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488 RIGHT International, 25 February 1978 Irish link proposed . . . DUBLIN-based Executive Air has applied for a licence to operate scheduled services between Dublin, Belfast, Derry and Sligo. A single fare of £12 is proposed for the Dublin- Belfast link, which would use Harbour Sydenham Airport rather than Alder- grove. Executive Air has offered an air-taxi service for four years and has two Aztecs, having recently sold its Navajo. . . . and another Scottish airfield A £9-5 million plan to build a new air field on Unst has been proposed to the Shetland Islands Council. Just to the east of the present Baltasound strip, it would be intended to provide relief for Sumburgh (see Flight for low-speed trials THE Federal Aviation Administration (North-West Begion) has finished low- speed certification flight tests of the Baisbeck Mark Five Sabreliner. The aircraft is a Sabreliner 60A with a supercritical wing, six-foot span ex tension, Fowler flaps, spoilers, larger tailplane and elevator, and trim com pensation operated by flap extension. Hydro-Aire Mk III anti-skid brakes and a number of new undercarriage sub-assemblies are fitted, and a Tele- dyne angle-of-attack system has been installed. Flight testing has cleared an in creased gross weight—22,7001b instead of 20,1751b—but Baisbeck says that even at the new weight the V2 is only 124kt. Bockwell pilots, who have been January 7, page 9). Proposals have been put forward for improvements to the airfield at Wick, another possible shore terminal for the North Sea oil industry, but these could not be pro gressed until the decision was taken whether to transfer the airfield to the British Airports Authority. Management Aviation cleared to use S-61N BBITAIN'S Civil Aviation Authority has approved an application by Management Aviation to operate a leased Sikorsky S-61N in support of North Sea oil drilling. Management, whose associated company North Scottish Helicopters is already active in the region with a fleet of Bolkow BO105s, asked for approval to dry- lease an aircraft from Okanagan Helicopters of Canada. A customer flying a similar wing with mock-up flaps on the prototype Sabreliner 65, are enthusiastic about the low-speed performance of the Baisbeck aircraft. Baisbeck will begin flying a modified Sabreliner 75A in March, continuing at the same time with the high-speed trials of the 60A. Bockwell has ordered more than $3 million-worth of parts for produc tion Model 65s from Baisbeck, which has also taken orders worth more than $5 million for conversions of existing Sabreliners. Baisbeck foresees a ten- year Sabreliner programme, including the setting up of a Bockwell service centre at its Seattle facility. More than 200 Howard/Baisbeck Mk II Learjets are already in service. Business wnanr was already in view, said managing director Stephen Bond, but he was not prepared to conclude a contract without the approval of the CAA. Bristow Helicopters and British Air ways HeUcopters both objected to the application, the former on the grounds that the aircraft was being leased from overseas and the latter on the basis that there was already enough capacity to serve North Sea interests. In its ruling, the authority accepted the logic of leasing an aircraft until the type which the company intended to buy became available—a reference to the Management Aviation order for five S-76s. Shorts 330s for the Caribbean ALM Antillean Airlines of Curacao has ordered two Shorts 330s for use on the airline's inter-island network. The two aircraft will be delivered during the summer and will replace a single DC-9 which has operated the service between Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao. Briton is HAA pilot of year CIVIL Aviation Authority test pilot Kenneth Beed received the Helicopter Association of America's Pilot of the Year award at this year's HAA Con vention in San Diego. The citation mentions the Airworthiness Bequire- ments Board's "consistent aeronautical ability." Other presentations at the con vention included the Hughes Law Enforcement Award to the Columbus, Ohio, police department; the Bobert E. Trimble Memorial Award to Markus Burkhard of Berner Oerlander Heli- kopter AG of Switzerland; the Main tenance Man of the Year Award to Henri Bourque of Bocky Mountain Helicopters; the Max Schumacher Memorial Award to Bockwell Inter national's West Coast helicopter flight operations team; and the Lawrence D. Bell Memorial Award to Joseph G. Seward and Boy K. Falconer of Botor- Aids Inc. Raisbeck finishes Sabreliner
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