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1971
1971 - 0046.PDF
fJ--;^*fr.'££.I^;,(j MB Mi «NS. :!'3H w^few-'':*H ^i W*>-'! if ''^'$$£4 'frty\&tf&t&i Above, United Airlines' first DC-IO and the third example of the type to fly is now well into its test programme, while right) the first TriStar for TWA, which was rolled out on December 9, should soon be joined by an aircraft in Eastern markings MR ERIC HEWITT WE record with regret the death on January 4 of Mr Eric Hewitt, director of administration of the British Airports Authority. He was 50. He played a leading part in the setting up of BAA in 1965, having been responsible for the personnel aspects of the operation. He transferred to BAA from the Ministry of Aviation, from which BAA took over its airports in 1966; he had been an Assistant Secretary with the Ministry, and had been closely involved in the planning and management of the London airports and other airports since 1961. Mr Hewitt joined the Civil Service when he left school in 1937, and his service was interrupted only by a war time spell in the Boyal Navy, during which he was awarded the DSC and bar for his part in motor torpedo boat operations. He had been a member of the Air Transport & Travel Industry Training Board since 1967, and a member of the Institute of Personnel Management and the Institute of Transport. NEW AIRPORT OSAKA is to get a new international airport comparable in size to the present Kennedy International. It is expected that it will be in partial use by 1977. The existing Osaka Airport will have reached saturation point by that time. The new airport will eventually have four main runways of 13,000ft, 3,200m. Consideration has been given to siting it off shore, but a proposal by Kawasaki Heavy Industries involving a method of building floating airports has been ruled out for the time being as being too expensive. The method would utilise steel boxes towed to the assembly site and fastened together to form a raft. The number of international passengers at Japanese airports increased sevenfold in the period 1959-69, to reach a total of 2.8 million. At the same time domestic traffic increased 15 times to a total of 24 million passengers, and is expected to reach 80 million passenger in 1975 and 240 million in 1980. PERFORMANCE REFINEMENT CONCORDE 001 is coming to the end of a planned three- week grounding during which the seals in the nozzle bays are being improved so that performance predictions for production aircraft can be refined. The modification will improve the nacelle secondary airflow, and avoid loss of thrust at high Mach numbers. Meanwhile 002 is engaged mainly on subsonic per- wMMimsm formance work, especially in low-speed, high Ct conditions. Between flights 118 and 119 of 001 on December 18 and 23, No 2 engine was changed, due to a suspected washer failure. The last such suspected failure (see Flight for December 31, page 1006) has, meanwhile, been found after stripping down to be not the washer but an auxiliary drive bevel gear in the right-hand gearbox. This gear is being strengthened. A simulated rejected take-off from 155kt, 286km/hr, at a weight of 330,0001b, 150,000kg, was made on December 24. The aircraft was stopped safely by its Dunlop brakes, with no assistance from reverse thrust or its braking para chute. Performance and brake handling were described as "excellent" by BAC/Aerospatiale. TRAINING AT THURLEIGH HOURS of operation of the RAE airfield at Thurleigh are to be extended following negotiations between the Ministry of Aviation Supply and BOAC. The corporation has made increasing use of Thurleigh for VC10 and Boeing 707 conversion training during the past few months and the recent use of the Thurleigh ILS by BOAC 747s has shown that there is apparently no neighbourhood noise problem with the larger aircraft. BOAC training captains have been anxious to reduce to a minimum the training carried out at Stansted because of the volume of FIR traffic around the airfield and the lack of surveillance radar. Initially, Thurleigh will stay open until 2000hr on three nights per week and this is expected to be increased to six nights per week later in the year. During the summer season, flying may continue until 2300hr.
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