grounds that their ratio of gross weight to pay load capacity is comparable with tl) it of piston-engined aircraft'. USSR Agricultural Expansion Target outputs for the Aero- flot agricultural aviation fleet are 245-270 million acres in 1970 and 320-340 million acres in 1975, according to the Polish journal Skrzydlata Polska. The provisional total of 190 million acres treated in 1968, considerably greater than the output of the next contender, the USA, indicates that Aeroflot operates 6,000-7,000 agricultural aircraft, at the lowest estimate. McAlpine Aviation Diversifies M CALPINE AVIATION has been operating business aircraft for 20 years, and since 1957 has been expanding into the air-taxi, aircraft dealership and fixed-base maintenance operator that it is today. The air-taxi fleet consists of a Dove 8 (six passengers), two Piaggio P.166Bs (nine passengers), two Piper Aztec Cs (five passengers) and a Helio Courier (four pasengers) STOL single-engined aircraft. On order are an Aztec D and a Twin Comanche. The fleet performs charter flights both at home and abroad, with regular busi ness coming from inter-factory services for such companies as Vauxhall (Luton-Liverpool, Luton-Cologne), BAC (Luton- Filton), and the BBC (previously for carrying colour film for TV news). McAlpine's long experience in the air-taxi field has led them into the third-level, feeder service operation, for which they will be using the new Helio H.634 twin turbine- engined STOL aircraft in addition to the existing fleet. Looking further ahead, the 16-seat Piper PA35 Pocono and similar aircraft are being considered for the same operation. Charter flying is growing annually and is offered on a 24hr-a-day service every day of the year. For several years AcAlpine has provided a through-flight service for passengers arriving at airports in the London area but for provincial destinations. This service has been promoted by the American-based Piper Twinair organisation tied in with TWA, but the traffic response has been disappointing. This scheme has been abandoned in favour of a direct agreement between McAlpine Aviation and TWA. Through bookings of passengers and freight will in future be made through TWA offices around the world, and through McAlpine agencies for flights from UK airfields to link with TWA departures at London Airport. There is to be combined TWA/McAlpine Aviation promotional material for the service. . Last month McAlpine became dealers for the Piper twin- engined range. Aircraft deal—-ship is not new to the company: they are currently handling Piaggio and the single-engine Helio, and the American company has now appointed them dealers for the new STOL Helio twin-engined range of aircraft for the UK and Eire, and has given them the right to sell in Europe, Scandinavia and Africa. The first two aircraft types, the H.580 and the H.634, are at present under construction in America. McAlpine Aviation has a very impressive servicing and maintenance division, which is the most obvious service they offer when one visits their hangar at Luton airport. This service, together with the rest of McAlpine Aviation, is under the direction of the general manager, Mr R. J. Young, who has a staff of qualified and experienced engineers who can carry out any task from the general servicing of an aircraft to major overhauls and the rebuilding of a customer's aero plane. Such aircraft as the DC-3, Hawker Siddeley HS.125 and the Dassault Fan Jet Falcon are as easily dealt with at McAlpine as are the smaller single-engined Cessna and Piper aircraft. Further evidence of expansion is to be seen in the newly converted part of the hangar housing an ex-RAF D.4 Link Trainer, with provision for the installation of another D.4 within the next six months in an adjacent room. The idea is both to familiarise McAlpine's own staff pilots with airfield landing patterns unknown to them, and also to offer training facilities to anyone else in need of familiarisation with aproach letdown and other instrument flying procedures. The next time Heathrow is covered in fog they may well be calling upon McAlpine to come and clear it away for them. Mr R. J. Young has spent a lot of time in America speaking to airlines and a research company, World Weather, and in London to the British Airports Authority to find out what problems are involved in dispersing freezing fog. As a result of his research a Piper Aztec C has been fitted out with a crushed-ice dispenser, similar to the one successfully used in America. This aircraft will be operated by a three-man crew and will be equipped with oxygen to combat the toxicity of the carbon dioxide atmosphere. It will fly over the affected area, spreading the crushed ice on top of the fog. This method has already been proved in America. Looking to the future, McAlpine are working in conjunction with World Weather to find means of preventing and dispersing warm (radiation) fog. More specifically McAlpine will be working with World Weather during the next few months on the task of dispersing warm fog at Milan airport.
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