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582 WORLD NEWS FAA change of policy James E. Dow, who has been acting administrator of the US Federal Avia tion Administration since the resigna tion of Alexander Butterfield on March 25, seems determined to avoid a period of inaction at the FAA while a new administrator is chosen. He has reversed Butterfield's policy decision and has taken steps to grant limited legal immunity to ground staff and flight crew who report when an air craft is unsafe for service. He hopes that the freer flow of information will benefit air safety. In taking this step Mr Dow is seen as strengthening his own claim to the top job at the IAA. Le Bourget flying limited The limitations on flying at the 1975 Paris Salon are likely to be more stringent than implied on page 546 of Flight last week. Formation aerobatic displays by military jet aircraft are likely to be completely excluded, even on Saturday, June 7, the sole remain ing major flying day. Heavy transport aircraft will be allowed to make only gentle presentations involving medium turns and straight flypasts. The limitations are being imposed by the police in an effort to counter com plaints made by local residents after the Tu-144 accident in 1973. At the time of going to press there was doubt as to whether the Show authorities would be able to negotiate the easing of some of the constraints. Rules for the use of Le Bourget by visiting aircraft during the period of the Show have not yet been finalised. It is not anticipated that there will be any restriction on public transport aircraft carrying, for instance, large parties of visitors to the Show; some restraints on business and private aircraft seem likely and it is probable that many of these will be required to land at Beauvais. An announce ment about the use, as in previous years, of fin code-numbers is not expected for at least two weeks. In the past, numbers have been allocated to all aircraft participating in the Show and a limited number of "liaison" numbers have been issued for company communications aircraft. • In view of the slight uncertainty at present surrounding planning T: for the Show it may be necessary to make minor changes to the planned day flight to the Show arranged for Flight readers by Wakefield Fortune International. We shall keep readers informed of any significant alterations to these arrangements. Public transport accidents The registration of the British Air ways 747 involved in an incident near Toronto on March 22 was G-AWNJ. • An F.27 of Air Manila was damaged on landing at Baguio City on March 29. The aircraft was on a positioning flight and the starboard undercarriage collapsed on touch down. There were no injuries. • A DC-3 of Bradley Air Services, C-FGKZ. was damaged near Resolute, North West Territories, on March 21. • A DC-3 of China Airlines, B-1553, was damaged in a mid-air collision near Kompong Chhang on March 26. Westminster The deficits on aerodrome navigation services provided by the Civil Aviation Authority are incurred mainly at the regional airports, according to Mr Clinton Davis, Under-Secretary for Trade, in the House of Commons on March 19. This was the reason he had approved recent increases in the authority's charges at the regional air ports at a higher rate than at the three London airports. It was the first increase at most of the regional air ports since 1969 whereas charges at the London airports and Prcstwick were increased by 50 per cent last year. He said that if the airlines were to pass on the whole of the extra charge at regional airports directly to the passenger it had been estimated that it would cost about 50p on inter national and 20p on domestic flights. The increases were therefore not ex pected to have any inhibiting effect on the volume of traffic using the regional airports. * * * MR GEOFFREY PATTIE (Con, CllcrtSCy & Walton) asked the Secretary of State A few small changes are visible in this new Arthur Gibson picture of the Lockspeiser LDA-I prototype intended for farming and light civil and military transport work. The quad under carriage is now a tricycle, the aspect ratios of the fins and foreplane have been increased, and the port side has been painted in military markings (see Defence, page 594). The man behind the project, Mr David Lockspeiser, a pilot with BAC Filton, has flown some 25hr in about 40 flights and reports that the aircraft— at present a 70 per cent scale version which has been re-engined with a 160 h.p. Lycoming piston engine—fulfils all performance and handling estimates. The next stage is to obtain financial backing for a full-scale development and production aircraft FLIGHT International. 10 April I97S for Industry whether he was himself present at a meeting on March 6 with Mr E. H. Boullioun, president of Boeing, who had flown from Seattle for the meeting. Mr Benn replied on March 19 that he had spoken to Mr Boullioun on a number of occasions and had hoped to see him on March 6 but regretted that he had been un able to do so. Mr Boullioun, he said, discussed matters of mutual interest with senior officials who had reported back in the usual way. * * * In the House of Lords on March 24 LORD TREFGARNE asked whether British Airways holds an AOC for the DC-10; if not, upon what authority BA would operate DC-lOs of Air New Zealand; and how many pilots with BA were qualified on the DC-10. Lord Winter- bottom replied that BA did not hold an AOC in respect of the DC-10 and that the safety regulations governing the proposed flights between Los Angeles and London would be those of New Zealand. As a result of an agreement between the CAA, the New Zealand authorities and the operators, a number of changes needed in order to achieve the level of UK airworthi ness requirements were being incor porated in the aircraft and that where BA operational standards differed from those of Air New Zealand the higher of the two would be applied. The CAA's Flight Operations Inspec torate would inspect the operations in the same way, as they do others of BA. The CAA has licenced BA to operate wide-bodied aircraft on this route but because the aircraft were not registered in the UK the uplift or discharge of passengers or cargo in the UK would be subject to the per mission of the Secretary of State. BA had informed Lord Winterbottom that it employed 20 pilots qualified on the DC-10 and that a further 10 were being trained. * * $ MR NEVILLE TROTTER (Con, Tyncmouth) asked the Secretary of State for Industry on March 24 what represen tations he had received which had led to his decision to include in his nationalisation proposals aircraft manufacturers with a turnover of £7-5 million instead of £20 million, resulting in the inclusion of Scottish Aviation. Mr Michael Meacher said he had received representations from a wide range of sources including the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions. Representations asking specifically that the company should be included were made by the president of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, by the Ayr shire district secretary of the AUEW, the convenor of shop stewards at the company, the joint office committee of the AUEW (TASS) at BAC Hum and by the Bristol Aircraft Workers' Study Group. "In addition," said Mr Meacher, "the management of the company told me it might face a difficult future outside the new corporation."
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