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1974
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FLIGHT International. 17 January 1974 Iran buys F-14s The Pentagon earlier this week con firmed that Iran had signed a formal letter of intent on January 7 to buy 30 F-14A Tomcat fighters worth $900 million. It is the first export order for the F-14. The agreement includes spares and training equipment. Iran will also contribute towards the de velopment cost of the fighter, which is put at about $500 million. The unit cost will be about $20 million. It is understood that a full contract will be signed in about a month's time. The aircraft will have the Hughes AWG-9 interception radar and Phoenix air-to- air missiles as fitted to the US Navy F-14s. Delivery of the first batch of 24 will begin in January 1976, at the rate of two a month, and the six re maining aircraft will follow in 1977. Australian fuel situation rosy Australian domestic airlines remain unaffected by the fuel crisis. Enough Avtur is produced from local crude to supply not only Australian needs but also those of New Zealand and Fiji. Trans-Australia Airlines and the Ansett group have not had to cancel a single flight due to lack of fuel, and traffic over the Christmas and New Year period was 20 per cent up on that for 1972/73. Fuel supplies in the United States The allocation of fuel in the United States is subject to regulations pub lished by the Federal Energy Office. The regulations apply to aviation fuels produced in or imported into the United States. Allocations are based on the corresponding month of 1972. US FUEL ALLOCATIONS Brazilian Airbus order Transbrasil, the Sao Paulo-based airline, has ordered two A300-B2s, for delivery in June this year and in 1975. The sale follows closely on a month- long tour of North and South America by the A300 prototype. Aerospatiale: the picture clears One of the three new names on the Aerospatiale conseil de surveillance is that of M Bertrand Larrera de Morel, who was on the Aerospatiale board some years ago and is now Directeur des Relations Economiques Exlerieures of the Ministry of Eco nomics and Finance. Sales financing could be his special concern. New council member for the Ministry of Armed Forces is M Azan. All other members of the former board have joined the new conseil de surveillance, except of course M Henri Ziegler, former president now con centrating on the management of Air bus Industrie, and Gen Jean Crepin. former vice-president. Gen Crepin is beyond retiring age and is retained as military adviser to the directoire and manager of Euromissile, both posts considered significant in view of the recent dominance of the missile in the Yom Kippur war. The Sunday ban The UK general-aviation representa tive associations are finding the voluntary Sunday-flying ban increas ingly difficult to maintain. A remark able discipline has been exhibited by the flying community, which is experiencing considerable financial loss, and operators are now under ex treme pressure to break the voluntary Sunday ban in order to remain in business. One operator, the Dorset Flying Military Subject to review of Federal Energy Office Civil air carriers a) Domestic b) International c) Infra-State d) Regional (including those operating solely in Alaska or Hawaii) e) Other (including air taxi/commercial operators, scheduled commuter airlines and some small foreign carriers) General Aviation a) Agricultural b) Energy production c) Aircraft manufacturing d) Business e) Personal, pleasure and institutional f) Air travel clubs Public aviation (aircraft used by Federal, State, or local government organisations) Non-aviation use of aviation fuels (primarily power production) Emergency services, safety and mercy missions (Provision is made for some alleviation of bonded fuel shortfalls for international carriers from domestic stocks) 100 per cent of current needs 95 per cent of base period consumption 95 per cent of base period consumption 95 per cent of base period consumption 100 per cent of base period consumption 100 per cent of base period consumption 100 per cent of requirements 100 per cent of requirements 100 per cent of requirements 80 per cent of base period consumption 70 per cent of base period consumption 70 per cent of base period consumption 85 per cent of base period consumption 100 per cent of base period consumption 100 per cent of requirement Club of Compton Abbas, is this week urgently circulating a letter to all UK general-aviation operators, in viting co-ordinated emergency action to press the private-flying case to the Government. Mr Monty de Cartier of the Dorset Flying Club considers that infringing the voluntary Sunday ban might have an unfavourable effect on the movement as a whole. He does not consider that the general-aviation case has been forcefully enough put by the official representative bodies. Mr de Cartier's telephone number is Font- mell Magna (074781) 641558. US Skytrain progress The United States Civil Aeronautics Board's bureau of operating rights has recommended that Laker Airways' Skytrain proposals for a walk-on no- booking transatlantic service be ac cepted for an experimental period of two years. It feels, however, that the proposed fares (of £37-50 single in the summer, and £32-50 single in the winter) are too low. Chinese domestic fare increase Chinese air fares were raised by no less than 150 per cent a couple of days ago—but for foreigners only, accord ing to a Reuter report. The price increase means that the single air fare from Peking to Canton, one of the routes most used by foreigners on their way out to Hong Kong, will cost 244 yuan (£53) instead of £20. The safer fuel: CAA opinion Airlines are reminded by Britain's CAA that while an aircraft is being refuelled with JP4 (wide-cut gasoline) no passengers should be aboard. The CAA also confirms that, in a 'sur- vivable' crash, J PI (kerosene) is a safer fuel. The full text of the CAA's state ment will appear in Flight as soon as our present space restrictions permit. Public transport accidents A Beech 99, owned by Allegheny Airlines and operated by Air East, crashed on landing at Johnstown on a scheduled flight from Pittsburgh on January 6. The aircraft crashed short of the runway, killing ten people of the 15 passengers and two crew on board. Flight next week will contain our annual survey of the world's military aircraft with extensive data tables and seven pages of drawings by Flight artists. Smaller issues are unavoidable during the coming weeks.
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